from the LP Planet Patrol, Tommy Boy Records, 1983You better just go ahead and dust off your old robot-dance moves for this one guys, because Planet Patrol will have your ass popping and locking all across the room! This single comes to us from a time when minimal bass ruled the land, and the direct influence of P-Funk’s outer-space odyssey was overly evident in the themes of nearly every electro release. I’m a big sucker for those Casio beats and laser-gun sounding effects which defined that subgenre, but 99% of the recent attempts by “musicians” to recreate this sound come out soulless and vapid sounding. This track gives it to you hard, the not-entirely-macho tale of a guy becoming emotionally broken at the hands of his woman, only to emerge stronger for it and warning that if she comes around again, well, “…girl, you better watch your step, play at your own risk…” These guys fused boogie with electro and got to record an entire album of it, rare in that world of 12” singles; for you heads out there, this record was produced by the same guy that did “Planet Rock”.
