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Kris Kross – Jump
Kris Kross were a rap duo from the early nineties, discovered and produced by Jermaine Dupri. Their debut album “Totally Krossed Out”, released in 1992, which included this song “Jump”, sold four million copies in the US and topped the charts for eight weeks. They were also famous for their fashion styling —consisting of wearing [...]
The Roots – What They Do
The Roots, also known as The Legendary Roots Crew, The Square Roots and The Foundation, are an influential, Grammy winning hip hop group based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, famed for a heavily jazzy sound and live instrumentation. Inspired by the “hip-hop band” concept pioneered by Stetsasonic, the Roots themselves have garnered critical acclaim and influenced [...]
House Of Pain – Jump Around
House of Pain was an Irish-styled American hip-hop group who released three albums in the early to mid 1990s before lead rapper Everlast decided to pursue his solo career again. The group is best known for its 1992 hit single “Jump Around”, which reached #3 in the United States, #6 in Ireland and #8 in the United Kingdom. The band’s history starts with a failed short [...]
The Wiseguys – Casino “Sans Pareil”
[blipfm http://] The Wiseguys was a British electronica and hip hop band that was responsible for creating the song ”Start the Commotion” that was in a Mitsubishi TVadvertisement, as well as the films Lizzie McGuire, Zoolander and Kangaroo Jack; and “Ooh La La”, which was used in Budweiser commercials. Both tracks of which came from The Wiseguys second album, The Antidote. The band was formed in 1994 with two members, Touche (Theo Keating) and Regal [...]
The Thirst – Watch me Now
  The Thirst are an electrifying indie/rock band from Brixton who are emerging as one of the premiere live acts in the UK. Consisting of brothers Mensah (lead guitar) and Kwame (bass), alongside school friends Mark (rhythm guitarist) and Marcus (drummer), The Thirst blend together a vibrant sound and offer a refreshing and uplifting alternative to present youth [...]
Philharmonic Weed – Puxa Lá
[blipfm http://] Reggae, rock, afro, hip-hop, drum-bass, funk, samba and jazz, here is PHILHARMONIC WEED. PHILHARMONIC WEED were born in 1997 and they immediately started a whole new cultural movement in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. With backgrounds in Mozambique, Angola, Cape Vert and Portugal, and living in places like Brazil and Saudi Arabia, they started [...]
General Electrics – Techno Kid
#1 General Electrics is a free electron Behind this name hides RV (Hervé Salters), above all keyboard player, specialist of instruments from the 60’s and 70’s: Clavinetz, Hammond, Rhodes. RV marked his style within the Vercoquin band, accompanying M and, on the occasion of numerous invitations, in Shoki Shoki by Femi Kuti, in DJ Mehdi’s Spy [...]
Blackalicious – Deception
Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel first met through a mutual friend in 1987 while attending J.F. K. High School in Sacramento,California. In 1992, Chief Xcel, now a student at UC Davis, had started working with a crew named SoleSides, whose members included DJ Shadow, Lateef the Truthspeaker, and Lyrics Born. Parker and Mosley formally settled on the name Blackalicious (”good black music”, [...]
Fela Kuti – Billy Jean Remix
The musical style performed by Fela Kuti is called Afrobeat, which is essentially a fusion of jazz, funk and Traditional African Chant. It is characterized by having African style percussion, vocals, and musical structure, along with jazzy, funky horn sections. The “endless groove” is also used, in which a base rhythm of drums, muted guitar, [...]