but rather from the NYC Latin Freestyle scene... though they would also have an impact on hip-hop (Mantronix etc)

Good point on the Planet Patrol, though... All that Arthur Baker stuff, Jonzun Crew... Newcleus and Warp 9 as well.

Still it seems to me that rapp was much more wedded to electro on the West Coast than on the East where it was almost something of an side dish.

EDIT: Of course, how can I forget about Man Parrish, who might have actually kicked off the whole hip-hop/electro trend in the first place. But what I'm saying is that NYC had a hip-hop sound before the electro thing before whereas I get the sense that on the West Coast, the electro thing is what made hip-hop popular there in the first place.