Mark Pritchard - Make A Livin'

What this video is

Released November 2013 on Warp Records (catalogue WAP350), Make A Livin' was the third and final EP in a trilogy that marked Pritchard's formal consolidation under his birth name after two decades of aliases. The EP fused footwork, jungle, acid, and dancehall at a moment when UK producers were engaging seriously with Chicago footwork's rhythmic vocabulary. The visualiser format — a single unbroken static or…

Why it matters

Documents the convergence of footwork, jungle, acid techno, and dancehall in early-2010s UK bass music. The EP and its visual companion represent a transitional artefact: Pritchard moving from dance-floor eclecticism toward the deeply atmospheric ambient direction of his subsequent albums, while…

The director

Jonathan Zawada (b. 1981, Perth, Western Australia) is a self-taught Australian multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installation, and object design. He began professional graphic design work in Sydney in the…