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Hello, the beats go on....   You probably noticed a slight change in the appearance of this blog, bit of an accident really as i changed the screen resolution of my monitor i noticed how awful my blog looked. Naivly i assumed that it would look basicly the same whatever the resolution was, hell it didn't, no dynamic change of width-at least with me. Poor design if you ask me, anyway I couldn't revert to the lay out i have used these past 6 years (more poor design). So here we are something that looks like it.

A British electronic music outfit, formed in 1987 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine and their common state of mind. .... NJoy

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Martin Price was the owner of a record store, Eastern Bloc, and was also the founder of the independent record label, Creed. Customers Graham Massey and Gerald Simpson joined with Price to form a hip-hop group called Hit Squad Manchester. Soon after the band shifted to an acid house sound, and recorded their debut Newbuild in 1988, naming themselves 808 State honoring the impact the Roland TR-808 drummachine had on them. The album was released on Price's own record label. Simpson left the group in 1989 to form his own solo project, A Guy Called Gerald. Martin . Graham enlisted DJs. Andrew Barker and Darren Partington, known as the Spinmasters, to record the EP Quadrastate and their next album, Ninety, which put them right in the rave culture. In the US, Tommy Boy got its version of the 90 album almost exactly right. While the track order was drastically changed (and the 60-second concluding track, "The Fat Shadow," removed), there was no real disruption of flow, and seven bonus tracks were added to create a full CD's worth of early 808 in one easy package . The new tracks come from a variety of sources, most being earlier (or later) singles or remixes done exclusively for this release.

For 1991 Ex:el , they brought in Bernard Sumner (New Order) and ex-Sugarcubes Björk for lyrics and vocals. In 1992, Price left the group to perform solo producing, eventually forming his own label, Sun Text. The remaining members released a fourth album called Gorgeous, and after that, did some remix work for David Bowie, Soundgarden, and other performers, before returning with the album entitled Don Solaris in 1996. This album marked a change for the band who wanted to shake off their rave moniker and, with 'Don Solaris', they aimed to create a more beautiful, cinemascopic sound. They released a greatest-hits compilation named 808:88:98 in 1998-their last on record label ZTT and a 1998 remix of Pacific soared high in the charts. In 2000, their pioneering 1988 acid house album 'Newbuild' was re-released. In 2003, they released Outpost Transmission which featured guest collaborations from the Alabama 3 and Guy Garvey from Elbow.

In May 2008, the extended re-issue of the album Quadrastate completed a trilogy of pre-ZTT releases on CD for the first time. It was followed by the release of their 4 ZTT albums, remastered and each with an Archives bonus album filled with remixes and rareties The band is still active, touring and performing DJ sets.

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Newbuild was originally issued in 1988 on the band's own Creed label and now Aphex Twin's Rephlex label has saved this masterpiece from becoming just a trace memory in the cerebella of the 12 people who bought it back when acid house wasn't luv'd up, blissed up and neutered. 808 State were once avatars for the MDMA set. The band's key ingredient was Gerald Simpson (later known as A Guy Called Gerald, and creator of the truly awe- inspiring Voodoo Ray and Black Science Technology records).

Newbuild is a testament to the band's stop- at- nothing enthusiasm for their music, and is also the guts and determination of fiercely independent music. And it's with this spirit that 808 State imbued their debut record. The instruments were crappy and severely dated (remember, this was 1988, and the vogue for the Roland TB303 was five years in the future). Simpson, Massey, and Price recognized that the acidic spikes and snarls of the 303 and the synthetic percussion of the Roland 808 were exact replicas of the sounds they heard in their mindspaces. The trio then recorded an album that, after more than ten years of technological progression, still kicks away every other attempt at the definitive acid house album. And I mean "album," not just a collection of individual tracks sequenced together. The mid-'90s generation of techno progressives (including Aphex Twin) saluted this album's raw edge as a major influence. In 1999, Aphex Twin reissued Newbuild on his Rephlex label.

808 State - New Build ( flac 265mb)

01 Sync/Swim 6:20
02 Flow Coma 6:01
03 Dr. Lowfruit (4 A.M. Mix) 7:36
04 Headhunters 5:02
05 Narcossa 5:17
06 E Talk 4:01
07 Compulsion 5:22

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Merely an EP at the time of its release, cut-offs and alternative mixes are thrown into the equation here to bring us a spatchcock album that many will now be hearing for the first time. Its most obvious claim to fame, of course, is album opener Pacific State, one of the defining tracks of eighties house and probably the stand-out track of 808’s long reign in the field of electronics. But this is merely the starting point for a bracing journey around the formulas of the house sound. Quadrastate’s interest to us is a good chance to look again at an era of English house music that is all too easily forgotten.

What made the album vexing last time around was its brevity, so the addition of more tracks to fill out the mix is welcome. But exercises offer us a fresh look at the state of mind of the band at what was effectively their creative peak. Let Yourself Go, the band’s first single, is a mish-mash of 303 bass and wild orchestral screechings, and serves well as a picture of two musics – disco and house – on a virtual collision course. With its clicking, plucking rhythms, it has an urgency. The magic of the early records is almost reliant on their rudimentary sound, built around 808s and 303s – instruments that themselves are the musical embodiment of that era. And this affection for the early work is clearly the reason behind Rephlex’s decision to re-release 808’s early back catalogue again now. After Newbuild and Prebuild, Quadrastate sees the completion of the triptych, and perhaps the completion of Richard D. James’ mission to get the band heard by a new audience.

808 State - Quadrastate ( flac 434mb)

01 Pacific State 6:28
02 106 0:43
03 State Ritual 6:09
04 Disco State 5:12
05 Fire Cracker 4:51
06 State To State 5:45
07 Let Yourself Go (303 Mix) 6:03
08 Deepville 7:26
09 Got It Huh 4:18
10 Techclock 2:17
11 In Yolk 6:56
12 State Ritual Scam 6:00
13 Let Yourself Go (D50 Mix) 4:50

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Archives I is the 808:90 bonus album filled with remixes and rareties, noteworthy the superb mix of ‘Donkey Doctor’.

808 State - Archives Part I ( flac 270mb)

01 Pacific (Britmix) 4:23
02 Cobra Bora (Call The Cops Mix) 4:53
03 Donkey Doctor (Gmex Mix) 4:45
04 Boneyween 6:12
05 Kinky National 4:01
06 State To State 5:56
07 Revenge Of The Girlie Men 4:13
08 Magical Dream (Instrumental) 5:09


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Previously (Rhotation 2 and 33), re-ups

808 State - ex:el (91 ^ 133mb)
808 State - Utd. State 90 ( 90 174mb)

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