Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Q: 3 Stars - Good - "...suffused with a self-consciously cool, controlled energy...there's supple funk and soft soul blended into the mix, too..."
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- Released: February 9, 1993
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Capitol
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - 2/18/93, p.60
4 Stars - Excellent - "...[Digable Planets] methodically strip hip-hop to the bone with Afro-chic witticisms backed by a trunkload of retro jazz and funk beats...everything hip-hop should be: artistically sound, unabashedly conscious and downright cool..."Entertainment Weekly - 2/5/93, p.54
"...this sexually mixed trio creates an ultrahip, deliberately fuzzy, retro universe...DP's brand of funk floats along on air-spun smoothness..." - Rating: B+Q - 5/93, p.92
3 Stars - Good - "...suffused with a self-consciously cool, controlled energy...there's supple funk and soft soul blended into the mix, too..."Down Beat - 6/93, p.38
4.5 Stars - Very Good Plus - "...Digable Planets manages to make a seamless and inventive style-leaping statement, although the handiwork is all in the rapping and the sampling..."The Source - 3/93, p.80
3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...a loving blend of jazz, old school hip-hop, Five Percent perspectives and off-center beatnik rhymes...the cool cat sound of jazz-hop is very much alive...12 tracks of pure peace vibes...both substantive and relaxing..."Option - 5-6/93, p.99
"...the music [on REACHIN'...] goes straight for the unconscious: it's like elevator music, yet all the ice in the world couldn't freeze out the seductive sensuality of these raps..."Village Voice (3/1/94, p.5) - Ranked #10 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Village Voice (3/9/93, p.80) - "...The airy delicacy of their sampled groove seems magically hyper-real in this pop context, transforming Butterfly and Doodle's weakness into wit and Lady Bug's samba-like skippity-skip into a come-on that's equal parts sexuality and self-respect..." - Rating: A
NME (Magazine) - 2/13/93, p.31
8 - Excellent - "...Digable Planets are instantly likeable, delicious sounding and supremely strange...take[s] the artistry and excitement of the hip-hop nation into another stage of development..."Tracks:
- 1.It's Good To Be Here
- 2.Pacifics - (from "N.Y. Is Red Hot")
- 3.Where I'm From
- 4.What Cool Breezes Do
- 5.Time & Space (A New Refutation Of)
- 6.Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
- 7.Last Of The Spiddyocks
- 8.Jimmi Diggin Cats
- 9.La Femme Fetal
- 10.Escapism (Gettin' Free)
- 11.Appointment At The Fat Clinic
- 12.Nickel Bags
- 13.Swoon Units
- 14.Examination Of What