Assembled in 1972 by producer/arranger Perry Botkin Jr. and MGM executives Michael Viner and Mike Curb as a studio session project — first for a movie soundtrack, then for a stand-alone LP — the Incredible Bongo Band was never really a touring group so much as a rotating cast of L.A. session players laying down bongo-and-conga-heavy funk instrumentals. Their cover of the Shadows/Jorgen Ingmann tune "Apache" went nowhere commercially in 1973, then found an entirely second life a few years later as the Bronx's most-played breakbeat record, cemented into hip-hop's foundation before the genre had a name.

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