from the LP Break Out, Planet Records, 1983Okay, so if I was a single android looking to score with some sexy, automaton hover-taxi driver, this would be the song I’d have programmed on my hi-fi system to play the moment we opened the front door of my recharging station and walked inside, busting into my best robot dance moves in hopes of us spending the night in electronic ecstasy… forgive the allegory, smoking some really potent shit this morning, Nectarine (AK x Tangerine) kief, and it’s got my head in the clouds, for real. Although they had been performing professionally for over a decade prior to this release, the Pointer Sisters (Anita, June & Ruth) were just hitting their stride in the early ‘80s, shunning their old retro-camp image in favor of the electronic delicacies of a new, then-modern world. This track was the first single, and easily my all-time favorite of theirs: Casio beats, funky synthbass, Moogs galore and, to top it all off, the sultry near-bass vocal stylings of sister Ruth---there was an amazing tech-house remix of this track that opened the second side of DJ Feelgood’s Happy House Vol. 2 mixtape, looping the snippet where she sings, “…all systems run aground…”…so phatty.
