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From today's featured article Sly and Robbie Rhythm Killers is the second studio album by Jamaican musical duo Sly and Robbie (pictured), released in May 1987 on Island Records. First known as a reggae band, the duo experimented in the 1980s with electronic sounds and contemporary recording technology, while branching out into international, cross-genre music. A funk and dance album, Rhythm Killers has a dense sound that incorporates reggae, hip hop, hard rock, worldbeat, and downtown music. Along with their live instruments, Sly and Robbie used electronic recording equipment such as the Fairlight CMI synthesizer and electronic drums. The album has been cited by music writers for its electronic rhythms, its treatment of African-American music elements, and Laswell's densely layered production. It peaked at number 35 on the British Albums Chart, and also charted in the Netherlands, Sweden, and New Zealand. The critic Robert Christgau named it the seventh-best album of 1987. Two promotional singles were issued, including the UK hit "Boops (Here to Go)". Sly and Robbie continued their digital direction on subsequent albums. The album has since been out of print. (Full article...) Recently featured: Burger's Daughter Ancestry of the Godwins Trout Creek Mountains Did you know... 2014 Texas A&M–Commerce Lions football team ... that the NFL alumni of the Texas A&M–Commerce Lions football team (pictured) include Harvey Martin, Dwight White, and Wade Wilson? ... that congenital lactic acidosis is a rare disease with no proven treatment? ... that one critic compared Millennium‍‍ '​‍s "Siren" to the film It's a Wonderful Life? ... that the architects Elizabeth and H. T. Cadbury-Brown worked together on designs for the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Art? ... that the valley of North Branch Bowman Creek is one of only two places in the Sweet Valley quadrangle where the surficial geology features boulder colluvium? ... that bilateral trade between India and Laos increased by a factor of 17 from 2008 to 2013? ... that WEA Latin had a Mexican radio station play all the songs from Aries by Luis Miguel in response to finding pirate copies of the album being already sold? ... that architect Winka Dubbeldam prefers dressing in black, and lives in a house with black walls?

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