US3 featuring RAHSAAN – CANTALOOP (FLIP FANTASIA) 7″ – Nr MINT/EXC+ UK 1993

Us3 featuring Rahsaan – Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
(Capitol Records  1993  CL696)
UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from the odd light pop/crackle)

Sleeve in Very Good condition
– crease on bottom left corner & tears along opening edge

Us3 were a British jazz rap group founded by London-based producer Geoff Wilkinson in 1992. The name was inspired by Us Three, a Horace Parlan album produced in 1960 by Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records. Us3’s debut album, Hand on the Torch, used samples from Blue Note songs produced by Lion.

“Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” is a song by British jazz-rap group Us3, originally released in October 1992 by Blue Note Records as the lead single from the group’s debut album, Hand On the Torch (1993). The song was recorded as a demo a year before the group’s first release and features a sample of Herbie Hancock’s song “Cantaloupe Island”. Another sample, the announcement by Pee Wee Marquette, is taken from the Blue Note album A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 by The Art Blakey Quintet. “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” did not chart in the group’s native UK, but in the US, it reached No. 9 and 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100, becoming the group’s only top 40 single. It was subsequently re-released in UK where it peaked at No. 23. The song was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 25, 1994 for selling over 500,000 copies.

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