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London, United Kingdom (1991 – present)
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.
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.
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An Ordinary Day In An Unusual Place
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Cantaloop
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Wildwechsel-FM wrote:
Ein wildes Magazin und sein Crew suchen hier Freunde! :-) http://www.lastfm.de/user/PfeffermintzFM
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YossiJ wrote:
If you like nu-jazz music check out the new Markotomo album - http://buriedpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/la-rose-noire
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dementeb wrote:
Awaited in Moscow!
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Ignat-kanat wrote:
New Album is DOPE[2]
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kusechka wrote:
New Album is DOPE
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LadyThriller92 wrote:
Are we ever going to see you in Italy?:'(
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naynay1129 wrote:
cantalop my favorite old 90's song from all time
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Unk3mpt wrote:
And whatever we call it, this is great music :)
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Unk3mpt wrote:
Their name was inspired by a jazz album titled "Us Three", so it's "us" as in "let us be free, and pronounce it how we want to anyway". BTW, both capital letters name variation may be confusing. Proper spelling is Us3, not US3 (according to Wikipedia & their official website).
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SlavaGirl wrote:
extreme dope! ~~
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Agos1982 wrote:
Is it 'you-ess three'? or is it 'us three' as in 'come with us...'? [2] used to call 'em you-ess, but now I don't know
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Daniel60 wrote:
Is it 'you-ess three'? or is it 'us three' as in 'come with us...'?
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rick-roll wrote:
still
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toodaloo4no wrote:
still brilliant.....,
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arirusyadi wrote:
hunting for the cd in indonensia, super hard!
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dernagel wrote:
chill out zone :D
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AstroBoy30 wrote:
cantaloop foreva.
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kaalper wrote:
good music.
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fr35h wrote:
who got links to latest album?
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cpt4life wrote:
Very dope.
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