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Master C & J Featuring Liz Torres by Rick Dunn
EDGE Community EditorThursday Jan 5, 2006 Carl Bias and Jesse Jones - aka Master C & J - were two of the architects of Chicago’s House music scene in the mid-’80s. Their muse, singer Liz Torres, was the house madam. Torres’ vocals were instinctual, not the mannered warbling of today’s porcelain diva - the kind that keeps a safe distance from the crowd. Torres worked up a sweat, both in the studio and onstage, often prowling the stage like cat at Sound Factory or The Paradise Garage. Her vocals were crazy and unpredictable; the music was dark, sinewy. As a unique collaboration, this trio’s limited output - collected here - gave way to the possibilities of the night. Dated and nostaglic now, Can’t Get Enough is more than a lost curio or timewarped artifact, it’s a major footnote in the story of how dance music has evolved.
by Master C & J Featuring Liz Torres
Trax Records
Contains two bonus tracks: "Dub Love" and "Fantasize Me"
An EDGE Founding Editor, Rick Dunn’s writing has appeared in Bay Windows, The Windy City Times, Washington Blade, among many others. He also initiated The Boston Globe’s very first (and last) gay column, Out & About in 2001. He was the editor of In Newsweekly from 1996 to 2003.
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