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V.A. (VARIOUS ARTISTS) (COMPILATIONS) - TOUCH. 30 Years and counting

Format: do-LP Label & Cat.Number: Touch Tone 33 Release Year: 2012 Note: the famous British experimental label celebrates with this their 30th anniversary - all tracks are exlusive and original to this release: FENNESZ, BRUCE GILBERT, BJ NILSEN, CHRIS WATSON, MIKA VAINIO, VON HAUSSWOLFF, BIOSPHERE, Z'EV, FRANCISCO LOPEZ, HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR, etc... coincidenes with the "Touch.30 Atmospheres 4 festival" in London 5./6.Dec. 2012; comes in gatefold-cover, lim. 1000 BACK IN STOCK LAST COPIES; HIGHER PRICE UNAVOIDABLE! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €24.50 More Info "Compiled, edited, mixed and produced by Mike Harding & Jon Wozencroft, 14-15th October 2012. Cut by Jason at Transition, 16th October 2012. Artwork & Photography by Jon Wozencroft. Release date: 5th December 2012. Released to coincide with Touch's 30th anniversary celebrations at Beaconsfield, London, on December 5th and 6th 2012, all tracks are exclusive and original to this release With Fennesz, Bruce Gilbert, Rosy Parlane, Oren Ambarchi, ELEH, BJNilsen, Nana April Jun, Chris Watson, Mika Vainio, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jana Winderen, Philip Jeck, Francisco López, Z'EV, Hildur Gudnadottir, Biosphere. 30 years and counting is an echo of a time when the world was in a critical condition, and potentially about to blow itself into oblivion at the tail end of the Cold War. As such the title is a wry reflection on the situation we find ourselves in today, where the final curtain is less likely to close, but the stakes somehow seem to be more extreme and polarised than ever. As far as Touch is concerned, it is an expression of our youthful relationship to the work. Mike Harding and Jon Wozencroft invited each of the Touch artists to contribute a glimpse of their current practice to what is effectively a group show rather than a compilation. The brief was not only to celebrate a situation, but to remind each other why we are doing it, and make a kind of documentary realism. Some artists responded quickly with significant twists and returns to their signature sound and others left it to the last minute. The net result was that Mike and Jon mastered the LP/CD more or less as live performance in the cutting room, Transition, as an expression of the vitality of the project rather than some pre-ordained historical item. The history is built into the cover with two images of the first computer, the ‘Colossus’, built in Bletchley Park during the early 1940s as a means of cracking the Enigma codes… Here the pressure of time is at its most compressed. Two contra-punctal images were shot only recently, backstage moments of Touch 30 situations which as historical events, pale in comparison – they are just personal, memories in a flash. 30 years and counting is a filmic/time-based response from a collective of artists who have made a distinct impression on contemporary music and the way things go. Fennesz, Eleh, Hildur Gudnadottir, Chris Watson, Philip Jeck, Biosphere… We should really list everyone. That’s what they try and do on hip-hop albums. We started with cassettes; this project commenced as a dedication to vinyl rather than digital, a question concerning the art of recording. 30 years and counting is a manifesto after all these transformations. It is available on CD and download. The vinyl flares with the crackle of the present." [Jon Wozencroft, November 2012 / label info] www.touchmusic.org.uk