Us3 - Hand On The Torch

Label:

Blue Note, Capitol Records

Catalog#:

7243 8 29585 2 9, CDEST 2230

Format:

Country:

Europe

Released:

1993

Genre:

Electronic, Hip Hop, Jazz

Style:

Acid Jazz

Tracklist

1	Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)	4:39	X
2	I Got It Goin' On	5:18
3	Different Rhythms Different People	1:16
4	It's Like That	3:41	X
5	Just Another Brother	3:42
6	Cruisin'	3:30	X
7	I Go To Work	4:06	X
8	Tukka Yoot's Riddim	5:41	X
9	Knowledge Of Self	4:18	X
10	Lazy Day	4:40	X
11	Eleven Long Years	3:47
12	Make Tracks	4:45	X
13	The Darkside	5:19	X

Credits

Producer, Mixed By, Keyboards, Drum Programming - Mel Simpson
Producer, Mixed By, Sampler, Drum Programming, Scratches - Geoff Wilkinson

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Review by Apr 04, 2007 (edited over 2 years ago)

This album has aged really well. What US3 did was prove that you could mix hip-hop and jazz, and they did a great job of it. "Cantaloop" was a massive hit and is still fresh today. Within the sampled beats and bass there is some great solo trumpet, saxophone and piano to give a bit of flavour for that nu-jazz generation. The lyrics are your basic "I'm-a-better-rapper-than-you" though. The fact that the music is great makes it all worth it. I do wish there was an all instumental album.

A surprise track is 'The Darkside'. It doesn't really have any jazz elements in it but it instead has this creepy feel to it as the song takes you through the "eyes of a black man". This album is something that was really hard for US3 to follow up with but I'm glad to see them still around.

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