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Gorgeous (808 State album)

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Released
  
19 January 1993

Gorgeous (1993)
  
Forecast (1993)

Release date
  
19 January 1993

Length
  
56:29

Artist
  
808 State

Label
  
Tommy Boy Entertainment

Gorgeous (808 State album) www808statecomdiscogs808pagesalbpagesalbgorg

Genres
  
Electronic dance music, Electronica

Producers
  
Graham Massey, Andrew Barker, Darren Partington

Similar
  
Ex:el, Outpost Transmission, Newbuild, Ninety, 808:88:98

Gorgeous is the fourth studio album by English electronic music group 808 State, released on 19 January 1993 by ZTT Records in the UK and Tommy Boy Records in the US. In October 2008, the album was reissued on ZTT Records and an additional bonus disk, containing 14 remixed tracks, including an unreleased edit of the song "Bombadin".

Contents

Reception

Select gave the album a three out of five rating, stating that it is "never more nor less than 'interesting'" and concluding that "the weaknesses of over-familiarity are fully apparent" and "too often leaves you wanting more".

Track listing

  1. "Plan 9" – 4:02
  2. "Moses" (featuring Ian McCulloch) – 2:54
  3. "Contrique" – 3:40
  4. "10 X 10" (featuring Barrington Stewart and Rachel McFarlane) – 3:33
  5. "One in Ten" (Remix) – 2:40
  6. "Europa" (featuring Caroline Seaman) – 4:16
  7. "Orbit" – 4:01
  8. "Black Morpheus" – 4:04
  9. "Southern Cross" – 5:03
  10. "Nimbus" – 4:34
  11. "Colony" – 4:45
  12. "Timebomb" – 2:55
  13. "Stormin Norman" – 3:23
  14. "Sexy Dancer" – 3:00
  15. "Sexy Synthesizer" – 3:39

Deluxe edition

  1. "Freak" (Astroban Mix) – 6:43
  2. "Lemon" (Oberheim 4 Mix) – 4:47
  3. "La Luz" (Acid Mix) – 5:35
  4. "Icecream On Elm Street" (Sex Synth) – 3:43
  5. "Mondonet" – 4:52
  6. "Reaper Repo" (12" Mix) – 8:28
  7. "Bombadin" (Unreleased Edit) – 4:34
  8. "Marathon" (Original 2 Four Pub Mix) – 6:15
  9. "Insane Lover" (Analogue Mix) – 6:02
  10. "The Jackson Fraction" (Jaco Taco Mix) – 5:25
  11. "Timebomb" (Oldham Mix) – 3:53
  12. "10 X 10" (Vox) – 4:08
  13. "Plan 9" (Memory Moog Mix) – 4:21
  14. "Nbambi" (March Hare Mix) – 4:20

Songs

1Colony4:46
2Moses2:55
3Contrique3:41

References

Gorgeous (808 State album) Wikipedia
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