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In celebration of their 20th anniversary together, Manchester acid house heavyweights 808 State are seeing four of their classic albums get the expanded reissue treatment.

ZTT began offering up big new versions of 808:90, EX:EL, Gorgeous, and Don Solaris today (October 6) outside the U.S., with a Stateside release to follow October 14. Each 2CD set contains the original album, plus a bonus disc chock full of rare and previously unreleased bangers and a boatload of remixes to boot. The sets were put together by 808 State's Graham Massey to ensure they arrive in the most immaculate state.

Because, after all, 808s are forever, 808 State will attend to a few live and DJ dates before '08 is up. Massey's Toolshed project also has an engagement tomorrow (October 7) at Trinity Church in Salford, England.

808:90:

Disc 1:

01 Magical Dream
02 Ancodia
03 Cobra Bora
04 Pacific 202
05 Donkey Doctor
06 808080808
07 Sunrise
08 The Fat Shadow (Pointy Head Mix)

Disc 2:

01 Pacific (Britmix)
02 Cobra Bora (Call the Cops Mix)
03 8080808 (Gmex Mix)
04 Boneyween
05 Kinky National
06 State to State
07 Revenge of the Girlie Men
08 Magical Dream (instrumental)

EX:EL:

Disc 1:

01 San Francisco
02 Spanish Heart
03 Leo Leo
04 Omart
05 Nephatiti
06 Lift
07 Ooops
08 Empire
09 In Yer Face (In Yer Face Mix)
10 Cübik (Original Mix)
11 Lambrusco Cowboy
12 Techno Bell

Disc 2:

01 In Yer Face (Facially Yours Remix)
02 Olympic (Euro Bass Mix)
03 Lift (Heavy Mix)
04 Cübik (State to Pan AM Mix)
05 Open Your Mind (Sound Garden Mix)
06 Lambrusco Cowboy (Alt Mix) (Out of the Blue Mix)
07 Ski Family
08 Ooops (Mellow Birds Mix)
09 In Yer Face (Cheadle Royal Mix)
10 Olympic (Square One Original Mix)

Gorgeous:

Disc 1:

01 Plan 9
02 Moses
03 Contrique
04 10x10
05 One in Ten
06 Europa
07 Orbit
08 Black Morpheus
09 Southern Cross
10 Nimbus
11 Colony
12 Timebomb
13 Stormin Norman
14 Sexy Dancer
15 Sexy Synthesizer

Disc 2:

01 Freak (Astroban Mix)
02 Lemon (Oberheim 4 Mix)
03 La Luz (Acid Mix)
04 Icecream on Elm Street (Sex Synth)
05 Mondonet
06 Reaper Repo (12" Mix)
07 Bombadin (unreleased edit)
08 Marathon (Original 2 Four Pub Mix)
09 Insane Lover (Analogue Mix)
10 The Jackson Fraction (Jaco Taco Mix)
11 TimeBomb (Oldham Mix)
12 10x10 (Vox)
13 Plan 9 (Memory Moog Mix)
14 Nbambi (March Here Mix)

Don Solaris:

Disc 1:

01 Intro
02 Bond
03 Bird
04 Azura
05 Black Dartagnon
06 Joyrider
07 Lopez
08 Balboa
09 Kohoutek
10 Mooz
11 Jerusahat
12 Banacheq

Disc 2:

01 Spanish Marching (Fonphone Mix)
02 Joyrider (A Natural Mix)
03 Baton Rouge
04 Lopez (instrumental)
05 Mondays (Part One)
06 Relay (Wool Hall Mix One)
07 Goa
08 Bonded
09 Paradan
10 The Chisler
11 Lopez (Brian Eno Mix)
12 Joyrider (Sure Is Pure Remix)

808 State:

11-07 Birmingham, England - Hacienda (DJ set)
11-14 Dublin, Ireland - Tripod (Bestival Reunion Festival)
12-27 Glasgow, Scotland - The Print Factory