A Delightful Revolution: How Deee-Lite’s ‘Groove Is in the Heart’ Turned Sampling, Style, and Club Culture Inside Out.

The Twelve Inch 173 : Groove Is In The Heart (Deee-Lite)

You’ve heard it. You’ve danced to it. Maybe you even threw on something bold and psychedelic the first time it hit the speakers. But have you ever stopped to ask: Who exactly were Deee-Lite? And how did one kaleidoscopic, funk-soaked track, “Groove Is in the Heart”, take three downtown New York outsiders all the way to global stardom, while flipping club culture upside down?

Let’s rewind to the early 1990s, a moment when sampling broke wide open, New York’s nightlife was still untamed, and dance music in the U.S. was gearing up for a mainstream comeback.