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808state* - Don Solaris

Label:
Catalog#:
0630-14356-2
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
Jun 1996
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Techno, Future Jazz, Experimental

Tracklist

1   Intro 1:16 X
    Mixed By - 808 State
2   Bond 5:09 X
    Engineer - Danny Kadar
  Vocals - M. Doughty
3   Bird 3:53 X
    Engineer - Aiden Love*
4   Azura 5:30 X
    Vocals - Louise Rhodes
5   Black Dartangnon 5:30 X
    Mixed By - Al Fisch*
6   Joyrider 4:40 X
7   Lopez 4:17 X
    Vocals - James Dean Bradfield
8   Balboa 5:14 X
    Engineer - Al Stone
9   Kohoutek 4:46 X
10   Mooz 4:35 X
    Engineer - Al Stone
  Vocals - Ragga
11   Jerusahat 5:12 X
12   Banacheq 5:39 X

Credits

Artwork By - M@ Maitland , Zang Tuum Tumb
Engineer - Al Fisch* (tracks: 2, 9, 11) , Phil Jones (5) (tracks: 4, 6, 7, 12)
Mixed By - Al Stone (tracks: 2 to 4, 6 to 12)
Photography - Don Solaris
Written-by, Producer [Formulated And Controlled By] - 808 State

Notes

Initial copies housed in a printed tracing paper slipcase.

Sleevenotes (edited):
"The thoughts of Don Solaris #1: Only mens minds could have mapped into abstraction such a territory. … File under: Neurosis"

Barcode: 7 0630-14356-2 5
WE833 / LC4281

(p) 1996 ZTT Records, under exclusive license to Warner Music UK Ltd.
(c) 1996 ZTT Records, under exclusive license to Warner Music UK Ltd.
A Warner Music Group Company.

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Rated 5/5
Review by Crijevo Jan 31, 2003
After wandering around turntables for so long, making intelligent pieces but actually getting nowhere particular, 808 State's 'Don Solaris' is their most organised, or better say ambitious album to date. It flirts heavily with drum'n'bass but it's still their own trademarks and equipment acknowledgements they make it sound so unique and of their own. They always hated the 'dance-music' term so by escaping that reference to their stuff, they were fairly experimental, and 'Don Solaris' crossed that expermental edge at its most impressive level. Rhodes and Bradfield decently fitted in with their vocals to accompany amazingly peculiar pieces which in their nature don't directly serve the purpose as if being songs, but mesmerizingly beautiful installations for occasional vocals and massive, melodic noise. To expect more than this is a sin. Let's face it, this album is a masterpiece in the group's own right.