Percussion Explosion (LP) mfdoom and Otis Spann on piano

and Otis Spann on piano

The album was released on the small Abookyi label

showing that hip-hop was not the fad that haters had prophesized

but the earliest glimpses of the exploratory and eccentric folk of artists like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine can be heard throughout

“But out of his entire career

Percussion Explosion (LP) mfdoom and Otis Spann on pianoAs a group, Herman Kelly & Life had a relatively short life span. Releasing only a single album, Percussion Explosion!, in 1978, the Miami based band didnt have as much immediate success as some of their contemporaries. But with a single, inescapable song, they managed to forever become a part of music history. Their funky, upbeat single Dance to the Drummers Beat became one of the most recognizable and frequently used breaks in hip hop history, used