Africa Hitech is a project by Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek. They released their first EP, Hitecherous, on 28 June 2010. They released their critically acclaimed album ’93 Million Miles’ on May 16th 2011.
Pitchfork giving the album a review of 8.2 wrote ‘It’s no small feat to craft something this adventurous and eclectic and still have it turn out to share the cohesion of a DJ mix, but Africa Hitech manage just that– and despite all the left turns, you want to stick by their side every step of the way.’
Harley Edward Streten (born Sydney, Australia on 5 November 1991), known professionally as Flume, is an Australian record producer, musician and DJ.
His self-titled debut studio album, Flume, was released on 9 November 2012 to positive reviews, topping the ARIA Albums Chart and reaching double-platinum accreditation in Australia. Flume is regarded as the pioneer of future bass who helped popularize the genre.
Flume has remixed songs from such artists as Lorde, Sam Smith, Arcade Fire, Hermitude and Disclosure. His second studio album, Skin, was released on 27 May 2016, to positive reviews and also topped the ARIA Albums Chart. The album won the Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
The album gained international recognition from the album’s first single, “Never Be like You”, which was nominated for Best Dance Recording. After the release of Skin, Flume released Skin Companion EP 1 on 25 November 2016 and Skin Companion EP 2 on 17 February 2017 as the album’s B-side EPs.
Digged the ltd. reissue of this killer at “Second Hand Records” in Stuttgart today. The original copy is being sold between 130,- and 220.- at Discogs. Really happy about this dig 🙂
Pierre Henry was born in Paris, France, and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, and Félix Passerone at the Paris Conservatoire from 1938 to 1948 (Dhomont 2001).
Between 1949 and 1958, Henry worked at the Club d’Essai studio at RTF, which had been founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1943 (Dhomont 2001). During this period, he wrote the 1950 piece Symphonie pour un homme seul, in cooperation with Schaeffer; he also composed the first musique concrète to appear in a commercial film, the 1952 short film Astrologie ou le miroir de la vie. Henry scored numerous additional films and ballets.
Two years after leaving the RTF, he founded with Jean Baronnet the first private electronic studio in France, the Apsone-Cabasse Studio (Dhomont 2001).
Among Henry’s works is the 1967 ballet Messe pour le temps présent (Dhomont 2001), a collaboration with choreographer Maurice Béjart that debuted in Avignon (Rubin 2001,[page needed]). In 1970 Henry collaborated with British rock band Spooky Tooth on the album Ceremony (Rubin 2001, 308).
Composer Christopher Tyng was heavily inspired by Henry’s “Psyché Rock” when writing the theme to the popular animated cartoon show Futurama. The theme is so reminiscent of Henry’s song, it is considered a variation of the original (Cohen 2001).
Henry died on Wednesday 5 July 2017 at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Paris, at the age of 89. (Decalf 2017; Dayal 2017; Gervasoni 2017).
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