Biography

Together with other visionary DJs such as Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa can be credited with inventing hip-hop in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His musical innovations and genuinely collaborative style--considering any record fair game to infuse with a hip-hop beat--made him a pioneer in the form. Moving from a live band approach to a more high-tech sound resulted in the classic smash hit "Planet Rock" in 1982.

Top Tracks

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• Bambaataa's Theme (assault On Precinct 13)

• Break@dawn

• Cinder Blocks

• Death Mix Live, Pt. 1

• Death Mix, Pt. 2

• Dish Cuts 2

• Funk You

• Kick Out The James

• Looking For The Perfect Beat

• Metal

• Planet Rock

• Take You Back

• Touch & Go

• Unity, Pt. 1: The Third Coming

• World Destruction

• Zulu Nation Throwdown

Discography

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• Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light

  Tommy Boy

  2004

• Hydraulic Funk

  Sunrise / Strictly Hype Records (SHR)

  2000

• Zulu Groove

  Hudson Vandam

  1997

• The Light

  EMI Music Distribution

  1988

• Planet Rock: The Album

  DBK Works

  1986

• Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere)

  DBK Works

  1986

• Death Mix Live!!!

  Paul Winley

  1983