Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force
Planet Rock
(Tommy Boy, 1982)
Zulu Nation electro-rap potentate bites Kraftwerk, poos gold.
Afrika Bambaataa was a busy man. As well as being the leader and ideologue of south Bronx hip hop movement the Universal Zulu Nation since 1973, he also found time to be a trailblazing rap DJ and creator of such early b-boy faves as Jazzy Sensation and Zulu Nation Throwdown. But it wasn't until third single Planet Rock, made with the five-man Soulsonic Force, that he found his signature electro-funk sound. With inspirational debts to George Clinton, James Brown and Sun Ra's mental journeys into outer space, it came about after the group entered a $25-an-hour, eight-track studio called Intergalactic, which was, by chance, kitted out with a Roland 808 drum machine and Fairlight synthesiser. DJ and producer Arthur Baker ended up hearing the stark, proto-techno results, and, thrilled by the sounds he called "black sci-fi", he went on to complete the final version with co-producer John Robie. It still sounds phenomenal and otherworldly, with elements of the Kraftwerk songs Numbers and Trans-Europe Express (recreated rather than sampled) adding a roboid frigidity to all-positive rapped entreaties to "rock it, don't stop" and "show you really got soul." Inevitably Kraftwerk got legal on them, but the damage was done; Planet Rock sold 600,000 copies and effectively founded the Tommy Boy label. "It was a confluence of mistakes," recalled Tommy Boy CEO Tom Silverman in 2002, "but it ended up making something great, kinda like Springtime For Hitler, except we weren't trying to make a stiff."
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 14/01/2010
Further Listening
Afrika Bambaataa - Looking For The Perfect Beat (Tommy Boy, 2001)
A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology (Juice Box, 1995)
Cybotron - Clear (Fantasy, 1990)
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
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