808 State

808 State was formed back in 1988 in Eastern Bloc, a DJ record shop in Manchester run by Martin Price. Customers Graham Massey of Biting Tongues fame and Gerald Simpson got talking with Martin and soon realised how much they had in common. After recording a Hip-Hop flavoured EP as the Hit Squad Manchester together with MC Tunes, they decided to call themselves 808 State. They got the name from the Roland drum machine TR 808 and the state-of-mind that they shared. After Simpson left, DJs Andrew Barker and Darren Partington, a.k.a. the Spinmasters, got recruited on a permanent basis to fill up the gap and, eventually, Martin Price followed Simpson's lead. Apart from making their own music, 808 State do remix and production work for other artists and appear frequently as DJs.

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