Bleep

The second half of the 80s saw Larry Heard at the peak of his powers. It can be difficult to sift through the sheer quantity of great music that the Chicago legend made in his heyday, but reissues like this provide a fine place to begin. Heard’s own Alleviated Records imprint have isolated one of the standout cuts from the 1988 Fingers Inc. LP that Heard released with vocalists Robert Owens and Ron Wilson. Owens takes centre stage on ‘I’m Strong’, and his super-sultry vocals puts fire in the belly of Heard’s mesmeric deep house groove. In a move that will be popular with DJs everywhere, this pressing also comes with an instrumental, the acapella (albeit one with a few of the keys and drums left in) and some ‘bonus beats’.