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▓█▀▄▄ Artist : The Lafayette Afro Rock Band vs. Ice ▄▄▀█▓
▐▓▌▐█▌ Album : Afro Funk Explosion! ▐█▌▓▌
▐▀▄██ Label : Manifesto Records ██▄▀▌
▄███▌ Genre : Funk ▐███▄
▀███▌ Source : CD ▐███▀
▐▄▀██ Street Date : 2016-10-28 ██▀▄▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Quality : 909 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels ▐█▌▐▓▌
▓█▄▀▀ Encoder : FLAC 1.3.1 ▀▀▄█▓
▓███ Size : 947.06 MB ███▓
▀ ▀█▌ Time : 137:33min ▐█▀ ▀
▓▄███ Url : http://tinyurl.com/y7q7dryu ███▄▓
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██▌ 1. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Darkest Light 6:25 ▐██
██▌ 2. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Hihache 6:58 ▐██
██▌ 3. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Soul Makossa 4:54 ▐██
██▌ 4. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Congo 5:01 ▐██
██▌ 5. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Voodounon 5:05 ▐██
██▌ 6. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Malik 5:11 ▐██
██▌ 7. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Nicky 6:01 ▐██
██▌ 8. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Djungi 3:05 ▐██
██▌ 9. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Heels & Soles 4:32 ▐██
██▌ 10. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Red Matchbox 9:30 ▐██
██▌ 11. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Scorpion Power 6:33 ▐██
██▌ 12. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - A.I.E. (A Mwana) 3:19 ▐██
██▌ 13. The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Dr. Beezar "Soul Frankenstein" 3:25 ▐██
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██▌ Disc 2/2 ▐██
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██▌ 1. Ice - Racubah 3:21 ▐██
██▌ 2. Ice - Hi Fi Woman 2:51 ▐██
██▌ 3. Ice - The Gap (Instrumental Version) 3:04 ▐██
██▌ 4. Ice - Losin' 2:22 ▐██
██▌ 5. Ice - Funky Bunch 2:51 ▐██
██▌ 6. Ice - Too Little Room 5:38 ▐██
██▌ 7. Ice - Ozan Koukle 3:15 ▐██
██▌ 8. Ice - Put An X On The Spot (In The Sky) 3:05 ▐██
██▌ 9. Ice - Autumn Leaves 4:20 ▐██
██▌ 10. Ice - There's Time To Change 9:25 ▐██
██▌ 11. Ice - Quick 3:09 ▐██
██▌ 12. Ice - I Need Love 3:08 ▐██
██▌ 13. Ice - Dgunji 3:05 ▐██
██▌ 14. Ice - Funky Lovin' 3:19 ▐██
██▌ 15. Ice - Time Will Tell 4:46 ▐██
██▌ 16. Ice - Frisco 3:19 ▐██
██▌ 17. Ice - Don't Bother Why 3:18 ▐██
██▌ 18. Ice - One Chance 3:18 ▐██
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████ The Lafayette Afro Rock Band's music is the stuff of legend to ████
████ beatheads. Though the septet disbanded in 1978, their tracks have ████
████ provided countless samples for a range of artists: LL Cool J, Biz ████
████ Markie, the Beatnuts, Public Enemy, Janet Jackson, ████
████ Wreckx-N-Effect, Ice Cube, Jay-Z, Flying Lotus, and more. There ████
████ have been several good compilations, but none as comprehensive as ████
████ Afro Funk Explosion. Containing 28 cuts on two discs, it's the ████
████ first to showcase the band's depth and startling musical ████
████ development between 1973 and 1977, with whomping soulful funk, ████
████ soul, jazz, disco, and African and Latin grooves. It also ████
████ contains sides recorded under their aliases, Crispy & Co. and ████
████ Captain Dax. ████
████ LARB were New Yorkers who expatriated to Paris in 1971 as the ████
████ Bobby Boyd Congress. They changed their name to Ice when Boyd ████
████ went back to the States. They lived and worked in Paris' BarbΦs ████
████ district amid a large population of African emigres. After ████
████ hooking up with producer Pierre Jaubert (John Lee Hooker, Charles ████
████ Mingus), they cut several records under this moniker. He changed ████
████ their name to LARB to attract African listeners, and recorded ████
████ their two finest albums: 1974's Darkest Light and 1975's Malik. ████
████ Disc one's first ten tracks are all LARB jams. They include their ████
████ killer instrumental read of Manu Dibango's "Soul Makossa," the ████
████ oft-sampled "Darkest Light," "Hihache," and other whomping ████
████ funkers such as "Conga," "Vouodun," "Malik," "Red Matchbox" ████
████ (featuring Mal Waldron on electric piano), and the instrumental ████
████ version of "Djungi." The psychedelic jazz funk of "Scorpion ████
████ Flower," the bubbling meld of highlife and Afrobeat in "A.I.E (A ████
████ Mwana)" (both Crispy & Co.), and the insane proto-electro of "Dr. ████
████ Beezar" (Captain Dax) close out the disc. ████
████ The second slice is all attributed to Ice. "Put an X on the Spot ████
████ (In the Sky)" is one of three cuts from 1973's otherwise shoddy ████
████ Each Man Makes His Own Destiny from 1973. "Racubah," "The Gap," ████
████ and "Ozan Koukle" are taken from 1974's smoking all-instrumental ████
████ Afro Agban. Seven of the ten cuts from 1975's mostly brilliant ████
████ Frisco Disco are here, as is a complete Latin jazz-cum-disco ████
████ version of the jazz standard "Autumn Leaves" from 1977's Seven ████
████ Americans in Paris. (Alas, the three-part "Louisiane Suite" from ████
████ that album has been omitted for limitations of space). To be ████
████ honest, Arthur Young's lead vocals on these sides -- he's the ████
████ band's saxophonist who replaced Boyd as frontman -- aren't great. ████
████ Far from it. That said, they take a back seat to the amazing ████
████ charts, the rainbow of driving rhythms, and the band's seemingly ████
████ endless musical imagination in songwriting. This package also ████
████ contains adapted/expanded liner notes by James Maycock (who wrote ████
████ the originals for Strut's Darkest Light comp), and a frank, ████
████ enlightening interview with Jaubert. Manifesto Records has done ████
████ an excellent service in issuing this set. It's essential for fans ████
████ of '70s funk and musically on par with the best of Mandrill, War, ████
████ and Osibisa. ████
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