It Began In Africa. And on the Amiga.

I was wasting time on my Amiga emulator, and I finally got a Budbrain demo to work. I'd heard good things of the Budbrain demos way back in the 90's, and as it loaded it seemed I had found the second of their demos.

Things flashed, text swirled, and although it all looks very dated now, I can appreciate it for what it was back then. The music started playing, and suddenly I heard some familiar lyrics...

"It Began In Africa"

The very same that can be heard on the Chemical Brothers track It Began In Afrika that caused quite a storm in 2001.

They credit samples to one Jim Ingram of who I found out very little, although it seems that Jim's 1974 spoken-word album Drum Beat was the source of the phrase.

And here it is, appearing on an old Amiga demo, "released at the Dexion Copyparty in Odense Denmark Dec 1990". You can download the Yo Africa mod by Diablo and listen to it for yourself...

It would be interesting more of Jim Ingram's original work. Gime me a shout if you can point me in the right direction.