Kings of House

Masters At Work | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 23, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Rapster
• ASIN: B0009HLD50
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,558 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Resse & Santiago The Sound (Smoothe Mix)

2. Kym Mazelle Taste My Love

3. The Endless Pokers The Poke

4. Jungle Wonz The Jungle (Jungle Mix)

5. Mr. Fingers Can You Feel It (Instrumental Version)

6. Sterling Void Its Allright

7. Resse & Santonio Rock To The Boat

8. Blake Baxter Sexuality

9. KC Flight Lets Get Jazzy

10. Urban Soul Alright

See all 20 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Louie Vega feat. Mr. V "V Gets Jazzy (Dance Ritual Mix)"

2. KC Flight "Voices"

3. Master C&J feat. Liz Torres Face It (Dub)

4. No Smoke "Koro Koro"

5. Bang The Party "Bang Bang Your Mine"

6. Robert Owens "I'll Be Your Friend (Perfecto Mix)

7. Loni Clark "Rushing (Mood To Swing Dub)"

8. Romanthony "Let Me Show You Love"

9. Virgo 4 "In A Vision"

10. Robert Owens "Bring Down The Walls"

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Please welcome the ubiquitous duo, Masters at Work to BBE Records "Kings of" series. Kenny Dope & Louie Vega (aka Masters at Work) have been working together for 15 years. They are gods of the global dance movement, overground as well as underground. Whether DJ’ing, remixing, reconstructing, working on their own productions or running their numerous labels; their unflinching commitment to innovation, experimentation and self expression makes them as prolific today as they were from day one.

Transcending fashion; not afraid to mix techno with Latino, drop hip hop beats over a house groove or take out the 4/4 all together and leave the snares clattering loose and free, they remain true to their musical spectrum which influences them.

Their selections take us on a journey to Chicago; re-visiting their House roots (Joe Smooth, Sterling Void), early rave anthems typifying the ‘summer of love’ (Santonio’s ‘Rock To The Beat’), perhaps the first ever jazz house record (Mr. Fingers ‘Can You Feel It’) as well as awesome jackin' House (Master C & J’s ‘Face It’). Kings of House is a remarkable mix from today’s Kings of the genre, bowing reverentially at the virtuoso performances from the inventers of the movement.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars CD 1 moved me, CD 2 was just OK, February 21, 2006

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C. Bell "DJ & Music Lover" (Allentown, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kings of House (Audio CD)

I'm a fan of Masters At Work. Their productions were a staple of my music arsenal during the House years. I was very happy to see some "new" (albeit old material) house mixes. However I was a little disappointed. The Kenny Dope CD (CD 1) is tight. Good selections and good blends. The Louie Vega CD (CD 2) didn't move me as much, mainly due to the selection of tracks. My preference is towards what is now called "soulful" house.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good house compilation by a couple of legends, November 15, 2005

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dj matt from nyc (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kings of House (Audio CD)

Masters at Work have been at the top of the house scene for more than fifteen years now.

Louie Vega is one of the greatest DJs of all time with a career spanning more than 20 years. I recently learned that he was the first dj to break freestyle (a now defunct style of NYC dance music). Louie has also released some amazing albums recently with his Elements of Life band.

Kenny Dope is an amazing DJ and producer. He brings hip hop sensibilities to jazzy and vocal house music. Hes also one of the best drum programmers ever to touch an mpc.

Together as masters at work, kenny and louie are an amazing production team that has produced some of the best modern dance music ever. Their album as nuyorican soul is really amazing.

Enough about them...
This album is a great mix of classic club tunes. There are also one or two newer songs (V gets jazzy is a remake of KC Flightt's classic "lets get jazzy"). other new songs mixed in are "i wanna see you freak (like this)" which is a remake of Chip E's like this, which itself is a remake of ESG's moody (all bangin club classics). If you like eclectic dance music with a soulful feeling then this is for you. Many of these tracks are very raw and are from a time when house music was very new and the people making the songs had very little money. So they are very basic, but they convey a raw instinct that is missing from a lot of music these days. The idea here is to dance! Its not about anything else. Close your eyes, put this cd on full volume (with plenty of bass) and picture a dark hot room with 300 people stomping the floor at 5am.

My favorite song is Romanthony's "let me show you love" which has not been re-released since 1994 when it first came out. If you can get your hands on the vinyl version of this compilation, you get the full version of that track.

I would disagree with the previous review stating that diva house vocals are 'cheesy'... you either like it or you dont!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Long Live The Kings!, August 31, 2005

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Thomas Horan (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kings of House (Audio CD)

Kenny Dope and Little Louie Vega, fifteen-year veterans of the club scene, revisit the Chicago-style House music of the late eighties and early nineties. Vega focuses on the dance anthems of that era, while Dope weaves a spare, seamless, largely instrumental mix over one irresistible disc.

On Dope's section, lyrics are infrequent and cheesy diva wailing is used sparingly. What remains is the ecstasy minus the excess. Vega shows less restraint, and his contributions suffer accordingly. Yet he makes a few excellent choices, especially Joe Smooth's Promised Land and Frankie Knuckles' Your Love.

This compilation captures the purity of a sound that in recent years has been widely commercialized, reminding us that long after the death of Disco, House got the world dancing again.