Can You Party

"Can You Party" was written and produced by Todd Terry, with Tony D arranging. A blog post on the record lists its samples: a snatch of Marshall Jefferson's "The House Music Anthem (Move Your Body)", First Choice's "Let No Man Put Asunder", the Jacksons' live album from 1981 and an excerpt of a Malcolm X speech. Greg Kot, as quoted on Jahsonic, called it a delirious, near chaotic collage of electronic samples, and Tim Lawrence notes a police-siren coda and chant-style hooks. Terry described the process to the Red Bull Music Academy: reel-to-reel tape and razor-blade edits, and he tried to clear samples when he could.

It reached 14 in the UK in the summer of 1988, at the peak of UK acid house. The idea of a rap version came from Tony D, and Terry initially resisted; the Jungle Brothers' "I'll House You", on Straight Out the Jungle (November 8, 1988), is described as built on it, in one writer's words almost certainly the most important hip house single of all time. Terry is credited as an uncredited producer of that single, which charted in 1989 at 16 on Billboard's Hot Rap singles and 28 on maxi-singles sales. A Nottingham fan's handwritten chart had it at number one for about three weeks.

A search result mentions a Record Store Day reissue in 2025 on yellow vinyl, which we could not confirm. We found no live history, music video or setlist.fm counts.