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Trippy urban dreamscapes, detailed imagery and production grounded in funky '70s jazz populate this crafty if sometimes incongruous sophomore outing. Instead of locking into formula, Digable Planets have taken admirable chances, and a slew of superb live players breathe life into tracks backed by...
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In the early 1990s, while Suge Knight's Death Row records dominated
hip-hop with artists like Dr. Dre and Tupac, Digable Planets chose
the same high road that De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest had
already taken -- they all but ignored gangsta culture. MCs
Doodlebug, Butterfly, and the sweet-voiced Ladybug combined a
positive vibe with jazz samples to create ultra-laid-back joints
that provoked h...
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