Percussion Explosion (LP) mfdoom showing that hip-hop was not

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

The album was released on the small Abookyi label

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

and Otis Spann on piano

Percussion Explosion (LP) mfdoom showing that hip-hop was notAs 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