Channeling the unbridled energy of ’90s club culture, Jake Shore and Henry Fong have joined forces for a new collaboration, “Take Control.”
Landing on Tchami’s Confession imprint, the track samples C+C Music Factory’s 1990 hip-house classic “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now).” And in many ways, it’s the modern-day equivalent of that timeless party anthem.
Just ask FISHER, who has been rinsing the song in his DJ sets for weeks and sending crowds into full-blown hysteria.
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However, the track has now been supercharged, its vintage sugar rush transforming into something much more potent. But Shore and Fong don’t just raid the candy drawer of the past—they’ve ingeniously interpolated it into a visceral sound all their own.
With its manic saxophone loop, “Take Control” hits like a surge protector plugged straight into the MTV generation. It’s impossible not to move to that unmistakable C+C synth sample, but instead of parachute pants, it’s wrapped in a quaking tech house beat that taps into our most primal dancefloor instincts. Take a listen below.
The new song especially hits home for Shore, a longtime fan of both Fong and Confession, with whom he said releasing music “has been an absolute dream.” Tech house bangers with a nostalgic twist have become the secret sauce of his bulletproof formula as he furiously rises through dance music’s ranks.
“Personally this record is a reflection of where I’m at in my career and what I’ve devoted the past five years of my life to… letting the music take control,” Shore tells EDM.com. “The energy and culture of the ’90s is in my blood, it’s my childhood, it’s how I was raised. I just feel like myself whenever I take inspiration from this era of dance music and it’s so much fun for me to bring it back to life. My hope is that when someone hears this record they let everything in the world go for a little while and just let the music simply take control.”
The same goes for Fong, who says he grew up listening to “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” on repeat.
“I was born in the ’80s so I was old enough to remember everything going on in the ’90s and it was the most fun,” Fong recalls. “My mom always put on the Jock Jams CD to work out to I remember growing up, so ‘Everybody Dance Now’ was always blaring through my house. That whole CD feels like my childhood.”
You can find “Take Control” on streaming platforms here.
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