Touch. 30 years and counting

by Touch

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£9 GBP or more
Full Digital Discography

6

releases

Get all 6 Touch releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Touch. 30 years and counting, Touch. 25, Touch: Ringtones, Touch Sampler 00, Touch Sampler 3, and Touch Sampler 2. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

£31.20 GBP or more (20% OFF)

1.	Various Artists - Touch. 30 years and counting - Side A 16:58	info
2.	Various Artists - Touch. 30 years and counting - Side B 17:15	info
3.	Various Artists - Touch. 30 years and counting - Side C 18:13	info
4.	Various Artists - Touch. 30 years and counting - Side D 17:48	info

about

This release was presented in 2012 as a movement in 4 parts for vinyl; the contributors credits are listed in the individual tracks.

“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

credits

released November 1, 2022

Compiled, edited, mixed and produced by Mike Harding & Jon Wozencroft
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye

All artwork & photography by Jon Wozencroft

license

about

Touch London, UK

Since its founding in 1982, Touch (based in London) has created audio-visual productions and live events that combine innovation with a level of care and attention that has made it the most enduring of any independent company of its time.

contact / help

Contact Touch

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Touch, you may also like:

Does Spring Hide Its Joy
by Kali Malone (featuring Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton)

supported by 7 fans who also own “Touch. 30 years and counting”

music. silence. Gold. Ganondorofu
go to album
Oxmardyke
by Philip Jeck & Chris Watson

supported by 7 fans who also own “Touch. 30 years and counting”

thanks so much . this album rescued me from the clutches of January. Along with Matana Roberts. Both found just in the nick of time in the Wire '23 retrospective. thanks Chris. So long Philip. tibufawa
go to album
Touch: Isolation
by Various Artists

supported by 7 fans who also own “Touch. 30 years and counting”

2020. 24bits @ 96kHz release neur0dancer
go to album
The Fifth Season (Versions)
by Lafawndah

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 9, 2024
go to album
Hotel Nota
by Roméo Poirier

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 9, 2024
go to album
Parallax
by Ahnnu

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 9, 2024
go to album
The Rail Trail
by Chris Watson

supported by 6 fans who also own “Touch. 30 years and counting”
go to album