Call to arms

Call to arms by Harmonic 313.

Harmonic 313 is another brainchild of one Mark Pritchard. Mark has been producing quality music for a good 17 years. Recognised for his collaborations with Tom Middleton on projects Reload, Global Communication, Chameleon & The Jedi Knights to name but a few.

Mark continued the rich vein of form with his Troubleman project. An album 'Time out of mind' and a series of 12's were released on the Far Out imprint. Lullaby & Where we stand were released together on a 12 in 2001 and I have to say, this record is now a prized possession, if a bit worn out out now... as is Strike hard.  Strike hard still stays in the record box. It's lived in the box for sometime. The sleeve is well and truly fucked, the corners gone proper dog eared, but those beats can still get the limpest and lamest dance floors busy. The get out of jail free card. Thank you Troubleman. 

Mark once told me it took him days to write the drums on Strike hard. When you listen to it you can take it for granted how effortless those drums sound. I remember seeing Mark DJ at a night around that time and everyone was waiting for him to drop Strike hard.... he played a Hip-Hop set and when the Promoter asked if he was going to play Strike hard coz all the people there were waiting for it he had to explain he didn't have a copy. One of the resident warm up DJ's had to lend him his copy. I think he reluctantly played it, preferring to play his Hip-Hop records.

This is his latest project, Harmonic 313 and It's fucking great.... as is always.

Harmonic 313's "When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence" is out now on Warp Records.

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The Chandeliers

The Chandeliers - Mr Electric.

Watch those colours go.

Together

Anyone lucky enough to sample the delights of the Lu Town Massive know that the people of this place know how to party. It's what makes this place tick. 

Next friday sees our 3rd Together party at Luzern's Bar 59. We owe a big shout out to all the people that made the first two parties so successful. So far it has been roadblock and next week's affair promises to be the best yet. Luzern is famous for it's winter Carnival called the fasnacht. It's going to be a busy week of partying for this historic lakeside town and we will do our best to bring the curtain down on a week of mayhem.

Every year, towards the end of winter, Carnival breaks out in the streets, alleyways and squares of the old town. This is a glittering outdoor party, where chaos and merriness reign and nothing is as it normally is as thousands of bizarrely clad people sing and dance away the winter.

This month's Together party music is provided by Rumi, Moveman, Burning Man & moi. Mic check by The Zimbabwe Bird and the most excellent Wood Vibes on percussion.

Yes, yes.

Here we go magic.

Here we go magic are from Brooklyn, New York.

The track is called tunnelvision.

Kaleidoscopic film work is by Peking & Snejina Latev.

COSMIC DUST

Cosmic Dust @ Her Manos, Triangle, Bristol.

Every 2nd, 3rd and 4th saturday of the month. 

Deep and Cosmic shizz nizzle. 

D. Lissvik

D. Lissvik is one half of Swedish cosmic prog duo Studio. Studio's album West Coast is worth a check as is the album this track by D. Lissvik is taken from 7 trx + intermission. This track is called B1. 

Not unlike The Durutti Column crashing into a cosmic tundra. 

Track 5 From 7 Trx + Intermission from INF VIDEO on Vimeo.

GrandPrize

GrandPrize is Bristol's Awkward. This track Serious Sentences features Snagneto, Co-Mo and Bristol's Stepchild (Malakai) on raps. 

If you're in bristol this thursday (5th) then head down to the Cube microplex cinema where Awkward will be appearing at 'One Foot Forward' with The Great Escape. Expect a night of Art, Film, Music & more... they usually end the night with a film accompanied by a live score, this time written & performed by The Instigator. DJ Cosmic Klaw will be keeping punters entertained in the bar.

A Glastonbury Tale...

This is a picture of Steve. Steve went to Glastonbury in the summer of 1998, twas a muddy year that year. Steve had gone for a bit of extra comfort that year and stayed in a camper van with his girlfriend and some of his close friends. 

The festival was quite a messy and muddy one that year and with the festival site being a little testing to travel around, Steve and his friends stayed around the camper van. Glastonbury can often be an experience of excess for many party goers and for Steve and his friends this year was no exception, to the contrary actually, for this would be a festival of a certain excess and a festival our Steve would never forget.

After a messy couple of days of partying where little sleep had been acquired, Steve decided to leave the camper van to go to the toilet. It's easy to lose track of time at a festival, especially Glastonbury. After a while, Steve's girlfriend became concerned. 7 hours had passed and Steve had yet to return.  "Where can he be?" she asked. "He's been gone for 7 hours" she said, and decided to go and look for him. 

After searching the portaloo's, there was still no sign of Steve. His girlfriend went back to the camper van to alert his friends of his disappearance. Worry began to set in amongst the group. One of his friends suggested that they give him another hour before they all go in search for the missing Steve.

The hour passed and there was still no sign of Steve. His friends set out to look for him, one of his friends arrived at the portaloo's and shouted out "Steve, Steve!" and again "Steve, Steve!" He then heard a reply "I'm in here, it's me Steve, I'm here." His friend replied "Steve, please come out, please Steve, you've been in there for 8 hours, what's wrong with you? please come out, everyone is worried sick about you!" to that reply Steve opened the door of the portaloo....nothing could prepare his friend for what he was about to see.

Steve had been in the toilet for 8 hours trying to go. In his excessive state, he had lost all concept of time. Steve had been straining "to go" for so long he had blown a hole in his oseophogus. As a result of this, Steve's head had quite literally filled with air and doubled in its size. When he finally immerged from the toilet his friend could not quite believe his eyes. As a result, Steve was rushed to Bath Hospital where he then spent the next 7 days recovering. 

Below is a picture of our Steve shortly after he left the toilet. Also here is a picture of Steve recovering and being visited by his friends.