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Friday March 27th

Harmonic 313 LP Launch:

“When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence” – Warp Records

Mark Pritchard = Harmonic 313, Global Communication, Jedi Knights, Reload, Troubleman, Link, N.Y. Connection, Use Of Weapons, 28 East Boyz and more.

This epic dance legend takes us on a sonic tour, his new Warp album and beyond into his 20 years deep within electronic music’s evolution.

Mark Pritchard, one of the most overlooked British protagonists of electronic music, hits the Sub Club for a wide ranging set of showcasing his in relentless quest to evolve music and its production.

It’s his J Dilla inspired Harmonic 313 beats that he’s touring yet this DJ set will be a jacking reference of 20 years at the sharp end of dance.

From his work with Tom Middleton as Global Communication starting in 1991 to 1994 (argued as the birth AND zenith of UK ambient electronics) to their floor filling electro as Jedi Knights - he’s quietly been influencing dance music for the last 2 decades.

With 23 underground aliases Pritchard is restless and off radar. Never one to stall to soak up the plaudits - this is a producer that's helped develop every scene from ambient to the bleeding edge of dubstep making this gig an underground appearance for the electronic aficionados.

The Sub Club, 22 Jamaica St, Glasgow
£10
11pm till 3am

wicked booking payday an all there

Verrrrrrrry nice!!


I loves me some kinkness afrotism.

Mark Pritchard is going to be doing an instore at Rub a Dub on the Friday evening if anyone fancies meeting him and checking out his wide ranging styles...

It'll be a taster set from a few of his various aliaises...

more details to come from Richard ... in a rub a dub style...

Harmonic 313 Interview, appeared in Clash Magazine in Jan 09

In the universal order of ‘stuff’ the Detroit area dialing code and alien navigation methods are not exactly bed fellows.

But then you may never have heard of Mark Pritchard.

Electronic musician, rave partner to Tom Middleton, architect of one of the most seminal passages of electronic music with Global Communications in 76:14 and master of currently 23 recording aliases – Mark Pritchard is a restless agitator within leftfield musical history.

One of these 23 different recording names is Harmonic 33, stolen from a sci-fi buff, as he explains from his adopted Sydney: “Yeah, it was a guy from New Zealand who wrote a couple of books in a series about how people from other planets were navigating the universe by using different harmonics of planets. I thought I should use it.”

Pritchard’s first forays into the Harmonic series was a collaboration with Dave Brinkworth which revolved around library music and cinematic music from the 60s. However his eternal love and ongoing studentship of hip hop has led him to produce some blunted beats straight from the mould of J Dilla and infected by Dabrye’s latter day explorations in wonky instrumental adventure. Simply by inserting the digit ‘1’ into 33 he has bridged the two projects with a deft hat doffing to Detroit’s phone book:

“The 313 material is a lot more electronic than the stuff I’d done before’ confesses the man who came through with Tom Middleton at the start of the ‘90s ‘but I imagine more hip-hop fans might not be quite as into this album. Although the good thing about samples is trying to find fresh sounds to excite you and then you’re digging for records and learning about production and keyboards and finding drum breaks and chopping them up by hand and then learning about drumming and how drummer plays. I think that’s all that really sort of connect those sorts of things.”

Yet the new album, ‘When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence’ was written alone and is a captivating melting pot of modern urban strands. From huge slow beats, to half step nuance and into droning tones that will sear through your cortex faster than you can say ‘Venus’: its on a serious nod far out in the leftfield.

Across the 15 tracks it’s an edgy trip through a mind obsessed with the beat. Fanatical in the extreme about hip hop culture and digging through piles of old vinyl for elusive and forgotten breaks before carefully mutating them in his Australian studio; Pritchard’s latest music sounds like its bounced straight from London’s ghettos rather than the Sydney sunshine, an issue he has mused over too: “I lived in the west country of England before four years ago and I was wondering what would happen when I moved here. There’s not huge amounts of really dark, edgy albums in Australia. Sydney is a pretty beautiful city, lovely weather, quite relaxed, beaches. The time in your life when you start listening to music and start going to clubs and start hearing the music that is coming out of England. Once you’ve gone through that, it’s pretty much in you. Some of my mates have said I’ve started writing darker music since I’ve been here since I’m working harder.”

If you are a fan of dirty electronic composition then go and seek this album out. Dotted across his back catalogue are immense numbers of rhythmic nuggets to engage your mind. Doling on the talent under names such as the rave inspired Reload from 1992, Link, The Jedi Knights, Troubleman, Vertigo and of course Global Communication.

So what is next for the man of 23 different monikers? “Well, the next album I’m doing is under the name ‘Africa Hightech’, which is another project with a completely different sound. Then I I’m bringing back an old name from 1993, which is Reload - more avant-garde electronic music. Its very dark sort of sci-fi soundtracky and some classical avant-garde mixed in. I’ve been writing quite a bit of dub-step, so I will have a couple albums out of Deep Mehdi Musik, then some on stuff which is my label. At least, maybe two next year. I think, if I can’t fit it under any of the other names, I’m just going to use my own.”

I think hell just got a little colder.

For more info on Mark Pritchard’s many different worlds then check

here's a Harmonic 313 mix for youse ears...

http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Harmonic_313/music

Allsorts on there....

enjoy....

mr mafro wrote:Mark Pritchard is going to be doing an instore at Rub a Dub on the Friday evening if anyone fancies meeting him and checking out his wide ranging styles...

It'll be a taster set from a few of his various aliaises...

more details to come from Richard ... in a rub a dub style...

yes
mark will be spinning some tunes in the shop after 5.30ish. we'll be opening later than usual, there will be booze, stickers and plenty of vinyl to check out.

then its all off to kinky afro for some h313 madness.

e-mail richard@rubadub.co.uk for more info.

Hope I can make it down to this, playing at the CCA, then a friend has a 30th, trying to convince em to come down to it!

Set Times!!!!

Harmonic 313 is gonna be on from 12am so we can get his seasick low tempo material in as well as some cortex crunching prime time numbers...

so get down early....