A shadowy figure in the 70’s Bay Area avant-garde jazz interior and again in New York’s no wave & post-disco epochs, Roland P. Young dots the contemporary musical map in an astonishing delineation. Two sets of Young’s dark electronic pop workouts from the 1980’s recently resurfaced via new label Palto Flats marrying the 4-song 12” I-LAND (1984) and LP Hearsay Evidence (1987) into Hearsay I-Land. Further down the rabbit hole are Young’s illuminated collaborations with NYC’s The Offs and San Francisco’s Infinite Sound ensemble that retain their immediacy and demonstrate a refreshing degree of eclecticism through Young's 50-year career. “Ballo-Balla” is a seamy slow jam replete with droning synths and sedated drum machine loops like a late-night salve to the sweat-fogged club’s slaves to the beat. The only critique is that Palto Flats should’ve pressed far more than 500 of these. Good luck finding it already. -jd-