Electro Throwdown - Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack on Planet Earth 1982-89 Vinyl LP 2024

LP 1

1. The Rickie Clark Company - Time To Throw Down
2. The Troids - Boogie Troids
3. The Packman - I'm The Packman
4. Pretty Tony - Fix It In The Mix
5. Jazaq - All Systems Go
6. Rich Cason - Killer Groove

LP 2

1. The Jonzun Crew - We Are The Jonzun Crew
2. Ozone Layer - Planetary Deterioration (Electro Mix)
3. Bill Williams and Bileo - Robot People
4. Extra T's - E.T. Boogie
5. Planet Detroit - Invasion From The Planet Detroit
6. Professor X - Professor X (Saga)
7. Mo-Jo - Jump, Stomp and Twist (Instrumental)

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 and digital.