'Bongo Rock' or 'The Story Of The Incredible Bongo Band' features the two original Bongo Band albums in their entirety ('Bongo Rock' and 'The Return of the Incredible Bongo Band'). The Incredible Bongo Band's cover of track 'Apache' originally made famous by The Shadows, is simply legendary in the world of dance music. Not only one of the most sampled tracks of all time and a staple for Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash as they invented the art of DJing at the Bronx block parties of the '70s, it has become an all-time hip hop and breakers anthem and is revered as the original break of all original breaks with the rhythms of this LP coining the term 'Breakbeat'.

Formed by MGM A&R man Michael Viner in 1972 to supplement the soundtrack to the virtually anonymous B-Movie film 'The Thing With Two Heads'. The IBB went from loose studio collective to an instrumental pop covers consortium, interpreting classics of the day in their own inimitable percussive fashion.

B-Movie soundtracks, The Beatles, drummers gone bad, Frank Zappa, Kool Herc... The album has a remarkable story behind it and is detailed in Angus Batey's extensive sleeve notes.

Apache has been sampled by Missy Elliot, Coldcut, Will Smith, Goldie, Jurassic 5, Moby, Run DMC, Sugarhill Gang, Beastie Boys and Massive Attack and many many MANY more. A must in every record collection.

1. Apache
2. Let There Be Drums
3. Bongolia
4. Last Bongo In Belgium
5. Dueling Bongos
6. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
7. Raunchy '73
8. Bongo Rock
9. Band - Kiburi (Part 1)
10. Sing Sing Sing
11. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
12. Wipeout
13. When The Bed Breaks Down, I'll Meet You In The Spring
14. Pipeline
15. Okey Dokey
16. Sharp Nine
17. Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley, Your Tie's Caught In Your Zipper

CD Only Bonus Tracks

18. Apache (Grandmaster Flash Remix)
19. Last Bongo In Belgium (Breakers Mix)

"I was just 7 years old, but I fell in love with the song immediately. Its one of those records that never leaves your brain. If you dont know Apache,you dont know hip-hop" PETE ROCK

"They still cant beat that record until this day . . . Everybodys still using Bongo Rocks Apache" KOOL HERC

"When I heard Jazzy Jeff mix Apache, I thought, This is what I want to do with my life" JUST BLAZE

"Incredible Bongo Band's 'Apache' is hip hop's national anthem" Hip Hop Connection

"***** The Incredible Bongo Band is like a pearl: hard to find and of everlasting beauty" Amazon

"A foundation upon which modern dance music has been created. The birth of Hip Hop" Boomkat.com