Disc 1
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. Confusion - (with The Fantastic Aleems) ~ Kenny Dope |  |
| 2. Evil - (with Earth, Wind & Fire) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 3. Groove on Down - (with Dunn Pearson) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 4. Ain't No Need - (with Skye) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 5. Starchild - (with Level 42) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 6. Do What You Gotta Do - (with Eddie Drennon) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 7. Land of Hunger - (with The Earons) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 8. Sound of Music - (with Dayton) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 9. Till You Surrender - (with Rainbow Brown) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 10. Got to Get Out of Here - (with Lucy Hawkins) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 11. Open Sesame - (with Kool & The Gang) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 12. Once I've Been There - (with Norman Connors) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 13. Come On Baby - (Part 1, with Beginning Of The End) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 14. Advice From Father - (with Buari) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 15. Love Supreme - (with Milton Hamilton) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 16. You Don't Know - (with Serious Intention) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 17. I Need You - (with Sylvester) ~ Kenny Dope | | Disc 2
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| Song Title | Sample |
| 1. It Takes a Minute - (with Tavares) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 2. Together Forever - (with Exodus) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 3. Saisfied - (with James Brown) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 4. Twilight Zone - (with Manhattan Transfer) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 5. Dancing in Outer Space - (with Atmosfear) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 6. Dazzle Me - (with Dazzle) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 7. Mi Sabrina Tequana - (with Ingram) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 8. Southern Freeze - (with Freeze) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 9. Energy Level - (with B.T. Express) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 10. Sound Table - (with Cameo) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 11. Super Strut - (with Kasmere Stage Band) ~ Kenny Dope | |
| 12. Nowhere - (Danny Krivit Edit, with Hokus Pokus) ~ Kenny Dope | |
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | DJ: Kenny Dope. | | Seminal New York DJ Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez, best known as a beatmaker and producer for Masters at Work and Nuyorican Soul, comes from a diverse musical background, a background that ended up assisting him greatly in making significant contributions to house and dance music. To demonstrate this upbringing, he, with the help of Azuli Records, assembled some of the tracks that influenced him the most and mixed them together (though there is a limited-edition unmixed DJ version) into Choice: A Collection of Classics (and the 11th in the label's Choice series). More than anything, the album shows the producer doing what he loves to do, with the songs that he loves to do it with. It doesn't present anything that's completely unexpected -- there's a Patrick Adams song, one by Dazzle, as well as R&B and disco cuts from James Ingram, the Fantastic Aleems, Kool & the Gang, Earth, Wind & Fire, and James Brown -- but it's a nice selection of music mostly from the '70s and '80s, Gonzalez's prime influential period, and the era whose records he uses most when making his own music. Being that the DJ is an admitted vinyl head, there are also some pretty rare tracks on Choice, including "Ain't No Need" by the mysterious Skye, "Come on Baby, Pt. 1" by the one-hit Bahamian soul group Beginning of the End, as well as "Super Strut" from the Kashmere Stage Band, a high-school funk band out of Houston that produced scores of talented musicians, jazz guitarist Melvin Sparks to name just one. The album grooves and slides along nicely, and it's easy to tell that Gonzalez is having a good time mixing it all together, filling out overly electronic beats with warmer tones and additions, playing around with disco, Latin, hip-hop, and soul, and proving once again why he's so deserving of such a compilation. ~ Marisa Brown |
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| Technical Info |
| Release Date : 06/06/2006 | | Original Release Date : 2006 | | Catalog ID : 46 | | Label : Azuli (UK) | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00880157010462 |
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