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Masters At Work
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Review: Masters At Work's continuing 'Lost Tapes' series has already offered up plenty of previously buried treasure by the New York house heroes. Somewhat predictably, volume 10 contains more must-check material rediscovered on dusty DATs, specifically three passes on a cut called 'Bump That Whistle'. First up is the 'Original Mix', where echo-laden minor key chords, whistles and jazzy hi-hat sounds rise above typically loose-limbed Kenny Dope beat and a weighty bassline. The dancefloor dub style 'Stripped Mix' follows ? think beats, bass and occasional weird electronics ? before the long-serving duo serves up a typically floor-friendly 'Beats' mix for those who like playing around with percussion.
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MAW 214
27 Oct 23
Funky/Club House
27 Oct 23
Funky/Club House
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
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: Still bossing the game for as long as they'll live, Masters At Work are back at it again with a sweet original jam "It's What We Live, It's What We Are" - spread out across four sweet incarnations. For the straight up house lovers privy to some snare-action here and there it's all about the "Made In Ibiza Studios mix", with some some early B-boy electro tips coming from KenLou himself. Heating that dancefloor evenstill is a classic "MAW Stripped" mix to get those pulses racing and beads of sweat dripping - feel dat bassline - next to a deeper, headsier session in the dub mix. Sexy hot as ever, Master At Work for life.
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MAW 202
05 Nov 21
Funky/Club House
05 Nov 21
Funky/Club House
Review: Here's something significant: the first new single from legendary New York house duo Masters at Work since the mid 2000s. The good news is that Kenny 'Dope' Gonzalez and Little Louis Vega have not lost their touch after all these years, with 'Mattel' delivering a killer combination of bouncy, 'Nuyorican' house drums (programmed to perfection by MPC master Gonzalez), spooky late-night synth-string stabs, hazy early morning motifs and bleeping electronics. It's perhaps a little moodier than we may have expected, but that's no criticism. The accompanying 'KenLou Dub' is even more of a cosmic, percussive and atmospheric peak-time treat, while the 'Beats' version is terrific for DJs who like to play around with percussion. It's great to have them back!
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MAW 200
02 Apr 21
Deep House
02 Apr 21
Deep House
Various
Masters At Work - "MAW Presents West End Records/The 25th Anniversary" (continuous mix 1) - (57:24) 117 BPM
Masters At Work - "MAW Presents West End Records: The 25th Anniversary" (continuous mix 2) - (1:08:59) 122 BPM
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405053 8639759
31 Jul 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
31 Jul 20
Disco/Nu-Disco
Various
The Break Boys - "My House Is Your House And Your House Is Mine" (Miami Beach Break mix) - (6:18) 124 BPM 
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826194 352998
05 May 17
Deep House
05 May 17
Deep House
Various / Todd Terry
Todd Terry - "Keep On Jumpin" (feat Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown - Tee's Freeze mix) - (8:55) 124 BPM
Darryl James & David Anthony - "You Make Me Happy" (feat Fay Victor - Todd Terry re-edit) - (7:30) 122 BPM
Todd Terry All Stars - "Get Down" (feat Kenny Dope/DJ Sneak/Terry Hunter & Tara Mcdonald - Kenny Dope original) - (5:53) 127 BPM
Review: Defected's ongoing House Masters series should be essential listening for anyone keen to discover more about the recording careers of some of the scene's most iconic producers. Certainly, this latest installment, chronicling NYC legend Todd Terry's finest moments, contains far more hits than misses. At 35 tracks deep, it's a bit of a beast, but features not only all of his best-known productions ("Weekend", "Can You Party", "I'll House You", "Bango (To The Batmobile)", his remix of Everything But The Girl's "Missing"), but also a swathe of lesser-known remixes (A slammin' version of Bizarre Inc's "I'm Gonna Get You"), Dubs (a brilliantly stripped-back version of Hardrive's "Voices Inside My House") and original productions (the hip-house era madness of Black Riot's "Warlock").
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826194 332198
24 Jun 16
Funky/Club House
24 Jun 16
Funky/Club House
Masters At Work - "Backfired" (feat India - Joey Negro remix - Grant Nelson Special edit) - (8:17) 128 BPM
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ZEDD 12122
19 Jul 10
Funky/Club House
19 Jul 10
Funky/Club House
Various
Luke Francis - "The Bomb (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)" (Palmer vs Backside Artist remix) - (7:09) 130 BPM
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881226 179127
29 Oct 07
Funky/Club House
29 Oct 07
Funky/Club House
