Artist: Digable Planets Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Beyond the Spectrum the Creamy Spy Chronicles Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Blowout Comb Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) Year: 1993
Tracks: 14
Though they were non the first gear to synthesize jazz and hip-hop, Digable Planets epitomized the mellow charm of jazz flower people wagerer than whatever group earlier or since. The trio's 1993 debut album,
Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), was a mellowed turn on packed with samples from Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, and Curtis Mayfield, and the single "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" became a Top 20 pop strike. After earning a Grammy for Best New Duo or Group and embarking on an ambitious duty tour that included several live musicians, the Planets returned in late 1994 with their c. H. Best album even.
Jamboree Comb continued the group's jazz-rap merger, simply likewise sawing machine them branching extinct to embrace the old school sound of the street as well.
Digable Planets formed in the early '90s, when Butterfly (b. Ishmael Butler, Brooklyn, NY) met Ladybug (b. Mary Ann Vieira, Silver Springs, MD) piece attendance college in Massachusetts. The 2 later dependant up with Doodlebug (b. Craig Irving, Philadelphia, PA), in Washington, D.C., and began transcription. Their first-class honours degree individual, "Spiritual rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)," released on the Pendulum subsidiary of Warner, attain the R&B Top Ten piece their debut,
Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), was a vital and commercial succeeder. Digable Planets' resulting spell had a laid-back vibe more in holding with a jazz show than any rap concert, though the live musicians were criticized for doing little more than re-creating samples from the record album. The trio solved that problem with the release of their endorsement album,
Runaway Comb, in late 1994. Much stronger than its predecessor, it secondhand fewer samples and even included several solos. With no strong individual to bear it, however,
Jamboree Comb's sales functioning was non up to that of
Reachin'. After
Blowout Comb, Digable Planets essentially dissolved referable to the awful "creative differences". All ternary continued making music singly, only despite many promises that the recordings would become actual releases, closely a decennium passed earlier releases appeared from Butterfly's Cherrywine send off, Ladybug's new charge Ladybug Mecca, and Doodlebug's Cee Knowledge. Then, just a few weeks shy of the ten-year anniversary of
Jamboree Comb, the ternary announced that they had reunited to record their third Digable Planets record album. A digest, Beyond the Spectrum: The Creamy Spy Chronicles, filled the break patch fans waited for its release.
JMJ