Original Record of the Year: Masters At Work - To Be In Love
Masters At Work go down as one of the all time greats in my opinion. When it comes to the soulful side of dance music I can't think of anyone who's better.
My own dance music journey began being more into the harder side but as time went on I found myself more drawn to the soulful side. I then saw this side as being more musical and for a record to be truly great this is where to look.
To me this record had everything a truly great record needed and the only way I could think to make it better was to tone down the vocals a little.
Surely no record can take it's crown?
New Record of the Year: Carl Cox - Phuture 2000
Actually there is a record that can. I don't think there's another DJ as highly regarded by all areas of the dance music world and it's easy to understand why. He's a legend of the rave world, a pioneer of techno and a top house DJ. Yet this record isn't really any of those.
There's 2 main reasons why this has now beaten the Masters At Work record. First of all as much as I still love "To Be In Love" I've become less tolerant of the vocals over the year. Secondly, this Carl Cox record has my favourite type of bear, the breakbeat.
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