Word: bambaataa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star in and perform the music for another rock-oriented movie, Hard to Hold; one single, Love Somebody, has already been released, though the film is not due until April. The beat will go on with such upcoming movies as Purple Rain (music by Prince) and Beat Street (Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force, among others...
...Bambaataa's follow-up. "Looking for the Perfect Beat," was an exercise in just that, a deep mix of layers upon layers of rhythms and sounds which overwhelmed the listener because of its seeming impenetrability and newness...
That process is already underway, prompted in part by the pathbreaking funk-electropop fusion of Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock," which combined chants with a purloined Kraftwerk riff and computer pyrotechnics by Arthur Baker...
Local hip-hoppers the Jonzun Crew follow Bambaataa's lead with the first album put out by the independent company Tommy Boy, which has fostered electro-funk in Bambaataa and reggae-influenced Pressure Drop ("Rock the House") and Latin Special Request ("Salsa Smurph" believe...
Whether "space" rock is just a one-album joke or a pathbreaking funk mutant will have to await the future actions of Afrika Bambaataa, Spaceman Jonzun, and their cohorts. But regardless, the Jonzuns have a good thing going, good enough to fill a first album with exciting and completely electronic music...