Continuing the tradition of sustainable dance music residency, “LIFE” is a monthly party hosted and curated by Dope Jams, one of New York City’s last remaining 12 record stores. “Celebrate LIFE - Spring Sampler 2012 #1 is the first 12 compilation in a new series commemorating the music and experience of the now legendary Brooklyn parties, just in time for the rebirth of the warm months and its inevitable re-crowning of classic summer jams we’ve all been subconsciously longing for since last year. A satisfyingly broad assortment of present day and yesteryear quintessential classic house music, “Spring Sampler 2012 #1″ features the never before released slow to speak official re-edit of Henrik Schwarz’s recent future classic reshaping of Omar & Stevie Wonder’s “Feeling You,” an utterly effectual, expertly rearranged refurbishing from the Dope Jams boys of an already masterful record. This essential and definitive edit is already a classic at the parties, a masterpiece of stripped down, freaked and refreaked vocal house music that still sounds as fresh and definitely forward-leaning as anything. A small but by no ways comprehensive window into the aural aesthetic of “LIFE,” this release is meant to be played and played out, not within the confines of the stringent, stiff predictable banality of peak-time mega-club, but by actual people, at actual parties, a colorful and tangible cry for the still breathing domain of animate life, love and play. A. Omar feat. Stevie Wonder - Feeling You (Slow To Speak Edit); B1. Deee-Lite - Good Beat (Pal Joey Remix); B2. Herb Alpert - North On South St. (Bobby Konders Remix)