US3

Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop • United Kingdom
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US3 is a jazz-rap group founded in London in 1991. They use samples of classic songs released by Blue Note Records. Among them is "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)", sampling Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island" on their first album Hand on the Torch. The song received much attention, approaching platinum status in the United States and being adopted as the theme music to the WBUR public radio program The Connection. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
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US3 Hand on the Torch album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Hand on the Torch
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 1993
US3 Broadway & 52nd album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Broadway & 52nd
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 1996
US3 An Ordinary Day in an Unusual Place album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
An Ordinary Day in an Unusual Place
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2001
US3 ?uestions = クエスチョンズ album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
?uestions = クエスチョンズ
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2003
US3 Schizophonic album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Schizophonic
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2006
US3 Say What!? album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Say What!?
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2007
US3 Stop.Think.Run album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Stop.Think.Run
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2009
US3 Lie, cheat and steal album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lie, cheat and steal
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2011
US3 The Third Way: Hand On The Torch, Vol II album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Third Way: Hand On The Torch, Vol II
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2013

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US3 Cantaloop album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cantaloop
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 1992
US3 I Got It Goin' On album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
I Got It Goin' On
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 1993

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US3 Flip Fantasia: Hits & Remixes album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Flip Fantasia: Hits & Remixes
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 1999

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I'm Thinking About Your Body
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 1997
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You Can't Hold Me Down
Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop 2001

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US3 An Ordinary Day in an Unusual Place

Album · 2001 · Jazz Related Electronica/Hip-Hop
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A mastermind behind US3 is London jazz producer Geoff Wilkinson. He used great jazz samples for mixing them with strong female r'n'b/soul vocals,rapper and hip-hop beats.The result is groovy and catchy dance-able songs everyone of you heard many times from virtually everywhere in early 00'.

I received this album almost 10 years ago as a gift from my Spanish friend,she commented that all Madrid discos are crazy about it!Living in a bit out of modern world trends Aberdeen during that time I was really pleasantly surprised how catchy but not cheesy this album sounds!

Excellent idea to combine great jazz recorded compositions with some live instruments and vocals remixing the beats at the same time was still quite fresh at that time and really made a serious revolution in music clubs culture. Perfectly produced and recorded,this music attracted attention of younger generation to jazz-related music once again.

For sure, this music isn't primal jazz of any form, but on this album there are plenty of groove and sax improvs,jazzy beats strong soul-jazz vocals. Not a release for jazz purists, but one of the greatest early recordings of hip-hop jazz,influenced later myriads of followers and copy-cats.

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