Deee-Lite's "Groove Is In The Heart"

One Song

Hartbeat

Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Onesong, Comedy, Music

4.9 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This time on One Song it’s a jam that Luxxury describes as “musical potpourri”. Join him, and co-host Diallo Riddle, as they unpack Deee-Lite’s Groove Is In The Heart. It’s a song that is packed with samples taken from house, disco, funk, jazz, dance, and exotica. Come for the groove, stay for the Bootsy Collins outtakes. Artist: Deee-Lite Album: World Clique Released: 1990 Genre: Disco, funk, house, hip hop, dance-pop Featured songs: Get Up by Vernon Burch, Vibeology by Paula Abdul, I'd Rather Be With You by Bootsy Collins, Redbone by Childish Gambino, Apple Juice Kissing by Deee-Lite, Armagideon Time by The Clash, Armagideon Time by Willie Williams, Real Rock by Sound Dimension, Loraine by Linton Kwesi Johnson, TECHNOVA by TOWA TEI, Find a Way by A Tribe Called Quest.

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0:00.0	All right, I'm actor, writer, director, and sometimes DJ, Diallo, riddle.
0:04.6	And I'm producer, DJ, and songwriter Luxury, aka the guy who talks about interpolation on the internet.
0:10.3	And whispers about it, too.
0:11.2	I do.
0:12.4	Guilty.
0:13.0	This one song today, oh my God, we're talking about a postmodern, transcendent genre-bending smash hit.
0:19.1	Oh, well said.
0:20.2	That's right. Tialo, it's a song built on a bedrock of samples from disco records.
0:24.5	Funk, jazz, exotica, a whole poopery of different sources.
0:30.1	My parents did let me go in the Exotica section.
0:32.4	I was behind a curtain, like a beaded curtain.
0:36.7	Kids weren't allowed back there.
0:38.4	It's not just the samples that are all over the map, so was the band.
0:41.7	They drew on their influences from Asia, Europe, and East Village.
0:45.1	And don't forget Queens.
0:46.4	The hip-hop in the song comes via Queens.
0:49.3	This song features cameos from a hip-hop luminary and a funk icon.
0:53.4	It was ranked by Pitchfork and VH1 as one of the best
0:56.4	songs of the 90s. It's often called out as one of the decades' best party tunes. Rolling Stone,
1:01.9	they can't be wrong. They listed it as one of the 500 best songs of all time. And as a DJ
1:07.3	who's done more weddings than I can count, it's still a feel-good classic
1:11.0	that gets the over-40s people to the dance floor.
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