MATTEL by MASTERS AT WORK

Rush Hour Store Record of the week W34:

Ever since their early releases together as Masters of Work the sounds of Louie Vega and Kenny Dope have been a major influence on the formation of Rush Hour, their unrivalled output being omnipresent in clubs worldwide during the nineties and beyond, Amsterdam being no exception.

Thirty years later the two are still major forces in house, hiphop, funk and Latin music, but it’s been over two decades since they last released anything as Masters at Work, so it would be a massive understatement to say this release is a special one.

Named after the Synsonics, a drum synthesizer marketed by toy manufacturer Mattel in the early eighties, ‘Mattel’ is a high-pressure dancefloor bomb that takes the MAW-sound Into new directions.

With fireworks percussion played live in an Ibizan studio by Kenny Dope and bass and stabs provided by his fellow Master, ‘Mattel’ is perfect proof the two haven’t lost any of their touch. Not that there were any doubts, of course. (RO) ⁣

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Masters At Work release their first new track in over 20 years with this percussive club banger deluxe  and MAN have they still got it ! 

Mattel, the title comes from early drum machine, the boys have used sounds from that original drum machine and have produced a drum driven electronic groove.
The beats and groove reaches a climax and goes into a frenzy percussion solo played live in the studio by Kenny Dope.
Louie Vega bounces off the beats and percussion solo with a bouncing bassline and hard hitting stabs taking this seven minute and fifty nine seconf track into the stratosphere.