Showing posts with label Back In The Box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Back In The Box. Show all posts
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Global Communication - Back In The Box now out on digital
Already picking up some seriously glowing reviews from the likes of DJ Magazine, iDJ Magazine, Resident Advisor, The Wire and many more, Global Communication's entry into the Back In The Box series is now available as a digital album. The 31 track unmixed selection is available on most major sites, including Beatport, Whatpeopleplay, Traxsource, Juno, Stompy and iTunes. A full list with links below..... Meanwhile, Tom Middleton, Mark Pritchard and NRK's Nick Harris discuss the Back In The Box album and series hereBeatport digital album
Beatport mix album
Whatpeopleplay.com digital album
Traxsource digital album
Boomkat digital album
Bleep.com digital album
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Global Communication - Back In The Box 12" sampler 01 out now
The first 12" sampler to be taken from Global Communication's upcoming "Back In The Box" compilation is available now from Juno Records, and all other vinyl stores. There's also a great review on Resident Advisor, who scored this release 5 out of 5!
Monday, 9 May 2011
Global Communication - Live In A Library!
Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, AKA Global Communication, get busy in support of their upcoming Back In The Box compilation on NRK. But for one special appearance, the chaps will be asking for silence and the very best of order, as Global Communication take to the live stage in the historical surroundings of the British Library, London.
Tom and Mark will be performing their landmark album "76:14" on June 17th, as part of the "Late At The Library: Out Of This World" festival. Support DJs on the night will be Radio 1's Rob Da Bank, and Jon Hopkins, plus a live performance from The Radio Science Orchestra. The event, at the British Library Entrance Hall, London, starts at 7.30pm til 11pm.
Global Communication will also be spreading some electronic love over the summer months at Glade Festival, Sonar and Big Chill festival. Meanwhile, their entry into the Back In The Box series gets released on May 30th, with a jaw dropping double CD of Detroit and European techno goodies from the likes of Derrick May, Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, Aphex Twin, 808 State and Kevin Saunderson.
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Thursday, 31 March 2011
Global Communication announce details for Back In The Box
NRK Music's much revered retrospective compilation series, Back In The Box, returns in May with a double mix compiled and sequenced by one of electronic music's most enduring pairs. Not just Back In The Box, but back together, Global Communication, AKA Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, reunite following a 15 year hiatus to lay down a collection of genre and era defining Techno and Electronica.
Following on from previous Back In The Box entrants (Dave Clarke, Joey Negro, DJ Sneak and Louie Vega), Global Communication dig deep into their record collections to revive forgotten gems, lost classics and personal favourites. A true connoisseurs compendium of records that helped shape the Global Communication sound. Concentrating on the early to mid 90s period of electronic music, their Back In The Box mix spans the downtempo atmospheric sounds to the cutting edge Detroit techno of the day.
A closer inspection of the mix reveals a journey of two halves, where the wildly experimental sounds and sparse, industrial techno dance beats meet the more reflective and intricate delicacies of the ambience and light breakbeats of electronica. Disc One focuses on the more dancefloor orientated sounds, opening up with a headstrong fusion of some of Detroit's finest music, courtesy of Jay Denham (Fade II Black), Derrick May (here with Steve Hillage's System 7), Kevin "Reese" Saunderson, Carl Craig's BFC project and Anthony "Shake" Shakir, interrupted for a moment by Detroit's possibly first, and only, adopted techno son (just popping over the boarder from Canada), Richie Hawtin, here with a F.U.S.E. classic. The mix picks up a pace with the hardcore assault of Lory D, Neuropolitique and DHS before heading for cruising altitude, with a clever re-pitch of Speedy J's classic "De-Orbit" and then heading into more melodious waters with gems from Flux, Balil, Florence, States Of Mind (Hawtin again) and touching down with some blissful techno from Robert Leiner.
Disc Two delves deeper into the electronic underworld, and whilst the BPMs drop, the intensity of the music never let's up. Detroit once again is represented heavily, but showing another side to it's often heavily guarded face. Rare cuts from Yennek (AKA Kenny Larkin, here remixed by Carl Craig's Inner Zone), Octave One (Never On Sunday), Reel by Real (yep, the one sampled by one LTJ Bukem for a d'n'b classic) and that man Carl Craig (Psyche & Urban Tribe here, Global Comm hugely indebted to this man) display more intricate possibilities to the sound, whilst a track from the 'Godfather Of Techno', Juan Atkins, ensures that the Bellevue Three are all here, present and correct (that'll be Atkins, Saunderson and May). The UK cannot be underestimated in this genre either, and fine cuts from our own 'Godfathers' (808 State) are sequenced with UK's As One (Kirk Degiorgio), Balil, Stasis, and the one who broke on through on his own terms, the uncompromising Aphex Twin. Ending the mix with the beautiful ambience of The Irresistible Force (remixing Sven Vath's Barbarella) and Global Communication's Incidental Harmony, the Back In The Box journey is one that transcends continents, tempos and quite possible brain cells as well
Back In The Box is released on a mixed 2CD, DJ friendly unmixed 2CD, 12" vinyl samplers, and digital album. Legendary scribe, Kris Needs, supplies the linear notes on the CD packaging. Release date: 30th May 2011.
