Can You Feel It (Acapella)

Larry Heard recorded the track in Chicago in the mid-1980s, using a synthesizer, a drum machine, and two cassette decks in a one-take process. He described building the record by running parts between the decks and adding details by hand. The track became one of the defining statements of early Chicago house and a key early document of the deep house sound. Contemporary coverage credits it with helping open acid house’s spiritual dimension and places it among Heard’s most important releases. It still functions as a blueprint for later deep house, with writers and critics regularly treating it as a foundational reference point for the style. Its influence is reinforced by its continued reissue circulation and by later artists and DJs citing it as a classic cut.