The acclaimed dance vocalist joins forces with producer Porky Paul for an uplifting house anthem built around one irresistible idea: life is happening now.
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Listen to Colette Van Sertima – “Live For The Moment”
There are singers who perform dance music, and then there are voices that seem as though they were made to live inside it.
Colette Van Sertima belongs firmly in the second category.
With her new single “Live For The Moment,” Van Sertima brings the warmth, soul and unmistakable personality that have defined her career into a contemporary house production from Porky Paul. The result respects her considerable dance-music history without spending its time looking backward.
Instead, this one is about right now.
Written by Van Sertima and Porky Paul, “Live For The Moment” takes a seemingly simple message — embrace the present, take the opportunities in front of you and actually live your life while it’s happening — and turns it into something made for the dancefloor.
A Voice That House Fans Already Know
Longtime dance fans will know Van Sertima’s voice from O.T. Quartet’s “Hold That Sucker Down,” an enduring club anthem, as well as the cult house favorite “Life’s A Bitch.”
That kind of history can become a trap for an artist. Once you’ve been associated with a record people love, there’s always pressure to recreate the past.
“Live For The Moment” wisely doesn’t do that.
Porky Paul gives Van Sertima a polished, contemporary house backdrop while leaving enough space for the thing that matters most: that voice.
She sounds soulful without overplaying it, commanding without fighting the production and immediately recognizable without relying on nostalgia.
It’s classic vocal-house chemistry — the beat makes you move, but the singer gives you a reason to remember the song.
Colette Van Sertima and Porky Paul Find Their Groove
The collaboration between Van Sertima and Porky Paul feels particularly natural because the production understands where the emotional center of the record belongs.
It belongs with Colette.
Rather than overwhelming the vocal with production tricks, Porky Paul builds the track around it. The rhythm provides momentum, the production provides atmosphere and Van Sertima supplies the personality.
That’s where “Live For The Moment” makes its case. It isn’t simply a song with a positive lyric pasted over a dance beat. The message and the music actually belong together.
Dance music has always been about the moment.
The crowded room. The lights. The bass. That song arriving at exactly the right time and making everybody forget about everything happening outside the club.
Van Sertima takes that feeling and gives it words.
Then Come the Remixes
If the original establishes the song’s personality, the remix package shows just how far it can travel.
Ruff Loaderz takes “Live For The Moment” further into peak-time house, adding extra drive and giving DJs a more aggressive dancefloor option.
Blakk Habit goes in another direction, rebuilding the record with a UK Garage approach and giving Van Sertima’s vocal an entirely different rhythmic setting. The five-track EP includes the original plus Ruff Loaderz radio, extended and dub remixes and the Blakk Habit remix.
That’s an important part of what makes this release interesting.
You can change the beat. You can change the groove. You can move the record between house and garage.
But Colette’s voice remains the identifying feature.
This Isn’t About Looking Back
It would be easy to frame every new Colette Van Sertima release around what she accomplished years ago.
That misses what’s interesting about “Live For The Moment.”
Yes, Van Sertima has history. Yes, her voice is connected to records that longtime club audiences remember. But the new single isn’t asking anyone to celebrate what she used to do.
She’s still doing it.
And perhaps that’s why the title of this particular record feels so fitting.
After years in an industry that constantly changes its sounds, fashions, technology and stars, Colette Van Sertima isn’t attempting to freeze time.
She’s doing exactly the opposite.
She’s making new music, working with collaborators who understand her voice, allowing producers to reinterpret her sound and putting that unmistakable vocal back where it belongs — coming through the speakers.
“Live For The Moment” isn’t about yesterday, and it isn’t waiting around for tomorrow. It’s Colette Van Sertima reminding us that sometimes the best reason to turn the music up is the simplest one: we’re here right now.
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