An Italian duo rewrote an Earth, Wind & Fire hit into seven minutes of soulful house — and put it out on their own label

Micky More & Andy Tee, together with Gianni Bini and the singer Angela Johnson, have released their own reading of ‘In The Stone’.

The single came out on 31 October 2025; the version is called the 12 Inch Extended Mix and runs 7 minutes 5 seconds. The date is recorded in the Apple Music catalogue.

The original is an Earth, Wind & Fire song, issued as a single in 1979 on Columbia Records; it rose to No. 23 on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart. It was written by Maurice White, David Foster and Allee Willis.

The credits also reveal the duo’s real names: the producers are listed as Michele Mingo, Andrea Tonici and Gianni Bini, and the three of them did the arrangement too. Lead and backing vocals are Angela Johnson’s.

It all came out on Groove Culture — the duo’s own label, through which both their own and other people’s work is released.

Micky More and Andy Tee have worked together long enough to mark a decade of the duo with a record of its own — ‘Ten Year Anniversary’ (2016). Then came ‘Remixed with Passion’ (2017), ‘In Our Groove’ (2022) and ‘The Music of Your Mind’ (2024).

Their sound is soulful house with live brass and piano, built to work both in a club and on the radio. Seven minutes in a 12-inch mix format is squarely about the former.

Seven minutes in a 12-inch format is not a whim but an address: a version like this is made for whoever puts the record on, not for whoever switches on the radio.