Interview with Graham Massey of 808 State

[Joyrex]

The Playground has an interview with Graham Massey of 808 State:

 

 

 

When did you last play a show with the rest of the Acid crew: Phuture, Robert Babicz, u-Ziq?

We did a show a couple of years back at Incubate Festival in Tilburg with DJ Pierre and Gerald. The 808 State current sound has acid DNA in it, but funnily enough our last London show along side Square Pusher and The Comet Is Coming seemed like more of a natural place for what we now do as a live show. Having said that Gerald & I did a full on pure Acid set at Dekmantel Festival in Amsterdam this year under the name REBUILD using tables of old and new Roland equipment.

 

There seems to be quite a revival happening with Acid music right now, why do you think this is?

People have been telling us this for 30 years now, there was an acid revival in 1990 before it had even gone cold. It’s a pure form of trance music that is very effective in removing you from real life quite quickly, there’s always a demand for that! The rawness of the early acid records have something about them, their imperfections become delightful over time.