Electric Shaver Ringtone
Q:
A: try limewire
The initial suggestion was to do another 808 State Greatest Hits package but, seeing that we had not really done any new music under the name since the last one, 808:88:98 , I thought we could use the opportunity to give a more complete overview of 808's catalogue, and to add some exclusive mixes and archive rarities from outside the ZTT years. Blueprint is an attempt to tell a fuller story, though I found it proved difficult even in 80 minutes.
You could never design a band like 808 State. It was a curate's egg formed by disparate, Dickensian characters exploiting a brief window of opportunity and optimism in a broken, post-industrial, no-hope town. We made it up as we went along. There was no need for outside approval for what we saw in 'our' clubs, heard on 'our' radio show and sold in 'our' shop. We ran and ran, waiting to be stopped. Well that's one view...
Another view might be a bunch of innocents left with a gift of technology, some imagination and no boundaries while outside awaits a mob, waiting and willing to dance without question to the results.
