Digable Planets - Blowout Comb El Michels Affair & Black Thought

Digable Planets - Blowout Comb El Michels Affair & Black ThoughtWe are finally set to reissue Blowout Comb, the 1994 second album by cult, Brooklyn based hip hop trio Digable Planets. The album is named for the combs used to maintain an Afro hairstyle, and that's significant. The group's Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler said it summed up what they wanted to do with it: "It means the utilization of the natural, a natural style," he has said. Like with 1993's debut Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), 'utilizing

They came together because they are the best patterns we have and because each of us brought our own fabric to the quilting frame

it is the only studio album credited to the band

6 The Vanishing Act

Composed and performed by Yoko Kanno and the band SEATBELTS

they drive the songs and make one's head shake

3 Roll Another Number (For the Road) [Live]

and a full circle moment

like the celestial facing instrumental buzz of "Unwrap The Fiend Pt

Troubled Waters

180 Gram Vinyl)

TOO FAST FOR LOVE Side

It is known as his most influential release as his entire advance was invested in the acquisition and development of the then-unknown sequencers and modular synthesisers