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Afrika Bambaataa & Family - The Light (1988)

vom: 06.08.2018

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Born as Lance Taylor to Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants, Bambaataa grew up in The Bronx River Projects, with an activist mother and uncle. As a child, he was exposed to the black liberation movement, and witnessed debates between his mother and uncle regarding the conflicting ideologies in the movement. He was exposed to his mother's extensive and eclectic record collection. Gangs in the area became the law, clearing their turf of drug dealers, assisting with community health programs and both fighting and partying to keep members and turf. Bambaataa was a member of the Black Spades. He quickly rose to the position of warlord of one of the divisions. Inspired by DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Dee, Bambaataa began hosting hip-hop parties beginning in 1976. He vowed to use hip-hop to draw angry kids out of gangs and form the Universal Zulu Nation. Robert Keith Wiggins, a.k.a. "Cowboy" of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, is credited with naming hip-hop; the term became a common phrase used by MCs as part of a scat-inspired style of rhyming. In 1982, Taylor, who was inspired by Kraftwerk's futuristic electronic music, debuted at The Roxy a test cassette of EBN-OZN's ground breaking, 12-inch white rap/spoken word "AEIOU Sometimes Y," the first commercially released American single ever made on a computer, a Fairlight CMI, ushering in the era of music computer sampling.
In that same year Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force dropped the live band to go high-tech. Bambaataa credited the pioneering Japanese electropop group Yellow Magic Orchestra, whose work he sampled, as an inspiration. He also borrowed an eerie keyboard hook from German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk and was provided the electronic Roland TR-808 "beat-box" by producer Arthur Baker and synthesizer player John Robie. That resulted in "Planet Rock," which went to gold status and generated an entire school of "electro-boogie" rap and dance music. Bambaataa formed his own label to release the Time Zone Compilation. He created "turntablism" as its own subgenre and the ratification of "electronica" as an industry-certified trend in the late 1990s.

The album features other stars of the 1980s, such as UB40, Jaki Graham, and Boy George. The lead single "Reckless" features UB40 and was a Top 20 hit in the UK peaking at #17. The album itself didn't chart in the UK.
[Deluxe Edition]

[color=#FF0000]1.	"The Light" (Afrika Bambaataa / John Robie)	3:14
2.	"Reckless"	5:24
3.	"Revolutionary Dance" (Afrika Bambaataa / John Robie)	4:27
4.	"All I Want" (Afrika Bambaataa / John Robie)	4:56
5.	"Something He Can Feel" (Curtis Mayfield)	5:53
6.	"Shout It Out" (Kid Dust / Maxx Kidd)	6:23
7.	"Clean Up Your Act" (Afrika Bambaataa / George Clinton / Bootsy Collins / Bill Laswell)	6:16
8.	"Zouk Your Body" (Afrika Bambaataa / Lowell Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare / Yellowman)	6:38
9.	"World Racial War" (Afrika Bambaataa / Bill Laswell)	6:28
10.	"Sho' Nuff Funky" (Afrika Bambaataa / James Brown / Maxx Kidd)	10:46
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