A Chicago House must-have, producer Larry Heard’s debut as Mr. Fingers carved out the deep house genre, gently integrating jazz fusion and new age flourishes into house’s machine-driven disco reinvention. It was a hugely influential album, taking the newly minted Chicago House genre into fresh, introspective, sophisticated musical directions and its influence still hangs over house music today; the square wave synth bass sound (it sounds a bit like thwacking a huge Chicago House plastic drainpipe with a massive deep house slipper) that Heard lovingly placed at the centre of some of his most iconic tracks has echoed out across dancefloors in every electronic dance music genre ever since, while the album’s dreamlike detachment and pensive mood, together with its expressive use of synths set a high standard for deep house. Decades on, it remains as elegantly funky, quietly beautiful and unassumingly mighty as it ever was.

House music had been in the mix for Balearic DJs like Alfredo and Leo Mas from the mid-80s on, but this collection from 1989 really encapsulates the blissful point where Ibiza and Chicago intersected. It has a load of elements which would influence the codification of the Balearic aesthetic for years to come — synth arpeggios a-go-go, rich and warm soul-jazz chords, orientalist and Latin motifs, the tempo of the four-to-the-floor kickdrum dipping well below 120bpm. But in fact this was convergent evolution in action: Larry Heard was already steeped in the same influences as the Ibizan DJs, like jazz fusion, prog, Kosmische and new age, so it was absolutely natural his music would fit with the Mediterranean environment so well. Whether the album’s title had any link to the Ibiza club where Alfredo and Leo Mas played is unknown: more likely it’s just synchronicity as elegant as the music.