Aphrohead AKA Felix Da Housecat - In The Dark We Live (Thee Lite)

[@WILLIAMCHANEL]

This track was MAJOR in just about all settings. You were sure to hear it at the black gay clubs on the East Coast (Tracks DC; it was a sick runway beat); at NASA, Satellite, Fever, Sunday Mass, etc.; at the cooler white gay spots; at Hispanic club parties; and to some extent mixed-race, straight club parties (Club USA, Tunnel, Paladium, Sound Factory Bar, etc.) At the time, the older househeads thought of this as a "warehouse party record." So basically, this track killed it in just about every context. It was so SICK when this dropped! XOXO & HMANL!

[@traecy43]

A NYC Sound Factory jam!

[@McRuessel]

It still is! ^_^

[@chrisschneider850]

@@traecy43 this would send me into a hole every time. god that place was dope.

[@ams7750]

bro you spot on

[@DarrellBlackandBlue]

T R U E

[@jacknjill3000]

When this came on in the clubs. It was time to dance for the Gods.

[@aimeefernandez6695]

Still gives me chills! Great memories! Sound Factory. 💜

[@jacknjill3000]

jr. Vasquez in da house!

[@velamisa]

I remember losing my mind to this at the Tunnel

[@2serene1993]

Limelight in 1994 for me

[@Serpentinequeen444]

Dave Mancuso’s Loft on 3rd and C for me.

[@averilloanthony7527]

Have you found it yet?

[@orlandop3901]

still one of the best tracks created..new York at its finest..miss those days.

[@mick2spic]

Orlando P Aphrohead/ Felix is from Chicago. Lol

[@SacredSoul69]

@@mick2spic Dave clarke wasn't, but I got what he meant. We all remember when it was blasted in the clubs not to get points to point out who made the track as is the norm on youtube..

[@wesgleeson]

@@SacredSoul69 This track's all about Dave Clarke indeed. He's from the UK but it doesn't matter at all... as it says on the label of this tune, we're all made on earth

[@jamesforbes2205]

@@SacredSoul69 Dave was from the UK, and I know it's a minor thing, but not to NY/Chicago jocks and producers.

[@djbillycarroll]

Sounds as fresh and new as the day it was released over 20 years ago.

[@ArchitexturesVids]

Hard to explain why this was so effective, but it was. It's minimal but every part of it is perfect stylistically and it BURNED the dance floor DOOOWN. Ir was flawless candy for both acid and X. Just listen to how deep that bass goes. Delicious.

[@tommysowerby6445]

Mixed with Wisdom 2 the wise (Red 2) by Dave Clarke. Oooooofffffff

[@traecy43]

NYC Sound Factory!!

[@MrAbrahamTV]

This is fucking LIT i have been looking for this track for years didnt know the name of it I have it on tape from #powertools recording. Thanks so much for posting my day has been enlightened I can def see the LIGHT.

[@carriecagnassola8801]

Heard it at club some in Houston!

[@chasrileypbuk5215]

Hardcore, techno, house, garage. Call it what you like. It's an awesome tune. listening now on quality headphones, I never realised the bass on the track was so deep. Carnage.

[@Ouroboros1958]

I used to have a spot reserved for me under a spotlight in front of one of those huge box speakers and I swear this song changed my heartbeat as it blasted through me. It was awesome. And I still have my hearing! :D :D

[@hardminimalgroove]

Agree about the bass I think they're still trying to invent speakers which are capable of playing bass so hard and deep ;)

[@jacknjill3000]

I remember standing by the big speaker at the club and just get sucked in by the music!

[@lego5745]

It’s almost hard to believe that this was made 25 years ago... Such a killer track!

[@emiliacanet9960]

Awesome 2024 listening San Francisco dancing n groovin. Thank you so much

[@jacknjill3000]

Remember dancing in SF when this was a hit in the clubs.

[@raveolution6914]

I remember this song very well ! Felix da housecat @ planet house club germany 1995 , he played this sick tune and the subbass made the beerbottles dance at the bar !

[@gijsyo]

What a tune!

[@ginomalcangi1383]

Mega track, great memories of Cream in Liverpool, need to be in a dark sweaty club with a top sound system to really loose yourself to this track...

[@MrSandwicHead]

Gino Malcangi Annexe

[@chrisschneider850]

exactly no stadiums or festivals. pure dark sweaty warehouse music

[@Soundfactory]

Sound Factory classic!

