Can someone tell what style MAW's 'Work' draws upon?

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this is a track that I love. the rythmic pattern and the chanting style, esp.
So I was pretty intrigued the other day to hear in a record store something sounding very similar, but obviously much more 'traditional'.
So can anyone recommend something similar to 'Work'? To these ears, it kind of sounds like samba, but there's something very African about the rythm. Any insight?

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I really love this track too Fabrice.

I can't recommend what influenced Work really, I don't know myself.

But I can recommend the Viva Bugged Out mix by Jon Carter from last year, which has Work on it with lots of other Brazilian and African style house, it's a really good mix and fits the description you give.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

when is this from? if from 1999-2001, maw were very in thrall to afro-rock/funk like fela.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The closest I can think of is pretty much anything that Osunlade's put out through Yoruba, especially "Cantos a Ochun et Oya."

Osunlade needs to do a remix of "Hotel Yorba" called "Hotel Yoruba." I don't think Jack would like it very much.

― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"Work" sounds more like a bubbling riddim to me...

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

you might like MAW Expensive from the same album - 'Our Time Has Come' (a cover of Fela's Expensive Shit).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i second that.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 22 May 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Soca was one of the main influences on "Work"...?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 22 May 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I gave the full LP a few spins the other day and was pretty disappointed by it. They should have explored that afro-beat sound more, instead of belting out all that boring Roy Ayers stuff methinks..

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Thursday, 22 May 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the best MAW is the remix of manu di bango's 'new bell'

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't recognize this track by name, but Fabrice—and anyone else who likes percussive chant-ish afrobeatish house music—one of my most treasured records (treasured not least for its ability to mix with ANYTHING) is "Buggin on Percussion" b/w "Tribal Dance" by Kenny Dope. ("BoP" was actually used as the backbeat to the Kenny Dope mix of Alex Gopher's "The Child"; "Tribal Dance" is darker but more of a proper song)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 22 May 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Just put it on for the first time in a long time. I can't believe I thought for all this time this song was about, you know, working...

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

I just had a sublime sound vision of David Byrne covering this.

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 14:40 (seventeen years ago)

soca house, the genre that never was :-(

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 17:16 (seventeen years ago)

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