Still guided by an enduring spirit of experimentation and individuality, “808 State : 30” sees the band perform fan favourites from their five major albums in an entirely new set which also features exclusive new material from the band’s upcoming sixth album, “Transmission Suite”.
808 State: 30 Live at Manchester Academy
Friday 21st December 2018, 9pm
808 were influential on the likes of Aphex Twin, Autechre, The Chemical Brothers and more besides, the tour showcases the impact and originality of the group and how Manchester’s acid house heroes have remained at the forefront of electronic music for some 30 years & counting.
Now some three decades since 808 State first graced the arena with their game changing electronica, the band remain in a unique position as one of the prime originators of UK dance music, having arrived on the scene early which saw them shape dance music from their first releases.
Initially fuelled by the emergent music technology of the late Eighties, the band, came to define their inimitable style and sounds, combining human warmth and delicacy to modern machine music to creating abstract, artistic techno with harder melodic edges that has remained timeless throughout their career.
Initially defined to many with their breakthrough singles “Pacific”, “Cubik” and “In Yer Face”, released across fine imprints such as ZTT and the Tommy Boy in the United States, the band were the first electronica band to craft long form dance music albums, well before the likes of Leftfield and Orbital to whom they are often compared released their debut LPs.
Now recording their sixth full studio album “Transmission Suite”, tracks from which are to be premiered exclusively on the upcoming tour, “808 State : 30 Live” will highlight the bands contribution to dance music’s past and present forms with the band set to perform the better and less known tracks form their remarkable catalogue alongside the new material in a new set with reworked arrangements across all nine shows.
As their legacy is continually name-checked, revived and newly appreciated by the younger generations, the best modern remixers such as 2 Many DJ’s and BICEP have laid down their versions of 808’s tunes that came to inspire them whilst other projects such as Jeremy Deller’s Acid Brass recognise the impact and reach that 808 State’s music has had.
The band were also the first to bring in guest vocalists across their output and have collaborated with the likes of Bjork, Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield, Elbow’s Guy Garvey and a whole host of others which set the format for many subsequent crossover indie / dance tracks.
Now based at Old Granada Studios in Manchester, recording new material, it is the ongoing inventiveness, sense of adventure and their well-honed production craft that have kept 808 State at the top of their production games throughout their career.
Don’t miss the opportunity to catch one of dance music’s most revolutionary acts in a reworked and remodelled outing with “808 State : 30 Live” later this year. Tickets are on sale from Friday 27th April at 10AM.
Manchester Academy, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR
0161 232 1639
www.manchesteracademy.net/
