 In "The Penguin Guide to Jazz", Richard Cook and Brian Morton wrote that like its predecessor, "Pangaea"s lengthy performances combined musical forms from African-American genres with Karlheinz Stockhausen's "conception of a 'world music' that moves like creeping tectonic plates".At the end of 1991, "Pangaea" was voted the ninth best reissue of the year in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published in "The Village Voice".As with several other of Davis' live albums from the period, "Pangaea" became an influence on several no wave and funk artists.