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Man Parrish is tagged as: electro, electronic, 80s, hip-hop, electro funk

Although he produced only a handful of tracks of renown, Manny ( Man ) Parrish is nonetheless one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music. Helping to lay the foundation of electro, hip-hop, freestyle, and techno, as well as the dozens of subgenres to splinter off from those, Parrish introduced the aesthetic of European electronic pop to the American club scene by combining the plugged-in disco-funk of Giorgio Moroder and the man-machine music of Kraftwerk with the beefed-up rhythms and cut’n’mix approach of nascent hip-hop. As a result, tracks like “Hip-Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop)” and “Boogie Down Bronx” were period-defining works that provided the basic genetic material for everyone from Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys to Autechre and Andrea Parker — and they remain undisputed classics of early hip-hop and electro to this day. A native New Yorker, Parrish was a member of the extended family of glam-chasers and freakazoids that converged nightly with Andy Warhol at the famed mega-disco Studio 54 club. His nickname, Man, first appeared in Warhol’s Interview magazine, and his early live shows at Bronx hip-hop clubs were spectacles of lights, glitter, and pyrotechnics that drew as much from the ...
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Top 10 Man Parrish Songs
Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)
Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)
Boogie Down Bronx
Manmade
Boogie Down (Bronx)
Six Simple Synthesizers
Man Made
Hip Hop Bee Bop (Don't Stop)
Hip Hop Be Bop
Heatstroke
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Top 10 Man Parrish Albums
Man Parrish
Hip Hop Bee Bop
Back To The Old Skool - Hip Hop (Disc 2)
Mixed Up In The Hague Vol. 1
Hip Hop Be Bop
The Best of Man Parrish: Heatstroke
Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)
Heatstroke-The Best Of
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Dream Time
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