808 State Discussion

I'm actually looking for decent dance music for laptop DJ sets, there's a lot of poor taste EDM and dance music out there. 808 State did a decent job, so did Juan Atkins.

Flexi Disc have a cool lo-fi sound to them but wear out pretty fast. Number stations remind of physical trace UFOlogist Ted Phillips talking about electronic signals from supposed aliens placed around the earth pulsing every two seconds. Maybe some type of beacon. 1:13:00 mark TED PHILLIPS - The Phy...

A good idea for the US is maybe a Madchester tour comprising of different people from that era from different groups, the mondays, inspirals, 808 state, Gerald whatever. It doesn't have to be the lead singer or an entire group but like the drummer from one group or lead guitarist, a manchester DJ se...

damn i may have to go to that.

Hey Graham, thanks for posting those links. It looks like the NPR segment nicked a part from the BBC radio 4 interview. I recognized the "kick drum, vibrate bodies" part. The woman with the British accent sounded similar as well. Edit- It may have been BBC Word Service that airs in the US instead of...

I just heard Graham Massey on NPR radio in America about the passing of the Japanese inventor of the 808. It sounded like maybe a snippet pulled form an 808 doc or something. A woman in a European accent said the 808 became popular again in the 1990s with artist using "beat breaks" inspired by Kool ...

At the time it was considered their worst album. The tracks were too short and cheesey sampling. I've always been into camp or kistch electronic music and enjoyed it.

Any sound clips?

Also a track called Violin?!

Excel D - Classical In Motion [1992]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvxnHUjG0Iw

Nu-matic - Spring In My Step
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0O1iIRLS9Y

Cubik Pan American Mix in this set as well as Acid Rock...there was a time....

https://hearthis.at/xftw2r8x/breakbeatalternate/

Threw some Pacific and In Yer Face in da mix... a mishmash mix of sorts....check it:
https://www.mixcloud.com/stephen-watson ... ver-heard/

I captured audio of the electronic harassment equipment. You need bass speakers in order to hear the low modulation. These are audio reconnaissance field recordings. This forum does not get a lot of traffic but since I started a thread about it posting some audio seemed appropriate. https://soundclo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQoNt4OIQ7g

808 State - Pacific bootleg mate.

Talking Techno Oddities on Freakier Zone tonight at midnight

http://t.co/3GRowyX0AT

I really enjoyed this program with Graham Massey just because I'm from the Acid House/ Retro Techno era. Good tunes.