NRK Music's much revered retrospective compilation series, Back In The Box, returns this Spring with a double mix compiled and sequenced by one of electronic music's most enduring pairs. Not just Back In The Box, but back together, Global Communication, AKA Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, reunite following a 15 year hiatus to lay down a collection of genre and era defining Techno and Electronica. Ahead of it's release, here's a very special vinyl sampler to kickstart the project. Shake AKA Anthony Shakir, is currently undergoing a renaissance with various reissues on the cult Dutch label Rush Hour. "Sonar 123" was recorded in 1990, initially releases on Juan Atkins Interface Records, and then picked up by the UK's Peacefrog Records in 1993 for release on the legendary "Various Artists - Sonar 123" EP that also featured tracks from Juan Atkins, Nuero Polotique and Reel By Reel. "Sonar 123" is so ahead of its time, relentless raw and bleepy Detroit techno, this track is often cited as one of the best in its genre. Across the pond in the UK, Balil AKA Ed Handley, was making futuristic breakbeat techno music, as well as making up one third of the original Black Dog trio, and also one half of Plaid. UK electronica was burgeoning with labels like Warp and Kirk Degiorgio's ART, who originally released "Nort Route" in 1991, to be re-released in later years by Carl Craig's Planet E and R&S Records. "Nort Route" is emotive and complex electronica, with it's soulful melody lines and pitch bending pads weaving through hard, industrial breakbeats. The third track on this, the first sampler to be taken from Global Communication's Back In The Box selection, is from one of the legendary Bellevue Three. Kevin "Reese" Saunderson is credited as one of the creators of techno, and certainly the one to enjoy the most commercial fame via his Inner City project. "Just Want Another Chance" though is classic "Reese", with snaking sub bass over hardcore 909 drumbeats and whispered vocals. The bassline here became the foundations for so many drum and bass records of the 90s, but techno and house music were afforded a classic, minimal jacking track from one of the masters. Originally out in 1988.


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