Mark Pritchard (music producer)
Mark Pritchard is a musician, DJ and remixer, who is also under pseudonyms such as Harmonic 313, Troubleman, link or NY Connection was known. Together with musician Tom Middleton, he published in 1992 under the project name as Global Communication, Jedi Knights, Link & E621 and reload several albums and singles.
Life and career
Pritchard published from the early 1990s first solo productions under the project name link.
A larger audience Pritchard was known for his collaboration with musician Tom Middleton. First published both under the project name reload, which was originally a solo project Pritchard. The first joint publications such as The Reload EP or The Biosphere EP were the pieces together produced more marked Reload & E621. Soon, however, Middleton was an integral part of the project and the album A Collection Of Short Stories was published in 1993, only under the name of a reload. In 1993, both the label Universal Language.
The duo founded at this time also the Ambient project Global Communication, which was primarily known for the 1994 publication on Dedicated album 76:14. The album received mostly good to very good reviews and was described by critics of The Guardian as " unfathomably beautiful, timeless masterpiece ," The added to the list in 1000 Albums to Hear Before You.
Pritchard and Middleton turned in 1995 with the project Jedi Knights Electro. In the same year, the single May The Funk Be With You on Clear and 1996 the album New School Science on Evolution appeared. Between 1997 and 1999, followed by three more singles as Jedi Knights.
Together with Dave Brinkworth 1998 he founded the Drum -and- Bass - Project Use Of Weapons. Also with Brinkworth he published since then under the name Harmonic 33 downbeat and trip- hop music. Since 2001, Pritchard released solo as Troubleman and since 2008 as Harmonic 313
In 2006 appeared with a new album Evolution of the reload project.
Hailing originally from the UK Pritchard now lives in Sydney, Australia.
Discography (selection)
Albums
- 2004: Kirsty Hawkshaw & Mark Pritchard - Ambient Vocals (Noise Pump Music)
- 2004: Troubleman - Time Out Of Mind (Far Out Recordings )
- 2005: Troubleman - The First Phase (Far Out Recordings )
- 2009: Harmonic 313 - When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence ( Warp Records)