Various – Street Sounds Electro 5

This was roughly where the average kid in my small town jumped on the electro series. You would have had to be pretty damn cool to have got the first few in the series when they came out. Of course, we soon caught up and remained loyal (in my case) up until Volume 11 for some reason. What can I say about this one? Fast Life has brilliant lyrics and I still know every word, Techno Scratch is simple yet avant-garde, Egypt Egypt is sinister as hell.

For me it’s the complete package of the Electro compilations and my favourite. With a combination of such differences from Aleem to KOTT, housing big hitters like Egyptian Lover and Captain Rock. Great mixing of tunes, with Aleem coming into Captain Rock simply right up there (1984!). It still sounds fresh today. Beam me back to mid 80's pls, personal cassette player, BMX and breaker boots...

I fucking hammered this when it came out. A mate in my class In secondary school (must have been second year) copied it to cassette for me. It was my first electro album. I walking into school with it playing on my ghetto blaster (that my mum bought for me out of the Kays catalogue) and being spat at for being a wierdo. Saying that, I was probably wearing a deerstalker hat and a Kleim tracksuit and no doubt looked like a total fud. Good times though, trying to execute windmills at break time outside the art block....

The only Electro where they used a spot Pantone colour on the printing (both cassette and vinyl) all others were CMYK printed.

It is not until you own the individual tunes featured on all the Electro Series that you begin to realise the tricks incorporated to keep the mixes flowing, that statement is by no means a criticism or meant to take anything away from the DJ'S who mixed them, for example, some tracks are looped in certain parts ready for the next tune to be dropped or another mix of that same tune to be played, it doesn't sound like they have created this loop with two turntables or even three, the loops sound like they are coming from another source as can be heard in the We Come To Rock by the Imperial Brothers on Electro 3. Electro 5 to me is definitely one of the better Electro's as is Electro 11 too, there all good but some stand out. I still play them today with even more fondness. Electro was the first music I heard that I just wanted to hear and own more of, for me it was what I needed.

Some copies come with an additional insert and a sticker on the front cover.

This is still my fav electro today. Awesome mixing & great tracks. I still play this regularly today, even though i now have all the tracks on 12" it's just an awesome album!

start of your electro collection w/ this then crucial 2 the best of a great bunch!!!

Without a doubt the most kickin Electro platter out of the "Electro" compilations from the entire collection. I reminisce - lino, park battles, school uniforms & fat diamond cut laces, tagging, graffiti on school books and local walls, trying to write raps - and Electro 5 being played to death!! Great 1st Generation Electro/Hip Hop. Bring on UK Fresh 2004....

another word: This might not be one of the best of the Street Sounds Electro series: But there is the long psychedelic evolving Knights Of The Turntables, who did a good job, the hectic "Breakers Revenge" and HipHop-Soul like Aleem with a mind-elevating track.