Egyptian Lover - Electro, Hip Hop, House - DJ Sets

His sound is like a Huge 808 with extra microchips and tiny computer sounds that talk to each other with a touch of sexy vocals and vocoder to make you dance and party like never before. Lot's of windy, spooky, dark, pretty, west coast style keyboards. Big Breakdowns and studio (Tape style) edits and lots and lots of breathing, got to keep it hot and sexy. Panting, moaning, growling and whispering. A lot of clicks and triggers to add to that robotic background. Bass, Snare, Clap, Hi Hats,... Read more His sound is like a Huge 808 with extra microchips and tiny computer sounds that talk to each other with a touch of sexy vocals and vocoder to make you dance and party like never before. Lot's of windy, spooky, dark, pretty, west coast style keyboards. Big Breakdowns and studio (Tape style) edits and lots and lots of breathing, got to keep it hot and sexy. Panting, moaning, growling and whispering. A lot of clicks and triggers to add to that robotic background. Bass, Snare, Clap, Hi Hats, Cow Bells, Rim Shots, Toms, special effects and a secret touch on the 808 and you got it. All this to say... It sounds The Egyptian Lover and that is on the real.

Comparable in influence to Soul Sonic Force's "Planet Rock", Man Parrish's "Hip-Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)" and Pretty Tony's "Jam theBox", Egyptian Lover singles such as "Egypt, Egypt", "My Beat Goes Boom", "Dance" and "What is a DJ If He Can't Scratch?" combined the abstract electronics of Kraftwerk and the Art of Noise with the emerging beat-heavy sound of electro and the vocal approach of rap.

Similar in style and feel to those other artists, Egyptian Lover and related West Coast electro groups and producers such as World Class Wrecking Cru, Chris "The Glove" Taylor and the Unknown DJ took beatbox manipulation to new levels, fusing signature loops with ample syncopation, darker, modal melodies and impressive turntable tricks. While Egyptian Lover records didn't start appearing until several years after the New York and Miami electro scenes were already in full swing, by the mid-'80s Egyptian Lover cuts like Egypt, Egypt" were standards among club DJs, particularly in the breakdance scene.

Early cuts such as "Computer Love" and "Dance" were among Egyptian Lover's most experimental, with the material appearing through the latter half of the '80s increasingly flirting with full-blown rap by adding more vocals and melodic hooks. While more of his material dates from the latter phase, it's his earlier releases that remain his most accomplished, and they're routinely namechecked by a new generation of producers such as Autechre and I-F inspired by electro's first wave.

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