Review: Some serious UK electro history here, as Running Back delivers the first full release of Equip's rare 1984 gem 'XXXO' - an un-deniably far-sighted concoction produced by Greg Wilson, Martin Jackson and Andy Connell that was originally intended to be included on the Streetsounds UK Electro set that the trio famously created (under a variety of aliases). Although technically electro, it's 4/4 beats and proto-acid sounds make it a contender for the elusive title of "first ever house record made in Britain" (though house as a genre had yet to be defined at that time, of course). To back it up, Gerd Janson has re-edited two previously unreleased electro beats recorded by the trio for a performance at the I.C.A, both of which sound like mutant, extra-percussive fusions of electro and post-punk.
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