Planet RockWhile I relaxed with Mary-Jane on my sofa, I scrolled through a collection of cover artworks and found this one. Don’t ask me why, but I thought back to the times, when I was young and my cousin introduced me in metal music. While I sat in his small room, we listened to the classic metal bands like Manowar, IronMaiden, Dreamtheater, Metallica etc. and when I now think back, I realize how fascinated I was about the covers. Those airbrush covers, with their cheap sci-fi ambient, interested me more, than heavy macho metal like Manowar. Until today I pretty like the cover of some Sodom records, especially the Agent Orange LP.
After having a view to my childhood, we now come back to topic. This is the first full-length LP by Zulu Nation’s founder Afrika Bambaataa and the famous hiphop band Soulsonic Force. Released in 1984 this is a really classic hiphop record, inclusive the well-known track „Renegades Of Funk“ (later covered on the last record of Rage Against The Machine).
If you like early stuff like Grandmaster Flash etc., you will like this too. If you compare this piece with nowadays hiphop records, you will hear this raw type of music, you can feel the improvisation of samples. Enough from me, let me introduce you…the tracklist:
- Planet Rock
- Looking for the Perfect Beat
- Renegades of Funk
- Frantic Situation
- Who You Funkin‘ With
- Go Go Pop
- They Made a Mistake
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