Ornette Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 Break name: Artist: KC FlighttTrack name: Planet E (Hip Hop Mix)Original release: 12"Label: RCA (US)Cat number: 8897-1-RDYear: 1989Producer: KC Flight?? Examples:Nino - The GunCode 071 - Come Together Yo BreakthroughNasty Habits - Let's Go (Cold Mix)Krispy Crouton - Chicken & SweetcornRat Pack - Lords Of The Dance Notes:After the commercial and crossover sucess of Sugar Bear's 1988 hip hop classic "Don't Scandalise Mine", it was probably wasn't going to be a long time until someone else would attempt to copy the formula and have a hit for themselves. Indeed, the inspired and memorable usage of the riff from Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime was soon after copied by the pioneering hip-house artist KC Flightt as the basis for his early 1989 single "Planet E". Certainly an interesting tune of its own merits, I remember being quite impressed with its unusual style of rappied verse that was more akin to spoken poetry than rap per se, with KC Flightt painting verbal images of the woes of his community's ghetto life over a harder hitting beat and more liberal uses of the Talking Heads original. Probably not the quick success that KC Flightt might have hoped, (additionally it may be the case that one of the other mixes on the 12" became the more played version within the early house/hip-house scene, I do not know) the heavy beat would live on to be embraced by the early hardcore scene to quite a popular extent. Ostentiably a 'second generation' break, based around the (at that time) newly available Bobby Byrd - I'm Coming breakbeat, it actually sounds very much like it was constructed from the Big Daddy Kane - Raw track, which would in fairness make it a 'third generation' break. Thank you. Clip: HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fused Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 A bad tune! That period of hip-house is probably still my fondest dance music era. One of the first mix tapes I ever heard was one from the legendary WAG on Wardour Street. It was from about May 89, I recall some of the tracklisting as: Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock "It Takes Two"Tyree & Kool Rock Steady "Turn Up The Bass"Beatmasters "Who's In The House"Fast Eddie "Yo Yo Get Funky"KC Flightt "Planet E"Sugar Bear "Don't Scandalise Mine"Toni Scott "That's How I'm Living" :cool: What I would do to get that tape again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phokus Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 clip added Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_M_M Posted May 2, 2009 Report Share Posted May 2, 2009 Chicken & Sweetcorn has it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornette Posted February 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Used in: Rude Boy - Jungles't http://www.rolldabeats.com/release/biology_records/bio01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_M_M Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 can also hear it in Pizza man (fatbloy slim) - trippin' on sunshine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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