Touch Sampler 2

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	1.	Please Leave A Message 00:12
	2.	Polyphony Group Of Lapharda - Legenda E Tanës 03:53
	3.	Air Traffic Control 00:38
	4.	Cold Warrior - Yellow Square 07:04
	5.	Philip Jeck - Nelson Surfs 06:33
	6.	Runaway Train 03:29
	7.	The Education System 00:09
	8.	New Order - Video 586 pt. 2 07:02
	9.	Igusti Ngurah Togog & His Son - Genggong Frog Sound 01:37
	10.	Mark Van Hoen - Channel Of Light 05:25
	11.	Ryoji Ikeda - Headphonics 0/0 03:18
	12.	Mother Tongue - The Voice And The Ear 02:00
	13.	Scala - Hold Me Down 03:57
	14.	John Duncan - Priority 02:52
	15.	Disinformation - Loran-C VLF 04:17
	16.	Couldn’t This Lengthy Therapy…? 00:10
	17.	Anthony Phillips - Danza Cuccaracha 05:46
	18.	Chris Watson - Guanacaste 02:14
	19.	Chris Watson - The Musiara Gate 01:53
	20.	Folk Orchestra Of Albania - Dite E Zeze Ish Kone E Honja 02:58
	21.	Daren Seymour & Mark Van Hoen - Omnipotent 07:56

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The series of ‘samplers’ compiled in the 90s and 00s were carefully curated and composed as narratives - although this aspect doesn't necessarily come across when staring at the track listings on their own, you realise immediately on listening how this unfolds. Every stage of the releases, from track selection, order, gap lengths and mastering to design, photographic and typography on the original CDs (now sold out) reflect this approach and remain a hallmark of Touch’s endeavours.

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Much like David Toop’s ‘Ocean of Sound’, this second Touch sampler stalks many unexpected and unexplored avenues for its pan-global take on what we’re listening to as the twentieth century wheezes to an asthmatic close. Thus alongside trax from New Order (a portion of a 23 minute track written for the opening of the Hacienda in 1982), Richard H. Kirk (as Cold Warrior) and Mark Van Hoen you get the Polyphony Group of Lapharda or Igusti Hgurah and his son from Bali, producing the ‘Gengong Frog Sound’, the Folk Orchestra of Albania or a recording from Canada involving the effrts to stop a runaway train. Such breadth of vision and inclusive tendencies can only be applauded – long may labels such as Touch continue to buck the reductivist nature of the music industry where homogeneity is prized above all, and the dollar sign is the loudest thing you’re likely to hear… [Cal Gibson]

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released April 2, 1997

Artwork & photography by Jon Wozencroft

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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.

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