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The Tamperer Featuring Maya
Why we feature this artist The bright hook and strange humour of Feel It Feel It combines an immediately recognisable instrumental lift with a vocal that is much more mischievous than a conventional dance anthem. Maya’s performance gives the Tamperer productio…
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- Italy, United States
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- Dance-pop, house
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The bright hook and strange humour of Feel It
Feel It combines an immediately recognisable instrumental lift with a vocal that is much more mischievous than a conventional dance anthem. Maya’s performance gives the Tamperer production a clear human character, moving between a direct melodic invitation and a deliberately odd comic phrase. The contrast makes the 1998 single feel exuberant without becoming anonymous.
The original Time recording
The collaboration appeared through Time Records in 1998 and reached number one in Britain. The original catalogue explicitly preserves Maya in the featured credit, giving the singer a place in the record’s identity alongside the production name. The song’s compact form makes its principal instrumental and vocal gestures register quickly.
The arrangement’s brightness can suggest an uncomplicated celebration, but the vocal keeps introducing another tone. Maya can make a short line sound knowingly theatrical, allowing humour and rhythmic confidence to sit inside the same performance. The production gives those phrases enough space to remain intelligible over the busy hook.
The longer club versions
The original UK package included Sharp Master Blaster treatments and several Dirty Rotten Scoundrels mixes, alongside shorter edits. Those versions altered the rhythm and the amount of instrumental development while preserving the same featured material.
The wider Tamperer and Maya catalogue continued with If You Buy This Record Your Life Will Be Better and Hammer to the Heart. Feel It remains the clearest introduction to their shared approach: a bright dance setting, a strong sung identity and a willingness to let a slightly strange phrase become part of the pleasure.
Essential releases
Feel It
Maya’s theatrical vocal gives the Time Records production a memorable human character.
Feel It — UK Mixes
The original package includes Sharp and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels treatments for longer club play.