Jonzun Crew, The
Entry updated 12 March 2025. Tagged: Music.
US electro and hip-hop band formed in Boston by the Jonzun brothers (Michael and Soni Johnson) in 1981. Their singles "Pak Man (Look out for the OVC)" (1982), "Space Is the Place" (1983) and "Space Cowboy" (1983) were major club hits, and were included on their debut album Lost in Space (1983), which includes several other sf-themed songs. The freshness of these tracks, which helped codify early electro's mix of Funkadelic-inspired basslines with Kraftwerk-esque keyboards, was not carried through to subsequent similarly themed records, Down to Earth (1984) and Cosmic Love (1990). [CWa]
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