One Day (Vandaag) — Bakermat

“One Day (Vandaag)” is a dance record built around a speech. Bakermat looped Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”, played piano chords under it and closed on a saxophone break. Released in 2012, it kept climbing European charts for two years.

A young producer from Markelo

Bakermat is Lodewijk Fluttert, born on 8 October 1991 in Markelo, in the Netherlands. His music draws on soul, jazz, funk and gospel as much as on dance music. “Vandaag”, Dutch for “today”, appeared in 2012 on two EPs, Zomer and Vandaag. The promo release on Délicieuse Records, dated 27 August 2012, paired “Vandaag” with “Zomer”.

Building a track around a speech

In an interview with Digital Trends, Bakermat explained how it came together. He looped the sample of the speech, which King delivered at the March on Washington in August 1963, and played piano chords behind it, building the progression with the words and making the piano more intense as it went. Then he looked for a final high point, which became the saxophone break. He chose the speech, he said, because it is “so musical”, and he described the result as “almost like a classical music piece”. Fluttert and Martin Luther King Jr. are both credited as writers.

From club track to European hit

The track grew slowly. In 2013 it was already among the year’s best sellers in the Netherlands, at No. 13 on the Single Top 100 year-end chart, and in Flanders, at No. 14. Sony re-released it as “One Day (Vandaag)” in April 2014, with a 3:41 radio edit next to the 5:24 original mix.

Its peaks: No. 1 in France, No. 2 in the Netherlands, Austria and Wallonia, No. 4 in Germany, No. 5 in Flanders and No. 15 in the UK. It went platinum in Germany and Belgium, gold in Switzerland and silver in the UK.

What came next

“Teach Me” (2014) applied the same idea to a sample of gospel singer Shirley Caesar, and “Baby” (2017) borrowed from Thelma Houston’s 1977 hit “Don’t Leave Me This Way”. In October 2016 he founded the label Big Top Amsterdam, and in 2018 he created a live band show and the Bakermat’s Circus concept. His albums are The Ringmaster (2020), The Spirit (2021) and Grace Note (2025).

For more records where deep house met the pop charts, read about Feder’s “Blind” and Kungs’ “Never Going Home”.