{"id":2674,"date":"2012-11-20T21:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T02:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2012-11-20T21:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T02:45:18","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-328-the-90s-808-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/11\/20\/my-musical-evolution-part-328-the-90s-808-state\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 328 The 90’s 808 State"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"808<\/a>There were\u00a0half a dozen\u00a0bands that I discovered by watching the Video Jukebox\u00a0Channel in the\u00a0early 1990’s. Of these, my favorite has to be 808 State.<\/em> The video was\u00a0C\u00fcbik<\/em>.<\/p>\n

808 State<\/em> was one of the early electronic Techno bands that I heard. The music was for the most part lyric free and looking at the\u00a0video was made on a few computers\u00a0in addition to\u00a0actual musical instruments.\u00a0 It feels like a mash up of video games and club music with\u00a0a dash of spacey sound effects.\u00a0I really enjoy it.<\/p>\n

I don’t know anybody else that had heard of 808 State. People seem to like them when I play some. It is hard to believe that I’ve had this album for 20 years. I can definitely see the progression from Switched-On Bach, to Tomita, to 808 State and onto the Techno and Dubstep that would follow.<\/p>\n

Sadly this is another of those bands that I never really researched further. I bought their follow up Ex:El<\/em> a couple years later but that is about it. I still enjoy 90.<\/em> If you like some good beats and high energy electronic music you need to check out 808 State.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pacific 202<\/em>
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