KENNY DOPE
Choice
Azuli
· Another double-disc of Kenny Dope’s dance-floor diamonds delivers the disco goods.
Music writers don’t always have it so easy, y’know. Take, for example, the task of reviewing the latest comp of fundamental dance music culled by Kenny Dope. I mean, how many times can you drag out the same superlatives?
Runnning the gamut of ’70s and early ’80s deep soul, disco and funk from well-known chart-toppers to obscure jaw-droppers, even the most jaded tramps in the brothel of boogie will find some tunes that’ll return the tingle to their tushies and get ’em back on the bump again.
Constructed like a Saturday night set at Paradise Garage, Choice starts out with mid-tempo boogie and funk but by the time little known disco gems like Dayton’s "The Sound of Music" and Rainbow Brown’s "Til You Surrender" spill from Dopes’s overflowing treasure chest halfway through the first disc, it’s clear this is gonna be a full-on hands-in-the-air fabfest.
Neophytes have no need to fear either as the set, peppered with faves from the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire, Kool & The Gang, Tavares and Cameo, never slips into smug scenesterism and always keeps the masses in mind. Dope twists up yet another huge fattie of feel-good floor-fillin’ bliss and burns that puppy right down to the bitter end of the roach. Even if you are familiar with a lion’s share of the tracks, it’s still well worth it to take a hit while the Master is passin’ that bat your way.
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