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.
| 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 | Elijah Williams, Jr., 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 |
