[1] Man Parrish became interested in electronic music through groups like Tonto's Expanding Head Band and experimental artists like Karlheinz Stockhausen.

[1] After finding a club that was performing his song, he approached the DJ who made connections with him to get to a record label in New York who were looking for Man Parrish.

[1] Parrish recalls that he often sees compilation CDs and records with his music on it such as the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and the film Shaun of the Dead.

[9] Chin specifically praised the single "Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)" and the "Together Again" while finding the last two tracks "Street Clap" and "Heatstroke" "bring Europop and gay disco break together with a bang: interesting juxtaposition to say the least.

"[9] Ken Tucker praised the single "Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)" with the rhythm being as "charmingly herky-jerky as that title" while finding that "the rest of the album is thin, but there are a couple of nice novelty tunes, especially "Six Simple Synthesizers""[10] J.D.

Considine gave the album a four out of five-star rating, declaring that "Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)" was "a masterpiece of electronic sound sculpting" but the rest of the album "rarely scales such heights" as "Mr. Parrish has the insight to sandwich less vital material like "mad Made" or "Together Again" between versions of "Hip Hop," so that the context makes the weaker songs seem more like respites than mistakes.

"[8] Iman Lababedi of Creem described the album as a "tantalizing, wildly uneven debut " finding it not as strong as "Hip Hop (Be Bop)", stating "I love the single, think "Together Again"'s restrained calypso is delicious, am bored stiff by the twee 'Man Made' and insulted by the filler-only 'Techno Trax'".