On 4 April 2008 I met Graham Massey in Los Angeles. Massonix was opening for Autechre on their american tour for Quaristice. We spoke about Newbuild and he told me that like the recent Quadrastate reissue on Rephlex, half of the Newbuild cd was mastered from a clean vinyl pressing. Graham asked me if i could tell if this was obvious. We agreed it wasn't and concluded that Rephlex had indeed lovingly remastered Newbuild.
The liner notes of the cd reveal: "the master tape, long-since disintegrated, was nicked out of a skip from the back of the bbc, manchester. It had been spliced and diced heavily enough to get binned, even before 808 got their hands on it."

The lightbringer of early UK acid house, Flow Coma still stands as an incredibly complex, dribbling mass of giggling insanity that leaves dancefloors in a state of lysergic meltdown.

I bought this one in 1990, after 808 state was a bit better know - I think Pacific and Cubic had become pretty big club hits in Seattle. It was the only copy in a record store in Seattle called - Record gallery. The owner couldn't get any more copies and said it was probably the only one in Seattle. Anyway, this is a great acid house album - doesn't sound anything like what 808 state became later on. If you like early minimal acid house, this is a great album.