INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND: Bongo Rock 40th Anniversary Edition (2014)

Was a record label ever more perfectly paired with a release, than this? Surely not, as funk/ hip-hop/ breaks label Mr Bongo gear up for the second massive re-release to arrive in the monkey’s inbox in a week – the fortieth anniversary edition of the Incredible Bongo Band’s Bongo Rock. Everybody knows their cover of Apache of course (dubbed the ‘national anthem’ of hip-hop by Kool DJ Herc) and one of the funk’s most-sampled records but actually the whole LP is …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM