Electro Throwdown

Soul Jazz Records

Hip-Hop Electro

2xLP SJRLP547

£28.00 In stock

Digital SJRD547 Includes sjrlp547-electro-throwdown-gatefold-sleeve MP3 320

£9.99 In stock

Tracklist

1 Time To Throw Down The Rickie Clark Company

2 Boogie Troids The Troids

3 I'm The Packman The Packman

4 Fix It In The Mix Pretty Tony

5 All Systems Go Jazaq

6 Killer Groove Rich Cason

7 We Are The Jonzun Crew The Jonzun Crew

8 Planetary Deterioration (Electro Mix) Ozone Layer

9 Robot People Bill Williams and Bileo

10 E.T. Boogie Extra T's

11 Invasion From The Planet Detroit Planet Detroit

12 Professor X (Saga) Professor X

13 Jump, Stomp and Twist (Instrumental) Mo-Jo

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 gatefold sleeve complete with full sleeve notes (from Derek Walmsley of The Wire), plus download code and digital.

“Loony tunes and future shocks on this ace compilation" Kris Needs