[@thirdstar9255]

Metropol, Pittsburgh, PA 99/00, pure magic. Huge strobes high above the floor, under the DJ booth, FLASHING in sync with those clangs, in a pitch black room, with the deafening SOUND. :-( Annnd now, I'm typing through tears.

[@Felipe-m4y1n]

So good 💯

[@robertlopez2151]

Heard this the first time in the tunnel NYC..Banging!!!

[@jessa.3857]

One of the best tracks I heard played at raves back in '94. Dopeness!!

[@jessa.3857]

@@olusondercaglar4006 Same here buddy 😎👍

[@thomassesko3118]

Jamming for me in 93

[@konspiracykid]

Cream...Paul Bleasdale, Annexe, Blacked out, in front of the speakers, about 10.30. Great warm up tune

[@tlsmidt]

Wow the best in my opinion pure nuts and a lot going on pure techno at it's best

[@chansakcharoenying6000]

Classic banger

[@realfacthunt]

A small dark room with a single strobe overhead illuminating the small crowd on the dancefloor, it's flickering light almost making the ravers seem like they're animated. 'In The Dark We Live' pounding it's analogue rhythm hypnotically, this isn't uplifting or joyful, it's devoid of any emotion but it's cadence speaks to the floor and floor reacts - what a time to be alive!

[@tonik.5962]

THIS!

[@Hayyyward]

This was on the very first DJ mix tape I ever heard. Every time I hear this track, it brings me back and all the memories that go with it and that whole tape. It was done by a local DJ and had this, Ege Bam Yasi - Bubble, and Dubtribe's Mother Earth being my 3 favorites off that mix. Up until that point, I had never heard any music like it (had been into DM, Cure, Smiths, etc) but House/Trance, Techno,etc. was all completely new to me. I was absolutely sucked into it and could not get enough. I was doing some extra work getting a tattoo shop prepared to open and some guy was listening to that tape one day when after the first side was over I had to ask what it was. He asked if I wanted it and of course I said yes. Hearing one song after another it just kept getting better and better. I can't recall how often I used to listen to that mix but many nights were spent smoking and putting on the headphones to listen to it before I would go to bed. At least a decade ago now, I lost that tape. Of all the CD mixes I have heard over the years, It is definitely one that I treasured the most and sadly it is irreplaceable. The mix was so well done and flowed so well that I stil consider it one of the best mixes I have heard all these years. I still love listening to this song but at the same time really miss how it would flow into the next song on that mix. Either way, this is one of those timeless and memorable tracks for me.

[@neilpoot232]

Who was the dj?

[@Hayyyward]

@@neilpoot232 He was just a local DJ at the time that spun at various local clubs in a small town. Never got really known other than that like so many other DJs.

[@davidvanauken4089]

CLUB SOME HOUSTON UGHHH TAKE ME BACK

[@hal9thou001]

Ok, I take it back from all the other songs. THIS is the best missing track from the "Party Girl" soundtrack CD. Sigh.... I can see the light!

[@GenXGiselleG]

yes!

[@cosmicaspiration]

loved party girl

[@rohansasenarine1630]

Reminds me of Sound Factory Bar NYC

[@scarsinizm]

Twilo :-)

[@algardner5228]

Twilo,tunnel,roxy

[@chrisschneider850]

that was a fucking intense sweatbox..............from what i can remember. (its a bit hazy lol)

[@gilli.A.]

dixon brought this track back to life, Halleluja!!!

[@UnDisclozed]

Found you ❤

[@doctorcrankyflaps1724]

Classic.

[@etorres385]

Dripping in Sweat @ Sound Factory Bar

[@SilentChaosMusic]

Amazing ...

[@GruvenHaus]

Double goosebumps just like "Han Do Jin" by Depth Charge......

[@holdenrains]

@gruven Haus, love the J. Saul Kane reference +1 homey!

[@Audunforgard]

Depth Charge❤

[@johnpetty9310]

I've been in the SOUND FACTORY twice, the first time JUNIOR played ,the next time was Jonathan Peters i think, but that first time i remember JUNIOR driving the crowd up the WALL !!! with this .

