Graham Massey breaks down an 808 State classic - Cobra Bora at RA's 21st birthday celebrations last November.

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Few electronic musicians or producers can claim to have stayed relevant for over four decades. Notching up a career that has continually blurred boundaries and includes experimental post-punk classics, early British mutations of acid house, dance floor hip-hop jams, rave anthems and collaborations with Björk and UB40, 808 State cofounder Graham Massey is one of them. He's been part of the fabric of the Manchester music scene since the mid-'70s, when he took his first steps in music as part of an art rock band whose work is lost to history. Since then, Massey has been in constant flux musically, building a vast catalogue that includes as many experimental oddities and freewheeling fusions as commercially successful club anthems and chart-bothering pop singles.

Producer: Sophie Misrahi
Production by Bearded Fellows