Word: bambaataa
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...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...