- I Dream You is one of two records Vincent Floyd released on Dance Mania in the early '90s. The Chicago label put out more than 270 EPs before the turn of the century, so it's easy to see how these understated house tracks passed people by, especially with the onset of Dance Mania's brassier ghetto tech sound. Floyd's music is now getting a fair hearing thanks to Rush Hour—this is their third package of Floyd material, after Your Eyes, another Dance Mania reissue, and Moonlight Fantasy, an album of unreleased music.
Most of I Dream You combines the less-is-more approach of many Chicago producers of that era with a musicality more unique to Floyd. The spiky twang of "Cactus Juice" doesn't play to his strengths—it's a stiff precursor to a style Boo Williams would go on to refine and make his own. The title track—a trotting deep house number with glinting piano notes and a bassline that seems to be climbing Penrose steps—is fine work, but the tear-jerking centrepiece, "Get Up," eclipses it. The track is a thing of beauty. Its bright horns and sliding organs move joyfully through Floyd's rat-a-tat drums for the first few minutes, and then, about halfway, there's a sudden shift in mood. A booming kick stops the song dead, and it starts up again a few seconds later with a heart-breaking flute solo. Sometimes "Get Up" sounds bittersweet, and other times it just seems desperately sad, but the important thing is that it always makes you feel something. A trackier version, "Get Up (Edit)," scoops out the original's ballad-like qualities—a small mercy for sensitive souls.
TracklistA1 I Dream You
A2 Get Up
B1 Cactus Juice
B2 Get Up (Edit)