"Sample Junkies" is a superb three part mix consisting of ;classic hip hop samples and breaks. This project is a trip back in time when music was original and pure. DJ Clue Partners With Sample My Melodyz Lafayette Afro-Rock Band’s “Time Will Tell” – Classic Sample!! L.I.R.I.X. – “Sample of Soul” Mixtape
Welcome to the October/November issue of Black Grooves. In celebration of our upcoming conference, Reclaiming the Right to Rock: Black Experiences in Rock Music, which will be hosted on the IU-Bloomington campus on November 13-14, 2009, we’re devoting the entire issue to black rock. Featured are two recent films, Electric Purgatory: The Fate [...]
Title: Darkest Light: The Best of Lafayette Afro-Rock Band Artist: Lafayette Afro-Rock Band Label: Strut Records Catalog No.: STRUT042CD Release Date: 2009 Darkest Light: The Best of Lafayette Afro-Rock Band is a compilation of 15 tracks illustrating the best of the band’s infectious grooves from the ‘70s. Formed on Long Island, the band relocated in 1971 to Paris, where elements [...]
Remember Profile Records? Northern Cali’s N2Deep? While I know 98% of the population sees/hears the name “N2Deep” and thinks “Back 2 The Hotel,” with its signature jack of Lafayette Afro Rock Band’s “Show ‘Em Whatcha Got” sax riff, I’m on the other side that remembers being young & loving “The Weekend.” Why? Because when you...
OK saw this on DSF and decided to re-up it here in case the sendspace got rinsed. Tis a simple concept - Joe Nice , America's numero uno dubplate specialist, resident at Dub War in NYC and probably the first person to book J Da Flex in the US (we seem to be on a bit of a J Da, err, 'flex' this week) did a set with a bunch of unreleased Mala dubs on his show on Gourmet Beats radio. If it sometimes...
Last night I was doing work and listening to some Michael Jackson albums when Wanna Be Startin' Something came on. I love the "Mama-se, mama-sa, ma-ma-coo-sa" part, it always gives me goosebumps. A few years ago I learned Michael got...
The Lafayette Afro Rock Band “Listen – The Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Hihache – MP3″ Greetings all. As previously mentioned, I communicate to you via the powers of the interwebs, and a wholly unexpected wi-fi connection at the hospital. By the time you read this (sometime Monday AM) I may very well [...]
Groups like the Lafayette Afro Rock Band might not be as integral to the history of soul, funk, jazz, and hip-hop as the superstars who get all of the press -- but compilations like Darkest Light help to ensure their place in that continuum.
Sach O ate fries with mayo and two burritos while researching this story. In the mad dash towards Tropicalia, Hindi-Pop, Afrobeat, and every other hastily discovered internet-approved form of non-Anglo pop music, there hasn’t been much room for humor. Seriousness begets authenticity, authenticity begets that warm fuzzy feeling of self-importance in a record nerd and anything [...] Related posts:...
Well-trodden territory of crate-diggers, the Lafayette Afro Rock Band usually spring to mind in connection with “Darkest Light,” the sample source for P.E.’s Show ‘Em Whatcha Got,” Wreckx-N-Effects’ “Rump Shaker,” N2 Deep’s, “Back to the Hotel,” and Jay-Z’s otiose first single from Kingdom Come. Off that alone, they’re invaluable....
Here’s a band that you have never heard of but that has a catalog of songs that will sound all too familiar. Lafayette Afro-Rock Band recorded two records in 1974 and 1975 and then disappeared. However, their tight, funk grooves have lived on in hip-hop samples. On Darkest Light you can finally hear the source of beats and grooves that have been mined by Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Jay-Z and countless...
The relatively obscure Lafayette Afro-Rock Band is a group of first-tier funk musicians whose music has gained a new life and exposure through its heavy use as sample source material for the likes of Jay-Z, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, and many more. On February 17th, Strut will re-issue a previously out-of-print collection of their [...]
From day one hip hop has been about pulling music from the past and cutting it, stretching it, playing with it, spinning it in new ways. Sometimes it’s done in a way that’s heavy and entertainingly obvious. It makes us smile and say “Aw yea!” Think about the first time you heard De La Soul's Me, Myself & I and were instantly transported back to Funkadelic . Other times it’s...
If you're not familiar with these dudes, they are responsible for the sax riff ("Darkest Light") on Public Enemy's "Show 'Em What'cha Got" , Jay-Z 's "Show Me What You Got" and Wreckx-N-Effect 's "Rump Shaker" and the main breakbeat on Biz Markie 's "Nobody Beats the Biz" ("Hihache") amongst many samples from their music. Here's a primer on...
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