Graham Massey

Graham Massey (born 4 August 1960, Manchester) was a founding member of the British band, 808 State, formed in 1988 in Manchester, England. Originally a hip-hop group called Hit Squad Manchester, the band shifted to an acid house sound, recording their debut album, Newbuild in 1988 under the new name 808 State. Music: The band was named after Massey's favourite drum machine, the Roland TR-808, ironically later admitting that until the late 1980s they thought Roland drum machines were "severely uncool." Massey had also been a member of the D.I.Y. band Danny And The Dressmakers doing a mixture of "bad" music and Gong covers (living up to their tagline "We don't play our instruments, we abuse them") and also hippy - fusion band Aqua in the 1970s, along with violinist Graham Clark (also later of Gong). Massey Co wrote and Co Produced two tracks for Bjork's album 1 . and The Modern Things . Initially recorded in 1992 for her album Debut they were not released until her second album Post in 1995. Army Of Me was the first single off Post in May 1995 reaching number 10 in the UK Singles Chart Recent work: Massey recently released the solo album Subtracks under the name Massonix on Skam Records. He is also a member of Biting Tongues, an experimental jazz rock group once signed to Factory Records. He has side projects with 'Toolshed' and 'Sisters of Transistors', he also recently remixed Brian Dougans's (of The Future Sound of London) track "Stakker Humanoid" for the remix album, "Your Body Sub Atomic". He has also remixed FSOL before on "Papua New Guinea". In 2004 he worked as a composer for the score of the movie "It's All Gone Pete Tong" thats right 2008 saw him playing live drums for the keyboard quartet The Sisters Of Transistors.

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