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	A look back at Digable Planets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Digable Planets came into the public's focus in the fall of 1992 with a catchy hook and bassline-driven joint called "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)." For many, sadly, that is the extent of their familiarity with these three Brooklyn-based MCs.
		It was Digable Planets' quantum leap into one of the best hip-hop albums ever and, ultimately, into obscurity.
		Digable Planets were pioneers as far as their production values of combining sampled music with live instrumentation and integrating the vocal mix so closely with the music.
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	Digable Planets - The Official Resource - Biography
		When hip-hop trio Digable Planets emerged in the early ‘90s, their memorable moniker raised eyebrows.
		The name sprang, they explained, from the notion that “every individual is a planet.” But the unique worlds that their tracks mapped out were not insular ones; as their Grammy-winning hit “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" would prove, the Planets were primed to connect with audiences weary of the aggressive posturing of gangsta rap.
		But most importantly for Digable Planets fans worldwide, the original trio recently reformed to play a number of well-received live dates (including Lollapalooza 2005), and begin work on their first album in over a decade.
	digableplanets.org /wiki/bio (851 words)

	Still digging Digable Planets
		The reunion of Digable Planets on Saturday night was a nostalgic, if not altogether surreal, trip back to hip-hop's heady days of the early 1990s.
		Regardless, if fans felt cheated by the Digable Planets' premature breakup in 1995, all was forgiven the moment the opening horns of the May 4th Movement introduced the trio to 2005.
		Competently backed by a live band and DJ Jedi, Digable Planets seemed not only elated, but grateful for fans' long-term memory during a call-and-response of Nickel Bags, a track off their 1993 debut Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space).
	www.azcentral.com /ent/front/articles/0626digablereview26-ON.html (485 words)

	Digable Planets: Beyond the Spectrum: The Creamy Spy Chronicles - PopMatters Music Review
		Digable Planets did not pioneer the gentle, jazzy approach to hip-hop, but they brought it to the radio, and that was no small task.
		The original Digable discs were released by Capitol, Blue Note's parent, which likely explains their easy access to a rich catalog of jazz samples.
		Which is not to say that Digable Planets don't play a gentle form of the dozens throughout their catalog.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/d/digableplanets-beyond.shtml (997 words)

	How Digable Planets Straight New Yorked You - Oh Word
		At best, Digable Planets was written off as a pleasant but abortive Native Tongue spin-off, worthy of a requisite MTV Party-To-Go slot and afterwards, an eternity of bargain bin invisibility.
		Digable Planets were hip to all of it.
		However, Digable Planets are seldom content to limit their depiction of Brook-nam to a solidly realistic narrative of the here and now, and they are similarly reluctant to remain immersed in escapism.
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	Klublife Magazine - Digable Planets Reunited
		In addition to their lyrical preoccupations, the Digable trio, who produce their own beats, are devoted to music and know that jazz is not just a type of music—it is a way of life that involves experimentation and collaboration.
		During their reunion tour, Digable Planets will be accompanied by DJ Jedi on the turntables, Bubba Jones on Bass, Richie Williams on Drums and Brian Jackson on keys.
		This tour will not only be an opportunity to build anticipation for the forthcoming Digable Planets’ reunion LP, but it will also allow for each rapper to draw attention to his or her side projects.
	www.klublife.com /music/main/digable-planets-reunited (1024 words)

	Digable Planets 1993 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Digable Planets was awarded "Best Performance by a Duo or Group" for the single called "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)." The rappers comprising Digable Planets are Butterfly, Ladybug (aka Mecca), and Doodlebug (aka Brother Cee-Know).
		The GRAMMY Award winning song was included on the group's 1993 album which, along with their 1994 album, calls on fl gangbangers to stop victimizing fls, but rather to continue victimizing whites and to redirect fl-on-fl gang crimes at whites.
		They declare that "Planets pledge allegiance to the funk in all its forms." ("Where I'm From.") The federal government cannot be trusted for the "feds was cracking domes." ("What Cool Breezes Do.") Black youth are in "an economic state" that the rappers "wish to terminate," yet "the feds" have "dissed" fls, ignoring and dismissing them.
	home.att.net.cob-web.org:8888 /~phosphor/grammys/digable/93.html (1164 words)

