Digable Planets Reachin (New Refutation Of Time & Space)-25Th Aniv

Digable Planets: Butterfly, Doodle, Ladybug.Additional personnel: Scientific Homiez (programming).Producers: Butterfly, Shane "The Doctor" Faber, Mike Mangini.Recorded at the Sound Doctor Studio, North Bergen, New Jersey.Digable Planets were nominated for a 1994 Grammy Award as "Best New Artist.""Rebirth Of Slick" won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Rap Duo Or Group."In 1993, Digable Planets redefined the potential of hip-hop with this truly refreshing and unique groove opus. Claiming themselves heirs to the "brothers from outer space" mantel adopted by Sun Ra and such acts as Parliament/Funkadelic before them, the Planets serve up a psychedelicised jazz/hip-hop concoction over which Doodlebug, Ladybug, and Butterfly roll their sophisticated, mellifluous rhymes. While jazz sampling had already reared its head in hip-hop, the Planets were the first to make it an aesthetic. Disembodied snippets of Sonny Rollins (on "Time and Space"), Art Blakey (on "Cool Like Dat," the record's hit single), a