MICHAEL VINER's Incredible Bongo Band RARE SEALED Dell Tone 12" Apachie BREAKS

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rare SEALED pressing of a classic b-boy break - this is one of many different pressings of the same, extended edit of  Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band's cover of APACHE,  backed with Bongo Rock (spelled Bungo on this particular version) This is basically the same as the Arawak All-Stars version - these pirates have no shame, who knows who ripped off who first - as the saying goes, there's "no honor among thieves"
The label has a Jamaica address - again, no one really knows what the deal is... What is certain, is that this is VERY hard to find - hard to find in a sealed plain jacket that is! mostly intact Original shrink-wrap has some holes, and there's minor staining from humidity over the years, but the cardboard shows no signs of having gotten wet.
Who knows what the pressing quality is like, but this is definitely going to be an unplayed copy, and We do offer a full-satisfaction, money-back guarantee!

Dell Tone ?B.S.-11703-JA / B.S.-21703-JA A Bungo Rock (Adapted) 6:30 B Apachie 6:45 fine print on the label: Prod. by B. Smith & N. Barent.  112 Hold Hope Road, Kingston, 10 Ja. W.I.
We slightly edited this review on Discogs dot com by the legendary "Disco Patrick": ""Apache" (also known as "Apachie") was first written by a Spanish character named Juan de Oñate in 1598 during his country's colonization in America in the 16th Century; hundreds of years later it would ironically become a quintessential chapter in the history of dance music. 
These groups of natives, aboriginal inhabitants of North America, used to speak a Southern Athabaskan language commonly named Apachean. Their culture would deeply influence America, from "Western" movies to music: in the middle of the 20th Century, the famous TV series Apache (starring Burt Lancaster) reached large audiences with a highly suggestive soundtrack. 
Though the TV series was American, the band behind the original soundtrack was English: formed in the fifties as The Drifters, this group of talented musicians (featuring Cliff Richard) would change during the next couple of years and rename themselves The Shadows in 1959, this time leaded by the composer Jerry Lordan. That year, they recorded "Apache", released few months later, in 1960. The song was a worldwide pop hit; Then Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band re-recorded it with extended breaks and an emphasis on its bongo and conga drums (1973), performed by the drummer King Harrison (Errison?).
The definitive chapter took place some years later, when the the Apache break was discovered by Hip Hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc during the "street parties" era. Herc extended the break by playing two copies of it in contests (or "battles") in the Bronx, and the result was cataclysmic and would affect the International dance music scene forever, crossing all the stylistic frontiers imaginable. 
The Apache break figures among the most sampled Breakbeat solos ever: after being adopted by the Godfather of Hip Hop in the seventies, being part of Double Dee & Steinski's collage "The Lessons" (1985) and released on the quintessential compilation Ultimate Breaks & Beats (Volume 3, 1986), Apachie became one of the major Breakbeat references. 
As a consequence, it was sampled by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, the Sugarhill Gang, LL Cool J, Kool Moe Dee, Schoolly D, among others) to Electro (with the amazing "Break Dance Electric Boogie" (1983) by West Street Mob and also by Joey Beltram on Direct's "Let It Ride" (1990)); the list include the most diverse genres and types of music, such as Coldcut and several House, Hip House, Techno, Breakbeat, Rave and even Progressive House artists from the late eighties to the early nineties. Hardcore, Jungle & Drum n' Bass also borrowed Apache hundreds of times including The Future Sound Of London, Moby, Massive Attack, and more.
Despite giving the music itself a very specific mood, Apache renewed itself through the most different musical genres during more than three decades, with incredible vitality."
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