"In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a Groove". And so through this hypnotic slice of electronic gloss begins a mythical, almost Biblical, interpretation on the genesis of the classic House feeling and House music in general. 'Can You Feel It' is House at its most classic, most revered, an essential record to consider when backtracking the origins of body-gyrating, mind-expanding recordings of the twentieth century.

Everyone speaks so highly of "Can You Feel It?" and sure, its a classic old house track, but for me "Washing Machine" is the true Larry Heard masterpiece. Four and a half minutes of jarring, uncompromising acid madness, incredibly ahead of its time. Its terse drum machine stutters are direct precursors to detroit techno, and at a time when it was so easy to use a 303 to create music, and things started to become very samey, it stands out as fresh, original and highly infectious.

Can You Feel It is a seminal house tune, and one that got played at most of the early acid house parties in and around London that I frequented. The thing to do back then in '88 was to drop Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech over the top, this is where the idea for "My House" came from. The Martin Luther King speech was normally dropped off the B Side of a UK 12" that was out at the time by The MLK Project. Can you feel it?