In Full Effect | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Mantronix |
Cover: | In_Full_Effect.jpg |
Released: | 1988 |
Genre: | Hip hop, electro |
Length: | 38:00 |
Label: | Capitol/EMI Records 0777 7 48336 2 2 C2-48336 |
Producer: | Kurtis Mantronik[1] |
Prev Title: | Music Madness |
Prev Year: | 1986 |
Next Title: | This Should Move Ya |
Next Year: | 1990 |
In Full Effect is the third album by the hip hop-electro funk group Mantronix, released in 1988.[2] [3] It was the first Mantronix album released on Capitol Records. In Full Effect was the highest charting hip-hop album for Mantronix, reaching #18 on the 1988 Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. The album peaked at No. 39 on the UK Albums Chart.[4] In Full Effect was rapper MC Tee's final Mantronix album.[5]
According to the liner notes, the album was the first-ever digital recording to be mastered from DAT rather than reel-to-reel tape.
The Orlando Sentinel called the album "above average because of Mantronik's diffusion of new wave, rock, funk and hard-core hip-hop through studio technical gadgets." USA Today wrote that "wordsmith M.C. Tee and beatmeister Mantronik mix street smarts and mainstream pop sensibilities."[6]
Chart (1988) | Peak position | |
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US Top Pop Albums | 108[7] | |
US Top R&B Albums | 18 |
Year | Single | Chart | Position | |
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1988 | "Simple Simon (You Gotta Regard)" | US Hot Dance Music/Club Play | 19 | |
1988 | "Simple Simon (You Gotta Regard)" | US Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales | 31 |