Description
UK Import Vinyl
Soul Jazz Records’ new collection, ‘Electro Throwdown - Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89’, is a journey into the outer reaches of electro, a galactic roller-coaster ride of turbo-charged sci-fi grooveology.
The album is comprised of mainly private-press and independent label electro jams of the highest calibre (with some as rare as space ships landing on Mars) all created in the 1980s, at a time when a vocoder, a Roland TR-808 drum machine and a groove was all that was needed to get the party started. // With a few notable exceptions (Michael Jonzun’s Jonzun Crew and The Packman) the album features mainly under-the-radar killer tracks from a host of one-off artists and back-room electronic pioneers – including Pretty Tony, Planet Detroit (James McCauley, aka Maggotron) and Rich Cason – who together helped shape the sound of electro across the USA from Miami to New York, Los Angeles and beyond during the 1980s. // This album is released on super-loud double vinyl, packaged in a gatefold sleeve complete with full sleeve notes (from Derek Walmsley of The Wire), plus download code.
Tracklist:
A1 The Rickie Clark Company– Time To Throw Down
A2 The Troids– Boogie Troids
A3 The Packman– I'm The Packman
B1 Pretty Tony– Fix It In The Mix
B2 Jazaq– All Systems Go
B3 Rich Cason– Killer Groove
C1 The Jonzun Crew– We Are The Jonzun Crew
C2 Ozone Layer– Planetary Deterioration
C3 Bill Williams And Bileo– Robot People
C4 Extra T's– E.T. Boogie
D1 Planet Detroit– Invasion From The Planet Detroit
D2 Professor X– Professor X (Saga)
D3 Mo-Jo– Jump, Stomp, And Twist
