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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Nostalgia Deathstar - ‘The Burnout Society’

Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Four albums in 2025 from my label State of Bass… 2026 promises four more albums and our second book - the long awaited second half of The Prodigy biography

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Sometimes you have to go way back in time in order to move forwards…

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hundredrecords.bsky.social @hundredrecords.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

“Listened to it three times on my holiday” ( Matt, Hundred Records) It is great and I have the CD available in store.

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

How did I end up writing the sleeve notes for The Prodigy’s Their Law?

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Crowdfunding campaign for the untold story of The Prodigy - We Live For The Beats. Go to indiegogo and search ‘the Prodigy Story part 2’… 50% funded!!! #musicbooks

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Nostalgia Deathstar’They Kill The Flame’ is available now… ‘One of the coolest electronic albums of the year..’ (Blitzed Magazine) ‘Savage and prescient’ (Electronic Sound).

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Good luck- we had a nightmare putting compilations through RouteNote - including out most successful compilation being taken down because Spotify flagged one song for out performing the rest of the album. It was by the biggest artist on the album and it spiked after they plugged it on their socials

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Not shared this here before… when we were young! youtu.be/sqo42dGdW68?...

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General Seven: Emotion - Pressure - Splendour - General Seven

YouTube video by Trevor Tweedy

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Wow that must have cost a fortune to get all of those articles and photos copyright cleared.

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Thanks for the review… Kiffie and Scenius each have some amazing releases on their Bandcamp pages.

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State of Bass UK @stateofbassuk.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Mutant Electro,the final release in the acclaimed Generation Blitz compilation series is out now via Bandcamp. generationblitz.bandcamp.com/album/genera...

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This set from Ghanaian rapper Bryte blew my mind yesterday - which was a problem because I was driving. Listen loud and dance wildly - but not when you’re driving 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Jamz Supernova - Live bars & new album chat with Bryte - BBC Sounds

Bryte joins Jamz to chat new album plus shares some live bars over the Weekend Warm-Up mix

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Means Of Production @mnsfprdctn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

So yeah anyway if you want a track from our upcoming album a bit early get the Generation Blitz compilation from @st8ofbass.bsky.social - In fact get it anyway it is full of electro goodness! www.facebook.com/groups/15938...

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Generation Blitz | MUTANT ELECTRO REVEAL #11 | Facebook

MUTANT ELECTRO REVEAL #11 Means Of Production - Zero Oxford's finest purveyors of acid electro punk deliver squat party energy with this blistering exploration of the zero hours contract......

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

The weather is all about Anti-Cyclonic Gloom in the U.K. today. Have you heard the new Nostalgia Deathstar yet? 😎 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Art V STEM - YouTube

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Something new from Nostalgia Deathstar - it’s called Art V STEM and it’s out now… we like it. You might too. open.spotify.com/album/4B1k3v...

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Art V STEM

Nostalgia Deathstar · Single · 2024 · 1 songs

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

I keep trying BlueSky, one day I’ll get how it works- in the meantime here’s a song called ‘The Ground Belongs to Me’ that Nostalgia Deathstar just released. open.spotify.com/track/6VSMYK...

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The Ground Belongs To Me

Nostalgia Deathstar · The Ground Belongs To Me · Song · 2024

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I once saw Pink Floyd live. They did the entire Wish You Were Here followed by the whole of Animals. Their encore was Money… that was a version of hokey I can get behind

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Yes. I was dead against it until my son showed me how much it helped him both prepare and revise.

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

The latest single from Nostalgia Deathstar aka me and @ghost-elektron.bsky.social is on stealing platforms now. It’s called Human Resource, it’s about precarious employment and it’s already been likened to Crackdown era Cabaret Voltaire - this is dark audio warfare open.spotify.com/album/5rSmT0...

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Human Resource

Single · Nostalgia Deathstar · 2024 · 1 songs

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

That’s been normal practice since the beginning- one of my old bands supported a band who’d had a couple of hit singles. The buy on was ridiculous - we paid because, you know, investment in our future!

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State of Bass UK @stateofbassuk.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Backstory #4 In July 2021 we released the first in the acclaimed Generation Blitz compilation series. Called 'Dusk to Dawn' we brought together amazing artists from the global synth pop underground with the brief to re-imagine the sound of the Blitz Club. generationblitz.bandcamp.com/album/genera...

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Generation Blitz - Dusk to Dawn, by Generation Blitz

34 track album

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Our compilations will only be physical and DL in future… Or we’ll just cut out Spotify.

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

I release compilations through Route Note they withdrew all tracks as a result of Spotify complaints over four tracks becoming popular. They also withheld all monies owed. I won’t use them ever again.

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State of Bass UK @stateofbassuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

'Human Resource', the first single from Nostalgia Deathstar's forthcoming second album will be released into the wild on Sept 6th. A pounding synth-hymn to the era of managed decline, strategic resourcing and the reduction of human value to spreadsheet cost analysis.

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Honestly, when it comes to reunions I’m far more excited by the first album in 30 years from The Wolfgang Press

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Honestly, when it comes to reunions I’m far more excited by the first album in 30 years from The Wolfgang Press

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Been collecting vinyl for 50 yrs. But I’ve lost & sold & had records stolen over the years so my collection is much smaller than it could have been. Today, as I played a new copy of Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album I realised it’s the 15th time I’ve bought the album! Anyone else a serial re-purchaser?

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State of Bass UK @stateofbassuk.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

A brief background story... #1 State of Bass UK was created in 2020 to publish the definitive biography of The Prodigy by Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social ... the imprint's name was taken from Martin's debut book State of Bass: Jungle - the story so far weeatrhythm.bandcamp.com/album/we-eat...

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We Eat Rhythm - The Prodigy Story Part1, by Martin James

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State of Bass UK @stateofbassuk.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Background story #3 June 21 we released 'Charged Attachment' the debut album from Nostalgia Deathstar (aka Sean Albiez @ghost-elektron.bsky.social and Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social) Electronic Sound praised its 'effortlessly glistening synths'. nostalgia-deathstar.bandcamp.com/album/charge...

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Charged Attachment, by Nostalgia Deathstar

12 track album

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Sean Albiez @ghost-elektron.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Hello new followers - here's my 2021 ghost elektron album - processed piano-glitch-ambient on State of Bass

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unlocked, by ghost elektron

11 track album

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

It’s a stunning album - I just reviewed it for Electronic Sound

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State of Bass UK @stateofbassuk.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Hi, we're State of Bass UK, an electronic music label run by Martin James (@st8ofbass.bsky.social) & Sean Albiez (@ghost-elektron.bsky.social) . Our current roster is: Generation Blitz / ghost elektron / Nostalgia Deathstar / Mad Elektrons / Maxx Silver / Mothloop / Pulse Lab / Sonar 4 / Wavewulf

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Martin James @st8ofbass.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Into the blue. Hello, I’m Martin James. I make dark synth music as Nostalgia Deathstar and run the State of Bass electronic music label with Sean Albiez (ghost elektron) @ghost-elektron.bsky.social I also make contaminated disco as Mothloop with Timo Jalkanen. I’m a writer, journo, academic etc.

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