[@williamcarney9599]

"FEEL_THIS_HYMAN" IN THE DARK WE LIVE... 🗼A FOREHEAD

[@MadiUk77]

from 5:22 it completely looses its mind - what a track

[@darkleon123456789]

great

[@16karakan16]

junior vasquez respects

[@2serene1993]

That 303 line.. I miss 1994.

[@skfj67]

While i didn't get the chance to experience JUNIOR at his full glory and power...(fuckin door policymakers, go figure) anyway towards the end of SOUND FACTORY i finally got in and this is one of the tracks of that night, he pumbed it like 3 different times in like 6 hrs, each time louder and louder and as with any HOT nyc dj.... the fukkin crowd went ape shit!!! Just from that one time going....i could've seen me going there more if given the opportunity.

[@chrisschneider850]

he was king then. was before the sashas and paul van dyks.

[@djdharma900]

Dave Clarke repping Brighton Uk

[@gyomartin7949]

Junior vasquez sound factory

[@darkitz]

Andrew Weatherall @ the Orbit, Morley

[@TheYouTubez]

This sounds like me attempting to pound a nail..... And the nail won

[@forty3]

"Made on Earth"

[@alexciraque]

!!

[@popcycles]

this samples an older jam, anyone remember the name?

[@johnnytluxury]

Beast of a track. Was this even house? Tech house for '93, if you ask me. But not techno....NOOOO! Ok yeah maybe it was techno, lol. Genres aside, I remember back when it dropped, cant remember the club, but, FUCK, what was this track? The club went black, and I was just lost, but ridiculously happy. This was what it was all about.

[@PHONEYPOLITICS]

JohnnyTLuxury I THINK ITS CALLED 'HARDCORE' I REMEMBER IT BEEN DROPPED IN THE ECLIPSE COVENTRY (OR WAS IT THE EDGE BY THEN) ANYWAY YES WOW - I SWEAR IT OPENED PORTALS TO OTHER DIMENSIONS - NO FKN KIDDING dont it make you feel old

[@johnnytluxury]

Vitalis of Assisi I really want this re-engineered, it would make such a nice minimal track. It needs modern refinement, but it would sit well to any listener who's never heard it.

[@konspiracykid]

Who cares about genres...this was veering on the side of a genre called 'Wild Pitch' championed by Vasquez, but really it's just really driving techy house

[@shoominati23]

re-engineered just means they'll add a heap of compression to it so it will sit right in the middle of the frequency range.. I think the charm of old vinyl is because it sounds so dynamic, even though most of it had minimal mastering and it was lucky / ideal that it was all mastered straight to vinyl and sounded beautiful on sound systems

[@johnnytluxury]

By re-engineered, I meant remixed. My bad. But you're a bit off with re-engineering. RE by classical definition would yes mean compression and lots of it, but that's due to the genre of music where RE was applied to most - early rock and pop. Music of those days was performed, and it would be too hard to get the SAME sound as the original. The masters are completed recordings, not individual tracks. RE went only so far, as if a band were to attempt to recreate the song or album, it would sound different due to different equipment and what not. Dance music, an entirely different animal. This track was mainly samples, played by an old-school sampler (Akai s-950, if I'm correct). Its way to easy to redo the track with modern means and it would sound much better. However, TOO much modernization would diminish its dusty hard sound. Funny you would say vinyl sounds more dynamic, as it is very much not. It's piss poor compared to CD and worse compared to modern digital tracks. Even mp3s have better dynamic range. Cassettes had better dynamic range. But vinyl sounds good, mainly due to that analog warmth that enables us to turn shit up, way past its clipping limits and it sounded better.

[@skfj67]

whatever girl...YOU NEED SOME ACTIVATOR!!!!!

[@TheDishaf]

in the dark … njótta

[@AH-sk4pl]

is there anyplace I can buy or download this Ive been looking for this mix for a minute

[@neilthetiler]

I know it's not ethical, but you could always use... www.vidtomp3.com/

[@eeze206]

Neil Irving I feel like its ok to play them when you aren't getting paid to play them. If you are getting booked and making money then you should pay for all music you play. But that's what I think. lol

[@CubeRepublic]

Beatport has it

[@doctorcrankyflaps1724]

I know this is the correct speed but I do prefer it a bit faster.

[@MikaelArchangel-x8v]

III🚾

[@bigtallpap]

Big fan of the Protechtion Mix of Thee Lite, but this is superb as well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jV68kpdpltVpf6M

[@hecku]

Sounds perfect at 1.25x speed!