	Digable Planets - Biography - AOL Music
		Though they were not the first to synthesize jazz and hip-hop, Digable Planets epitomized the laid-back charm of jazz hipsters better than any group before or since.
		Digable Planets' resulting tour had a laid-back vibe more in keeping with a jazz show than any hip-hop concert, though the live musicians were criticized for doing little more than re-creating samples from the album.
		After Blowout Comb, Digable Planets basically dissolved due to the dreaded "creative differences".
	music.aol.com /artist/digable-planets/26355/biography (474 words)

	www.myspace.com/digableplanets
		Biography When hip-hop trio Digable Planets emerged in the early 90s, their memorable moniker raised eyebrows.
		And Digable Planets is the kind of rap act every fan should cram to understand.
		The Polish ambassador salutes the digable planets because they are fresh.
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	digable planets
		Prominent in Mecca's history is her role in Digable Planets, a communal clan of poet-rappers that made "hip-hop bebop" popular in the 90's.
		Digable Planets hit the scene in the early 90's withmusic that transcended mainstream hip/hop, pop, rap and R&B without ever seeming anything other than natural.
		Doodlebug of Digable Planets), Jah Sun the megamorph, J-Truth the Buddah blessed fl child, Jae Meeks, Kai-Chi, and Lauretta Gooden with the incredible musicianship of Frank May (electric and acoustic bass), Carl "Carlito" Turner (alto, tenor sax and flute), Mike Alicknavich (guitar), Dan "Z-Boy" Ziegler (drums), and Giscard "jee eye zee" Xavier (keyboards).
	www.digableplanets.net (2327 words)

	Digable Planets News
		From Digable Planets to the Roots, jazzing up rap has become a totem of sophistication to hip-hop heads and jam fans alike.
		The recently reunited, jazz-influenced hip-hop group Digable Planets is excited that people are still checking for its sound.
		Digable Planets has reunited, but if you are dying for their jazzy,...
	www.topix.net /who/digable-planets (670 words)

	Digable Planet Strikes a Blue Note - Message Board - ezboard.com
		It might seem odd that the recent compilation album by the hip-hop outfit Digable Planets is on Blue Note Records, which has produced mostly jazz albums since 1939.
		The Digable Planets anthology, ``Beyond the Spectrum: The Creamy Spy Chronicles,'' is the first album released by the group since 1994's ``Blowout Comb.'' The trio split up in 1996 and re-formed last year.
		On its current tour, Digable Planets comes to the Agenda Lounge in San Jose on Thursday and to the Catalyst in Santa Cruz on Saturday.
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	The Couch Sessions: DIGABLE PLANETS CONTEST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Digable Planets formed in the early '90s, when Butterfly met Ladybug while attending college in Massachusetts.
		After embarking on an ambitious tour, which included several live musicians, the Planets returned in late 1994 with their best album.
		However, the Planets are back in '05 with The Creamy Spy Chronicles, a collection of hits, remixes, and rarities.
	thecouchsessions.com /articles/001645.shtml (279 words)

	Digable Planets - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		In the early '90s a faction of hip-hop artists eschewed the dominant use of funk and soul samples, instead focusing on jazz.
		With its laid-back, Afrocentric vibe and masterful incorporation of classic jazz samples from the likes of Art Blakey and Sonny Rollins, Digable Planets was at the forefront of this movement.
		After Blowout Comb, Digable Planets gradually dissolved due to the dreaded "creative differences." Ten years later, the group has reunited, recently completing a tour and assembling a collection of hits, remixes and rarities for Blue Note.
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	Eastbay Express: The Reorbiting of Digable Planets - Message Board - ezboard.com
		Now, a full decade removed from their ascendancy, the Planets are realigning, reenergizing, and reconnecting with their two biggest muses: insect life and jazz.
		Despite Comb's more combative tone, the Digable Planets of this era were sizzling hot, common coin not only in "conscious" hip-hop circles but on junior high playgrounds, where Butterfly, Doodle, and Mecca were introducing future Eazy-E fans to the jazz canon.
		Thus, Digable Planets are currently touring the States and brainstorming ideas for a third album, which they've been consciously and subconsciously musing about for years, even as the group lay dormant.
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	Digable Planets : Blowout Comb - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Media darlings after the commercial success of their debut, Digable Planets attempted to prove their artistic merit with this second album, and succeeded wildly.
		A worthy, underrated successor, Blowout Comb was just as catchy and memorable as their first, and also offered the perfect response to critics and hip-hop fans who complained they weren't "real" enough.
		Though Blowout Comb still borrowed a host of riffs from great jazz anthems (from Bob James to Bobbi Humphrey), Digable Planets used them well, as beds for their back-and-forth freestyling and solos from guests.
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	Cherrywine: Bright Black - PopMatters Music Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Their style of funk and jazz-based hip-hop was fresh and stylish, while their minds were sharp and imaginative, veering from fantastical images and puzzles to real-life politics and struggles seamlessly.
		The return of Digable Planets MC Ishmael Butler, aka Butterfly, is thus a big event to some, though it's not even a blip on the radar of most MTV or pop 40 fans these days.
		Though Digable Planets were never a conventional hip-hop group by any means, with Cherrywine Butler's coming closer to abandoning hip-hop all together.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/cherrywine-bright.shtml (1084 words)

