#Soulwax Remix Sylvester’s “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”: Listen

The duo shared a statement about their take on the song with Rolling Stone:

Unlike other remixes where we usually replace most of the elements and make something radically different based around the vocal, we made this remix using only the parts we found on the original multitrack that we were so kindly given by the Sylvester estate.

Even though we have played this song a million times, we discovered a few elements that we had never heard before, like a crazy Patrick Cowley synth solo and somewhere hidden before the start of the multitrack, the ending of what sounds like a gospel version of ‘Mighty Real.’ It was a huge privilege to be asked to remix this seminal track and we hope that Sylvester will dance to it, wherever he is.

“You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” originally appeared on Sylvester’s 1978 album Step II, which launched him into mainstream stardom.  

Read the Sunday Review of Step II, and revisit 50 Songs That Define the Last 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Pride.