Crucial Electro 1 | Loppylugs

Submitted by Neil Hornsey on 12 February 2013 - 10:14pm

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Various

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USA

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Track-listing:

The Smurf*Light Years Away*Nunk (New Wave Funk)*Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)*Rockit*Electric Kingdom*Clear*Al Naafiysh (The Soul)*The Return Of Captain Rock*Wild Style

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Bean

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Short-title:

electro1

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Monday, 29 October 2007

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Street_Sounds_Crucial_Electro

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Various-Street-Sounds-Crucial-Electro/master/82074

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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

1 4 the treble, 2 4 the bass, com'n ya'll let's rock this place

1-3-7-8-9

Classic Electro, crucial even, from the top producers of the time. The ideas crafted by these guys shaped music as it is today, and don't ever forget it, Jon.
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Let your body rock

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2-9-10

A varied cross section of tracks from the days when electro was in its prime. It's amazing to think that the genre would eventually mutate into today's r'n'b saturated rap stodge. What little rap there is on this album shows its age but it's easy to ignore that and let your body rock to the electro funk instead.

Hip Hop Be Bop has got to be the pick of the bunch, an impressive creation that still sounds almost as exciting as it did at the time. In fact the whole album sounds quite exotic and unusual, perhaps because electro never really hung around long enough to outstay its welcome (although, as Neil rightly points out, the ideas got absorbed all over the place).

Must admit I'm a sucker for those synthetic sounds, and although it sounds a bit cheap and a bit cheesy in places, there's enough cleverly put together tracks to keep one's interest; tracks which have aged surprisingly well.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Jon Taylor

Of its time, and should be left there

If this is your genre than this is probably a good compilation, but to me it sounds ever so dated. Not my thing.