Life 'n Perspectives of a Genuine Crossover
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Life 'n Perspectives Of A Genuine Crossover is the second album by Dutch
band Urban Dance Squad
. The album showcases an even more diverse mix of music genres than their debut album
, genres including hard rock
, hip hop
, funk
, blues
, ska
, Caribbean music
and an Indian
flavour on "Bureaucrat Of Flaccostreet".
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
band Urban Dance Squad
Urban Dance Squad
Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986...
. The album showcases an even more diverse mix of music genres than their debut album
Mental Floss for the Globe
Mental Floss For The Globe is the debut album by Dutch band Urban Dance Squad. Released in 1989, the album features a crossover of several music genres, such as rock, hiphop and funk. It spawned the hit single "Deeper Shade Of Soul" for which the band is most famous for in the United States. Other...
, genres including hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
, hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
, funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
, blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
, ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
, Caribbean music
Caribbean music
The music of the Caribbean is a diverse grouping of musical genres. They are each syntheses of African, European, Indian and native influences, largely created by descendants of African slaves...
and an Indian
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
flavour on "Bureaucrat Of Flaccostreet".
Track Listing
- Comeback (4:27)
- (Thru) The Gates Of The Big Fruit (4:15)
- Life 'N Perspectives I (1:02)
- Mr. EZway (3:40)
- Thru The Eyes Of Jason (3:30)
- Routine (5:01)
- Life 'N Perspectives II (1:14)
- Son Of The Culture Clash (3:28)
- Careless (4:00)
- Grand Black Citizen (3:50)
- Life 'N Perspectives III (0:56)
- Harvey Quinnt (3:32)
- Duck Ska (3:07)
- Life 'N Perspectives IV (1:22)
- For The Plasters (4:27)
- Wino The Medicineman (3:26)
- Bureaucrat Of Flaccostreet (4:57)