Today I bring you some electro records i recently received as a gift from my sweetie. this was basically in a haul of records from discogs where we were just looking for cheap electro records to add on to the order to offset the shipping costs. some of these i'd never even heard before!
Freestyle
"Freestyle Express"
1984
Freestyle! one of the first and greatest Miami electro Freestyle groups -although this was pretty much just the project of "Pretty Tony" Butler. they have a number of really hot jams, most famous of all being "don't stop the rock." here we hop aboard the freestyle express!
Electric Power Band
"Pappa Smerf"
1984
Ahh, the 80s!... when it was just normal for rappers to do songs about cartoon characters. we have basically come full circle with youtube parodies and songs about virtually anything you can think of. burger rap? oh yeah. vegan rap song? yep I've done full mixes of that theme. Here we have some pitch bent vocals and we get to hear what its like for a day in the life of the OG, papa smurf... i assume they misspelled it because they didn't wanna get sued, or something
Timecode
"Louie Louie"
1986
here's an "interesting" 80s take on the classic 50s/60s song, most famously done by the kingsmen. kinda slow and definitely novel... couldn't really not get this for a buck or two
The Mistress amd DJ Madame E
"I Got Your Wild Thing"
1989
Here we have a response record to Tone Loc's "wild thing" but done in an electro west coast style and produced by dj unknown and Arabian prince! I feel like this is the version i heard in a mix somewhere and thats why i always felt the other female response record i have of this song seemed a little off...
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