The Tribal Futures charity CD featuring an exclusive Graham Massey track is out on 23 October. It can now be ordered directly from the Survival site at GBP 13.99 (around USD 20.00) including postage to anywhere in the world. Order now - it features other top acts and it's for a good cause.

Looking at the dance music resource pages it seems 'Narcossa' has surfaced on a compilation by King Britt called Inspirations Volume 1. Presumably not a remix, similar to 'Techno Bell' on the Blueprint compilation mentioned last month.

The server space problem to host the Sounds page has been solved. Sounds section to be updated asap. Thanks to those who wrote in offering their services.

A compilation featuring 808's 'Techno Bell' is out now. It's entitled 'Blueprint' and was compiled by Jacques Lu Cont of Les Rythmes Digitales. 3xLP and 2xCD on Beechwood. It's unclear at the time of writing whether this is a regular compilation or a remix album. If you know, please post it to the Techno Bell thread on the Message Board. Cleared up by Nick King on the board, thanks.

Apparently Andy & Darren are DJing tonight between 10 and 12 somewhere in Manchester and there is rumour of radio transmission as part of the In The City Music Convention. I've been finding it increasingly difficult to get hold of the 808 DJ dates, so until I receive any, the Live page will be looking rather empty. Graham is playing the big Toolshed event tomorrow night, again various sites are claiming Internet radio transmission, but so far I am yet to find any links. Must be that Manc thing.

As regular visitors will have noticed, we had some problems with the sounds page. All the MP3 files have now been placed on a temporary server. Some of the radio shows are still missing. When we've retrieved them again (backups anyone?), we'll be moving everything to a more stable place. To compensate, we've uploaded a few new short MP3 samples. See the temporary sounds page.

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Graham is busy preparing the big Toolshed event to be held 24 September at the In The City music convention. More news on this to follow.

Four correct answers (the magic number was 40) have reached us, which means the competition is now closed. The winners of the fab Transambient DVD are (in order as we received them):

Urmas Prints from Estonia
Adrian 'Ruddy' Rudd from England
Matt 'Rodders' Rhodes from England
Marcel Foster from England

Congratulations! Your names have been forwarded to Addictive TV who will have their distributor send out your prize in due time.

808 are back in Radio land for one month starting this week. Darren and Andrew on Wednesday nights, Graham Massey on Thursday nights. Radio Sonic 87.7 FM, Manchester. For most of us, not fortunate enough to pick it up through the airwaves, I hope that we will be provided with transmissions for listening over the Internet at a later date.

Talking of the sounds page: to mark the exact four year anniversary of the Castlefield gig, on Midsummer night (21 June) we will be putting up audio of the 808 live performance. While waiting, get into the spirit and listen to the two DJ sets that preceded 808state on that huge night...

The competitions at 808state.com just don't stop! Those friendly people at Addictive TV are giving away five copies of the first Transambient VHS video (PAL format) featuring 808state which gets released on Monday, 17 April. To win a copy, answer this simple question: What is the name of the 808 video featured on Transambient? Send your reply to us by 30 April and include your full postal address. The first of two audio-visual DVD albums, containing extra tracks, is then released in July. As on the VHS, 808 will be featured on the first DVD album.

808 State are under new management. The company is called 'North'. Contact details on the contact page. 808 have teamed up with MC Tunes once more to record some Heavy Metal for North. If North can get a recording deal for 808, anything will do for me... let us pray.

Here are the Spot the Sample contest answers. Only five people entered, which reflects how hard the competition was. Where most people found around three tracks, Pat Ingoldsby from Canada got closest by spotting seven tracks: Joyrider, Diana, Long Orange, Yakuza, Jerusahat, Bird, Mooz. All that were missing were Mondays, Bond, Balboa and Relay. Seeing how difficult is was (including two unreleased tracks) the prize goes to Pat. The prize is a mysterious exclusive tape and a poster. Congratulations Pat! Now, who can guess the right order of the tracks? Debate on the discussion board...

The Homelife BBC session will be broadcasted on 29th April on BBC Radio 3, Mixing it.

Transambient is getting a VHS video and slightly different DVD audio-visual release in July. It will contain the full 12 minute Macrobiotic film with the 808 track on it. Both formats will span over two releases. Details when we get them...

Looking even further into the future, 808 have been asked to submit a track for the 2002 Commonwealth Games to be held in Manchester. It has to be a new tune. Looking back, of course Olympic would have been used for the Olympic games, had they rightfully gone to Manchester...

The new discussion board is online. Let's kick it off by telling 808 that we want to hear more of their unreleased stuff. Follow my posting...

Only a few more days to get your entries in for the Spot the Sample competition. So far only 3 people have written in.

808 have been remixing a track called 'Platinum' by Japanese J-Pop band Move.

Homelife have done a BBC Radio 3 session for 'Mixing it'. It included Graham who performed on bass clarinet and keys. Date of broadcast unknown as yet.

Some possibles: possible gig in Chamonix, France (didn't happen), possible DJing in Hong Kong and China (now later in the year) tbc, possible Internet album deal. Yes, 808 always like to keep us in suspense...

• Baton Rouge
• Quincy's Lunch
• The Only Rhyme That Bites / Bombadin remixes
• Newbuild re-release
• Flutronic
• Let yourself go re-release
• Invader / Full Nelson
• several exclusive MP3 tracks

Gigs included: around five UK performances, one US appearance (LA) plus loads of solo and DJ stuff. See 99 news archive and live archive for details.