this is another track from a single found in one of my many crate digging expiditions. i grabbed it since it had a masters at work remix but i later found out that there was another single with two additional versions by vega & gonzalez. to be honest, it does bug me not have it but i have heard them elsewhere and while the disco dub & the house dub are groovy, they aren't essential m.a.w. material. besides in terms of this type of garage house, the club mix done by innocence themselves was a little better.
anyhow, the masters at work mix that was included on my single was labelled the twelve inch mix and is a funky ordeal and is garage house but with hip-hop sensibility. it comes of a bit acid jazz and sounds like something that would come out on talkin loud. it's groove is built on the well known break from the skull snaps' "it's a new day" and also includes some shuffling guitar action and scratching.
while the track was released 1992 it does sounds like something vega & gonzalez would knock out a few years prior since it's that hip-hop sounding. you can notice that with the way the sounds & samples are worked and especially how a few seconds of brick's "dazz" appear at times. it's also because of it's playful nature and that is best heard in the break halfway into the song.
the bass and the chords from the original are dropped in favour of eight bars of raw funk. it then leads into a flute solo and a guitar solo subsuquently. both of which are in the original but they make more sense when they are highlighted instead of being a tool for the coda.
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