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Kenny Dope Gonzalez (2014)
Kenny Dope Gonzalez (2014)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
All in the Mind (as The Bucketheads)
  UK 74 01/27/1996 (1 week)
Singles
The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind) (as The Bucketheads)
  DE 19th 05/08/1995 (21 weeks)
  AT 16 07/02/1995 (10 weeks)
  CH 7th 05/14/1995 (24 weeks)
  UK 5 
silver
silver
03/04/1995 (13 weeks)
  US 49 07/01/1995 (18 weeks)
Got Myself Together (as The Bucketheads)
  DE 82 02/19/1996 (3 weeks)
  UK 12 01/20/1996 (3 weeks)

Kenny 'Dope' Gonzalez (born June 7, 1970 in Brooklyn / New York ; full name Carl Kenneth Gonzalez ) is an American DJ and music producer.

Career

Gonzalez is the son of Puerto Rican immigrants. At first he worked as a buyer for a record store in Brooklyn and co-hosted parties with Mike Delgado in their neighborhood. But when these got out of hand more often, he shifted more to work in the recording studio. Todd Terry helped him out with the studio equipment and also hooked him up with Little Louie Vega . The two of them have been successful as a remixer / producer duo under the name Masters at Work since 1990 .

In addition, Gonzalez repeatedly released solo recordings and started projects, the most successful of which was The Bucketheads . In the mid-1990s he spontaneously recorded The Dungeon Tapes under this name in response to the commercial Eurodance style. In it he mixed older classics into new dance songs. The song The Bomb (These Sounds Fall into My Mind) was released as the first single and became a huge hit first in the UK and then in the rest of Europe. Also in the USA, where the piece was only a B-side at first, it finally also conquered the charts and became a number one hit on the dance charts. For the single he used the wind intro from the song Street Player by the band Chicago , which in the meantime earned him a copyright dispute and a royalty payment of 30,000 US dollars. A second hit of the project was Got Myself Together , also a top hit on the US dance charts.

Other names Gonzalez has published under include K-Dope, House Brigade, House Syndicate, Power House, The Swing Kids, and The Untouchables. Alone and with Vega, he has published countless remixes and productions over the years, which also earned him three Grammy nominations. He has worked solo for BeBe Winans , Patti Austin , Jody Watley , George Benson and Shirley Bassey, among others .

Discography

Albums

  • 1992: The Unreleased Project
  • 1993: Dope Beats Volume 1
  • 1994: Dope Beats Volume 2
  • 1995: Dope Beats Volume 3
  • 1995: Dope Beats Volume 4
  • 1995: All in the Mind (Kenny "Dope" presents the Bucketheads)
  • 2006: Kenny Dope Presents Black Roots

Compilations

  • 1994: Another Classic Dance Tracks Compilation ( Todd , "Little" Louie and Kenny "Dope")
  • 1995: Nervous Hip Hop - Continuous Mix
  • 1995: The Best of Dope Wax Records - "The Dope Stuff"
  • 2003: Kenny Dope - In The House (2 CDs of the " In The House - Series" from the Defected label )
  • 2003: Supa-Dope Classics Volume 1 (2 CDs)
  • 2004: Life: Styles (Compiled by Kenny Dope)
  • 2005: Supa-Dope Classics Volume 2
  • 2008: Present Kay-Dee Volume 2 (with Keb Darge)
  • 2009: Dopebrother: Studio A (with The Undercover Brother)
  • 2009: Dope Jams (The Kenny Dope Edits) (6 mp3 files)
  • 2010: House Masters

Singles

The Bucketheads

  • 1994: Whew
  • 1994: The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind)
  • 1995: The Dungeon Tapes (EP)
  • 1995: Come and Be Gone
  • 1995: Time and Space (Remix)
  • 1995: Got Myself Together
  • 1996: Little Louie Bonus
  • 1996: Bucketheads Outro & the Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind)
  • 1999: The Bomb (World Mix)
  • 2002: The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind) (Armand Van Helden Re-Edit) (Remix: Armand Van Helden )

swell

  1. ↑ Chart discography albums
  2. ↑ Chart discography Singles
  3. ↑ Awards: UK
  4. ↑ The Bomb / Got Myself Together in the US Hot Dance Club Play Charts (Billboard)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Dope, Kenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gonzalez, Kenny Dope (stage name); Gonzalez, Carl Kenneth (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American DJ and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York , USA