JAMES’S LISTENING ROOM / HOUSE TAPES
Old favourites.
New grooves.
Two decades of songs, revisited for the dance floor. Choose a chapter, meet its original, and follow the connections.
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TAPESVOLUME 01
NOW ON THE DECK / LOCAL AUDIO
Choose a chapter or press play.THE TRACK LIST
Songs & timestamps.
Artwork & song histories
Artwork and history describe the reference recordings. Individual remixer credits are not specified in the published list.
THE CONNECTION / VALERIE → CALL ON ME
A voice that
found another life.
Steve Winwood and Will Jennings’s Valerie first appeared in 1982 and returned in a 1987 remix. Eric Prydz’s Call on Me brought its vocal idea to a new dance audience in 2004.
Prydz described beginning with a Valerie-based demo in 2003. Winwood then recorded a new vocal for the release: Prydz told DJ Mag that the finished record no longer contained the original sample.
Listen for the connection: a memorable phrase can become the centre of a dance record. The melody carries familiarity; repetition gives it a different role.
Prydz’s account · DJ Mag ↗ · Valerie · 1987 video ↗ · Call on Me · original song ↗