Global Communication - Back In The Box (Mixed)
CD01
1) Fade II Black : The Calling (Reprise)
2) System 7 & Derrick May : Altitude
3) Reese : Just Want Another Chance
4) BFC : Galaxy
5) F.U.S.E. : Technotropic
6) Shake : Sonar 123
7) Lory D : Sickness (Sounds Never Seen)
8) Neuropolitique : Mind You Don't Trip
9) DHS : Number 9 Bad Acid
10) Speedy J : De-Orbit (TM Outer Limits Salute Repitch)
11) Balil : Nort Route
12) Florence : A Touch Of Heaven
13) Flux : True Feelings
14) Reload & E621 : Ptyzh
15) States Of Mind : Audio Q5A
16) Robert Leiner : Aqua Viva
CD02
1) Link - Intro (The Labels)
2) Ismistik - Flow Charts
3) Yennek - Serena X (Carl Craig Inner Zone Remix)
4) Psyche - Elements
5) Never On Sunday - The Journey
6) As One - Amalia
7) Aphex Twin - Tha
8) Stasis - Point Of No Return
9) Balil - Whirling Of The Spirits
10) 808 State - Sunrise
11) Urban Tribe - Covert Action
12) Link - Places of Origin
13) Model 500 - Infoworld
14) Reel by Real - Surkit
15) Ross 154 - Mayflower
16) Global Communication - Incidental Harmony
17) Barbarella - Barbarella (The Irresistible Force Remix)
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Global Communication - Back Together for Back In The Box
NRK Music's much revered retrospective compilation series, Back In The Box, returns this Spring with a double mix compiled and sequenced by one of electronic music's most enduring pairs. Not just Back In The Box, but back together, Global Communication, AKA Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, reunite following a 15 year hiatus to lay down a collection of genre and era defining Techno and Electronica.
Following on from previous Back In The Box entrants (Dave Clarke, Joey Negro, DJ Sneak and Louie Vega), Global Communication dig deep into their record collections to revive forgotten gems, lost classics and personal favourites. A true connoisseurs compendium of records that helped shape the Global Communication sound. A veritable mix of delights is assured, spanning the downtempo atmospheric sounds to the cutting edge Detroit techno of the day. Concentrating on the early to mid 90s period of electronic music, expect to see and hear some familiar names from that golden era.
Global Communication's debut LP "76:14" ("Best Ambient Album Of The Decade" - The Guardian) has been one of the most acclaimed albums in the ambient/electronic genre since its release in 1994. A career that started in the South West of England, via some early liaisons with Aphex Twin, Middleton and Pritchard set up the Evolution/Universal Language imprints and have also recorded as Reload, Jedi Knights, Secret Ingredients, The Chameleon and Link & E621. They released the first sonic experiments with a certain Matthew Herbert along with a string of key releases from Gerd, The Horn and Danny Breaks.
More recently, Middleton has found great success on the DJ circuit as well as a "go to" remixer, along with his notable electronica meets classical performances and Lifetracks album for Big Chill. Meanwhile Pritchard has been busy with his Harmonic 313 and Africa Hitech projects for Warp and as a DJ has focused on playing the best of UK Bass music and it's roots. Cited as many as the creme de la creme of UK electronica, all these years later their groundbreaking sound and productions are currently being polished off by a legion of new fans, and the Back In The Box compilation will help fuel great interest in the music from that era and ensure it's influence resonates still in today's electronic music scene. Whether it's their collaborations, solo productions or selecting, you can hear it's still all about pure emotions in sound.
Global Communication - Back in The Box will be released on NRK Music in the Spring 2011.
Back In The Box site
Following on from previous Back In The Box entrants (Dave Clarke, Joey Negro, DJ Sneak and Louie Vega), Global Communication dig deep into their record collections to revive forgotten gems, lost classics and personal favourites. A true connoisseurs compendium of records that helped shape the Global Communication sound. A veritable mix of delights is assured, spanning the downtempo atmospheric sounds to the cutting edge Detroit techno of the day. Concentrating on the early to mid 90s period of electronic music, expect to see and hear some familiar names from that golden era.
Global Communication's debut LP "76:14" ("Best Ambient Album Of The Decade" - The Guardian) has been one of the most acclaimed albums in the ambient/electronic genre since its release in 1994. A career that started in the South West of England, via some early liaisons with Aphex Twin, Middleton and Pritchard set up the Evolution/Universal Language imprints and have also recorded as Reload, Jedi Knights, Secret Ingredients, The Chameleon and Link & E621. They released the first sonic experiments with a certain Matthew Herbert along with a string of key releases from Gerd, The Horn and Danny Breaks.
More recently, Middleton has found great success on the DJ circuit as well as a "go to" remixer, along with his notable electronica meets classical performances and Lifetracks album for Big Chill. Meanwhile Pritchard has been busy with his Harmonic 313 and Africa Hitech projects for Warp and as a DJ has focused on playing the best of UK Bass music and it's roots. Cited as many as the creme de la creme of UK electronica, all these years later their groundbreaking sound and productions are currently being polished off by a legion of new fans, and the Back In The Box compilation will help fuel great interest in the music from that era and ensure it's influence resonates still in today's electronic music scene. Whether it's their collaborations, solo productions or selecting, you can hear it's still all about pure emotions in sound.
Global Communication - Back in The Box will be released on NRK Music in the Spring 2011.
Back In The Box site
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