Long-time house architect Louie Vega dropped his comprehensive last album, ‘Expansions In The NYC’, as another homage to New York City’s 50-year history with dance music. It was full of vocal collaborations and spanned disco, boogie and all forms of house. ‘Touch The Sky’ feat Tony Momrelle is the latest track from it to get full remix treatment, following on from ‘All My Love’ late last year.
First to offer his own perspective is Japan’s Masaki Morii, a regular on the likes of King Street and Shelter, as well as the founder of his own M2SOUL MUSIC & NU ONE. He bridges soul, deep and Afro house, always with plenty of emotion. His first remix is a lush layering of feathery drums and skyward melodies with the original vocal bringing plenty of heart-aching soul. It’s a life-giving work for a moment of pure celebration and release, and shows how musical and artful house can be in the right hands. Extended dub and instrumental remixes all bring out subtly different facets of the original without losing its uplifting essence.
Brandon Weems and Craig Handfield are Musclecars, a duo with a community-first approach to music. From high-profile magazine front covers to gigs at Panoramabar and their residency at Nowadays in New York, they have a fresh and authentic sound that pulls from soul, jazz, and disco on labels like BBE, RhythM Section, and their own Coloring Lessons.
Their majestic, 10-minute remix is a soulful deep house odyssey designed to nourish and enrich. The soaring vocals come from a place of love, and there is freedom to the jazzy melodies and lavish percussion that warms the heart while pianos and synths are locked in a joyous tussle. The dub shifts things back to chunkier, more bouncy drums, with slightly pared-back, more late-night melodies, while the instrumental is all about giving everything room to breathe.
Louie Vega’s ‘Touch The Sky’ feat Tony Momrelle – Remixes comes on vinyl on 12th June and digitally on 3rd July 2026 via Nervous Records.
Tracklist
1. Touch The Sky (Masaki Morii Edit)
2. Touch The Sky (Masaki Morii Dub Edit)
3. Touch The Sky (Masaki Morii Extended Remix)
4. Touch The Sky (Masaki Morii Extended Dub Remix)
5. Touch The Sky (Masaki Morii Extended Instrumental Remix)
6. Touch The Sky (Musclecars Edit)
7. Touch The Sky (Musclecars Dub Edit)
8. Touch The Sky (Musclecars Extended Remix)
9. Touch The Sky (Musclecars Brooklyn Extended Dub)
10. Touch The Sky (Musclecars Extended Remix Instrumental)
11. Touch The Sky (Musclecars Brooklyn Extended Dub Instrumental)
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