The band was led by George Clinton's younger brother Jimmy Giles and features various musicians and singers from the P-Funk musical collective.

It was produced by Clinton, Steve Washington, DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight and Garry Shider.

In 2004, EMI in the UK reissued the album Federation of Tackheads featuring liner notes written by Rickey Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, The People, and the Rhythm of the One.

[3] Jimmy Giles and his drummer, Dean Ragland, are the human rhythm section that sparks most of Federation of Tackheads, ... the album's highlight, 'Slingshot', advises dancers to 'get down like James Brown', but the rhythm, an intriguingly phased backbeat pattern, is pure P-funk.

'Break My Heart' builds to a clattering, polyrhythmic intensity, one beat constantly cutting across another, as a chanted chorus of "You always break my heart" is sung and shouted at regular intervals ... the music is simple, even crude, but it exerts a mesmerizing fascination – the tiny, often almost imperceptible changes in the basic rhythm (the beat of one drum pushing forward momentarily, a voice scatting improvisationally) keep the music fresh.