This is a column about renowned samples, and let's face it: none are more notorious, or have a stranger origin, than the Incredible Bongo Band's version of Jerry Lordan's "Apache." Five years ago, Dan ...

Michael Viner, the record producer whose 1973 recording of "Apache" by the Incredible Bongo Band is the cornerstone of hip-hop, died in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 8th, from cancer. He was 65.

It’s one of those stories that sounds like it’s made up. A music business executive with ties to both organized crime and the White House hires a group of session musicians to fill out the soundtrack ...

“Sample This” would make a hell of an article. In fact, it did. In 2006, Will Hermes told the story of the story of the oft-forgotten, oft-sampled Incredible Bongo Band in the New York Times. His ...

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Who knew this was the Incredible Bongo Band? It's like that actor you always see and love but can never call out (like the guy that John C. Reilly used to be). "Apache" is on Bongo Rock, one of two ...

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