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- Warp_9 abstract "Warp 9 is an electro music group that is best known for its 1980s electro hip hop songs "Nunk, "Light Years Away," and "Beat Wave." Warp 9 ranks among the most iconic groups of the electro hip hop era. Described as the "perfect instance of hip hop's contemporary ramifications," Warp 9 was the brainchild of writer-producers Lotti Golden and Richard Scher. The duo wrote and recorded under the moniker Warp 9, a production project at the forefront of the electro movement. Golden & Scher were among the first producers to use the Roland TR-808 drum machine, creating tracks with "gorgeous textures and multiple layers." Warp 9 evolved from a studio concept into a band when Prism Records expressed interest in releasing Nunk. Golden & Scher invited drummer Chuck Wansley and percussionist Boe Brown to perform the male vocals and rhymes. Later, a female vocalist was added to the group; Ada Dyre performed vocals and rhymes for Warp 9's second single, "Light Years Away," The success of Warp 9's first single, Nunk, created a large following for the band in the New York metropolitan area resulting in a worldwide deal with Island Records, on its 4th & B'way Records label in the UK, and on Prism Records/Island Records in the U.S. In 1983 the group released its debut LP, It's a Beat Wave.1982, the year Warp 9's first single, Nunk was released on Prism Records, was a watershed for electro music: Planet Rock was a game changer, heralding the arrival of electro hip hop music. Some of the "space-breaking releases that year included Planet Patrol's, "Play At Your Own Risk," Nunk by Warp 9...The Smurf..."Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)," and 'The Message.'" The song's title "Nunk," announced the group's musical direction—a fusion of funk, hip hop, and new wave, i.e., NUNK= N-ew wave + f-UNK. Fusing elements from electro-pop, rock, Latin, Afro-Cuban, and hip hop is integral to Warp 9 and to the identity of electro hip hop.Warp 9's second single, "Light Years Away" (1983), is an afrofuturist, "sci-fi tale of alien visitation, when gods were space people, partially inspired by The Message." The song's experimental use of vocoders and sci-fi street imagery with the lyrical refrain space is the place for the human race, informed by Sun Ra's 1974 film, were highlighted in Newsweek's "Language Arts & Disciplines:Sci-Fi Street Sounds." The rhyme in "Light Years Away" invokes a stark, cyberpunk Philip K Dickian vision of the future: "From the street there's no escape/the bag ladies that holler rape/there must have been some big mistake/light years away/sometimes I think, I missed my stop/and wound up on this planet not to ever find no peace of mind/light years away/".
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- Warp_9 recordLabel 4th_&_B'way_Records.
- Warp_9 recordLabel Arista_Records.
- Warp_9 recordLabel Island_Records.
- Warp_9 recordLabel Motown.
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- Warp_9 associatedActs Strafe_(band).
- Warp_9 associatedActs "The Strikers".
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- Warp_9 name "Warp 9".
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- Warp_9 notableInstruments Roland_TR-808.
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- Warp_9 origin New_York.
- Warp_9 origin New_York_City.
- Warp_9 origin United_States.
- Warp_9 pastMembers "Ada Dyer, Carolyn Harding, Chuck Wansley, Kathrine Joyce, Milton Brown".
- Warp_9 producers "Lotti Golden, Richard Scher".
- Warp_9 yearsActive "1982".
- Warp_9 subject Category:American_New_Wave_musical_groups.
- Warp_9 subject Category:American_boogie_musicians.
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- Warp_9 subject Category:American_soul_musical_groups.
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- Warp_9 subject Category:Motown_artists.
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- Warp_9 comment "Warp 9 is an electro music group that is best known for its 1980s electro hip hop songs "Nunk, "Light Years Away," and "Beat Wave." Warp 9 ranks among the most iconic groups of the electro hip hop era. Described as the "perfect instance of hip hop's contemporary ramifications," Warp 9 was the brainchild of writer-producers Lotti Golden and Richard Scher. The duo wrote and recorded under the moniker Warp 9, a production project at the forefront of the electro movement.".
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