This started its life as a laidback groover in its Love and Seduction mixes, with pleasant vocals of Cynthia Seijo and Marlo Bennett (the difference in both versions is the lyrics used). The flipside of the original SR12177 featured a harder edged remix with vocals by Althea McQueen, carefully reduced to the title and a repetitive "In my hooooouse!!!". It was this version that received the most attention outside the U.S. (somehow, the A-side was a bit too laidback for European clubs).A new chapter was written when the More/Phearce remix was updated on SR12212 with fragments of two other "Strictlies" (obviously after X Press 2 sampled one of them for their underground hit "London X-Press"...) and a drumbreak by the Good Men. This became the ultimate version, and a special 4 minute edit was made in the Netherlands in order to get the song on the radio and commercial compilations. Although the tune deserved to be a hit, it failed to chart.This CD maxi single was another of my cost-effective purchases those days as it contains the content of both original U.S. vinyls as well as the radio version. Only the beats were missing, but I remember myself extracting them out of the More/Phearce mix and creating a tape loop out of them... one had to find creative solutions in lack of a sampler...:)

Good and sweet voice of Cynthia Seijo made the “House of Love” more attractive in my opinion. Without her, this single become a total FLOP for garage lovers listeners. Unfortunately I do not know others works with marvelous voice of her. Could somebody tell me where ´s Cynthia Seijo have been???