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Africa Hitech

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Biography All Music GuideWikipedia

Group Members: Troubleman, Mark Pritchard & Steve Spacek, Mark Pritchard

All Music Guide:

In 2007, during their stint as lecturers at the Red Bull Music Academy (a series of workshops offered by the soft drink company, coupling seminars on dance music with club events), Australia natives and music industry veterans Steve Spacek (Spacek, Black Pocket) and Mark Pritchard (Global Communication, Troubleman, Harmonic 33) teamed up to form a new ragga-influenced electronic project called Africa Hitech. Their debut EP, Hitecherous, was released on Warp Records in 2010. Their debut full-length album, 93 Million Miles, was released on that same label in May 2011.

Wikipedia:

Africa Hitech is an electronic music project consisting of Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek. They released their first EP Blen on 19 April 2010 and a second, Hitecherous, on 28 June 2010. Their debut album 93 Million Miles was released on May 16, 2011. Pitchfork gave the album a review of 8.2, writing "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".

eMusic Features

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2011: The Year in Electronic Music

By Joe Muggs, eMusic Contributor

No question about it, U.K. electronic music had a spectacular year. But it's also been fiendishly difficult to sum up in bold headlines. Even in a music world filled with splinter factions and subsets, 2011 was dizzying: It was a year of outliers, misfits and individualists exploring the turbulent currents stirred up in the wake of dubstep's continued push into the mainstream. It was the year of newer influences like the internationalism of moombahton or… more »

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  • 09.08.11 Back in Europe for shows - listed up here http://t.co/mBygosp @Harmonic313 @stevespacek
  • 06.30.11 Watch the video for Out In The Streets now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7uYqJJBiD0 - ♥ to @Sixty40Studio for the work @warpbot
  • 05.23.11 Radio show live on @RinseFM tonight 21.00-23.00 GMT - tune in http://rinse.fm/2011/05/africa-hi-tech-back-again/
  • 04.12.11 RT @warpbot: Listen to @AfricaHitech's 93 Million Miles album sampler @thefader http://ow.ly/4yz3x (out 9th/10th May)
  • 04.07.11 Manarinse on Soundcloud.. SICK!!!
  • 03.02.11 '93 Million Miles' album info http://warp.net/-/93millionmiles - Download Out In The Streets now & DJ/MC recording
  • 10.21.10 AFRICA HI TECH OFF TO THE DAM IN DA MORROWS, ROTTERDAM ON SAT, ENDING UP IN DUBLIN SUN... HOPEFULLY SEE YU'S THERE?!!! BLESSUP
  • 10.20.10 AFRICA HI- TECH IN AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM THIS COMING WKEND!!! BLESSED
  • 10.20.10 AFRICA HI-TECH BIGUP RINSE FM!!! HOLD TIGHT RAT N ZINC!!!! RESPEC 4 DA SUPPORT!!! BLLLAAAAMMMMM!!!!!!!
  • 10.14.10 A L L A B O U T D A R I N S E! ! ! !
  • 10.14.10 All about the Cave Man!! Africa Hi- Tech on.. R I N S E!!!!!
  • 10.14.10 Africa Hi-Tech go head to head- old school!!!! R I N S E ! ! ! ! !