Review
Genre and Mood
Spada and Hosie Neal made Feels Like Home (Red Velvet Dress), and this page is about its shortest version: Feels Like Home, Video Edit. It sits in deep house and downtempo electronic music, after EARMILK’s description of the Red Velvet Dress production as downtempo deep house. No critic describes this song’s mood: warm and relaxed are this page’s reading of that genre and of the title, not a reviewer’s words.
Song Summary
Feels Like Home (Red Velvet Dress) is the vocal song named after Red Velvet Dress, a production by the Italian producer and DJ Spada; its bracketed title points to the track it grew from. It was released in 2014 on Hysterical, a division of the Italian label Ego, as a five-track single: this Video Edit at 2:42, the full version at 6:26, a radio edit and a full remix by Bakermat, and Red Velvet Dress itself at 6:46. The writers are credited as Ermanno Andrea Spadati, Hosie Neal and Astrid Suryanto, with Hosie Neal as the featured voice. No source found says more about Hosie Neal or about the lyric.
Musical Breakdown
No source describes the Video Edit section by section, so this page does not invent its structure. What can be said is how it relates to the other versions: it is the same song as the 6:26 version, cut to less than half its length. Listen for which parts survive the cut: the voice, the hook, the groove, and how quickly the track reaches them.
Concepts in Focus
A radio edit is a shortened version of a track for radio and streaming, with a quicker start and fewer repeats. A video edit does the same job for a music video, and this one is short even by that measure. Dance producers make long versions for DJs, who need room to mix in and out, and short ones for everybody else.
A remix is another producer’s reworking. The Dutch producer Bakermat, whose own Bakermat – The River is on this playground, remixed the song for the same release, in a full version and a radio edit.
The music video was directed by Anthony Chirco, according to Warner Music France’s upload of July 2014, which credits an exclusive licence to the label Play On; the version embedded here is the upload on Spada’s own channel. At 2:51 it runs a few seconds longer than the audio edit.
Artistic Context
EARMILK, writing in 2015, introduced Spada as an Italian producer and DJ who had struck a chord with online listeners and dance fans, an official remixer of ZHU and Above & Beyond with his own podcast, Spadalicious, and said Red Velvet Dress had helped propel him onto its radar the year before.
Impact and Reception
No chart figures for the single could be sourced. What the record shows is how far the song travelled in 2014: in Italy it was included on the compilation Hit Mania 2014 Special Edition, and MusicBrainz lists the Video Edit on the French compilation Party Fun 2014, Volume 2. Play the edit, then the full version, and compare.
