- 01Let Yourself Go808 StateInitially comprised of Massey, Martin Price, Andy Barker and Gerald Simpson, the outfit debuted with the wild and heavy 12” single “Let Yourself Go” - a thunderous fusion of layered Latin percussion,14 raging TB-303 acid lines and some suitably solid samples.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 02Newbuild808 StateFar-sighted debut album “Newbuild” quickly followed;15 while it was not a runaway success at the time, the LP hit hard on the other side of the Pennines and remains one of the purest expressions of Chicago style Acid House ever created in the UK.from the chapter
- 03Pacific State808 StateSimpson continued jamming with 808 State throughout 1988, contributing drum programming to what would become one of British dance music’s most enduring, end-of-night anthems, “Pacific State”.16 Yet by the time it became a huge hit in 1989 on the back of its appearance on the “Quadrastate EP”, Simpson had cut his ties with Massey, Price and Barker.from the chapter
- 04Quadrastate EP808 StateSimpson continued jamming with 808 State throughout 1988, contributing drum programming to what would become one of British dance music’s most enduring, end-of-night anthems, “Pacific State”.16 Yet by the time it became a huge hit in 1989 on the back of its appearance on the “Quadrastate EP”, Simpson had cut his ties with Massey, Price and Barker.from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 05Voodoo RayA Guy Called GeraldOne track particularly caught Akinola’s ear. ‘Most of Gerald’s tapes were long, continuous improvised jams, but the second tape he played had four or five separate demos on it including the basis of “Voodoo Ray”,’ he remembers. ‘There was just a bassline and some beats and little else, but I knew that had to be one of the tracks we made in the studio.’from the chapteralso in the bleepography
- 06Blow Your House DownA Guy Called GeraldThese are similarly weighty, inspired and off-kilter, particularly the jacking “Escape” and sleazy, Foot Patrol-friendly “Blow Your House Down”.from the chapter
- 07Line Of MadnessHit Squad MCREntitled “Wax On The Melt”, the three-track, white label EP featured a cut-and-paste, sample-heavy Hip-Hop cut by Hit Squad MCR called “Line Of Madness”, the beatbox Hip-Hop slammer “Only The Dope” by the Shure Four and Gerald and MC Tunes’ heavy, Electro-influenced “Back To Attack”.from the chapter
- 08Only The DopeThe Shure FourEntitled “Wax On The Melt”, the three-track, white label EP featured a cut-and-paste, sample-heavy Hip-Hop cut by Hit Squad MCR called “Line Of Madness”, the beatbox Hip-Hop slammer “Only The Dope” by the Shure Four and Gerald and MC Tunes’ heavy, Electro-influenced “Back To Attack”.from the chapter
- 09Back To AttackMC TunesEntitled “Wax On The Melt”, the three-track, white label EP featured a cut-and-paste, sample-heavy Hip-Hop cut by Hit Squad MCR called “Line Of Madness”, the beatbox Hip-Hop slammer “Only The Dope” by the Shure Four and Gerald and MC Tunes’ heavy, Electro-influenced “Back To Attack”.from the chapter
- 10CarinoT-Coy“Let Yourself Go” was made in the wake of Manchester’s first local House anthem, T-Coy’s Latin Jazz-influenced “Carino”.from the chapteralso in the bleepography