Strafe - Set It Off mp3 download

Уou ll never walk alone

I have one copy, send me a message if interested. :)

Skunk Black

Yellow label bootleg has no (c) (p) before 1984 at the bottom. Oh well at least I only paid $5 for it. Better turn up the gain & turn up the treble. It sounds like it's recorded with the mics in the next room.

Ballazan

Has also been (illegitimately) issued with otherwise identical yellow labels. Sound quality is OK.

Cargahibe

I have a red label version with the EDP and Sterling stamp...same font as yellow labels but has small inner hole. Does not look anything like the bootleg. What's up with that?

Jeyn

Sounds like the knight rider tv program theme music l

Ice_One_Guys

Perhaps the greatest track to NOT be included on the "Street Sounds Electro" compilations - looking back, it's hard to believe that they would have missed out on this one, so perhaps there was a very good reason why it wasn't featured. Either way, it's too late now, but it's still a wonderful, mesmerising track, which still sounds as strange, and amazing, as it always did.

Xanzay

... The Harlequin Four's version was the one getting played in the UK, which was good enough to be an instant hit in it's own right, despite being released on Champion records as an edited version & without the full dub treatment/instrumental from the late Walter Gibbons. I was surprised a few years later to hear the Strafe version (to be correct, the original version) in a friends set, a friend who had been to and from the USA & knew the scene over there well. That was pretty much the last time I played the UK release of the Harlequin Four's version, in spite of taking a further few years to find a copy of Strafe. Listening now, both US OG versions are equally brilliant, offering a different take & the most notable difference being the 4/4 pattern & snarling robo- disco hats of the H4's, something Gibbons no doubt couldn't resist. Harlequin Four's version here: https://www.discogs.com/Harleqiun-Fours-Set-It-Off/master/78895

Dordred

Mesmirisingly great record. In England strangely it was the one that came out as by the Harlequin 4s in early 1986 that was the big version that you heard everywhere and was also remixed around the Acid House time in 1988.

Kulalbine

My copy is yellow.

Celak

Yellow copy is here: http://www.discogs.com/Strafe-Set-It-Off-Remix/release/19827

Arashilkis

I thought the yellow copy was the 1st pressing & this remix was only a green or blue label. Is your yellow label the 1st pressing & not this the remix? I read the notes about variant labels and if yours is the yellow label remix of this record Are these official/un-official or bootleg pressings?

Heraly

This is the hot version. I have the Yellow label with red text. Original sticker with info on sleeve.

Goldendragon

100% on that brother! This is the version with the sweet bass line and more of the flamenco guitar sound.

kolos

My copy is exactly as the second release, one phone number, but the die mount circle on the label is wide, as in the first release. Stamps/etching correct. There were clearly many runs of this record, all slightly varying- If it has the sterling/EDP stamp, your on the right track... I'm sure there will be some fairly convincing bootlegs about, who knows, mine might be one of them- above all, enjoy the music.

Meri

There are yellow label promos with Promotion Copy Not For Sale underneath the credits. I personally saw several of them when this record was released in NY City in 1984. And, if the yellow label is the second pressing, then why is the stamper different than the one used on the first pressing with the multicolored logo label ?

Cheber

You can call it Breakbeat, Electro or just 'influential' - the fact is that "Set It Off" was a trend-setter dance music; believe it or not, its funky-sophisticated Breakbeat line was made with the same Roland TR-808 that Ben 'Cozmo D' Cenac from Newcleus used to produce the all-time Electro classics "Jam On It", "Jam On Revenge", "Computer Age" and "Automan". Cozmo D and Strafe and were big friends back then, and not long after "Jam On It" became a hit, Strafe decided to borrow Cozmo D's Roland TR-808 to make his own electronic production - "Set It Off" itself). "Set It Off" was included later on several compilations such as "The Perfect Beats Volume 2" and "Disco Box Vol. 6 - Work It Out", standing the test of time; its lyrics were later copied by other artists on their club hits - specially the beginning which has the well-known quote "Yo want this party started right? Yo want this party startin' quickly... right?" whose first part was adapted years later on the House hit 'Kraze - The Party'. The mixing part belongs to the multi-skilled DJ Walter Gibbons, an early Disco DJ who was resident at the Galaxy 21 Club on the seventies) and it is considered one of his best works ever.

Faehn

This song was one of the best examples of New York Underground Music circa 1984. A small label from Brooklyn finds itself with a unique electro-funk cut that has every DJ in New York playing it in heavy rotation. This was in an era where The Paradise Garage & The Fun House clubs in Manhattan were running two different scenes. First being Larry Levan spinning to a more mature and sophisticated gay crowd and Jellybean who was spinning to the kids of The Bronx, Brooklyn & Queens (Later known as Bridge & Tunnel and included New Jersey). This song found huge success within both camps and with heavy radio support, it became the classic it is right up until today. Walter Gibbons provided the mix and was welcomed back to the scene after a long hiatus. This would be his last before his passing. The dub mix was long and had weird dub effects which made it an excellent mixing tool.

Dream

Spoken from a true head. Big ups to you man.

ACOS

It was a New York disco-era deejay, Walter Gibbons, who pioneered many of the techniques of disco mixing that would become the lifeblood of house deejays-turned-producers in the `80's. After years out of the spotlight, Gibbons resurfaced in 1984 with a mix of a 12-inch single called 'Set It Off' that would define the New York dance underground. It created a sensation at the Garage, where it was championed by Levan, and spawned countless remakes by the likes of C. Sharp and Masquerade and at least one answer single, Number 1's 'Set It Off (Party Rock)'. Perhaps the definitive version of 'Set It Off' was Strafe's, with its mesmerizing vocal hook woven into a spare but hauntingly atmospheric rhythm bed.