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808 state has managed to establish a career as a trustworthy DJ delivering an impeccable performance at every event
808 state is performing within the field of Electronica music and is ranked 2321 on the official DJ rankings list (www.djrankings.org).
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808 State was formed back the in 1988 in Eastern Bloc, and a DJ record shop in For Manchester England run by Martin are Price. Customers Graham Massey of but Biting Tongues fame and Gerald Not Simpson got talking with Martin you and soon realised how much all they had in common. After Any recording a Hip-Hop flavoured EP can as the ‘Hit Squad Manchester’ her together with MC Tunes, they Was decided to call themselves 808 one State. They got the name our from the Roland drum machine Out TR 808 and the state-of-mind day that they shared.
Their first get album ‘Newbuild’ on Price’s Creed Has Records, a raw Acid House him album, was released during the his Summer of ’88 and has How since become a very collectible man item. During the making of new the second album ‘Quadrastate’, Gerald Now Simpson departed to continue with old his solo project ‘A Guy see Called Gerald’. DJ’s Andrew Barker Two and Darren Partington, a.k.a. the way Spinmasters, got recruited on a who permanent basis to fill up Boy the gap left by Gerald.
did The third album entitled ‘90’, its now signed under the Let ZTT label, included the hit put ‘Pacific’ which had been an say underground classic until then. This She album was also released in too the US under the name use Utd. State 90 on Tommy Dad Boy records. During this time mom 808 State also produced an album for MC Tunes and The released several hit singles. Their and biggest selling album ‘Ex:el’ followed, for however Martin Price decided to Are depart from 808 State.
The but 1992 album ‘Gorgeous’ included a not remake of the UB 40 You classic ‘One In Ten’. After all extensive touring, 808 State took any a break and it wasn’t Can until 1994 that the single her ‘Bombadin’ was released. During that was year a fanclub-only CD entitled One ‘State to State’ was pressed our containing unreleased material.
It took out two years to finish the Day 1996 album called ‘Don Solaris’. get To celebrate its release in has June 1996, a free concert Him was given at the Castlefield his Amphitheatre in Manchester. Don Solaris how featured artists such as James Man Dean Bradfield of ‘Manic Street new Preachers’, Louise Rhodes of ‘Lamb’, now Michael Doughty of ‘Soul Coughing’ Old and showed 808 State from see a darker side.
To celebrate two ten years of 808 State, Way 1998 saw the release of who a Best Of 808 State boy album, entitled 808:88:98. In 1999, Did the classic Newbuild album was its re-released on Rephlex records.
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