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Masters At Work – Our Time Is Coming Cutting Edge – CTCR-14186/B 2xCD, Album, Japan, 2002 info I took too long to post as always, once again missing my chance to post some favorite Christmas records... Next year, I guess. I hope any of you seeing this got some peace over the holidays. It's almost the new year, so if you have an urgent need for some party music or a way to help ring it in on a positive note, this album might do it for you. Our Time Is Coming  was the second full length album by Kenny Dope and Louie Vega as Masters At Work, released in 2001. Once again, I won't pretend to be any kind of expert on house music, but I'll go out on a limb here and say that anyone who writes this record off as too "mainstream" or "predictable" is either: A. a snob; or B. not paying attention. MAW produced an album that I can put on to convince myself the sun is coming out, even at a late night party or in the Chicago winter.  On the predictable charge: Look, th...

Chumbawamba ‎– (Someone's Always Telling You How To) Behave Agit Prop ‎– AGIT 666 Vinyl, 12", Maxi-Single, UK, 1992 info Ahem. Ok, let's deal with a few things up front.  1. Yes, they are the same band that did that one song in the late '90s .  2. No, that isn't their only song. They were together for 30 years, roughly 15 on either side of their one bonafide international hit. Started as a punk band before discovering samples and dance music and ended their career as a legit folk music group, but had a good long run as an anarchist pop band in the middle.  3. Yeah, I got it- you remember their song being  about drinking booze and getting up again . But I swear, they spent decades as serious radicals playing music . They funded and supported 100 causes, have the only 1990s pop music video I know of about shooting racists , and kept trying to figure out what a pop band could contribute to the movements . (It's not in the video, but at that same awards show, after...