DIGABLE PLANETS - Blowout Comb (30th Anniversary Reissue) - 2LP - Clear with Purple Centre Vinyl [NOV 22]

2LP - Limited 30th Anniversary Edition Clear with Purple Centre Colour Vinyl. 

Reissue of Blowout Comb, the 1994 second album by cult, Brooklyn-based hip hop trio Digable Planets. Like with 1993's debut Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), 'utilizing the natural' meant creating hip hop that blended jazz with the formidable rap skills of Butterfly, Craig 'Doodlebug' Irving and Mary Ann 'Ladybug Mecca' Vieira. Unlike that debut, it meant broadening to include guests such as Gang Starr's Guru, Jeru the Damaja, and Jazzy Joyce. Following the gold-selling commercial success of their debut, they here set out to prove their artistic prowess.

This is intelligent, alternative hip hop that sounded like party music. Its lyrics are dense with wit, social commentary and politics - and its original inner sleeve was modelled on the newspaper of the Black Panther movement. Its instrumentation includes sax, vibraphone and flute. Its samples - gathered from global cratedigging trips while touring the first album around the world - included Grant Green, Eddie Harris, Shuggie Otis and jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers (whose 'We Live in Brooklyn, Baby' became 'Borough Check' here). And yet at the same time its beats are infectious and its spirit undeniable.

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Tracklist: 

A1        The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug [4:56]
A2        Black Ego [7:02]
A3        Dog It [4:21]

B1        Jettin' [4:39]
B2        Borough Check (Ft. Guru) [6:56]
B3        Highing Fly / Agent 7 Creamy Spy Theme [1:23]
B4        Dial 7 (Axioms Of Creamy Spies) / NY 21 Theme (Ft. Sarah Anne Webb) [5:47]

C1        The Art Of Easing [5:06]
C2        K.B.'s Alley (Mood Dudes Groove) [2:05]
C3        Graffiti [4:03]
C4        Blowing Down    [3:51]

D1        9th Wonder (Blackitolism) [4:27]
D2        For Corners [7:02]