― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 5 March 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago) link
revived to ponder recent touch releases ...
― djh, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
am enjoying hildur gudnadottir's without sinking
― djh, Thursday, 16 April 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
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― djh, Sunday, 19 April 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
interesting that they've started a new series of "art print + digital downloads" with an image that is probably the one i'd least want to put on my wall (it's from the inner sleeve of the spire sleeve, i think).
― djh, Monday, 20 April 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
"spirit guide to low tech" is incredible huh?
― Oh Sara, come back to New Hampshire, we'll stay there forever (Lamp), Friday, 22 January 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
yes. love that record. well overdue for a reissue.
― pshrbrn, Saturday, 23 January 2010 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
the newish oren ambarchi comp is p excellent l8 nite weeded-out music
― b( ۠·_۠·)b (Lamp), Saturday, 23 January 2010 07:40 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha ooooooh not so much anymore
― b( ۠·_۠·)b (Lamp), Saturday, 23 January 2010 07:43 (fourteen years ago) link
fennesz schtick has become not only dull but utterly dreadful in recent years. the best record he put out is that PLAYS single, in which the alleged "covers" of Stones songs sound nothing like the original. his take on "wall of sound" is so, so boring. rudimentary textures and predictable tonality. not much interesting at all, not even pleasant enough in that passive pastoral way. as far as glitch DSP "new music" is concerned there are loads of more talented electro acoustic sound artists out there with both more ideas and more chops.
rant over.
― zoom, Saturday, 23 January 2010 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
chops
― guammls (QE II), Sunday, 24 January 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
jana winderen enveloping arctic fish drones omg omg omg
― f a ole schwarzwelt (Lamp), Thursday, 8 April 2010 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure if i like this so much bcuz i think the ocean & fish are so rad or if it really is ~this good~ but damn i hope other ppl listen 2 this
anyone been to the chris watson thing at kew?
also: jana winderen love seconded.
― djh, Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i havent but ive really enjoyed the stuff hes done for touchradio (journey south, sound of islay).
what i really want are some of the ash internation tapes - http://www.ashinternational.com/editions/ash_91_bj_nilsen_draught_1.html. lol @ only releasing 500 copies. of a tape ://///
― super sad true lamp story (Lamp), Saturday, 14 August 2010 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there a new Biosphere album or have I dreamt that?
― djh, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah theres a new one thats cd only iirc
― Lamp, Saturday, 27 August 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
revived again to ponder recent touch releases ...
― crowhurst, Sunday, 16 February 2014 09:24 (ten years ago) link
New Jacaszek and Hildur Gudnadottir albums.
― djh, Sunday, 29 June 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Heard the Hildur Gudnadottir album today and am in love with it.
Also - no mention on this thread of the Touch app, which apparently lets you stream their entire 30-year catalog. I downloaded it this evening - free.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 20 July 2014 06:54 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/XxdMFzae-mE
Thomas Ankersmit - Figueroa Terrace
one of the nicest things i've heard this year.
/thread plummets
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 20 July 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
I made a playlist of the last 5 years or so of Touch, steadily going through it to see which artists are jumping out at me. The aforementioned Hildur Gudnadottir is high on the list - all of her albums are great. Johan Johannson, Daniel Menche's "Hover," Sohrab, Jacob Kirkegaard... all good. And the Fennesz, Ambarchi, and Biosphere albums from this period are good too.
Most of the Touch catalog, I realize, is unfamiliar territory for me. Once I get through the last five years I'll probably dig into the 2000s, then back further if I have the stamina. It does get to be a bit too much to hear too many of these records in a row.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 24 July 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
Enjoying Claire M Singer's "Solas" and Bethan Kellough's "Aven" after a bit of a break from Touch. Enjoying both, a lot. Have also ordered the Simon Scott recording on (related) Tapeworm.
― djh, Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
Any thoughts on Touch Movements? (Mostly is it worth £33?)
― djh, Friday, 2 March 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link