{"title":"Global Communication","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo other electronic dance act made so many recordings in such a wide range of styles (and with such impressive results) as the duo of Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton. After coming together in 1991, the pair began recording music whose range spanned all of electronic dance music, though many were recorded under aliases — industrial techno as Reload, electro-funk as Jedi Knights, progressive house as Link, jungle as the Chameleon, and most famously, ambient and house as Global Communication. Their 1994 LP \u003ci\u003e76:14\u003c\/i\u003e, recorded as Global Communication, was a notable high point of the early-'90s ambient house movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe partnership began in 1991 when Pritchard and Middleton formed Evolution Records to release their own dancefloor-oriented house and techno. The first three releases on Evolution were EPs recorded as Reload by Pritchard\/Middleton in 1992-1993 — The Reload, The Autoreload, and The Biosphere. The records were excellent Detroit-inspired tracks that gained fame on the Infonet label with an EP and the 1994 full-length \u003ci\u003eA Collection of Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Global Communication debuted on Evolution 004 with \u003ci\u003eThe Keongaku EP\u003c\/i\u003e. They later released their full-length debut \u003ci\u003ePentamerous Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e, which was actually an extended remix of Chapterhouse's Blood Music LP.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn mid-1994,\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pentamerous-metamorphosis","title":"Pentamerous Metamorphosis","description":"\u003cp\u003eTechno and house pioneers Global Communication (Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard) released their album \u003ci\u003ePentamerous Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e in 1993. 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They began recording in 1991 and in a short space of time released a huge amount of music collectively and individually, in a broad range of styles, including records under names such as Link, E621, Reload, The Chameleon and Jedi Knights, but it’s the work they made together as Global Communication that has proved to be the most enduring. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Evolution","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50484290191691,"sku":"1096069","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/efb0979c-7e8a-466c-9d48-d6eecd4fb88d_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727586781"},{"product_id":"transmissions","title":"Transmissions","description":"\u003cp\u003eGlobal Communication are the legendary duo of Tom Middelton and Mark Pritchard. 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