People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - A Tribe Called Quest

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A Tribe Called Quest is an American hip hop group, formed in 1985, [1] and is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip (Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, formerly Jonathan Davis), rapper Phife Dawg aka Phife Diggy (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album but rejoined in 1991. Along with De La Soul, the group was a central part of the Native Tongues Posse, and enjoyed the most commercial success out of all the groups to emerge from that collective.

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm is the debut album by the alternative hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, released April 17, 1990 on Jive Records. Though the album was well-received critically, it had little mainstream appeal. The album did earn the band a devoted following, however, within the alternative hip hop community. People's Instinctive Travels was praised for its lyrical inventiveness and bizarre sense of humor, mixed with socially aware and literate message tracks. The record was given the perfect rating of 5 mics in The Source in 1990.

(source: wikipedia)

Tracklisting

1.   Push It Along

2.   Luck of Lucien

3.   After Hours

4.   Footprints

5.   I Left My Wallet in El Segundo

6.   Pubic Enemy

7.   Bonita Applebum

8.   Can I Kick It?

9.   Youthful Expression

10. Rhythm (Dedicated to the Art of Moving Butts)

11. Mr. Muhammad

12. Ham 'N' Eggs

13. Go Ahead In the Rain

14. Description of a Fool

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A.M.P. EP - Almyghty Myghty Pythons

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The Pharcyde and Souls of Mischief have collaborated to form a group called "Almyghty Myghty Pythons" and have since released a collaboration album titled Almyghty Myghty Pythons. Recently production from the group has died down, but it was said by Imani in an interview that it is to be an ongoing project.

Tracklisting:

1. AMP
2. Curb Your Nerve
3. Contact
4. AMP (Instrumental)
5. Curb Your Nerve (Instrumental)

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OK Fred - Errol Dunkley

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Dunkley's recording career began in 1965, when he was fourteen, with "Gypsy" (a duet with Roy Shirley) for Linden Pottinger's Gaydisc label, "My Queen" (with Junior English) for Prince Buster, and "Love Me Forever" on the Rio label.[1] Between 1967 and 1968 he recorded several singles for Joe Gibbs including "Please Stop Your Lying" (1967) and "Love Brother" (1968), before switching to Coxsone Dodd in 1969.

In the early 1970s, together with Gregory Isaacs he formed the African Museum record label, although Isaacs soon took sole control of the label, while Dunkley formed a new label, Silver Ring. In 1972 he teamed up with producer Jimmy Radway for two of his most popular singles, "Keep The Pressure On" and "Black Cinderella". The same year saw the release of Dunkley's Sonia Pottinger produced debut album, Presenting Errol Dunkley, which included the track "A Little Way Different".

Dunkley continued to record throughout the 1970s and towards the end of the decade his popularity in the UK grew, resulting in a breakthrough UK Singles Chart hit in 1979 with "OK Fred", a cover version of a John Holt-penned song, that reached number 11. He also avoided the one-hit wonder tag, by securing a minor chart placing with the 1980 follow-up release "Sit Down And Cry".

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Dunkley)

Tracklisting:


1. OK Fred
2. True To Your Man
3. Show Off
4. Repatriation
5. A Love Like Mine
6. Rush Me No Badness
7. Come Natural
8. Nobody Else
9. Jah Guiding Star

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En Mana Kuoyo - Ayub Ogada

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Ayub Ogada is a musician from Kenya. A singer, he also performs on the traditional east African stringed instrument, the nyatiti. Of the Luo people, he was born in Mombasa.

Tracklisting:

1.    Obiero
2.    Dala
3.    Wa Winjigo Ero
4.    Thum Nyatiti
5.    Kronkrohinko
6.    Chiro
7.    10%
8.    Ondiek
9.    Kothbiro
10.  En Mana Kuoyo

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