Street Sounds Crucial Electro is the first compilation album in a series and was released in 1984 on the StreetSounds label. The album was released on LP and cassette and contains ten electro music and old school hip hop tracks mixed by Herbie Laidley.[1]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleArtistLength
1."The Smurf"Tyrone Brunson4:15
2."Light Years Away"Warp 93:27
3."Nunk (New Wave Funk)"Warp 93:37
4."Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)"Man Parrish4:37
5."Rockit"Herbie Hancock4:47
Side two
No.TitleArtistLength
1."Electric Kingdom"Twilight 226:00
2."Clear"Cybotron4:13
3."Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)"Hashim3:12
4."Return Of Captain Rock"Captain Rock3:45
5."Wildstyle"Time Zone4:21

References

  1. ^ "Crucial Electro 1". streetsoundsmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-05-26.

2. "Hip Hop, (Be Bop)" (side 1, track 4) was featured playing in the cult classic comedy/horror movie 'Shaun Of The Dead'. The album is thrown outside the window by Shaun's angry flatmate, and later is thrown at a zombie, where Shaun (Simon Pegg) says it was the second album he ever bought.


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