Talk:Planet Rock (song)

Influence on Cybotron overstated?
"Cybotron's Juan Atkins cited "Planet Rock" as an influence on his Detroit techno sound in the 1980s.[7]"

The source specifically says this: ''"juan's first group cybotron released several records at the height of the electro-funk boom in the early 80's, the most succesful being a truly progressive homage to the city of detroit simply entitled 'techno city'. at the time he believed the record was a unique and adventurous piece of synthesiser funk, more in tune with germany than the rest of black america, but on a dispiriting visit to new york, juan heard afrika bambaataa's 'planet rock' and realised that his vision of a spartan electronic dance sound had been upstaged." ''

Detroit-based Cybotron was already creating electro-funk style music and had already pressed their first singles before "Planet Rock" dropped. The source only mentions that "Planet Rock" beat Juan Atkins and his group to the punch in the New York electronic music scene. I think some better clarification is needed so as not to give the impression that Cybotron "owes" their sound to Soul Sonic Force. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.146.228.237 (talk) 21:09, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
 * This has since been removed. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:42, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

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LL Cool J
The sample in "Control myself" is not from "Planet Rock" but from "Looking for the perfect Beat" from Soulsonic Force.--D-udo (talk) 18:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * This has since been removed from the article. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:44, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

The song Planet Rock does not use a vocoder
the Afrika Bambaataa song Planet Rock does not use a Vocoder as the article mentions. In the book "How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop" by Dave Tompkins, he is informed that the song does not contain a vocoder. The quote from page 210: " Arthur Baker, co-producer of "Planet Rock," says there is no vocoder in the song. "it's been mythicized. It's a PCM 41 with just a really slight delay. So it's basically a flange." Sjankis630 (talk) 19:39, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * This seems to be true, and it goes into detail how the sound was made in the current version of the article. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:45, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Year of Release
Why does it say the song was released in 1982 when the album release year was 1986? Was the gap really that long or is there false information in the infobox? Solitude6nv5 (talk) 20:55, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It took a while for an album to follow-up as Bambaataa was originally signed as a singles artist for Tommy Boy. This info has been added to the article. Andrzejbanas (talk) 13:45, 19 November 2019 (UTC)