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Planet Rock: The Album is a Disco act. Their sound grew out of Kraftwerk, Captain Sky and Ennio Morricone. Those roots explain a lot about how Planet Rock: The Album arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Rage Against the Machine, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 4 connections around Planet Rock: The Album, reaching back through Kraftwerk and forward to Rage Against the Machine. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Planet Rock: The Album is an old school hip hop album by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force, released in 1986 as a collection of previous singles. The song "Planet Rock" was one of the earliest hits of the hip hop music genre and remains one of its pioneering recordings. The single's liner notes include members of Kraftwerk with the songwriting credits. In creating the track, portions of Kraftwerk's "Numbers" and "Trans-Europe Express" were interpolated, along with portions of songs by Captain Sky and Ennio Morricone.
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Planet Rock: The Album grew out of Kraftwerk, Captain Sky and Ennio Morricone, went on to shape Rage Against the Machine. 4 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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