That intensity of focus resonated far outside the tri-state area’s soulful-house scene: In 1997, house innovators Derrick Carter and Luke Solomon released the track on their Classic label in the UK, and the following year Germany’s Playhouse got in on the action. But what chords! Filtered this way and that, morphing between strings, Rhodes, and synths, they move like mercury and glisten like opal Steve Reich himself couldn’t have envisioned a more enveloping matrix of pulses. Compared to the harmonic range of most of their soul-, jazz-, and gospel-tinged productions-their 1990 debut LP, in fact, came out on Motown-the 1996 single employs little more than a fistful of chords arrayed around a driving house groove. “Lovelee Dae” is an outlier in New Jersey duo Blaze’s catalog.
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