Jamiroquai | You Give Me Something (Change Request ReVision)

For this ReVision, I wanted to take a stab at an artist whose work has been a great source of inspiration for many modern disco and jazz-funk enthusiasts.

Formed in 1992, and fronted by singer-songwriter Jay Kay, London-based jazz-funk ensemble Jamiroquai rose to fame with their 1996 song, and most importantly video, “Virtual Insanity”. This single and iconic music video earned them 10 nominations at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, and a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal, the same year.

Fast forward 4 years, “You Give Me Something” was released as the second single from their fifth studio album, A Funk Odyssey. The group’s first single to be released in DVD Single format, this song was written by Jay Kay, guitarist Rob Harris, bassist Nick Fyffe, and contributed to certified European Platinum sales status of the full-length.

I recreated and arranged this as an extended 12” mix instrumental DJ Tool. This version will be able to offer an alternative mix of this single for your prime-time DJ purposes.

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Jamiroquai | You Give Me Something (Change Request ReVision)

Andrew Emil // Change Request 

A preeminent artist of Chicago's 3rd wave, Andrew Emil is one of house music’s most staunch stalwarts. A concert-trained percussionist since age 11, he earned a chair in his native Kansas City Symphony before eventually moving to Chicago. 

As a traditional musician, Andrew Emil has worked as a keyboardist, arranger, and an orchestrator on recording sessions and productions, cutting his teeth at the former Chicago Trax Recording Studios. 

Credited on over 200+ recordings, his composition and studio productions have ranged from concert works and sound design to film scoring stages and hundreds of releases of electronic music productions. 

After a life in live music performance, from orchestra percussion sections to punk rock ensembles, he crafted a reputation for House Music productions in Chicago under his own name, as well as Broadway & Wilson, and Uptown Tones. 

One of the earlier innovators of the “Jackin House” genre under the Broadway & Wilson moniker with Jeff Bloom, Andrew is never content to stay in one place or style of musical thought for very long. 

He is the only recording artist to do production work simultaneously for Derrick Carter’s Classic Music Company, Mark Farina’s Great Lakes Audio, Gene Farris’ Farris Wheel Recordings, and four-time GRAMMY nominee Steve “Silk” Hurley’s S&S Records.

A string of double-digit singles for prominent labels, including remixes for artists such as Common, Kanye West, Little Louie Vega, Jamie Principle, Steve "Silk" Hurley, Iz & Diz, Fast Eddie, Shalamar, Roland Clark, David Morales, Colette, Amp Fiddler, JT Donaldson, and Gene Farris, to name a few. 

2012 saw the emergence of his epithet, Change Request, with the Change Theory EP on four play music. This new persona allowed the freedom to explore hybrids of mid-tempo live instrument focused jazz-dance-fusion. 

Following this release was “After All” on Seasons Recordings, with another single thereafter featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”, including a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground, on Glenview Records. 

The ever-growing collection of songs and musical dialogue eventually led to the conceptual album series from Change Request. Each full-length effort containing a completely separate story and scored via its own unique incidental subtext. 

Emil created AstraVox Music with the award-winning Los Angeles-based composer, Mr. Nathaniel, as a home for his increasing catalog of incidental dramatic musical compositions. 

www.andrewemil.com