This familiar bassline was first lifted for the track 'White Lines (Don't Don't Do It),' by Melle Mel & the Furious Five (though falsely credited to Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel), with the Sugar Hill house band playing the groove live. More recently, the bassline was used on LL Cool J's 'Phenomenon' -- the vocal hook "Slip In And Out Of The Phenomenon" morphing into 'Somethin' Like A Phenomenon.'
This is the original: Liquid Liquid's 'Cavern,' an underground post-punk club anthem from 1983, played notably in NYC by breakdance (bboy) djs and famous dance producer/djs Larry Levan and Afrika Bambaataa alike.
It has been argued that this was a major influence to hip hop moving from the clubs and parks onto actual records.
The video is an early animation by Oskar Fischinger called 'When the World Got Drunk,' from 1927, in silent black & white. A later version of the animation with sound was assembled by William Moritz/Fischinger.
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