anyone interested in the confluence of early hip hop, disco/house, electro, (and weird new york club music from the early 80's in general) is well advised to check out mantronix's that's my beat, out a couple years ago on soul jazz.

shit is intense. not a comp of his tracks, but rather selections of his that represent the scence of which he was a part, so everything is a bit different. not mixed either, which suprised me a bit, but whatever. all the songs are super vibrant and fertile sounding, and cohesive in their weird way though. THIS is the 80's sound that needs reviving. really really great.

sample tracks:

• suszy q – get on up & do it again


• art of noise – beatbox


• pleasure boys – visage


• machine – there but for the grace of god

ha, i was trying to pick out a couple of representative tracks (should i throw up the electro one? well which one, the bambaata influenced one or one of the other weird ones? which flavor of house? etc...) and was totally stumped, as these songs are all REALLY different, even though they def share a unifying spirit of some sort. so i just posted four random tracks. go buy the vinyl. that's what i'm gonna go do as soon as i'm done posting this...