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Reachin': A New Refutation Of Time And Space (CD)

By: Digable Planets (Artist)


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Digable Planets Artist Snapshot:

With the release of their 1993 debut, REACHIN': A NEW REFUTATION OF TIME AND SPACE, New York City's Digable Planets attempted one last infusion of positivity and enlightened conciseness into mainstream hip-hop before gangsta rap took over for good. The group's mix of Native Tongues-style Afrocentrism with classic jazz samples and a thoughtful approach to issues in the black community won them a Grammy in 1994. Unfortunately, the Planets' sophomore album, BLOWOUT COMB, though critically acclaimed, wasn't nearly as successful as their debut, and it effectively marked the band's end. The three members went on to various side projects, but in 2004 they reunited and began touring and working on a new album.


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DISC 1 for Reachin': A New Refutation Of Time And Space (CD) Album By Digable Planets (Artist)
1   It's Good To Be Here
2   Pacifics - (from "N.Y. Is Red Hot")
3   Where I'm From
4   What Cool Breezes Do
5   Time & Space (A New Refutation Of)
6   Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
7   Last Of The Spiddyocks
8   Jimmi Diggin Cats
9   La Femme Fetal
10   Escapism (Gettin' Free)
11   Appointment At The Fat Clinic
12   Nickel Bags
13   Swoon Units
14   Examination Of What
 


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Review

Rolling Stone (2/18/93, p.60) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...[Digable Planets] methodically strip hip-hop to the bone with Afro-chic witticisms backed by a trunkload of retro jazz and funk beats...everything hip-hop should be: artistically sound, unabashedly conscious and downright cool..."
Entertainment Weekly (2/5/93, p.54) - "...this sexually mixed trio creates an ultrahip, deliberately fuzzy, retro universe...DP's brand of funk floats along on air-spun smoothness..." - Rating: B+
Q (5/93, p.92) - 3 Stars - Good - "...suffused with a self-consciously cool, controlled energy...there's supple funk and soft soul blended into the mix, too..."
Down Beat (6/93, p.38) - 4.5 Stars - Very Good Plus - "...Digable Planets manages to make a seamless and inventive style-leaping statement, although the handiwork is all in the rapping and the sampling..."
The Source (3/93, p.80) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...a loving blend of jazz, old school hip-hop, Five Percent perspectives and off-center beatnik rhymes...the cool cat sound of jazz-hop is very much alive...12 tracks of pure peace vibes...both substantive and relaxing..."
Option (5-6/93, p.99) - "...the music [on REACHIN'...] goes straight for the unconscious: it's like elevator music, yet all the ice in the world couldn't freeze out the seductive sensuality of these raps..."
Village Voice (3/1/94, p.5) - Ranked #10 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Village Voice (3/9/93, p.80) - "...The airy delicacy of their sampled groove seems magically hyper-real in this pop context, transforming Butterfly and Doodle's weakness into wit and Lady Bug's samba-like skippity-skip into a come-on that's equal parts sexuality and self-respect..." - Rating: A
NME (Magazine) (2/13/93, p.31) - 8 - Excellent - "...Digable Planets are instantly likeable, delicious sounding and supremely strange...take[s] the artistry and excitement of the hip-hop nation into another stage of development..."

Title Note

Digable Planets: Butterfly, Doodle, Ladybug.

Additional personnel: Scientific Homiez (programming).

Producers: Butterfly, Shane "The Doctor" Faber, Mike Mangini.

Recorded at the Sound Doctor Studio, North Bergen, New Jersey.

Digable Planets were nominated for a 1994 Grammy Award as "Best New Artist."

"Rebirth Of Slick" won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Rap Duo Or Group."

In 1993, Digable Planets redefined the potential of hip-hop with this truly refreshing and unique groove opus. Claiming themselves heirs to the "brothers from outer space" mantel adopted by Sun Ra and such acts as Parliament/Funkadelic before them, the Planets serve up a psychedelicised jazz/hip-hop concoction over which Doodlebug, Ladybug, and Butterfly roll their sophisticated, mellifluous rhymes. While jazz sampling had already reared its head in hip-hop, the Planets were the first to make it an aesthetic. Disembodied snippets of Sonny Rollins (on "Time and Space"), Art Blakey (on "Cool Like Dat," the record's hit single), and others float in and out, merging seamlessly with the smooth beats and bass, while the copious use of echo further heightens the disc's individual sound.

Themes tend toward transcendence and mind expansion, as the subtitle of the album ("A New Refutation Of Time And Space") and the numerous references to chemical recreation ("Nickel Bags" is one of the highlights here) would indicate. With the overwhelming popularity of gangsta and hardcore street rap, REACHIN' only made a minor splash. But in no way does that diminish the creativity and remarkable appeal of this record.



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