Influenced by America's Arrested Development and Guru's Jazzmatazz project, the
British band Urban Species is part of the acid jazz movement of the 1990s.
Mixing hip-hop, funk, jazz, reggae, funk and soul in their big shaker, Urban
Species scored their first hit in 1993 with "Spiritual Love ". The 1994 album
Listen was well received in the UK and France. The departure of DJ Renegade left
rapper Peter Akinrinola, aka Mintos, at the group's helm. Urban Species' decline
coincided with that of the acid jazz movement, and Blanket was a failure in
1998. Peter Akinrinola announced the r...