Various – Electric Funk

Label: Electric Funk– EF 1001
Format: Vinyl, 12", Compilation, Unofficial
Country: US
Released: 1993
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
Condition: Near Mint

An essential golden-era electro and hip-hop compilation gathering four foundational tracks onto a single twelve-inch — the raw TR-808 blueprint of early 1980s New York and Detroit pressed together in unofficial form and sounding as vital as ever. Four records that helped define the architecture of electronic music for the decades that followed, collected here for the DJs and collectors who know their importance.

Soul Sonic Force's Planet Rock opens the A-side — Afrika Bambaataa and Arthur Baker's landmark 1982 track that fused Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express with hip-hop energy and the Roland TR-808 into something that genuinely changed everything. Reggie Griffin's Mirda Rock follows with its own electro-funk momentum before the flip delivers Cybotron's Clear in its OG long version — Juan Atkins and Richard Davis's Detroit electro classic in its fullest and most essential form. The Aleems' Release Yourself closes the record with a different shade of the same electrified, synth-driven energy. Four sides of foundational material, unofficially but lovingly compiled.

A1. Soul Sonic Force – Planet Rock
A2. Reggie Griffin – Mirda Rock
B1. Cybotron – Clear (OG Long Version)
B2. Aleems – Release Yourself