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Studio album by Jamiroquai
Released 14 June 1993[1][2][3]
Recorded 1992–1993
Genre
Acid jazzsoulfunk
Length 55:01 (CD)
64:03 (LP)
Label
Sony Soho Square (UK)Columbia (US)
Producer
Jay KayToby SmithStuart ZenderMike Nielsen
Jamiroquai chronology
Emergency on Planet Earth
(1993) The Return of the Space Cowboy
(1994)

Emergency on Planet Earth is the debut studio album by English funk and acid jazz band Jamiroquai, released on 14 June 1993 under Sony Soho Square. Prior its release, the band debuted in 1992 with `When You Gonna Learn` under Acid Jazz Records, and front-man Jay Kay was given a major-label deal with Sony Music. The album was produced as Toby, Stuart and Kay formed the band and is characterised by its acid jazz foundations, layers of instrumentation and socially charged lyrics.

Critical reviews of the album were generally positive and noted its 1970s stylings. It reached number one in the UK Albums Chart and sold over 1,200,000 copies worldwide. Its single `Too Young to Die` peaked at number 10 in the UK Singles Chart. A remastered version of the album was released in 2013 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the album`s release, including a new vinyl release.

Background and composition
`I wanted this to be an album, not a collection of three minute songs. I didn`t want tracks to be rigid, stuck in that verse, chorus, verse, chorus thing. All the people I`d been listening to were jazz-fusion bands, they didn`t do three minute tracks, they just played.`

—Kay, 2013[4]
While Jay Kay was sending songs to record companies, he wrote the first track `When You Gonna Learn` after taking inspiration from Native American and First Nation peoples and their philosophies, and from his anger towards the shooting of elephants in a television programme.[4] The song also `takes on everything from racism to corporate greed,` according to Interview.[5] Kay said the track laid down `the sound, the flavor [and] the concept` of the album.[4] After he had it recorded, Kay fought with his producer, who took out half the lyrics and produced the song based on what was charting at the time.[4] With the track restored to his preference, the experience helped Kay realise he `wanted a proper live band with a proper live sound`.[4] The band would be named `Jamiroquai`, a blend of the words `jam` and the name of a Native American confederacy, the Iroquois.[5]

Kay gradually gathered band members, including Wallis Buchanan, who played the didgeridoo,[4] and Stuart Zender, who became the band`s bassist by audition.[6][7] Kay`s manager scouted keyboardist Toby Smith, who joined the group as Kay`s songwriting partner.[4] Together, they wrote the second track, `Too Young to Die`, a song also inspired by Kay`s anger towards the wars he had seen on television.[4] Regarding how the track was written, Kay said in 2013: `I have a very limited musical ability in terms of playing`, so he would sing the instruments as Smith would work out the chords.[4] The two tracks would shape up the album,[4] which are followed up by the `high-kicking` funk track `Hooked Up`.[8] With the fourth track `If I Like It I Do It` Kay said it reminded him of `Harvest for the World` by Isley Brothers.[4] The former song`s lyrics have been described as anarchist: `The kids want the system breaking down/Not higher education/If it ain`t no natural law/Then you can keep your regulations`.[9] `Music of the Mind` is a laid-back Latin fusion track that takes inspiration from Flora Purim`s song `Moon Dreams`.[4][8]

With the title track, Kay said that it ultimately defined the concept of the album: `The whole groove of it, all the syncopation, the strings gliding over the top... and the lyrics were hammer to the nail: `The kids need education/and the streets are never clean/... is that life that I am witnessing/or just another wasted birth".[4] Kay wanted to re-create the Headhunters` song `God Made Me Funky` with his own track `Whatever It Is, I Just Can`t Stop`, and he credits having `a real drummer` for its `funky feel`.[4] `Blow Your Mind` is a soft track intended to last eight and half minutes long. The track was recorded in one take; Kay said: `the brass was feeling so nice that when we got to the end I didn`t want it to stop, so I motioned to the guys to go again, which is why there`s the reprise.`[4] For the ten-minute track `Revolution 1993`, the track has `paramilitary drums` and `grinding bass`. With the lyrics, Kay said `it rounded off all the other things I`ve been saying on the album`.[4] It also has `crisscrossed ascending and descending lines, James Brown-like brass punches, a female rhythm and blues choir, Mitch Mitchellesque drums, African percussion, up-front funk bass and elements of hip hop, fusion, acid jazz, technopop and ragamuffin.`[10] The album ends with the `didgeridoo workout` track `Didgin` Out`.[11]



All tracks are written by Jay Kay and Toby Smith, except where noted

Standard edition[4]
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `When You Gonna Learn (Digeridoo)` Kay 3:47
2. `Too Young to Die` 6:04
3. `Hooked Up` 4:37
4. `If I Like It, I Do It` Kay, Nick Van Gelder 4:53
5. `Music of the Mind` (instrumental) 6:22
6. `Emergency on Planet Earth` 4:04
7. `Whatever It Is, I Just Can`t Stop` Kay 4:07
8. `Blow Your Mind` 8:33
9. `Revolution 1993` 10:17
10. `Didgin` Out` (instrumental) Kay, Wallis Buchanan 2:35
Total length: 55:01

Personnel
Credits for Emergency on Planet Earth adapted from album liner notes.[52]

Jamiroquai
Jay Kay – vocals, production
Wallis Buchanan – didgeridoo
Toby Smith – keyboard, string arrangements, production
Stuart Zender – bass
Nick Van Gelder – drums
John Thirkell – trumpet, flugelhorn
Gary Barnacle – flute, saxophone
Peter Thoms - trombone
Andrew Levy – bass (track 1)
Gavin Dodds – guitar
Simon Bartholomew – guitar
Glen Nightingale – guitar
DJ D-Zire – turntables
Kofi Kari Kari – percussion
Maurizio Ravalico – percussion
Additional musicians
Linda Lewis – additional background vocals
Vanessa Simon – additional background vocals
Mike Smith – additional saxophone, flute
Mike Nielsen – production
The Reggae Philharmonic Strings – strings
Jono Podmore – String Arrangements