	Amazon.com: Blowout Comb: Music: Digable Planets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1993, the Digable Planets, a trio of New York MCs with happy insect monikers (Doodlebug, Butterfly, and Ladybug) and nonthreatening auras, created manna for the pseudo-beatnik crowd.
		Digable Planets' debut album "Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)" melded hip hop and jazz together in a way like never before, but on "Blowout Comb" they polished it and really pushed the fusion to the next level.
		Digable's jazz rap is incomparable to any other group's, because they have a style all their own.
	www.amazon.com /Blowout-Comb-Digable-Planets/dp/B00000HFM2 (1846 words)

	Amazon.com: Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space): Music: Digable Planets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Digable Planets released "Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)" in 1993 to great success.
		Digable Planets, consisting of Doodlebug, Ladybug Mecca, and Butterfly are lyricists.
		In 1993 Digable Planets gave the world music like it had never seen before, establishing themselves as hip hop's most forward thinking collective and changing the face of the genre.
	www.amazon.com /Reachin-New-Refutation-Time-Space/dp/B000000W31 (1776 words)

	Tower Records - Reachin': A New Refutation Of Time And Space - Digable Planets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1993, Digable Planets redefined the potential of hip-hop with this truly refreshing and unique groove opus.
		While jazz sampling had already reared its head in hip-hop, the Planets were the first to make it an aesthetic.
		With songs ranging in subject matter from oppression to abortion, Digable Planets were the most uderrated rappers ever.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1024446 (757 words)

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	Digable Planets 1994
		Examples of it on the Digable Planets' album are as follows: "I maximum up the Actual Facts man, as we relax to a Black Caesar flick; in my third vision, my movements is precision; supreme mathematician, indeed I'm true and living"; "we are measured by the ten degrees of math"; "add butter to the math."
		Like any given rapper, the artists behind Digable Planets include their names or make some other sort of reference to themselves, such as the following: "Butterfly got the funk"; "where the crooks lounge out, fl power is found; Butterfly, ground to sky"; "lyrical skills of an insect in motion"; and "I got insect thoughts."
		However, Digable Planets is an example of fl rappers who do embrace communist ideology and communist revolutionaries.
	home.att.net /~phosphor/grammys/digable/94.html (1924 words)

	MP3.com: MP3 Live: Digable Planets' art of easing
		A reunited Digable Planets reconfirmed that lyric, and its own place in hip-hop history, last night with a jubilant performance at The Independent in San Francisco, rebirthing the cool that made them one of the best hip-hop acts of the 1990s.
		A euphoric crowd of 500 even engaged in an unsolicited chant of the aforementioned lyric, reminding the Grammy-winning trio--Butterfly, Ladybug Mecca, and Doodlebug--that even though they haven't made any new music as a group in more than 10 years, plenty of fans are nostalgic for that golden age of jazz-infused hip-hop.
		A worthy, underrated successor, Blowout Comb was just as catchy and memorable as their first, and also offered the perfect response to critics and hip-hop fans who complained they...
	www.mp3.com /news/stories/4411.html (546 words)

	digable planets: Silkworm
		While attending Temple University, he began producing his own tracks and also met Ishmael Butler (aka Butterfly), who introduced Britt to his jazz-rap group Digable Planets.
		King Britt first hatched the idea for a solo album while touring with Digable Planets.
		When the Funk Hits the Fan was released on Ovum/Sony in 1998 and was followed by The Remixes one year later.
	www.digableplanets.net /2003/10/silkworm.php (347 words)

	YouTube - Digable Planets - Where I'm From
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	Digable Planets - AOL Music
		Digable Planets are coming back on stage after a nearly 9-year break.
		Digable Planets - The Official Resource - Tour Dates, Lyrics, News...
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