Alternative Funk: Folie Distinguée

Various Artists, “Alternative Funk: Folie Distinguée” (Vox Man, 1985)
This is billed as “alternative funk,” a term the original early ‘80s compilers refused to define (see back cover), but which would seem to encompass Rick-James-on-Valium bass workouts, morbidly cold walls of synthesizer hiss, and found-sound spoken interludes in a variety of languages. Being at least somewhat batshit-insane apparently helped in producing this music, as well.
Picks; A/3 (exotica), B/2 (cut-up), B/5 (Francoise Hardy on Mars).