― Douglas, Monday, 2 December 2002 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
is that comp good then? i imagined it'd be dull to sit through
― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Someone who knew Robin mentioned "hey I hear you're going to New York soon"... you can guess the rest. Scanner left the label soon after that.
All i would say to Mr Concerned, is make sure you get EVERYTHING in writing......
― Gypsum Pfantastic, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 09:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Norman, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 11:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm interested in learning a bit more. Came up in a conversation the other day, and it's shocking how uneducated I am.
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 09:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
Touch records have been advertising in the Wire as long as i can remember reading it, spring 1994,
Touch records are one of the foremost experimental record labels in the UK, alongside labels such FatCat and Leaf.
Chris Watson once of Cabaret Voltaire, has released many "Field Recordings" on Touch. Chris Watson appeared in the recent Cut and Splice festival, and this was broadcasted on Radio 3: Hear and Now.
Touch records are known from their cover artwork.
Fennesz next album is due in the summer on Touch it's called Venice. Fennesz was highly rated by many ILM folk when his last album was released in 2001 on [Mego], Endless Summer.
Googlism for: fennesz
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― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 09:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 09:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
(This is a genuine request, BTW, I'm not just being lazy and not doing research. I have to keep up my end of the conversation in certain situations and not sit there feeling like an idiot with my mouth full of teeth...)
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 10:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
anyways. Touch, an interesting label. some catalog gems to S:
Evan Parker & Lawrence Casserley Solar Wind - pre-Parker's E-A Ensemble sax + live processing action. sounds like Xenakis improvised in real-time. fantastic.
Mark van Hoen The Last Flowers from the Darkness - Locust main man solo. proto-triphop, live techno, Eno/Budd or Hollis-type ambience. much to savor here.
the only essential Hafler Trio albums (Mastery of Money, Kill the King)
Soliman Gamil - A Map of Egypt Before the Sands CD. ancient Egyptian music as imagined by modern musicians.
Ken Ikeda - Tzuki (Moon) - no relation. Vini Reilly-like electronics. very Japanese.
so, does this S/D also cover Ash International / Ash [R.I.P.], Tone, Alphaphone, and the bizarre OR label?
― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm not going to tell. But if you guess and you're right, I'll wink or something. ;-)
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
Hrmm, intriguing... maybe there is some substance to that "Fennesz is ILX's new poster boy..." rumour... (Just kidding! I do NOT even know Fennesz, so let's nip that in the bud.)
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Dammit, we came up with a song that would make the best ringtone the other day, but I promptly forgot it because HSA didn't have a guitar or a keyboard or anything I could actually make *real* music with at his house, and you can hardly work out a ringtone on an oscillator or radioastronomy equipment now, can you?)
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
I mean, HSA has dared me to go and tape the Metal Machine Mainframe back in the server room with a wonky bit of radioequipment and submit it to Touch and see what they think... ;-)
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
ha-hem. You're not doing a very good job of guessing, there, Ned.
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
Now then. I have reviewed all the current people on the list and profess myself slightly befuddled in that half the artist links didn't work. The only person who seemed a vaguely logical candidate was Mark Van Hoen, but I have to say I doubt it.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
I can get that sort of thing in the radio systems lab next door (but not necessarily with Evan Parker blowing over the top of it).
― Andrew Norman, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
I was going to say that it was odd, that he was listed on the front page, but that I couldn't find him in the drop-down thing. But then I looked, and he's on Ash International, apparently.
Is there a difference, and ifso, what?
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
SETI, whoever he is in real life?
― Andrew Norman, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
He doesn't go by his real name, he goes under a moniker. I've all but given it away in the past, and no one cottoned on! Come on, Imber was a BIIIIIG clue...
And no, not SETI.
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Norman, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
Damn, and he would have got away with it if it wasn't for you pesky kids...
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
(It was funny how this all came up. Joe and I went out with my friend/conspirator in the EBA last night, and we were sitting talking about computer noise, and Joe was talking about his stuff, and Jesse was all "Oh, have you ever thought of releasing any of your stuff on Touch?" and Joe just grinned and said "Yeah. I've been releasing records on Touch for about eight years now" - I guess you had to be there, but it was very funny.)
― kate, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
I was wrong after all. Shit!
― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Norman, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
Thanks for the info, guys.
― kate, Thursday, 22 May 2003 07:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
the saxophone with real time processing was also done by lol coxhill in '78/'79 and its on digswell duets on emanem, which i really like.
might check the evan parker out.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 22 May 2003 07:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
[1] A cardboard box in which I keep the CDs, before you all start drooling over some mythical 25 CD set of shortwave radio interference and hippos burping.
― Andrew Norman, Thursday, 22 May 2003 08:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Joe had Antiphony out the other night because apparently some of the artwork from it was nicked by an organisation, but I can't comment on that because it might get legal. I shall force him to play it at some point this weekend. (We'll see if he has to leave the room while I play his things the way I have to leave the room if he puts on The Lollies.)
― kate, Thursday, 22 May 2003 08:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Oh that's so embarrassing - that was the period when I thought the 500-1500 MHz area of the spectrum was interesting! VLF horizontal line oscillation and 60Hz AC harmonics - what was I thinking?"
Can't see it, myself.
― Andrew Norman, Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate, Thursday, 22 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
I heard this rumour last night, and I also heard that some tabloid newspaper was digging around, trying to research this, and trying to play it on the angle of "Talk Show Host Michael Aspel has this creepy nephew who RECORDS OTHER PEOPLES TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS, the pervert!"
Experimentalist music is more fun that I ever guessed!
― kate (kate), Friday, 13 June 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate (kate), Friday, 13 June 2003 09:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kate (kate), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
from the latest David Sylvian e-mail newsletterFennesz's new album, "Venice", featuring David Sylvian on Transit is out on March 15th. It will be released later with 2 bonus tracks in Japan.
Touch records have the tracklisting: Fennesz - Venice
Further info on Fennesz website - states a April 26th release in the UK.
Touch # TO:5312 tracks: 49:05Artwork & Photography by Jon WozencroftUK Release Date: April 26th
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
― a, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
― 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