Newbuild (album)


Newbuild is the debut studio album by English electronic music group 808 State, released in September 1988 by Creed Records. It was the only album recorded with founding member Gerald Simpson, who departed shortly afterward.
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. The album was named after a local council housing project.

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." 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."
Later techno artists Aphex Twin and Autechre have saluted the album as a major influence. The former reissued the album on his Rephlex label in 1999.
A collection of unreleased material from the sessions was released in 2004 as Prebuild.

Track listing

  1. "Sync/Swim" – 6:20
  2. "Flow Coma" – 6:01
  3. "Dr. Lowfruit " – 7:36
  4. "Headhunters" – 5:02
  5. "Narcossa" – 5:17
  6. "E Talk" – 4:01
  7. "Compulsion" – 5:22

    Personnel