Hardrive’s “Deep Inside” featuring Barbara Tucker is one of house music’s most euphoric cases of rhythmic recycling. Louie Vega’s moniker for his releases on the Strictly Rhythm label sometimes included his Masters At Work partner Kenny Dope. Vega sampled Tucker’s vocals from the “Beautiful People” demo he previously made withContinue Reading
[youtube]hevnSJQyGbQ[/youtube] Simply Red is a Manchester, England based R&B band that emerged in 1985 as an outgrowth of the punk group The Frantic Elevators. Mick Hucknall was a member of the Elevators and after their dissolution he partnered with manager Elliot Rashman to put together a new band. Picture BookContinue Reading
[vimeo]35888805[/vimeo] Masters At Work gave a lecture about their work for the Red Bull Academy in San Francisco.Continue Reading
Nuyorican Soul was a project undertaken by Masters At Work in ’97. Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez and “Little” Louie Vega have made dance music together for almost two decades having professionally started their alliance in ’90. Instead of their usual electronic work as MAW, Kenlou, Sole Fusion and a few otherContinue Reading