Light Years Away (Warp 9 song)
| "Light Years Away" | ||||
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It's A Beat Wave | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
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| Length | 7:19 | |||
| Label | Prism Records | |||
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"Light Years Away" is the second single by the hip hop group,
John "Jellybean" Benitez,[1] the song appears on the group's debut album It's a Beat Wave (Prism Records) [2] charting on the Billboard R&B and dance charts.[3]
Described as "the perfect instance of hip hop's contemporary ramifications," Warp 9's second record exemplifies the
vocoders and sci-fi street imagery in "Language Arts & Disciplines: Sci-Fi Street Sounds."[6]
The 12" recording employed other innovative features for its time, such as incorporating both singing and rapping, a feminist rap by Ada Dyre, live Latin percussion overdubs in combination with
syncopated
so that the backbeat arrives a 1/16th note early on the second beat of each bar; the fourth beat is not syncopated.
References
- ^ "Warp 9 โ Light Years Away (1983, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ "Warp 9 โ It's A Beat Wave (1983, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ Joel Whitburn : (1942โ1995) Top R&B, Record Research Inc. Wisconsin, US, p. 466
- ^ ISBN 1-85242-627-6.
- ^ a b "The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Warp 9 - It's A Beat Wave". The Guardian. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ "Scifi Street Sounds". (1983) Newsweek, volume 153, Issue 5