― MY NAME IS FREEZER BURN (Bimble...), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link
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― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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― HI DERE, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Alan, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Stevie D, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
random q - anyone got an emailable copy of the only rhyme that bites? need it for a gig tonight...
― CharlieNo4, Sunday, 26 August 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently TOMBOT THE MENTALIST hates "Pacific"!
― HI DERE, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
That's like hating oxygen.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
when I compared it to the OG mixes of Strings Of Life it should probably be noted that both these tracks are things I was reading about online and in magazines before I actually acquired my own copies to listen to - sort of like with SAWII, there was this massive hype revolving around the tracks, then I heard them, and was like "lol what, I guess this is the problem of being into dance music but not having access to a big druggy club scene or something"
― El Tomboto, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I read an article about 808 State in 1990 and bought Utd State 90 as a leap of faith. "Pacific 202" was an instant winner for me.
― HI DERE, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah with SoL and Pacific I was nearly a decade late to the party. Next to everything else I was getting at the time it was very "wtf nice keyboard presets, doofs"
― El Tomboto, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
They both probably directly inspired everything else you were getting at the time tho.
― blueski, Monday, 10 December 2007 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
btw i think the riff was played with a WX5 not bullshit sax
Massey mimes poorly/amusingly with it (or what looks like it) here
― blueski, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
yamaha's wind synth with the sax patch totally qualifies as "bullshit sax"
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
that youtube clip is amazing and great, though
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Aren't they rereleasing all the early stuff?
Does this mean one ought to divest one of one's "Creed Records" (State 2, 3 & 4) collection?! sum nice wax dere.
― Saxby D. Elder, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
It seems like the other elements in Pacific would have more impact if they were introduced a little less quickly.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Er, Flow Coma is a no-brainer, right?
-- Lukas (lukas), Thursday, April 3, 2003 11:48 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link
Four years later I'm still the only one repping for Flow Coma? Ok guys is this a prank?
― lukas, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
it just seems too much a copy of Phuture, Laurent X etc.
― blueski, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm still waiting ever-so-impatiently for that damn Quadrastate reissue.
I'm telling you.... 808 State boxset...
― Stevie D, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
on Discogs, Gerald takes most of the credit for the Quadrastate version of Pacific but was not involved in any of then other tracks (which I've never heard except a bit of '106' from the State To State CD years later). How different is this from the one that charted a year later? Presumably not much but would like to know exactly who did what out of Simpson, Price and Massey on this track once and for all.
― blueski, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
"Pacific Break"??? Anyone have it?
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
the big chords underneath everything definitely seems to have gerald simpson written all over them
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
you know what tracks never get mentioned enough, are "Donkey Doctor" and "Cobra Bora"
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
also Don Solaris is massively underrated
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZX1kyKCvQY&feature=related
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Ex:el is one of my desert island discs.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv8BOkV4l8U&feature=related
It's amazing how directly these guys spoke to my id.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yu2HmPfsU&feature=related
basically this track is everything I wish "Lift" was
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll raise you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykIA2ddd8Bo
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
unambiguously one of the greatest songs ever recorded
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
such a massive, monstrous, bludgeoning song
if you can't get your head knocked around by those bass subs and that beat, you really are dead inside
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes I think this song is the justification of the ride cymbal
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS2hOFNWqPY
I remember vividly hearing this for the first time in 1990 and basically being like "YES ALL MUSIC SHOULD SOUND LIKE THIS"
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Black Dartangnon is so dreamy I could listen to it forever
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
i pretty much like everything they did up to gorgeous where i actually started with them and they pretty much lost me afterwards!
― xzanfar, Thursday, 24 June 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
Its with a heavy heart to inform you of the passing of Andrew Barker . "His family and friends asks that people respect their privacy at this time but remember him for the joy he brought through his personality and music. You’ll be sadly missed” pic.twitter.com/cPR8W3byJl— 808 State (@state808) November 7, 2021
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 7 November 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
i gave don solaris another chance for andrews sake but after the 20th listen now it is pretty much garbage but bond and azura are ok but that is not saying much!
― xzanfar, Sunday, 7 November 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
classy post
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 7 November 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
now i am listening to prebuild most is poor quality!
― xzanfar, Monday, 8 November 2021 00:29 (two years ago) link
newbuild is fantastic though.
― toxic psycho "gifted child" asshole (RobbiePires), Monday, 8 November 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
not sure why rephlex put that out, newbuild is a perfectly formed document, all killer no filler. prebuild just sounds like outtakes, and it should have stayed that way. Curious enough for die hard acid heads like myself, but for historical purposes.
― toxic psycho "gifted child" asshole (RobbiePires), Monday, 8 November 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
yes everything from newbuild to gorgeous is great!
― xzanfar, Monday, 8 November 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
utd state 90 is the best after newbuild before exel
― xzanfar, Monday, 8 November 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
sad news. he used to work in eastern bloc in manchester circa 1990 when he was half of the spinmasters dj crew with darren partington. i used to buy records over the phone from eastern bloc. i'd phone up once a week and he'd play the latest belgian imports over the phone and i'd buy some, which nowadays seems an insane way to do record shopping. anyway, he was a lovely guy and would always refer to a particularly great belgian techno 12" as a "stormtrooper". i always got a kick out of that. gone too soon!
― stirmonster, Monday, 8 November 2021 02:40 (two years ago) link
I saw them supported by K Klass and MC Tunes at Sheffield Octagon in '90 and was tripping at the time and it was a fun stupid night. Never really rated them that highly tbh but that memory was good!
― calzino, Monday, 8 November 2021 03:27 (two years ago) link
Love that, stirmonsterThey just finished a short UK tour as well. FFS only 53
― nashwan, Monday, 8 November 2021 09:33 (two years ago) link