ELECTRIC UNIVERSE (EXPANDED EDITION)

Earth Wind & Fire s 1983 album Electric Universe is
released with 7 Bonus Tracks (including 5 unreleased tracks)
Produced by Maurice White
Liner Notes by Alex Henderson
Re-Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Sean
Brennan, at Battery Studio s, New York
The album features the chart hits Magnetic and Touch
Electric Universe is the thirteenth studio album by Earth, Wind
& Fire, released on Columbia Records, in November 1983. The
release was produced by the band s leader Maurice White for
Kalimba Productions.
When Earth, Wind & Fire recorded Electric Universe, R&B was
in the process of getting a high-tech makeover. A variety of
influences were affecting the new urban contemporary school
of R&B, ranging from hip-hop to new wave rock to the electronic
synth-pop.
Originally released by Columbia Records/CBS Records, the
release contained the funky Sweet Sassy Lady to the ballads
Could It Be Right and We re Living in Our Own Time, an
experimental mood prevails on this album.
One of the people who helped EWF achieve a more new waveish,
synth-pop-influenced sound on Electric Universe was British
songwriter Martin Page, who wrote Magnetic, co-wrote Spirit
Of A New World, Electric Nation and wrote Touch with Jon
Lind, who co-wrote EWF s 1979 smash Boogie Wonderland.
In 1983, the times were clearly a-changin for R&B and with
Electric Universe, there was no doubt that Earth, Wind & Fire were
determined to forge ahead.