Street Sounds Electro

About Street Sounds Electro /Hip-Hop
& Restoration by Hashmoder (Omar Hash)

In 2010, Hashmoder (Omar Hash) recorded digitally his entire Street Sounds Electro compilation series — from vinyls to directly Avid Pro Tools, with as much digital restorations as possible and widened stereo-field.

The genre Electro since the early 80′s was electric funk and hip-hop music, mainly for break-dancing, bee-bopping, and body-popping. In my opinion, the word & genre of “electro" today has been hijacked in the form of 4/4 dance music and not anywhere close to its true roots.

The label Street Sounds was part of the UK Streetwave stable of labels created by Morgan Khan in 1981, specializing in releasing Electro and Hi-NRG releases. Street Sounds were series of compilation albums created from some of the hottest 12″ single (vinyl record) imports of the day.

This series would run for over 6 years and contain over 50 albums.

The most coveted of the Street Sounds releases were the Electro series. These albums introduced the UK to the developing hip-hop scene from America — a stroke of genius that brought electro and early hip hop from the underground to the UK high street which helped in the creation of the UK’s hip hop scene.

The Electro series ran for a total of 27 albums (and one box set) from 1982 to 1988.

The albums were initially labeled Street Sounds Electro, later changing to Street Sounds Hip-Hop after release 12 in 1986.

All of the Electro albums were competently mixed by the best remixers of the day — predominately from the UK. Headed by “Herbie The Mastermind” (aka Herbie Laidley) the team also featured Kiss FM radio DJ’s Dave VJ and Max LX who were also members of UK electro outfit Hard Rock Soul Movement, responsible for the massive “Double Def Fresh” release.

Now you can stream, listen and download Street Sounds Electro 1 to 15 from Hashmoder’s SoundCloud page.

 Morghan Khan Interview, 1988: The Rise and Fall of Street Sounds UK