Various Artists - Touch 00

Touch # T_ZERO_0 [CD]

CD - 21 tracks

Tracklist:

1. Ryoji Ikeda Matrix (For An Anechoic Room) (6:02)

2. Daniel Menche Down (5:42)

3. Chris Watson Friday The 13th (2:25)

4. AER As You Wander Round (2:28)

5. Thomas Brinkmann Olga A1 (6:26)

6. Unknown Artist Relationship Volume (0:31)

7. Locust Wrong (4:42)

Vocals - Holli Ashton 8. Unknown Artist Naming A Flower (0:12)

9. Chris Watson A Celebration (2:17)

10. Scala Breaking Point (6:54)

11. Philip Jeck As My Shadow Passes … (9:37)

12. People Like Us / Jet Black Hair People, The / Wobbly KZSU 14 Sept 99 (3:35)

13. Unknown Artist In Brief (0:28)

14. Hazard Flood Gate (5:39)

15. Unknown Artist Mach .853 (Moscow Air Traffic Control Over Turukhansk, Siberia, October 1990) (1:04)

16. Richard H. Kirk Entering Valhalla Without A Laptop (But With An Umbrella, A Sewing Machine And An Operating Table - Dig It) (5:22)

17. Chris Watson A Blessing (1:00)

18. AER Bread Upon The Water (3:38)

19. Biosphere Sun-Baked (3:43)

20. Tobias Frere-Jones F-Hz (#190736, 1996) (1:15)

21. Mika Vainio Ilmaantuva (Airing/Appearancing) (6:38)

Reviews:

Your Flesh (US):

For those unfamiliar, the London based Touch label may be the finest progressive music label in the world. Their releases range from ethereal pop to abstract electronica, from field recordings to ambient drum 'n' bass. Each release is designed by inhouse photographer and artist jon Wozencroft, and often the packages are in oversized cardboard - an utterly unique and compelling combination of music and art. Touch 00 is their 4th combination and running just shy of 80 minutes, contains all previously unreleased tracks. Stand out pieces include Thomas Brinkmann's "Olga 1", a spooky, beat-based breathing atmosphere, Chris Watson's field recordings in Ethiopia of young boys chanting while herding goats, Scala's |Breaking Point", which begins in rather benign symphonic grandeur only to collapse in a vortex of crunching rhythm and voice, the brooding heavy ambience of Hazard's "Flood Gate", and the list goes on. The recordings are uniformly excellent, and headphones take it all to another level. I've heard a good deal of these artists CDs, and I've yet to be let down. Exceptional. [Wade Iverson]

The Wire (UK):

Touch samplers recalibrate your listening habits by stretching you in new directions while reintroducing past interests. On T_Zero_0 (Touch 00 CD), unlikely juxtapositions such as Locust's crystalline pop next to Chris Watson's anthropological field recordings, are utterly refreshing, even if these pieces could possibly be annoying to hear on their own. AER's "As You Wander round" is local anthropology; Richard H. Kirk's "Entering Valhalla Without A Laptop" is surrealist homage' Mika Vainio and philip Jeck complement Ryoji Ikeda's hard-edged formalist abstraction; and Scala's "Breaking Point" shifts from oceanic strings through extreme sun Ra chaos to a heaving trance beat and spatial guitars. The breadth of approaches here exemplifies the deftness of Touch. [Ben Borthwick]

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