Mark Pritchard, one of the two founding members of the legendary Global Communication and Jedi Knights, returns to Warp at the end of February with a new EP released as Harmonic 313. Moving away from the library music tones of Harmonic 33 by adding a 1 to the name, Pritchard turns his attention to Detroit and hip-hop infused dance music and adds some very contemporary flavours to the mix.

EP1, which is due out on 12” and digital download, also includes a playful aspect with all track titles shown only as colour codes to be solved. The 12” will feature five tracks, with an extra track available to download once the code has been cracked.

The EP is out on Warp Records on 28 January, with an album announced for the summer.

Mark Pritchard (MySpace) | Warp Records

The excellent London-based imprint Highpoint Lowlife will host a label showcase at the Luminaire, Kilburn, North London, on Saturday 26 January from 8pm, with live performances from The Marcia Blaine School For Girls, The Village Orchestra, Fisk Industries and Mandelbrot. The evening will also feature a special turntable DJ set from Production Unit. Check out the HPLL website for more information.

Highpoint Lowlife | The Luminaire

Details of the forthcoming Autechre album, their ninth, have been revealed in a recent Warpmart newsletter. The album, entitled Quaristice, is due to be released on 3 March and is the follow up to Rob Brown and Sean Booth’s 2005 Untilted album. The album will feature no less than twenty tracks. The cover, designed, for the first time since the Cichli Suite EP, by The Designers Republic, was also unveiled.

Full track listing as follow:

1. Altibzz
2. The Plc
3. IO
4. Plyphon
5. Perlence
6. SonDEremawe
7. Simmm
8. Paralel Suns
9. Steels
10. Tankakern
11. Rale
12. Fol3
13. fwzE
14. 90101-51-1
15. bnc Castl
16. Theswere
17. WNSN
18. chenc9
19. Notwo
20. Outh9X

The band will embark on a full European tour to coincide with the release of the album. Dates as follow:

FEBRUARY
29 Manchester, UK, Music Box

MARCH
01 Glasgow, UK - Arts School
02 Newcastle, UK - Digital
03 Birmingham, UK - Med Bar
04 London, UK - Venue TBC
05 Koln, Germany - Stattgarten
06 Amsterdam, Holland - Melkweg
07 Antwerp, Belgium - Petrol
08 Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang
09 Berlin, Germany - Berghain
10 Katowice, Poland - Jazz Club
11 Budapest, Hungry - Merlin
12 Zagreb, Croatia - Kset
13 Graz, Austria - Post Garage
14 Italy - Town and venue TBC
15 Rome, Italy - Venue TBC
16 Italy - Town and venue TBC
17 Lyon, France - Epicerie Moderne
18 Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie
19 Paris, France - Rex Club
20 Geneva, Switzerland - L’Usine, Electron Festival

Autechre (MySpace) | Warp Records

Clark has just released a new EP, Throttle Promoter, ahead of the release of his fourth album, Turning Dragon, on 28 January on Warp. Throttle Promoter is currently only available from Bleep.com, but it will be made available from other digital stores from Monday 10 December. The EP is also released on 12” through regular stores. Throttle Promoter is said to take Clark’s sound from the excellent Body Riddle from last year to a ‘tougher rave sound’.

Clark is also to play a string of dates in the UK around the time of the release of the album, starting in London on 7 February, then Glasgow on 8 February and Manchester on 16 February.

Clark | Warp Records | Bleep.com

New Autechre album announced on Warp in early 2008. At the moment, there is no information on release date, track listing and so on. The only information available is the title of Autechre’s ninth album: Quaristice

Warp Records

Norwegian label Beat Service have re-released the first three albums by Biosphere, Microgravity, originally released on Origo Sound in 1991, Patashnik (Apollo), from 1994, and the long out of print soundtrack Insomnia, published on Origo Sound in 1997. The albums do not feature any additional material, but have been repackaged. It is also the first time that Insomnia benefits of a full international release.

Biosphere | Beat Service

Plaid have just released a digital-only single entitled Faster, which was recorded to showcase Apple’s new Logic Studio music software suite. The six-minute piece is the first new recording from Plaid since the release of their 2006 audio-visual feast Greedy Baby and the soundtrack to anime film Tekkon Kinkreet, currently still only available on import only. The DVD of the Japanese animated movie was released at the end of September, and the film will be premiered in the UK on Thursday 29 November at the Taliesin Arts Centre in Swansea, Wales, as part of Swansea Animation Days (SAND).

The band have also announced two UK dates, the first one on Saturday 20 October 2007, at Ginglik, London (DJ set), and the second on 2 November at Spectrum, Nottingham (live).

Plaid | Warp Records | Taliesin Arts Centre

Grizzly Bear will follow last year’s excellent Yellow House album with the Friend EP on 5 November on Warp Records. The 10 track EP, clocking at just under 50 minutes, features two new songs, He Hit Me, a cover of a 1962 song by The Crystals, and Granny Diner, alternate versions of Alligator, Little Brother, Shift and Plans, and covers of Knife by CSS, Band Of Horses and Atlas Sound, better known as Deerhunter.

Grizzly Bear | Warp Records

The excellent Highpoint Lowlife will be releasing two very limited albums in coming weeks, starting with Tigrics’s Synki on 16 October, followed by Erstlaub’s beautifully titled One Becoming An Island on 30 October.

HPLL recently affirmed its commitment to releasing music as beautiful artefacts destined to collectors, and to this effect, both albums will be released at just 100 physical copies on CDR housed in white DVD cases, with handdrawn artwork by Tigrics for his album and artwork designed by Mathieu Ranson for Erstlaub’s release. Both albums will also be made available as digital FLAC download from the HPLL website from the respective release date.

Synki features nine original tracks using field recording and ‘his own micro modular mad scientist composition’, while On Becoming An Island features just one ambient track spreading over just under forty four minutes.

Highpoint Lowlife | Tigrics | Erstlaub

Mark Clifford (Seefeel, Disjecta) and Simon Kealoha (Calika) will be releasing their second collaborative effort, Khartik, on 29 October on Clifford’s Polyfusia Records. The album follows the pair’s first effort, Running Taper, released two years ago. Khartik is described as being more stripped down than its predecessor. The six tracks were once again assembled from live sessions, with Clifford playing electric guitar and Kealoha playing bass.

Polyfusia Records