Newbuild (album)

Newbuild is the debut studio album by English electronic music group 808 State, released in September 1988 by Creed Records.[5] It was the only album recorded with founding member Gerald Simpson, who departed shortly afterward for a solo career.[1]

Newbuild
Studio album by
808 State
ReleasedSeptember 1988
RecordedJanuary 1988
GenreAcid house[1]
Length39:39
LabelCreed
Producer
808 State chronology
Newbuild
(1988)		 Quadrastate
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Alternative Press4/5[2]
OffBeat[3]
Pitchfork9.8/10[4]

The group recorded the album on tape found discarded outside the BBC's Manchester studios because it did not meet the organization's quality requirements.[4] The album was named after a local council housing project.[4]

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."[3] In 1999, Alternative Press called it an "artificial dystopia" in which the tracks "strip away the soul of Detroit techno and replace it with a cold and rhythmic paranoia."[2]

Later techno artists Aphex Twin and Autechre have saluted the album as a major influence.[1] The former reissued the album on his Rephlex label in 1999.[1] 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."[6] He also made a remix of "Flow Coma" in his 2001 EP 2 Remixes by AFX.[7]

A collection of unreleased material from the era was released in 2004 as Prebuild.

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

Personnel
  • Performer, writer – Gerald Simpson, Graham Massey, Martin Price
  • Engineer – Graham Massey
  • Artwork – Metropark
  • Design – Johnson & Panas

References
  1. Bush, John. "Newbuild – 808 State". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  2. Hampton, Justin (September 1999). "808 State: Newbuild". Alternative Press (134): 97. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  3. Mellor, Christopher (November 1988). "808 State: Newbuild". OffBeat (3). Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  4. Cooper, Paul. "808 State: Newbuild". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 17 June 2002. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  5. "808 State Discography". 808State.com. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  6. Stuart Aitken (February 2005). "Acid Muthas Mental". Mojo Magazine.
  7. "AFX - 2 Remixes By AFX". Discogs.


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