Gorgeous | 
 enlarge | Artist: 808 State
Label: ZTT
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 194093
Format: Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5055041825926
ASIN: B001C4OTQY
Release Date: October 14, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Plan 9 | | • | Moses | | • | Contrique | | • | 10x10 | | • | One in Ten | | • | Europa | | • | Orbit | | • | Black Morpheus | | • | Southern Cross | | • | Nimbus | | • | Colony | | • | Timebomb | | • | Stormin Norman | | • | Saxy Dancer | | • | Sexy Synthesizer |
Disc 2
| • | Freak | | • | Lemon | | • | La Luz | | • | Icecream on Elm Street | | • | Mondonet | | • | Reaper Repo | | • | Bombadin | | • | Marathon | | • | Insane Lover | | • | The Jackson Fraction | | • | Timebomb | | • | 10x10 | | • | Plan 9 | | • | Nbambi |
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Product Description
Includes 14 track bonus disc; five are unreleased mixes and two tracks appear on CD for the first time.
Album Description
German reissue of the band's 1992 album featuring the singles '10 x 10', 'Timebomb' and a collaborative remakeremake of UB40's 'One In Ten' with UB40. Other 12: 'Plan 9','Moses', 'Contrique', 'Europa', 'Orbit', 'Black Morpheus', 'Southern Cross', 'Nimbus', 'Colony', 'Stormin Norman', 'Sexy Dancer' and 'Sexy Synthesizer'.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Absolutely aweful December 23, 2006
Norman Schultz (Denver, CO)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yes, I am an 808 State fan. Yes, I am a fan of electronic music. No, I'm not being unfair. This album is absolutely poor in every way. While I was listening to it I actually thought it might be the result of 808 State getting stuck in a bad record contract (which is quite common) - that kind of thing results in a very good album (Exel), in which the songs were created in an atmosphere of creative freedom, being followed up by an incredibly bad album because of the bitterness of realizing you've gotten screwed.
Surely you, like I, have noticed what I now call "The Amazon Effect." This is where things get overly high reviews because fans are the only ones who bother to rate it. This is particularly the case when it comes to ratings of movies & CDs. It's to the point that ratings for these kinds of things are almost completely unhelpful. There's no substitute for listening/viewing first.
 underrated, man April 21, 2003
Supabowl (Chicago, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Why does everyone think so low of this album? I read reviews of it and people just dismiss it as pop trash, a sort of wanna-be "Ex:El."
What utter nonsense. No, this isn't on par with the greatest 808 works, and while it does have some tracks that are good filler for live shows but probably shouldn't be on albums ("Sexy Dancer" is the most glaring example here), these are complex, creative beats and soaring synths. I would love to hear this stuff performed at a club. Tracks like Plan 9 and Nimbus are brilliant displays of technical skill with soul. There's also an organic grind to many of the songs that, chronologically speaking, fits in perfectly as a stylistic transition from the spacey sounds of "Ex:El" and the gritty "Don Solaris." A smattering of talented vocalists adds to the complexity and variety of this playlist.
So once again, I must say that some of the quaint, dated sounds of this disc and the inclusion of a couple unworthy tracks are not grounds for throwing an album away. There are some gems here.
Some good tracks remain December 9, 2001
musicburgler (DC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album as a whole is not that great but there are some great songs here. PLAN 9 is cool and contains some cool acoustic spainish guitar dub but my favorite track maybe even of all 808 songs is BLACK MORPHEUS. this song is so mellow and groovin. I love the bass clarinet and saxaphone on this. I only wish 808 had more songs like this!10X10 is good along with SOUTHERN CROSS and ONE IN TEN these tracks carry the album.
 half cheese, half cool--but for ... it's not bad! June 14, 2001
I was browsing through my local Hock Shop and found this in the clearance section--... ... (I ended up striking a deal with the clerk and he lowered it to ...). I had only heard a few songs by 808 state from his newer releases, so I was intrigued. was it worth what I paid? definately. but if it were [more]--I would think again. at first I took it as a cheesy euro-techno album (because the several of the first tracks were) but then I really got into it on track 7 (orbit) all the way to track 13 (stormin norman). so since 7 tracks were good all the way through, I'll keep it in my CD collection. Gorgeous has a really nice retro-synth sound with some ravey synth mixed in. there were a few tracks that reminded me of a mix between industrial/jungle. maybe I'm just crazy. not bad.highlights moses, orbit, black morpheus, southern cross, nimbus, colony, timebomb.
Check out that 808! March 7, 2000
sc_demandred (Irvine, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This record brought me fully back into the fold of "Electronica". I had heard the Orb's "Little FLuffy Clouds" years before, but until I heard a smattering of the tracks on Gorgeous, I had written techno off as useless keyboard wanking.And then I heard "Europa". The song is so beautiful I almost started crying. Yes, the songs are shorter, simpler and more vocally oriented than a lot of current techno, but this is definitely one of the albums to get. Not all the songs hit. "Sexy Dancer" and "Sext Synthesizer" feel like throwaways to me, while "Moses" is downright annoying. But then there are "Colony", "Plan 9", "Black Morpheus" and "Nimbus." All are beautiful, intriguing, intricate and catchy. The songs that carry this album are the lucid and twinkling "Southern Cross", the heart-rendingly sweet "Europa", and the instant club rave-up "10 X 10". "Timebomb" is a great song as well, speedy and hard-rocking. This album has it's low points as well as the highs, hence the 4 stars. But to me it as essential an electronica record as The Orb's "Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld" or Astral Projection's "Dancing Galaxy". I highly recommend it.
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