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Kenny Dope
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Review: How much unreleased, previously forgotten heat is there in Masters at Work's vaults? Rather a lot, it seems, as this release marks the ninth EP in their ongoing 'Lost Tapes' series. What's an offer this time is a collection of varied passes of the same track, 'Talkin' About The Spirit'. They begin with the 'No Sample' version, a piano and organ-sporting chunk of heads-down MAW brilliance that sounds like a mid-90s concoction, before serving up the dub style 'No Sample Stripped' mix. There are two 'MAW with Patti' versions, which replicate the previous mixes but add in more classic disco-era vocal samples, plus a 'Beats' mix that focuses on Kenny Dope's impeccable drum programming and some carefully placed dark string stabs.
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MAW 213
22 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
22 Sep 23
Funky/Club House
Review: For committed house-heads of a certain vintage, the recent rediscovery of a treasure trove of "lost" Masters at Work recordings - and more importantly their release via a series of must-check EP - has been like Christmas and birthdays all rolled into one. Predictably, there's plenty to get the pulse racing on the series' fifth instalment, not least opener 'Smash It', a heavy, locked-in groover driven forwards by typically bouncy Kenny Dope drums and a trippy, mind-altering acid bassline. Those drums - and that bassline - naturally come to the fore on the accompanying 'Drum Dub' version. Bonus cut 'Don't Throw It Away' is an even wilder, percussion-heavy riff on a similar theme - all delay-laden vocal snippets, weird noises, cut-up First Choice samples and infectious drums - and sounds ripe for peak-time plays.
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MAW 209
23 Jun 23
Funky/Club House
23 Jun 23
Funky/Club House
Review: Two contrasting cuts make up the latest instalment in the 'MAW Lost Tapes' series. In the red corner we have 'Funky Anane', a looping groover that tops a hip-shaking Latin rhythm with jazz sax and a female voice saying "funky" over and over. Meanwhile in the blue corner there's 'MAW Want You', an uptempo 4/4 Jersey organ groove with a bassline that reveals exactly where speed garage got its ideas from. For this old garagehead the latter wins by a knockout, but you pays your money and you makes your choice - pausing only to consider what it must be to have made so many great tracks that material of this calibre got left on the shelf!
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MAW 208
19 May 23
Funky/Club House
19 May 23
Funky/Club House
Played by: Juno Recommends Funky House
Review: The latest instalment in Masters At Work's essential 'Lost Tapes' series takes us back to the early '90s and a long-forgotten studio session they did with the late, great Boyd Jarvis, a New York house originator famed for his soloing skills and memorable basslines. We get three passes on 'Boyd's Jam', each of which offers a perfect union of swinging MAW beats (programmed by Kenny Dope), deep chords and textures (laid down by Louie Vega) and bass and keys-solos courtesy of Jarvis. There's the 'On The Organ Mix', which as the title suggests is marked out by some dazzling organ improvisations, the more layered, spaced-out and intoxicating 'Synth Dub' (think organs and mazy electronic lead lines), and the DJ tool style 'Zipper Beats'.
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MAW 207
21 Apr 23
Funky/Club House
21 Apr 23
Funky/Club House
Various
River Ocean - "Love & Happiness (Yemaya Y Och?n) [feat. India] [12" Club Mix]" (feat India - 12" club mix) - (9:50) 124 BPM
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405053 8856064
24 Feb 23
Deep House
24 Feb 23
Deep House
Played by: Pete Haigh, Juno Recommends Funky House, Fred Everything, Todd Terry, G-Blaster (Memorie Cluster), BRENDON P, Ashley Beedle, Chris Simmonds
Review: With all due respect to the virtuoso accomplishments that Nu Yorican Soul, Elements Of Life etc definitely were, this writer's favourite MAW productions have always been the raw, pumping NY club cuts that the duo put out back in the early days. If you agree, then these two gems, recently discovered lurking on two-inch tapes from 25-30 years ago and given just the very lightest of 21st Century makeovers to bring them into line with modern production values, are an absolute must - quite how they never ended up on Nervous or Strictly is a mystery. Do we really need to say any more?
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MAW 205
10 Feb 23
Funky/Club House
10 Feb 23
Funky/Club House
Review: A house music all-star remix team assembles for this package of Kenny 'Dope' Gonzalez's 1994 classic by Axxis "All I'm Askin'" for his acclaimed Dopewax imprint. It is all the quality one would expect from the man who is one half of legendary production outfit Masters Of Work: from the tough vocal-led bounce of the original version which hasn't aged a bit, to the new remixes by Gonzales himself, as well as Jay Potter & Dancing Divaz totally uplifting remix featuring Rowetta. Plus, not to mention man of the moment Demuir from Toronto, delivering a deep down and dirty 'Playboy Edit'.
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DW 225
10 Jul 20
Deep House
10 Jul 20
Deep House
Review: For the latest release, Masters at Work man Kenny 'Dope' Gonzalez has revisited one of his toughest tunes: 1994 Axxis hook-up "All I'm Askin". The original version, which rightly kicks off the EP, is a heady slab of mid-'90s NYC basement house that wraps hazy synth stabs and glassy-eyed female vocal samples around a moody bassline and slamming tribal house drums. It comes accompanied by a wealth of fresh remixes, with Alexander Technique offering up two suitably sleazy tribal techno takes peppered with razor-sharp riffs and hip-house yelps. Gonzalez's old pal Harry Romero delivers the standout re-rub, a deeper, groovier and chunkier affair, while Avision turns out the lights and rachets up the intensity on his Drumcode style big room techno re-make.
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DW 226
10 Jul 20
Deep House
10 Jul 20
Deep House
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KD- 080
21 Feb 14
Funky/Club House
21 Feb 14
Funky/Club House
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27 Feb 09
Deep House
27 Feb 09
Deep House
