It Began In Africa
LABEL: Urban
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: N/A
RELEASE YEAR: 1988
CATALOGUE NO: URBX 23
RUNOUT GROOVES: URBX23A-1U-1-1 (Side A) URBX23B-1U-1-1 (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in July 1988 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
NORMAN COOK ‘It Began In Africa’ (Urban URBX 23)
With a deep voice regularly intoning “it began in Africa, it began with percussion, the jungle beat” and suchlike in documentary style, this brilliantly assembled 0-109-109⅝-109¾-109-0bpm megamix is a journey through rhythm, or more particularly through tribal drums, James Brown, Jackson Sisters, Maceo And The Macks and more, episodically and then all mixed up together. On white label only at the moment, it’s a must.
SIDE A MIX: IT BEGAN IN AFRICA
MIXED BY: Norman Cook (as The Urban All Stars)
LENGTH: 05:44
GENRE: I'm working on it
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY IN THE MIX - I have only listed the ones that have prolonged elements or have a short sample repeated multiple times:
I'm working on it
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a megamix.
SIDE A:
I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES - The Jackson Sisters
SIDE B:
CROSS THE TRACK (WE BETTER GO BACK) - Maceo & The Macks
WHEN YOUR LOVE IS GONE - The Jackson Sisters
