Darkest Light - The Best of Lafayette Afro Rock Band
Download links and information about Darkest Light - The Best of Lafayette Afro Rock Band by The Lafayette Afro Rock Band. This album was released in 1999 and it belongs to Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, World Music, Funk genres. It contains 15 tracks with total duration of 01:18:09 minutes.
Artist: | The Lafayette Afro Rock Band |
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Release date: | 1999 |
Genre: | Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, World Music, Funk |
Tracks: | 15 |
Duration: | 01:18:09 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Voodounon | 4:52 |
2. | Conga | 5:03 |
3. | Hihache | 7:02 |
4. | Malik | 5:06 |
5. | Nicky | 6:06 |
6. | Time Will Tell (featuring ICE) | 4:45 |
7. | Darkest Light | 6:26 |
8. | Ozan Koukle (featuring ICE) | 3:15 |
9. | There's Time to Change (featuring ICE) | 9:25 |
10. | Soul Makossa | 4:56 |
11. | Racubah (featuring ICE) | 3:22 |
12. | Scorpion Flower (featuring Crispy, Co) | 6:33 |
13. | Heels & Soles | 4:32 |
14. | A.I.E. (A Mwana) (featuring Crispy, Co) | 3:20 |
15. | Dr. Beezar "Soul Frankenstein" (featuring Captain Dax) | 3:26 |
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[Edit]The name may not be familiar, but the Lafayette Afro Rock Band's grooves certainly are. A veritable sampler's paradise, snippets of their hip-hugger-tight funk have served as the bedrock of innumerable rap records, most notably Public Enemy's "Show 'Em Whatcha Got." Darkest Light assembles 15 tracks from the group's mid-'70s heyday, revealing a deep, versatile unit truly justified in adopting such an international name — their music indeed embraces both Afrobeat and Western psychedelia in equal measure, complete with hard-edged guitar riffs, incendiary sax breaks, and blistering rhythms. Although the title track inspired Public Enemy, "Hihache" also features a much-sampled drum intro and the relentless "Conga" later resurfaced on a volume of the Ultimate Breaks & Beats series. But to break this music down to its base elements is to do the greater whole a grave disservice — Darkest Light merits discussion alongside any of the great documents of classic funk.