Mark Pritchard aka Harmonic 313 - Dirtbox EP

Mark Pritchard has been making pioneering music since 1990. Always under a moniker, in the last 18 years he has been responsible for a supreme spectrum of production talent from Reload to Global Communication to Link to Jedi Knights to Troubleman to Harmonic 33 to name but a few. Adding to this stellar roll call in 2008 is Harmonic 313.

Such a successful catalogue of past work may prove intimidating and any lesser producer would suffer stage fright. Not Mark Pritchard; Harmonic 313 will prove him not only as relevant as ever but ahead of the curve, commenting on the current UK bass scene with his new work by producing some of the deepest, most spacious bass lines of the last 12 months, as this tantalising taster EP Dirtbox and forthcoming album demonstrates.

Admiringly once again Harmonic 313 bears zero resemblance to past work, 313 is the Detroit area code and in sound it is inspired by Dilla as much as Kenny Larkin. The project also has an eye on UK club music, or as Mark calls it UK bass music; for he believes there is a common thread that runs through UK dance music in attitude to bass and rhythm as heard in jungle, broken beat, dub step, house and garage, an attitude that is also present here.
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