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Now, lets discuss 808state - 808:88:98 [ZTT100CD]. Details can be found Any messages NOT related to this particular release will be deleted by the Moderators. Keep it clean! Please, report any abuses to the Moderators. |
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Been listening to this a fair bit recently. And though much of it sounds dated now - it does so in a really good way. Yet while there's a definite aspect of nostalgia when listening to 808State, I can't help feeling there's a reason these tracks still sound good now. Then again - I do prefer the stripped-down acid sound of Newbuild more than a lot of the glossy material on here. Cubik still rocks though. |
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They still sound good now because Graham Massey is a fantastic musician, not a teenage chancer knocking out stuff in his bedroom. Newbuild, Quadrastate, 90 and ex:el are fantastic albums, with a breadth of scope that hasn't really been repeated since. As all electronic music gradually progresses towards sounding like the musical equivalent of a dying laptop, these albums will sound fresher and fresher, in my humble opinion. 808 State live at Manchester G-Mex, 1991 - Best Gig Ever. |
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Shocking apart from Pacific. V.Good Live compaired to the vinyl experience. Unlike most bands with the experience being reversed. |
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love love love the State. were you at G-Mex? wow. so glad to see they're getting the recognition they deserve. i'm a big fan of Don Solaris. thats probably my favorite of theirs. saw them once at USC last time they played LA like 2001 or something. Graham is a great guy. |
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don't like don solaris at all! got that dude out of manic street preachers on it. yukky. newbuild is cool though. |
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I was there at the G-MEX Gig, long time ago now but it rocked! 808 State - 90 for me will always be one of the best techno albums. It was thoroughly original at the time. I do feel disappointed though with the direction 808 have gone. Cubik and Cobra Bora are still solid tracks even now. Don Solaris was awful I'm afraid, a big let down. |
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Don Solaris was the first i'd heard from them. that album was just so organic and flowed so well, didn't care to much for the guest vocals, but Bird, Kohoutek, the last 3 tracks....Joyrider, the song thats like driving through a Brazilian festival parade at high speed in a jeep; all that stuff is fantastic. the greatest hits record is of course great. i prefer the Pacific808:98 version to the original Pacific State, but there is no disputing the ground that this song broke. i like Gorgeous quite a bit. EX:EL...well everything thats good on there is also on the 808:88:98 so i had it but i really didn't need it, so i sold it. i had the UK 90 also but i tossed that for the Utd. State 90 that had more tracks. think Donkey Doctor was the one i liked on 90. i came at 808state from '97 backward so thats my thinking. |
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Outpost Transmission is pretty cool. the UK version is much better. think i had a bad taste in my mouth from the US one that was missing a lot of good tracks. |
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advice required: what would be the best 808 album for me, a braindance sucker? |
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you know what i think is cool about 808state is that their stuff sounds like its going to be like cheesy festival anthem stuff...but its cool somehow. like in the way that Tom Hanks movies from the 80's are cool. Money Pit cool. |
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since its out you probably can't go wrong with the album we're talking about, the greatest hits called '808:88:98'. |
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whats a braindance sucker?, is it like an american gobshite on ecstacy? |
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dunno really... just trying to make me look like a cunt for not knowing 808 state... |
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Ones to buy: Newbuild (1988) - Straight up 303/808 acid, among the best there's ever been, certainly the best ever made outside of Chicago. 90 (1990) - Electro, ambient, funk, proto-rave, and loads more, an amazing mashup. ex:el (1991) - One massive tune after another, takes the themes on 90 and wraps them up in totally lush production. Nephatiti is a MASTERPIECE. Bjork features on two tracks. Don't bother with anything after ex:el. In 1990 - 1991, I was like the world's most obsessive 808 fan, I had all their records mounted on my wall and listened to their radio show religiously. Gorgeous came out and I never listened to anything they did again. |
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the bjork tracks being the absolute highlights. i fucking loves them to death. |
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Also, you might want to check out the "Switzerland" spinoff 12" singles by Martin Price - "Pornography", "Inflight" and "Switzerland". Pornography is 1991 breakbeat acid years ahead of its time, and quite clearly influenced Aphex a great deal. I have the 2-mix (LMG/LMGSM) 12" with the cadbury's label which is particularly rare (800 limited), and the original Eastern Bloc promo sheet to go with it. |
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Speaking of Aphex, where does Aphex draw his influences from? I sent a demo to Rephlex once, then I hear tracks on Druqks that are remarkably similar... |
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Hahahahhaa |
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What album is that? Is it the one with the silver cover??? Or the blue cover with different versions of pacific state on it. Anyway, bought them back in the day. still sound good, but newbuild is the daddy. |
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