S/D: Masters At Work

listening to "i can't get no sleep"

what's a good comp/mix of their classic stuff?

and/or name some tracks i should search.

Yeah, Business as Usual was great, but I got bored by Cargo.

I'll get my coat.

does anyone know where i can find this?

heard one of the mixes from it the other day and sort of fell in love. nowhere on slsk or other places.

you can get most if not all of those mixes on Beatport. Morales Late Night mix is my fave.

one time, the 10th anniversary collection looks pretty solid

Nu-Yorican Soul album still golden too

all right, finally someone pays attention to this thread!

i like a great deal of their production work, but have very few of their own releases.

i think i shall check my bank statement today and see if i can get those track on beatport. but...i dunno, i sort of want them on vinyl?

anyway, love the Nu-Yorican Soul album. that's about all i got.

i recommend the following records by masters at work:

alright alright
dum dum cry

best MAW track IMO: "Deep Inside" as Hardrive. i like a bunch of their shit though.

they did hardrive? wow, that one is great.

yeah "Deep Inside" is great. KenLou III "What A Sensation" is a good one, too.

it might be louie by himself if you believe discogs:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hardrive

either which way, that track is the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. it samples a LLV production for the vocal, Barbara Tucker's "Beautiful People".

River Ocean "Love and Happiness" is awesome, so is Voices' "Voices in My Mind".

all kenlou releases and the maw war 12" on their maw label (pretty solid a&r, 100+ releases) of course "everybody be somebody" as ruffneck featuring yavahn, "nights over egypt", most all nuyorican soul especially for me "you can do it (baby)" w/george benson, "to be in love", "brighter days", "mind fluid" & "the nervous track" on nervous, the disco-house era "odyssey", "casio's theme"... their version of "souffles h" by mondo grosso -I don't know how many of their tens of remixes.

possibly not a lot: do I even want to hear them fix marvin's "what's going on"? it sure ain't broke & is best left alone. electrocuting insufferable -if lucrative- pop with bumpin' latin jazz flavor doesn't redeem it either.

looove their mix of "helpless (i don't know what to do without you)" by urbanized

The easy but totally correct answer: everything on this ...

http://www.discogs.com/release/25716

Part two is nearly as good, though less groundbreaking.

i didn't even know they did 'deep inside'! that is possibly one of my favorite tracks ever.

great.

dope's beats are dope. an old fave: "and there ain't" as dbx, which sounds not unlike an awake and technically proficient moodymann. or french house, sans fromage. and that "beau mot plage" edit of his was sweet. anyway 1990's jam the mace & the bucketheads should settle any doubts. earlier and louder than most.

vega carries the torch for any harmless/annoying noodling they've been (imo unjustly) accused of and he's released immediately classic latin ballads like "cerca de mi" that deserve single-digit chart positions- all the while his new label drops future underground classics like... echh, that's disgusting.

anyway, overall I prefer their respective productions and mixes.

Keep these suggestions coming folks. Other than the real standouts (I had the cassingle of "The Bomb" in high school), I'm unacceptably undereducated about these guys. A classic case of so much stuff making it hard to know where to dip the toe in.

can anyone vouch for the 3-disc strictly maw comp from last year? tracklist looks pretty sweet

I posted this a long time ago on another thread:

2xCD80 'portable' Masters at Work go!

disc1

Hardrive - Sindae (Kenlou Dub)
Untouchables - Dance to the Rhythm
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Masters at Work dub - edit)
Kenlou - Moonshine
Neneh Cherry - Buddy X (Masters at Work 12" mix)
Masters at Work feat. India - I Can't Get No Sleep (Kenlou 12")
Hardrive - Deep Inside (original vers.)
Tito Puente - Ran Kan Kan (12" Club mix)
Tito Puente - Para Los Rumberos (Little Louie Vega & Kenny Dope Gonzalez Mix)
River Ocean feat. India - Love & Happiness (Yemaya y Ochun)
Mondo Grosso - Souffles H (King Street Club Mix)
Kenlou 2 - The Bounce

(81:20 - early years - vaguely chronological - hott!)

disc2

Nuyorican Soul - The Nervous Track (Ballsy mix)
Nuyorican Soul - Mind Fluid
Kenlou 3 - What a Sensation
Nuyorican Soul feat. India - Runaway
Nuyorican Soul feat. Jocelyn Brown - It's Alright, I Feel It
Nuyorican Soul feat. George Benson - You Can Do It Baby
Masters at Work - MAW Expensive (A Tribute to Fela)
Masters at Work feat. Luis Salinas - Pienso En Ti (I Think of You) (album edit)
Masters at Work feat. India - To Be in Love

(78:25 - later years including the essential Nuyorican Soul stuff - should probably try to squeeze in an edit of "Work")

ayayy the tito puente stuff is hittity-hot!

to my shame i only have one kenny dope record, although it's fantastic - "buggin on percussion" b/w "tribal dance"

dope, with no shame whatsoever, ripped the A-side wholesale for his remix of alex gopher's "the child"

his "strange games and funky things iii" mix/comp is a spectacular walk through 70s groove and soul

it always blows my mind to remember that he started out -- and continued for years -- by actually splicing magnetic tape and scotch-taping it together

There's some new indie dance group which has basically ripped off "The Bounce". It'll come to me in a bit...

Oh yeah, In Flagranti - "Paroli".

i could have that timeline wrong - kenny could have made that beat available to us AFTER "the child"

isn't every In Flagranti song a remix/edit/rip-off of another song?

got Little Louie Vega ft/Blaze "Elements Of Life" today. Haven't listened in full yet.

that is sort of InFlagranti's style. that said, i liked them the time i saw them live.

http://www.imeem.com/people/SfS1bVT/music/6bg7OXiV/saint-etienne-only-love-can-break-your-heart-maw-dub/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RFfXXG62Dg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVfZzIoAjK8

Shoop shoop shoo-bee-doo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WocagR84RRU

This one is kind of a total fucking gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOtH8nRx6A

Haven't heard that Saint Etienne remix before. Its pretty cool. Sounds like 69 - Sub Seducer in the beginning.

guys plz post more for me!!

debbie gibson!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dhovmugIxo

my favorite at the moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa2yEOPutm4&

..although it's more cj mackintosh than MAW.

https://5mag.net/news/maw-records-masters-at-work-relaunch/

interesting.

expectations not massively high but hope to be pleasantly surprised. hard to tell from the one minute clip.

omg someone already made a playlist of.... everything???

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2WU8BPiBq30wLbA2Yjcst6?si=8942600338384e4a

nuyorican soul especially for me "you can do it (baby)" w/george benson,

― blunt, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:18 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoARv54Wi7g

some pretty badass schitt right here.

this is also very wonderful and very much new to me-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ_2lfdhfoY

everything but the girl - "driving (masters at work racing mix)"

Can I mention a remix of MAW here? Because

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWSFllXLd4k