After the Image, Onto the Floor

Jocelyn Brown's 1984 single, released on Vinyl Dreams and distributed by Prelude, was a New York club record long before it was a sample source. When Chloé Caillet and Luke Alessi released 'The One' on it in 2025, the a cappella they had been playing proved hard to clear; Brown had already recorded a new vocal of the song herself, and that re-sing is the voice on the new record.

An album track from Sybil's Doin' It Now! (Next Plateau, March 1993), produced by Victor Simonelli and Sam Mack. When Prospa and Cloonee released 'Free Your Mind' on it in March 2026, Simonelli and Mack were credited as co-writers on the new record.

Recorded for First Choice's 1977 album Delusions on Salsoul's Gold Mind imprint, and a Paradise Garage record, above all in the 1983 Salsoul 12-inch whose Shep Pettibone mix and a cappella are what later house tracks draw on. Salsoul released Dam Swindle's rework itself in 2021; the Bicep version is an unofficial DJ edit that has circulated since 2016 through their mixes and rips of them.

Cut in 1980 for Salsoul's Gold Mind imprint with Dan Hartman writing and producing, and one of the records Larry Levan kept returning to at the Paradise Garage. Holloway's voice is among the most sampled in dance music; this is the record behind Black Box's 'Ride on Time' and Marky Mark's 'Good Vibrations'. It returns here two ways: a tech-house record built on the vocal, and a disco-house rework Salsoul released itself.

A Kenton Nix production on West End from 1979, mixed by Larry Levan and a Paradise Garage staple. The deep-house floor found the groove inside it and looped it back out as something new.

Louie Vega under the Hardrive name, 1993, on Strictly Rhythm. The vocal is Barbara Tucker's, looped from her 'Beautiful People' session; Vega put it out first under the Hardrive name, months before that single. Strictly Rhythm has kept it in circulation with official remixes by Shadow Child (2012), Low Steppa (2015) and Todd Edwards (2022).

The B-side of Kenny Dope and Louie Vega's first 12-inch as Masters at Work, on Cutting Records in 1991, built around a chant sampled from Trading Places. The crash on the fourth beat became the cue for the dip in vogue battles. Willi Ninja told Louie Vega, 'That is our anthem. We use it all the time to battle.' The two records that follow are built on that crash.

Barbara Tucker again, this time out front. Masters at Work produced this 1994 Strictly Rhythm record; its lead mix is named for the Underground Network party at Sound Factory Bar, where Tucker hosted and Vega was resident, and it reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club chart. Strictly Rhythm handed it to a contemporary tech-house and garage duo.

Released on Strictly Rhythm in October 1996 as Rageous Projecting Kevin Aviance, written by Aviance with producer Jerel Black, and a fixture of the New York ballroom floor; Beyoncé sampled it on 'Pure/Honey' in 2022. In November 2024 Aviance and Honey Dijon released a new version together on Classic Music Company, credited to both.