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Planet Rock: Paul Oakenfold Remixes [CD 1] | ![Planet Rock: Paul Oakenfold Remixes [CD 1]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WJWC5A2KL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Artist: Afrika Bambaataa
Label: Tommy Boy
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 245784
Format: Single
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5029831226620
ASIN: B00005MP8D
Release Date: August 6, 2001
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AS important as 'Party Fears Two'?! October 17, 2004
D. Yates (England)
I always enjoy reading Jason Parkes' reviews, and I marvel at his knowledge of '80s and '90s 'alternative' music. But to refer to a list of minor indie hits which have little relevance to all but a few British college kids between 1980 and 1991 and make out that they somehow rival this release in importance is ludicrous. And for some reason this trend of bloating the importance of NME and MTV2 favourites is gathering popularity. I tune into VH1's '50 Greatest Rock Bands Ever' programme and I'm informed that Franz Ferdinand are greater and more influential than Talking Heads. Uhhh... okay. Oasis, stale after two albums, are in the top 10 while the Byrds are nowhere to be seen. And as much as I love the best British music, you cannot hail as world-shaking releases singles which make zero impact in America. The US gave birth to popular music as it is known. Since the end of the 60s, it has made all the major musical inroads (even punk had an independent US parallel which was closer in sound and attitude to what punk has become now). Pulp were a parochial curio at their height and time is only making that more apparent. And when Ian Brown is hailed as a greater performer than Smokey Robinson, questions of quality are no longer applicable.
But back to Planet Rock. Twenty-odd years on, it still delivers like a neutron bomb. And hip hop and R&B labelled 'cutting edge' in 2004 sounds no more compulsive, strange or vivid as this release from 1982. Like the greatest work of Eno or Moroder it still entrances like a glimpse of the distant future because it was rooted in emotive vision rather than latterday oneupmanship, that race to be the first to cultivate 'sounds which have never been heard before' which has produced only unlistenable nonsense like Autechre (who are later usurped by a newer, edgier sound anyway, after which their music has even less reason to exist). It fuses the harsh, proto-industrial clicks and pulses of late-seventies electronica with Kraftwerk's glacial awe and African call-and-response chant, and in 2024 will probably remain the touchstone for every hip hop artist who works with overtly digital sounds. Only PSB's 'West End Girls' and Man Parrish's 'Be Bop Don't Stop' have the peculiar future-nostalgic resonance of this track, and they're not a fraction as funky. If you don't know of it you have missed a major insight into all popular music of the last twenty years, from Timbaland to Rachel Stevens. And you are in no position to grade the history of modern sound, '50 Greatest Rock Bands' or otherwise. Now THAT's important.
One of the most definitive, influential singles ever!!!! August 17, 2001
Jason Parkes (Worcester, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a welcome reissue- one of THE singles of all time. Yes, as important as 'Higher than the Sun', 'Spiral Scratch', 'This Charming Man', 'Soon', 'Partyfearstwo', 'Rebel without a Pause', 'Subterranean Homesick Blues', 'Pearly Dewdrops Drops' (and so many other!!!)...This is where hip-hop really came from- the New York underground (an eclectic bunch in the 80's, sometimes featuring Blondie & Basquit) came up with the concept of scratching & mixing. Malcolm McLaren saw Afrika Baambaata in a Sex Pistols t-shirt mix James Brown with Gary Numan; and here was another version of punk (the ethos, rather than the cliche of Sham 69 or Green Day)...Along with 'Rapper's Delight', 'The Message'& Blodie's 'Rapture', this is one of the key hip-hop/rap singles of all time. It is also one of the key singles ever!!!...Baambaata et al took Kraftwerk's 'Trans Europe Express' (1977) & 'Numbers' (1980) and used them as a backdrop for a verbal display as 'on the money' as Dylan, Lydon, Cobain...This is one of those great sample singles, in the days where you could sample something & not have to contact publishers/Steely Dan/whoever...The Paul Oakenfold remixes are O.k., much better than the 'big beat' versions that popped up a few years ago. Apparently it's from the seemingly quite good 'Swordfish' soundtrack to the corporate, psuedo-edgy movie...If you don't want to get that soundtrack or the recent Baambaata retrospective; then this is a safe bet...It may seem like history, but sounds fresh today- especially against boyband rappers & gangsta-fakers & the worst rap song ever: D12's 'Purple Pills'...See how great hip hop was- see the influence on early Public Enemy, Run DMC, 'Paul's Boutique' & '3 Feet High & Rising' (the innocent times of sampling). This also sounds great against Mantronix & The Art of Noise...With this track, the divisions between post-punk/new wave (Joy Division, Human League, Heaven 17), krautrock (Kraftwerk, Neu), James Brown, Electro & the beginnings of dance music (Moroder, Summer, New Order, Depeche Mode)seemed to vanish...This song could be mixed out of Cabaret Voltaire's 'Sensoria' and into PIL's 'The order of Death' & make complete sense...This is music from truly eclectic times- when listening to Prince & the Butthole Surfers made sense....So, put away your millennium lists- and take in a piece of sonic art (and if you liked that Leftfield song a few years ago, you'll like this- as that was basically a re-write)...Wonderful...
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