808 State - C/D

random q - anyone got an emailable copy of the only rhyme that bites? need it for a gig tonight...

Apparently TOMBOT THE MENTALIST hates "Pacific"!

That's like hating oxygen.

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"

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.

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"

They both probably directly inspired everything else you were getting at the time tho.

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

yamaha's wind synth with the sax patch totally qualifies as "bullshit sax"

that youtube clip is amazing and great, though

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.

It seems like the other elements in Pacific would have more impact if they were introduced a little less quickly.

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?

it just seems too much a copy of Phuture, Laurent X etc.

I'm still waiting ever-so-impatiently for that damn Quadrastate reissue.

I'm telling you.... 808 State boxset...

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.

"Pacific Break"??? Anyone have it?

the big chords underneath everything definitely seems to have gerald simpson written all over them

you know what tracks never get mentioned enough, are "Donkey Doctor" and "Cobra Bora"

also Don Solaris is massively underrated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZX1kyKCvQY&feature=related

Ex:el is one of my desert island discs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv8BOkV4l8U&feature=related

It's amazing how directly these guys spoke to my id.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yu2HmPfsU&feature=related

basically this track is everything I wish "Lift" was

I'll raise you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykIA2ddd8Bo

unambiguously one of the greatest songs ever recorded

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

sometimes I think this song is the justification of the ride cymbal

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"

Wow, there are a lot of people on this thread with absolutely terrible taste in electronic music.

Gerald Simpson was the only member of 808 State with any talent and they never did anything worth listening to after he left. GS had a great post-808 solo career, while they just carried on with utterly half-baked funkless dreck.

808:90 is great — EX:EL is okay, kind of boring

in what universe is it impossible to like both A Guy Called Gerald and 808 State

yeah, they aren't that freakin' different

also lol @ randomers first post saying everyone has bad taste, good start

If you're looking for funk, clearly you aren't looking for 808 State, whose entire steez is built around taking mechanized stomp to the most emotional place possible; the entire point is that they are finding emotion in stiff rigidity and you kind of have to be trying to miss that.

Then again, I was once emotionally 18 so I really shouldn't be too hard on the little guy with the ironic name.

Gorgeous is a great album.

yes everything from newbuild to gorgeous is great!

utd state 90 is the best after newbuild before exel

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!

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!

Love that, stirmonster

They just finished a short UK tour as well. FFS only 53