Bongo Rock  by Incredible Bongo Band

In 1972, the film "The Thing with Two Heads" was released, which is part of the blaxploitation films of the early '70s. It was then that Michael Viner, a producer at MGM Records, was asked to write the music for the film. He formed the Incredible Bongo Band and initially wrote Bongo Rock and Bongolia.

Eventually, Viner decided to write more compositions and presented them in 1973 on the album Bongo Rock. The album was recorded in Vancouver. The creator was assisted in the production by producer Perry Botkin Jr.

It is an album with eight instrumental themes where the bongo instrument and funk music dominate. The album is a sheer legend—at least for the hip hop scene, as countless times various groups have sampled it for their own compositions. One of the most well-known loops is the intro from Apache, a composition by Jerry Lordan from 1960.