Reload

The first incarnation of producers Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton, Reload graced the first three releases for the duo’s own Evolution Records. The Reload, The Autoreload and The Biosphere (each released in 1991) matched the moodier side of Detroit techno with acid-house and sweeping synthesizer lines borrowed from soundtrack music. A brief contract with Infonet Records resulted in two additional EPs and the 1993 full-length A Collection of Short Stories, though Pritchard and Middleton virtually retired the Reload name by 1994, when their first LP as Global Communication was released. Reload remixes of Slowdive, Aphex Twin and Nav Katze have also appeared. [See Also: Global Communication, Jedi Knights] ~ John Bush