Lafayette Afro Rock Band
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The Lafayette Afro Rock Band was an American musical ensemble generally classified as funk or rare groove. The group was formed in Long Island, NY as the Bobby Boyd Congress but relocated to France in 1971 where they became the house session band at producer Pierre Jaubert's Parisound studio.
For their 1973 debut LP Each Man Makes His Own Destiny, Jaubert changed the group's name to the Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
In 1974 they released their second album Soul Makossa (issued in the U.S. as Movin' & Groovin), highlighted by the oft-covered and much-sampled 'Hihache'. The third album, "Malik", featured the cut 'Darkest Light', its desolate saxophone intro later sampled for use by Public Enemy for track "Show 'Em Whatcha Got".
Their music has become an endless source of samples and breaks for everyone from Wreckx'N'Effect to Janet Jackson.
Strut Records has a Lafayette compilation called Darkest Light: The Best Of The Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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