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The track 'Pacific State' is by the Manchester group '808 State'. The title is a play on words between images of the Pacific Ocean and its exotic beaches (signalled by a simple sample loop) and the 'state' of being pacifist/tranquil ... 'Pacific'.
The 'State' of '808' is all things musical that revolve around Roland's 808 drum machine. The track was released in 1989, eight years after the first Roland TR 808 was manufactured (and featured a 909 rather than the 808). Whilst the band name pays homage to a drum machine, they might have been called 'Jupiter' state or 'Juno' State or the '303' State - after other sequencers and synthesizers of sounds that became available in the 1980s. The exploration of the capacities of these machines would take place in underground music scenes. Manchester is far from Chicago and yet the cultural production of that city were listened to, danced to and then modified. Perhaps the most experiential and irreverent sub scene from Chicago became known as 'Acid House'. Strange bleeps and fat sequences that influenced 808 State's early work. Another far away destination from the red bricks of Manchester are the Spanish Balearic Islands 150km SW of Valencia. Nightclubs with circles of synchronised chandeliers above the dance floors, informal sunrise gatherings, idiosyncratic playlists, and certain vast clubs. The 'Chicago house' that filtered through this endless cycle of sun rise and sun set came out with the tan that became known as 'Balearic Beat'. It can be argued that the track 'Pacific State' is a meeting of Chicago's Acid House with the Mediterranean's Balearic beats while walking the vivid paving-stone 'drizzle mirrors' of central Manchester, listening to mix cassettes by a guy called Gerald.
Underground music is witnessed by the public in Clubs (to an extent pirate radio and mix cassette) with independent record shops acting to both seed and reseed. The group 808 State grew out of an important record shop on the corner of a vast warehouse that functioned like a 3D block of 'Greenwich Village' or 'Brighton Lanes'. Culture from the world-over passed through and was watched or modified aside new ideas. By the release of 'Pacific State' in 1989, Manchester had seeded two other creative alchemies: a guitar band - 'The Stone Roses', who mixed aspects of chant with 'The Byrds' and complex post 'Jaki Liebezeit' and 'Tony Allen' rhythms, and 'The Happy Mondays' who took House and Balearic influences and mixed them with the vocal style of Bob Dylan sung with a thick Manchester accent and hangover. The end results were so composed and coherent that despite their gestation differences, they gathered and set sail as a cultural movement sparking new baggy fashions and more groups. '808 State' and 'Pacific State' became associated with Manchester's music scene.
The footage has been treated and compiled to emulate the atmosphere of a dance floor light show and perhaps also to capture the sensorial side of swimming and diving in water. Many of the component bright colours are real, with golden reflections off a seaweed, blue sky and bright-red sea-tomato mixing with the stars from sea urchins and bubbles from wake and shifting sands.
The waterproof Pentax WG1 is from around 2011.
AJM 3.10.19
The track is copyrighted and available on Creed
ASIN: B0050ATC6I
Press play and then 'L' and even f11. Escape and f11 a second time to return.
Roland TB-303 Panel by Steve Sims on Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/3BqJ see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TB-303
808 State
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