Electro Throwdown - Sci-Fi Inter Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89

Description

Soul Jazz presents a compilation of pioneering, rare, or cult tracks from American electro music!The new Soul Jazz Records collection, "Electro Throwdown - Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89", takes you to the outer limits of electro with high-voltage sci-fi grooves. This album primarily brings together rare electro tracks from independent labels of the 80s, created at a time when a vocoder and a Roland TR-808 were enough to ignite the party. Apart from a few notable exceptions (Michael Jonzun's Jonzun Crew and The Packman), the album features dug-up tracks by pioneering artists like Pretty Tony, Planet Detroit (James McCauley, aka Maggotron), and Rich Cason, who shaped the sound of electro in the USA, from Miami to New York to Los Angeles. The album is released as a double vinyl, gatefold sleeve, and on CD, both with a booklet of liner notes by Derek Walmsley (The Wire).