Africa HiTech (AU)

Mark Pritchard is an Australia-based producer and DJ who records for such labels as Warp, Hyperdub, and Sonar Kollektiv. Steve White is the backbone of the British band Spacek, famous for their contributions to the vast borderlands of hip-hop and ambitious electronic music. They met over a decade ago, starting with occasional collaborations before finally starting a proper project under the name Africa HiTech, which explores almost every genre of pulsing bass-driven music, from original Jamaican dancehalls to Chicago house and Detroit techno, and even jazz. As one Pitchfork reviewer remarks, “The title of Africa HiTech’s debut album, 93 Million Miles, refers to the distance between the Earth and the Sun, but it could just as well allude to the stylistic lengths spanned by the record itself.