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GLOBAL COMMUNICATION - 76 14 00
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76 14 00
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1994 2x12" Downbeat Electronica / Ambient LP Repressed.
Aged to perfection at 31 years young, '76:14' is described as "unfathomably beautiful out-of-time masterpiece“ in The Guardian's ‘1,000 Albums to Hear Before You Die’ list. Certainly, on release it was clear that it was something special, and not just because it was named after its total running time (though in fact it is shorter) and each track is also titled after its respective length.
Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, the duo behind Global Communication and other aliases, stated in the sleeve notes that this was intended to avoid the implication that there was any specific meaning or subject mater to their compositions, leaving the listener free to interpret it according to their own imagination. And as the record is a certified classic of 1990s ambient and electronic experimentalism (clearly influenced by greats like Vangelis and Brian Eno), sweetly melodic, soothing and largely beatless, it is almost impossible to listen to it without eliciting extreme relaxation and flights of mental fancy.
As the Guardian put it, it’s a great example of a musical timeline that ran parallel to Britpop, “where Orbital, not Oasis, were the most important band at Glastonbury and a couple of chaps in thrall to Detroit techno, made an album while looking out over a field of cows in Somerset.”
Aged to perfection at 31 years young, '76:14' is described as "unfathomably beautiful out-of-time masterpiece“ in The Guardian's ‘1,000 Albums to Hear Before You Die’ list. Certainly, on release it was clear that it was something special, and not just because it was named after its total running time (though in fact it is shorter) and each track is also titled after its respective length.
Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, the duo behind Global Communication and other aliases, stated in the sleeve notes that this was intended to avoid the implication that there was any specific meaning or subject mater to their compositions, leaving the listener free to interpret it according to their own imagination. And as the record is a certified classic of 1990s ambient and electronic experimentalism (clearly influenced by greats like Vangelis and Brian Eno), sweetly melodic, soothing and largely beatless, it is almost impossible to listen to it without eliciting extreme relaxation and flights of mental fancy.
As the Guardian put it, it’s a great example of a musical timeline that ran parallel to Britpop, “where Orbital, not Oasis, were the most important band at Glastonbury and a couple of chaps in thrall to Detroit techno, made an album while looking out over a field of cows in Somerset.”
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Global Communication is an ambient techno/ambient house duo, formed in 1992 in the United Kingdom, comprised of Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard. They are best known for 76:14, an ambient album that sits alongside the likes of FSOL's Lifeforms and Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92, as one of the high-points of ambient composition within UK '90s electronic music scene.
As Global Communication they have released two studio albums. The first, in 1993: a full album remix of Chapterhouse's Blood Music, entitled Pentamerous Metamorphosis, and their masterpiece of ambient house, 76:14, in 1994.
Their EP releases include: Keongaku EP in 1992, Maiden Voyage in 1994, The Way / The Deep in 1996, and The Groove in 1997.
To date, Global Communication has released four compilations: a remix album entitled Remotion in 1996, a DJ mix album entitled Fabric 26 in 2006 (1/2 by Mark Pritchard, 1/2 by Tom Middleton) and in 2011 another DJ Mix entitled Back In the Box . Their two studio albums have also seen reissues: Pentamerous Metamorphosis remastered and in a slightly edited version in 1998, and 76:14 in 2005 (a 10-year anniversary remastered re-release, with additional content on a bonus CD). 2020 saw the release of newly remastered editions of 76:14 and Pentamerous Metamorphosis, alongside another compilation of singles and remixes, compiled in the boxset "Transmissions."
As a duo, Middleton and Pritchard have also recorded as, Jedi Knights, kickstarting a new electro revival in '95, Secret Ingredients, The Chameleon making drum-n-bass, Reload & E621, and Link & E621. Together they formed the Evolution Records/Universal Language Productions Record label(s).
Mark has recorded as Reload, Link, Harmonic 313, Troubleman, N.Y. Connection, William Parrott, and Roberto Edwardo Turner, but has retired all of his aliases and records under his own name now. His other collaborative efforts include Africa HiTech with Steve Spacek Harmonic 33 and Use of Weapons with Dave Brinkworth, Series 7 with Stephen Horne, Shaft with Adrian Hughes, Vertigo with Danny Breaks, 28 East Boyz with Kevin Hann, Chaos & Julia Set with Dom Fripp, Mystic Institute with Paul Kent, and Pulusha with Kirsty Hawkshaw.
Tom has recorded as Cosmos, Amba, The Mod Wheel, The Rebus Project, Schizophrenia, Kix, E621, and Spiritcatcher, though releases under his own name now as well. As Schizophrenia, Tom collaborated with Aphex Twin on one track from his Analogue Bubblebath 1 EP. Tom has worked collaboratively with Matthew Herbert and Mark Darby releasing one eponymous EP as Fogcity. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.