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Looking For The Perfect Beat 1980-1985 (CD)

By: Afrika Bambaataa (Artist)

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Afrika Bambaataa Artist Snapshot:

Together with other visionary DJs such as Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa can be credited with inventing hip-hop in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His musical innovations and genuinely collaborative style--considering any record fair game to infuse with a hip-hop beat--made him a pioneer in the form. Moving from a live band approach to a more high-tech sound resulted in the classic smash hit "Planet Rock" in 1982.

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DISC 1 for Looking For The Perfect Beat 1980-1985 (CD) Album By Afrika Bambaataa (Artist)
1   Zulu Nation Throwdown - (with Afrika Bambaataa & The Cosmic Force)
2   Zulu Nation Throwdown - (alternate version, with Bambaataa Zulu Nation Soul Sonic Force)
3   Jazzy Sensation - (Bronx Version, with Jazzy 5)
4   Planet Rock
5   Looking For The Perfect Beat
6   Renegades Of Funk
7   Frantic Situation - (with Shango)
8   Unity Part 1 (The Third Coming) - (with James Brown)
9   Who Do You Think You're Funkin' With? - (hip hop mix, featuring Melle Mel)
10   What Time Is It? - (live, featuring Melle Mel)
11   Funk You!
12   (untitled) - (hidden track)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (6/7/01, pp.112,115) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Ably captures his dance-floor magnetism....combining funky drums, stinging clap slaps and vocoded chants into beats that truly don't stop..."
Q (6/01, p.126) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Afrika's PLANET ROCK - a shadowy trip into space built on stolen bits of Kraftwerk records - will always be a record of undying genius. Luckily, much of this collection sounds pretty much the same..."
The Wire (5/01, p.56) - "...Of HipHop's Old School pioneers, Bam's vision and ambition were unparalleled....the man's relentlessness, philosophy and eclectic back catalogue continue to inspire..."

Title Note

Contains an untitled hidden track at the end of all the tracks.

Personnel includes: Afrika Bambaataa, James Brown, Melle Mel.

Producers include: Ninny, Kevin Donovan, Arthur Baker, Tom Silverman, Afrka Bambaataa.

Compilation producer: Steve Knutson.

Engineers include: Jay Burnett, Bob Rosa, Erc Calvi.

Digitally remastered by Tony Dawsey (Masterdisk).

This is part of Tommy Boy Records 20TH ANNIVERSARY series.

One of the great pioneers of hip-hop and contemporary dance music, Afrika Bambaataa made a contribution to the evolution of urban music that cannot be overestimated. With his innovative blend of funk, European electronica, turntable wizardry, and party-style, tag-team rapping (Bambaataa often invited groups of MCs to grace his tracks, such as the Jazzy 5 ["Jazzy Sensation"] and Soul Sonic Force ["Zulu Nation Throwdown"]), Bambaataa's cutting edge sound has influenced contemporary rap, rock, and electronica. LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT BEAT 1980-1985 collects Bambaataa's most defining moments, including "Planet Rock" (with its synth line taken directly from Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express"), and his collaboration with James Brown, "Unity Pt. 1."

While some critics often accuse Bambaataa's music of sounding dated, his heady, danceable anthems--coming as they did at a time when hip-hop was still defining itself-- sound surprisingly fresh. In their ambition they manage to encompass Bronx block parties, tribal call-and-response, and space-age forays. Moreover, the genre-bending ethos and call to higher consciousness that drives these creations (an ethos later adopted by Native Tongue acts like De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest) is boldly affirmative and, like the music that contains it, inspiring.

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5 out of 5 stars Wow Wow Wow, October 24, 2008
By Kool Kat
This compilation is brilliant!! All hip hop heads must pay respect to the Grandfather of Hip Hop.

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