Strafe - Set It Off


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Label: Jus Born Records
Catalog#: JB 001
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country:US
Released:1984
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
Credits: Arranged By, Co-producer, Written-By - Steve Standard
Executive Producer - Doris Smilowitz , W.C. Daniels
Mixed By - Walter Gibbons
Producer - George Logios
Notes:The original legitimate first US pressing with the multi-color logo.

Mixed with LOVE by WALTER GIBBONS for JUS BORN Productions
(P)(C) 1984 Jus Born Productions/ASCAP

There are various different releases of "Set It Off".

As in 1984 this seminal record was a massive crossover hit out of the box, and demand for the record was so high, the label didn't bother with the cool artwork and label-copy when they needed to deal with a surprise hit on their hands, so they rushed out the second pressing with very basic lettering and no logo-artwork, on a yellow label.
The yellow-label pressings were also cut at STERLING and have the same dead-wax inscriptions as the first pressings.

The bootlegger/counterfeiter who released 95% of Danny Krivit's edits, the "Loft Classics", as well as the "Garage Classics" series a.o., pressed a counterfeit with a red-label that copied, though not exactly, the lettering and fonts of the yellow-label pressing.
He recorded it directly from the vinyl version of the second, yellow label pressing and increased the amount of treble when he had his own, "in-house" lacquer-cutter re-master from the original wax. The red-label counterfeit was not mastered at Sterling and is not a legitimate product.

Many thanks to downtown.music for the accurate information.
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Tracklisting:

A   Set It Off (9:51)
B   Set It Off (Instrumental) (12:24)
User Reviews:
esteban_morientes, Apr 13, 2004

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 `80s.
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 1s Set It Off (Party Rock).
Perhaps the definitive version of Set It Off was Strafes, with its mesmerizing vocal hook woven into a spare but hauntingly atmospheric rhythm bed.

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