Harmonic 313
When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
GBR 2xLP
Label: Warp Records
Release Year: 2009
Style: Abstract & Headz
Tracks
1 Dirtbox
2 Cyclotron
3 No Way Out
4 Music Substitute System
5 Köln
6 Galag-a
7 Word Problems
8 Battlestar feat. Phat Kat & Elzhi
9 Cyclotron C64 Sid
10 Call to Arms
11 Flaash
12 Don't Panic
13 Falling Away feat. Steve Spacek
14 When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
15 Quadrant 3
Following 08's electrifying 'Dirtbox' E.P, trading under 313 has proved rather productive for Mark Pritchard. A consummate distillation of all things bass, 'When Humans...' pushes and pulls its way through classic analogue synthesis and intricate digi-programming.
Flecks of blue-note melancholia siphon through the dirtbox basslines, especially on 'Koln' -Berlin district where Bowie famously cut 'Low'- elsewhere Pritchard drops some mega-heavy breaks edging closer to detroit hip-hop than german electronica; MC's Phat Kat and Elzhi turn out mean verse on 'Battlestar' and Steve Spacek rolls out a ghostly-vox on the blue-note digi-R&B of 'Falling Away.
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