Touch

byMat Smith
June 11, 2022

Jon Wozencroft, founder of pioneering label and publisher Touch, reflects on 40 years of experimental electronics and audiovisual adventures

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A muggy night at London’s Kilburn National Ballroom in September 1987, and German industrial-meisters Einstürzende Neubauten are headlining. The support act? 1970s glam rock entertainers Showaddywaddy. As one press report aptly put it, “Say WADD?”

TTime Machine

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801, The Supergroup That Lasted Six Weeks

byPush

We’re heading back to the sizzling summer of 1976, where one-time Roxy Music colleagues Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno are heading up the intense but brief experiment they called 801

TTime Machine

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‘Under The Island: Experimental Music In Ireland 1960-1994’

byWill Simpson

A new album, ‘Under The Island: Experimental Music In Ireland 1960-1994’, focuses on an amazing bunch of late 20th century Irish bedroom producers and their early, lo-tech tinkerings

TTime Machine

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Metalheadz

byBen Murphy

In the summer of 1995, a new club night opened in a lost corner of east London. We join Goldie for a trip back to his groundbreaking Metalheadz Sunday Sessions at the Blue Note in Hoxton Square

TTime Machine

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Hardkiss At The 1995 Billboard Dance Music Summit

byKris Needs

When the distinguished American music trade mag hosted its Dance Music Summit in San Francisco in January 1995, little did they know that the stars of the show would be Hardkiss, an underground outfit who would inadvertently help lay the foundations of today’s EDM craze

TTime Machine

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Craig Armstrong

byMat Smith

Revered Scottish composer Craig Armstrong recalls the excitement of working with Massive Attack on their influential second album, ‘Protection’, and releasing his own work on their Melankolic label

Touch

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Mat Smith

Showaddywaddy

801, The Supergroup That Lasted Six Weeks

‘Under The Island: Experimental Music In Ireland 1960-1994’

Metalheadz

Hardkiss At The 1995 Billboard Dance Music Summit

Craig Armstrong

Adrian Sherwood

ESG ‘UFO’

Fifty Foot Hose

Fantastic Twins: Dual Purpose

Elizabeth Parker: Singing In The Wires

Emma-Jean Thackray

Cabaret Voltaire: Sensoria Overload

Keith Seatman: Outside The Box

Touch

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