― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― am0n, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alan, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― andrew m., Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― 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
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.
― casanova808, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
808:90 is great — EX:EL is okay, kind of boring
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
in what universe is it impossible to like both A Guy Called Gerald and 808 State
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, they aren't that freakin' different
also lol @ randomers first post saying everyone has bad taste, good start
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3xPTPaEnmw
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv9oWNRYrOQ
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't find "Southern Cross" very easily on Youtube ;_;
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:20 (thirteen 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