Red Bull Music Academy - London 2010

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- Sal Principato - Something Like A Phenomenon

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Sal Principato

Liquid Liquid, New York, USA

The year is 1979, and five young guys are free-flow jamming, in a Hispanic neighbourhood in downtown Manhattan, N.Y.C. The vocalist of this group is Salvatore Principato. By day, he works in a toy store (with Kim Gordon). By night, he's dropping his vocal inflections onto the rhythms of his group, who go by the name Liquid Liquid. Their own brand of 'body music' began to be heard not only alongside bands such as Suicide and ESG, but also in the pioneering sets of DJs like Afrika Bambaataa and Larry Levan, most famously being sampled by Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious 5 on White Lines forever putting their name in hip hop's history books...