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Michael "Spaceman" Jonzun, who is probably the Space Cowboy, boasts "I'm bad I can do it better than you What ya gonna do?" You also get a healthy dose of call-and response chants and a few cowboy yodels...
...Pack Jam" remix lifts a synth riff from who knows where, and backs it with electronically altered vocals and a variety of funk sounds, which recall everything from Caribbean metal drums to a fart. Spaceman Jonzun, himself, is credited with the following: lead vocals, computer programming, electro drums, space bass, space-vocals, sound effects, synthesized keyboards, background vocals, string and brass synthesizers. And the three other band members do stuff as well...
...Jonzun Crew are obviously as commited to futurism as they are to the beat. And though their chants ("We are from the Jonzun Crew/We are from your planet too") take on a cartoonish quality, they appear determined to try something new. Their Latin-infused "We are the Jonzun Crew," with its opening "Who are we?" draw obvious parallels to new wave weirdos Devo, who sacrificed quality to novelty early in their career...
Whether "space" rock is just a one-album joke or a pathbreaking funk mutant will have to await the future actions of Afrika Bambaataa, Spaceman Jonzun, and their cohorts. But regardless, the Jonzuns have a good thing going, good enough to fill a first album with exciting and completely electronic music...
...Something New" perhaps shows the hazards of taking rap into the corporate swamp. (They were signed by Elektra/Asylum.) "Just Rock," which uses the music of Gary Numan's "Cars"--a song that should have never seen plastic the first time around--reaches for the same partydown atmosphere of the Jonzun Crew, but comes up empty...