Tracklist:

1984 Re-Edited

1984 Retrospective Dub

1984 GJ Bonus Beats

2024 Retrospective Dub

2024 Introspective Dub

Greg Wilson with a special…

Forty years on from the release of the groundbreaking ‘Street Sounds UK Electro’ LP, ‘Real Time’ (two versions of which opened the separate sides of the album), gets a 12” release. Despite its prominence on ‘UK Electro’, it was the only inclusion not to be issued on 12” back in 1984.

Zer-o, like Syncbeat and Forevereaction, were the same trio – Manchester musicians, Martin Jackson and Andy Connell, and DJ Greg Wilson, making his first foray into record production. They also teamed up with rappers, Kermit and Fiddz, for the Broken Glass track, ‘Style Of The Street’. Fictional production and songwriting credits were added by Street Sounds to suggest a thriving British electro scene.

Featured here is an edit of ‘Real Time’, the ‘retrospective dub’ (the ‘UK Electro opener, which was in fact the original demo version of the track), and a Gerd Janson bonus beats edit. Flip it over and you’ll find a pair of 2024 reworks – the retrospective dub, and the more downtempo introspective dub – courtesy of Greg and Ché Wilson.