Artist: Playgroup
Genre(s):
Electronic
Dance
Discography:
Front 2 Back Remixes
Year: 2006
Tracks: 7
Reproduction (cd2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 8
Reproduction (cd1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 8
Playgroup (Edition Limitie) cd2
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Playgroup (Edition Limitie) cd1
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Playgroup is a studio party/rumpus-room collective orchestrated by Trevor Jackson, a graphic designer (sleeves by Eric B. & Rakim, Stereo MCs, and the Jungle Brothers), producer, and remixer (Massive Attack, U2) wHO has worked under the Underdog and Skull pseudonyms. Jackson likewise runs his own Output label. A melting throne of disco music, funk, rap, dub, new wave, and electronica, 2001's Playgroup, released on the Source label, featured contributions from Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera), Edwyn Collins (Orange tree Juice, solo), reggae veteran soldier Shinehead, Kathleen Hanna (Le Tigre, Bikini Kill), and Rowetta (Well-chosen Mondays). Astralwerks picked the record up for release in the U.S. in March of 2002. By the end of that year, Jackson released a geminate of mingle albums: his own contribution to the DJ Kicks series and a deed called Partymix, Vol. 1.
