Review : Fedde Le Grand – Put Your Hands Up For Detroit
Thursday, September 14th 2006, 2:00 pm
Now this is possibly the hottest track of Ibiza 2006 and possibly one of the biggest electro-house tunes of the year. It’s called “Put Your Hands Up For Detroit” and it’s by Fedde Le Grand, and not Fedde Le Grande as some people seem to be writing. He’s a hot new producer and DJ out of Holland. That said, he’s been a hot club DJ in Holland since 1998 but he’s only just becoming a rising star here in the UK and this blazing track is helping to raise his profile.
Pete Tong has been championing Fedde’s track since May 2006 when he crowned it “Essential New Tune”. Originally coming out on the Dutch Flamingo Recordings in April of this year it soon got signed by CR2 Records and has since been pushed into the hands of the hottest DJs like Sander Kleinenberg, Tom Novy, Mark Knight and Roger Sanchez. The original mix of the tune has a minimal bassline but it’s so annoyingly catchy you won’t stop humming it all day. Add on top of that the building “put your hands up for Detroit… a lovely city” vocals and you’ve got a winning tune. Other mixes that I received were from Till West and DJ Delicious who add their tribal electro drums and 80s vibes to the track and also my personal favourite from Australia’s TV Rock & Dirty South Melbourne Militia. They add a tough and dirty bassline, some breakbeat drums and some extra vocals and it rocks hard! Pick a copy of this remix if you can find it.
Also, look out for his next tune Just Trippin’ which features great vocals from MC Gee and is coming out on Toolroom Records. Fedde Le Grand is a hot producer who’s only getting hotter.
2:30 pm on September 14th, 2006
Yes Man!
and it´s also a absolut fantastic poroduction.
This tune rocks!
Just wondering why you wrote “look out for his next tune JUST TRIPPIN is coming out.
Have already a copy of this record in my case
If i can manage it to upload a mix where i have stick this tune on it i will send you a link;)
cheers
Sascha
10:22 am on September 15th, 2006
Sascha – Ok, it was an ambigous phrase (which means it has more than one meaning if you don’t know the word). When I said “is coming out” I meant “it is being released on Toolroom records” not “it is coming out soon and isn’t out yet”.
12:54 pm on September 15th, 2006
Sorry ! I know that my english is very bad
But i have already learned something new.
Cheers man
Sascha
5:10 pm on September 15th, 2006
No problems at all! You speak better English than I do German!
It’s hard to write a blog which is read by so many different nationalities without someone misunderstanding me.
1:54 pm on September 24th, 2006
is it a lovely city or i love this city?
8:28 pm on September 24th, 2006
Hey Yo – I thought he said “I love this city” when I first heard it but I think he says “a lovely city”. Listen carefully and tell me what you think.
4:54 pm on September 30th, 2006
hehe…
It’s: “Put your hands up for detroit, OUR lovely city.”
12:43 pm on October 2nd, 2006
Maybe you’re right but I’m not sure. Do you know where the sample is from? Is it Fedde or from somewhere else?
1:32 am on November 10th, 2006
The guy sounds like a dude from the rap group D12…. oh and they’re from Detroit too!
11:00 am on November 10th, 2006
There’s a new version of this track with a D12 vocal on it. I don’t really think it’s as good as the original though!
7:46 pm on November 22nd, 2006
hu has heared the manchester one
11:23 pm on January 12th, 2007
There seems to be alot of debate about the lyrics of this track
personally , i think it doesn’t matter as the beat is better than the words anyway
6:04 pm on January 13th, 2007
I agree Grim!
3:14 am on January 17th, 2007
yeah… if that’s the song i’m thinking of it’s pretty damn good… great job it’s all over lebanon cruze.. great job man.. my friends from mix fm and N R J are hookin me up with it…
9:29 am on January 21st, 2007
Thanks Bullet!
7:43 pm on February 11th, 2007
im searchin for the oriental remix of that song “put ur hands up for detroit”, i hope it’s here.
8:56 am on February 13th, 2007
Hey Ziko. I’m not sure I’ve heard that remix so it’s not here. Sorry.
5:50 am on April 7th, 2007
Hey in your song is it ‘í love this city’ or ‘a lovely city’ or is it ‘a loveless city’??
lots of love eliza
3:16 pm on April 10th, 2007
Hey Eliza,
This is a big talking point!
I think it says “a lovely city” but I’m not 100% sure!
3:08 pm on May 26th, 2007
hey guys! interesting convo on what is actually said in put your hands up for detroit, i always thought they said “i love this city”… but all the suggestions mentioned above sound good too and could fit in perfectly well with the song. would b good to know tho. by the way has anyone got any good songs that they recommend i download?
7:23 pm on May 29th, 2007
Hey Dani – Just check out my weekly charts for ideas for new tunes to download. Click on “charts” at the top of the page and you’ll see the latest tunes.
1:39 am on June 25th, 2007
heyya guys if u listen carefully he actually says “a lovely city” i no this cuz i have the lyrics… so yeh
luv ya MWA xoxo
11:46 am on June 25th, 2007
If you know Fedde and he’s told you what the sample is, or you know the sample, then I’d still leave it open to interpretation Karla. If you’ve got the “lyrics” (there aren’t really any lyrics as such!) from the net then I’d not be sure they’re 100% correct.
9:31 pm on August 25th, 2007
A lovely city? Have any of you actually been there? I think Detroit’s a great place but lovely? Not in a million years. Trust me.
9:12 am on August 28th, 2007
Haha! I’ve never been Toke but thanks for your comment.
It’s a city built around the motor industry isn’t it?
12:49 pm on October 15th, 2007
i think he says ‘our lovely city’
11:38 pm on November 5th, 2007
I’m sure he said A LOVELY CITY…
9:19 am on November 6th, 2007
Maybe Manuel. Maybe not!
8:51 am on November 21st, 2008
It does say our lovely city
11:09 am on November 21st, 2008
Unless someone finds the sample or asks Fedde I think we can all guess forever.
And it doesn’t really matter – it’s a great track!
8:06 am on March 4th, 2009
He’s talking about Detroit being lovely in the sense that techno-esque-music was created there. Hence, DEMF (Detroit Electronic Music Festival) celebration coming up memorial day weekend. It’s only recently that D-Town was associated with thugs and rappers. Being that he’s from Holland he’s given credit for where it is due, to Detroit..!
12:47 pm on March 4th, 2009
Yeah, I agree Kelsey. Credit to Detroit for being one of the originators of the original ‘Techno’ sound (although some may argue it was born out of the post-disco Italo movement). Anyway, Detroit techno rocked back in the 80s and early 90s!
7:47 am on February 1st, 2011
Bravo for the thoughtful read about this topic.
2:13 am on January 1st, 2012
hey!
ironically, I was just looking for a sample of the vocals of this track, and this thread came up on the first page of google search!
And, since hearing the same sample over and over, I’ve just come across another very different track that uses the same sample, and I used to think he said ‘i love this city’, but after hearing the same sample on a different track, I’m now hearing ‘a loveless city’.. deeeeep