on MTV. "Rockit" won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance in 1983, and it won five MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. "Rockit" was constructed...
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Rockit may refer to: Rockit (album), a 1979 album by Chuck Berry. Rockit (instrumental), a 1983 composition by Herbie Hancock. "Rockit", a 2004 song by...
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"Wasteland" by Chelsea Grin) Wordless vocal effects, such as drones (e.g., "Rockit" or "Flying") Vocal percussion, such as beatbox B-sides on rap singles Yelling...
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standards. During the 1980s, he enjoyed a hit single with the electronic instrumental "Rockit", a collaboration with bassist/producer Bill Laswell. Hancock has...
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Sumanth – composer Stars Over Foy – composer, dj Tangerine Dream – band Team Rockit – Swedish band Irv Teibel – field recordist, electronic musician John Tesh...
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Hip hop production (redirect from Instrumental hip hop)
collaborations are notable exceptions. 1983's Future Shock album and hit single "Rockit" featured turntablist Grand Mixer D.ST, the first use of turntables in jazz...
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Ruby & the Rockits is an American comedy series executive produced by Shaun Cassidy and Marsh McCall. The series premiered on Tuesday, July 21, 2009....
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Your Enemy is the third studio album by American thrash metal band Lȧȧz Rockit. It was released in 1987 on Roadrunner Records/Enigma Records. The 2005...
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Left for Dead is the sixth studio album by American thrash metal band Lȧȧz Rockit. It was released on July 25, 2008 on Massacre Records and follows 1991's...
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Nothing's Sacred (album) (redirect from Nothing's Sacred (Laaz Rockit album))
album cover) is the fifth studio album by American thrash metal band Lȧȧz Rockit. It was released in 1991 on Roadrunner Records/Enigma Records. It is the...
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Remix (redirect from Instrumental version)
the first mainstream successes of this style of remix was the 1983 track Rockit by Herbie Hancock, as remixed by Grand Mixer D.ST. Malcolm McLaren and the...
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The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition (including its previous names) has been awarded since 1960. The award is presented to the composer of...
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The Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1970 to 1990 and in 1993. The award had several minor name changes: From 1970 to...
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Group with Vocal "Ain't Nobody" – Chaka Khan & Rufus Best R&B Instrumental Performance "Rockit" – Herbie Hancock Best Rhythm & Blues Song "Billie Jean" –...
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equipment store he would insist on testing them by playing the demos of "Rockit" and "Earth Beat". While those songs were played through the speakers, passing...
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Alex Skolnick of Testament, Rick Hunolt (ex-Exodus), Phil Kettner of Lȧȧz Rockit, Geoff Tyson of T-Ride, Charlie Hunter, and David Turin.[citation needed]...
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy R.U. Sirius, a space station in the Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! comic strip Sirius (1942 film), a Hungarian film Sirius (1975...
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"Rockit" by Herbie Hancock. The latter was mixed by Grandmaster Flash. In the 2011 episode of Black Mirror, "Fifteen Million Merits", the instrumental...
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("Victims"), Duran Duran ("Girls on Film", "A View to a Kill"), Herbie Hancock ("Rockit"), Go West ("We Close Our Eyes"), Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush ("Don't Give...
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nights. In 1985 it was re-branded as Rockit for the Nine Network. In 1995 Simon, as Program Director, was instrumental in Triple M Melbourne (formerly EON...
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Phaedra (album) (category 1970s instrumental albums)
Main Street. p. 107. ISBN 1402736738. Abramowitz, Ari (2004). The Pockit Rockit Music Finder. New York: Music Guru. p. 44. ISBN 0975978705. Dimery, Robert...
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May 31, 2024. Retrieved June 13, 2016. Abramowitz, Ari (2004). The Pockit Rockit Music Finder. Music Guru, Incorporated. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-9759787-0-2....
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live. The song is featured as a selectable track on the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster at Universal Studios Florida. A short section of the song...
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videos on MTV, "Rockit" also had a much greater reach and success than any of its predecessors. The track went on to win Best R&B Instrumental Performance...
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the song's performer, Irene Cara. Moroder's obsession with the dance hit "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock fueled his composition of the music, and Cara was inspired...
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the region's so-called "Big Six" alongside Testament, Death Angel, Lȧȧz Rockit, Forbidden, and Vio-lence. Exodus has sold over five million albums worldwide...
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"Chameleon" Instrumental by Herbie Hancock from the album Head Hunters Released 1973 (1973) Recorded September 1973 Genre Funk, jazz-funk Length 15:41...
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Top 75 Longplays chart. Furthermore, it spawned his biggest hit single, "Rockit" (1983), the first jazz hip-hop song, and became a worldwide anthem for...
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However, the video lost to Billy Joel's "Pressure" and Herbie Hancock's "Rockit", respectively. “When I created Atomic Dog in 1982, I had no idea how it...
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recording (Alberts 2002). DXT appeared (as DST) on Herbie Hancock's hit song "Rockit". These early pioneers cemented the fundamental practice that would later...
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