Active between 1979 and 1984, Tronics was the mostly solo vehicle for the inner workings of London artist Ziro Baby. Baby started out in Star Dogs, a group of kids said to be somewhere between a glam band and a street gang. Star Dogs failed to achieve much and at 16, Baby formed the Tronics, a strange hybrid of brittle punk and insular acoustic pop sounds. Purely self-sufficient, Baby started Alien Records to distribute Tronics sounds, self-releasing two singles: "Favorite Girls"/"Suzie" and "Time Off"/"Goodbye." In 1981, Baby released the Shark Fucks 7" as well as what would ...