''Newbuild'' is the debut studio album by English

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group

808 State 808 State are an English electronic music group formed in 1987 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine. They were formed by Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson. They released their debut album, '' New ...

, released in September 1988 by Creed Records. It was the only album recorded with founding member Gerald Simpson, who departed shortly afterward for a solo career. The group recorded the album on tape found discarded outside the

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's Manchester studios because it did not meet the organization's quality requirements. The album was named after a local

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project.

Release

In a 1988 review, '' OffBeat'' described the album as "compulsive stuff, you don't exactly listen to it, more like feeel the frequencies... and respond." In 1999, ''

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'' called it an "artificial dystopia" in which the tracks "strip away the soul of

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and replace it with a cold and rhythmic paranoia." Later

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artists

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have saluted the album as a major influence. The former reissued the album on his Rephlex label in 1999. He stated: "It was the next step after Chicago acid, and as much as I loved that, I could relate much better to 808 State. It seemed colder and more human at the same time." He also made a remix of "Flow Coma" in his 2001 EP ''2 Remixes by AFX''. A collection of unreleased material from the era was released in 2004 as '' Prebuild''.

Track listing

# "Sync/Swim" – 6:20 # "Flow Coma" – 6:01 # "Dr. Lowfruit (4 A.M. Mix)" – 7:36 # "Headhunters" – 5:02 # "Narcossa" – 5:17 # "E Talk" – 4:01 # "Compulsion" – 5:22

Personnel

*Performer, writer – Gerald Simpson,

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, Martin Price *Engineer – Graham Massey *Artwork – Metropark *Design – Johnson & Panas

References

1988 debut albums 808 State albums {{1980s-electronic-album-stub