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KENNY DOPE slammin' house set in The Lab NYC
Kenny Dope presents a 'slammin' house set' in The Lab NYC. When a legend uses that adjective, you know the filters are off and the funk is turned up to eleven. This is a history lesson delivered with the force of a wrecking ball, a celebration of house music's fundamental connection to disco, soul, and pure physical release. The vibe is a non-stop party, all grinning faces and shoulders moving in unison to timeless grooves.
Technically, Dope is a metronome, locking into a rock-solid 124-125 BPM groove for nearly the entire 46-track journey, with the sunny, open key of 12A acting as his home base. The energy is perfectly split between a propulsive low-end (avg_low: 0.500) and rich, melodic mid-frequencies (0.398), creating a sound that's both deeply funky and immaculately polished. His mixing is quick, sharp, and focused on maintaining momentum, often using classic a cappellas and drum breaks to stitch tracks together. The tracklist is a masterful blend of old and new: the raw funk of his edit of Funkadelic's 'Ain’t That Funkin’', the timeless diva power of Barbara Tucker's 'I Get Lifted' in two iconic dub versions, and the modern, minimal pulse of Boris Brejcha's 'Hashtag'.
He also weaves in contemporary weapons like Dusky's 'Parakeet Feet' and the classic garage of Marshall Jefferson's 'Ride The Rhythm'. He opens with the teasing vocal question of The DangerFeel Newbies' 'What Am I Here for?', spends an hour answering it with sheer groove, and closes on the deep, acidic simmer of Andy Compton's 'That Acid Track', a final, hypnotic nod to the genre's roots.