“Pacific State” by 808 State

"Pacific State" is the version of 808 State's "Pacific" that turned up in 1989 on the English electronic group's mini-album Quadrastate, one of several mixes of the track under different names ("Pacific 202" is the one on the album 90). According to group leader Graham Massey, it closed out nights at The Haçienda for six months before it was even released, until Gary Davies heard it in Ibiza and started spinning it on daytime Radio 1.

ZTT put the single out that November, and it spent 11 weeks on the UK chart, peaking at No. 10; in 2022 Rolling Stone named "Pacific State" among the 200 greatest dance songs. Gerald Simpson, who began the track before leaving the group in 1989, later said it was finished and released without his permission and claimed to have written all of it; Quadrastate credits him as a writer and co-producer.

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