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Harmonic 313: Marc Pritchard releases "EP 1"

  Tobias

Up until now, Marc Pritchard has been hard to pin down, both through his neverending musical chameleonism, but also thanks to his many different project names, including Troubleman, Link and Reload. Another alias used to be Harmonic 33, which has now been modified into „Harmonic 313“ - 313 being the telephone area code to Detroit, the city whose classic sound has been a major muse to „EP 1“. With the new material, however, Marc Pritchard seems to have arrived at a voice, which is as colourful as it is personal and could herald a phase of new stability in his oeuvre.

The potential of Harmonic 313 is certainly huge. Mainly instrumental but flirting with Kraftwerk'ean vocoder monologues, Marc Pritchard achieves a stoic forward thrust by almost manicially focussing on the groove of his tracks. „Problem 1“ and „Problem 2“ are digital funk monsters filled around pristinely shimmering chime loops, sceletised beats and growling bass tones. Mostly open, arrangements live from opening up associational spaces and then filling them with discreet harmonic textures. Thanks to the short format, Pritchard maintains the momentum for the complete length, yet still finds the time to expand into other genres: On „Problem 4“, there is even a faint trace of Soul to be felt.

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