Helping to establish the Midwestern tradition of prolific cross-pollination, Chicago supergroup released their debut appropriately enough on in 1986. Featuring 's and ( / ) among others, the group produced an grind that fans of artists from this era will find very familiar. Plenty of slap bass and contorted samples abound on highlight cuts like and the most -influenced track, Fine music with plenty of cool synth and sample trickery, is a distinguished debut from a "side project" that occasionally surpasses the day-job work that its members became famous for. ~ Vincent Jeffries