Various Artists: Soul Jazz Records Presents Electro Throwdown - Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack On Planet Earth 1982-89 (CD)

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 spaceships 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.

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
7. The Jonzun Crew - We Are The Jonzun Crew
8. Ozone Layer - Planetary Deterioration (Electro Mix)
9. Bill Williams and Bileo - Robot People
10. Extra T's - E.T. Boogie
11. Planet Detroit - Invasion From The Planet Detroit
12. Professor X - Professor X (Saga)
13. Mo-Jo - Jump, Stomp and Twist (Instrumental)