Description
Label:
Real Gone Music – RGM-0918
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Maroon
Country:
US
Released:
13 Sep 2019
Genre:
Electronic, Reggae
Style:
Reggae, Dub
A1 Star Trek
A2 Dr. Spock
A3 Red Herring
A4 Joe Kidd
A5 Vulcan-Ised
B1 Journey Into Space
B2 Dark Shadows
B3 Dracula
B4 Shang Haied
B5 Asibiso Jungle
B6 In The Moog
Now for one of the oddest—and most sought-after—albums in the voluminous Trojan label catalog! In 1972, the production team of Joe Sinclair, Webster Shrowder and Des Bryan placed classic Trojan instrumental riddims in the hands of prog-rocker Ken Elliot (formerly of the group Second Hand), who proceeded to lay down utterly twisted ARP-2600 synthesizer lines over them. The intent (we think) was to cash in on the strong, early ‘70s easy listening market a la Switched On Bach, but the result, like so many like-minded commercial concept albums, turned out to be several parsecs weirder than the original intent. The combination of electronic music and reggae walks the tightrope between cheesy and cosmic, like a B-movie soundtrack listened to on laughing gas, and if a few tracks fall into the merely comical, don’t worry, cuz the next track is gonna boldly dub where no track has dubbed before. In short, a one-off, stone cold classic, here reissued on LP for the first time ever in “Deep Space Maroon” vinyl limited to 1000 copies!
