House Sets

Stephane Lefrancois

Stephane Lefrançois’ follows up on his Vault EP with 3 new cuts crossing into a more energetic, dancefloor oriented collection. Flair is an upbeat, positive track layered with the abstract trumpet playing of Nicolo Bozzano, dubby synth stabs and a steady, marching beat. Sudden Trip delves into an outtake from a live session that builds slowly from a head nodding jam to include glitchy and heavy percussive elements and change-ups. Black Tulip continues with Nicolo’s trumpet riffs and a shuffled snare beat that drops hints of afrobeat rhythms. The Vault, Session 2 highlights Lefrançois’ versatile production skills being able to cater to dancefloor settings while showcasing diverse musical arrangements and moods. As with the first Vault series, original cover art created by Antonio Motta appropriately accompanies the 3 track EP.

Flair

Sudden Trip

Black Tulip

All music written by Stephane Lefrancois, David Jorre, Antonio Motta and Carlota Marques.
Performed live on Octatrack, straight to tape.
c & p 2014 Secret Music

Stephane Lefrancois - Live Octatrack Set Snippet - July 2014

Full article here: http://www.factmag.com/2015/07/27/fact-mix-506-masters-at-work/

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House music's greatest hit-makers? 

Quite possibly. Since the end of the 1980s, Kenny Dope and Louie Vega - given the Masters at Work name, so the story goes, by Todd Terry - have been releasing house and garage anthems with unbelievable regularity. There's 'The Ha Dance' - the track whose Trading Places sample gave ballroom its trademark Ha crash. There's 'Work', one of the most remixed and sampled tracks in dance music history. There's 'To Be In Love', one of the most perfect synergies of dance music and pop music ever made - and these are just the tip of the MAW iceberg, we've not even started on solo hits like Kenny Dope's 'The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)' and 'No Hook', and side gigs like Kenlou.

You get the picture: these two could play nothing but their own material for two hours and still not even scratch the surface of their vast, influential and - most importantly - ridiculously fun discography. But ahead of a rare London show at Found's 51st State Festival (where they'll be joined by fellow vets Derrick Carter, Dennis Ferrer, David Morales and many more), we asked them to try. This is Masters at Work in the mix for FACT - sometimes all you need is what it says on the tin. 

51st State takes place on Saturday August 8 in London's Trent Park, and might well feature more house and garage royalty than any UK festival in history. For more information, head to 51ststatefestival.com

FACT Mix 506 - Masters At Work (July '15)

Daniel Kyo @ 19-02-12 Panorama Bar Part1

All music written, produced and recorded by Stephane Lefrancois for Secret Music.
"I Kiss I Want" written by Nat Ya and Stephane Lefrancois.
"Release" written by Sarina Leah and Stephane Lefrancois.

Performed live on Octatrack and MachineDrum.

S L F_Live Hardware Set_July 2012

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Stephane Lefrancois - Live Octatrack Set Snippet - July 2014

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