Description
Produced by Masters at Work member Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez, the track features samples from Chicago's "Street Player" from their 1979 album Chicago 13.
"The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind)" was very successful on the charts on several continents, reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States.
The lyrics have a single line "these sounds fall into my mind", which repeats throughout the entire song.This line is also the subtitle of the song, which is actually considered a mondegreen; the actual lyric taken from the sample is "Street sounds swirling through my mind..."
Dave Piccioni from Music Week's RM Dance Update commented, "Another all-time dance classic is reworked, rehashed and brutally stripped. Why do they do it? Well, probably because they come out sounding pretty damn good. Kenny Dope has taken a razor blade to Chicago's "Streetplayer", added some rough and ready beats, some latino congas, and presented a disco gem to a new generation of dancers. The result is slamming, the effect on the floor is similar. A simple sample track that is truly gorgeous."
Mixmag ranked the song number 60 in its "100 Greatest Dance Singles of All Time" list in 1996, adding, "A quarter of an hour's worth of mirrorball mayhem, Kenny 'Dope' Gonzales' The Bomb is the ultimate disco cutup track. Shatteringly simple, the genius of The Bomb lies in the way it builds up your anticipation with a protracted burst of hard jacking drums and atonal honking before the perfect disco sample soars away into the distance. A massive hit when Positiva licensed it in early 1995, The Bomb kick-started the trend for raiding old disco 12s. Dozens of producers followed its lead, but none of them ever equalled the definitive original article."
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