History
2008
The Touch Sevens Series continues, and Philip Jeck's album, 'Sand, is released in March. Touch are nominated for numerous awards at Qwartz 4, Paris, and Touch artists appear over two nights at the ceremonies in early April. Atmospheres 2 takes...
2007
Touch 25 finished with a sell-out event at The Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol with a live performance of Storm, Biosphere and a workshop by Chris Watson & Mike Harding. The year began with albums by KK Null, Lasse Marhaug | Nils...
2006
The year begins with a major new release by Biosphere, and the start of the 25th anniversary events. A dedicated show was held in October in London, and a festival in York immediately after. Rosy Parlane came over from New...
2005
BJ Nilsen releases Fade to white, and Spire Live from Geneva [see above] is produced. First release on Touch for Jacob Kirkegaard, and in June a live collaboration between Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto. In October Touch plays Ultima, Oslo,...
2004
A collaboration between Organum and Z'EV, Tinnitus, Philip Jeck's 7 and Venice by Fennesz are released. First CD by Rosy Parlane, Iris. Spire performed Live in Geneva Cathedral at La Batie festival, with Marcus Davidson, Fennesz, Philip Jeck, Charles Matthews...
2003
Mika Vainio's and Chris Watson's 3rd solo albums are released, along with new cds by Phill Niblock and Ken Ikeda, and a first acoustic cd from Ryoji Ikeda, op. Watson's Weather Report at the Lovebytes festival, Cut and Splice and...
2002
Touch: Ringtones CD is released in February. Jóhann Jóhannsson's Englabörn, 3rd albums by Biosphere, Philip Jeck and Mika Vainio. The live tour continues around Europe, including the opening of the STUK centre in Leuven. Easter Friday at the Pompidou Centre,...
2001
Touch celebrates its 20th year with a UK tour with Biosphere, Fennesz & Hazard, including May 21st at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Release of 'Touch Works...' by Phill Niblock. The 3rd in the Rehberg & Bauer trilogy and Locust's...
2000
Touch releases Biosphere's Cirque on CD and LP. Chris Watson wins a distinction at Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) for his CD Outside the Circle of Fire (1998). Mika Vainio's Kajo is released. Ryoji Ikeda tours with Zoviet France....
1999
Touch & Fuse book, Fennesz's 47 degrees... CD and the the first release by Oren Ambarchi....
1998
Heading into glitch territory _ the arrival of Apple's Powerbook computers encourage musicians to develop their own mobile/performing studios. Philip Jeck's Surf takes the art of vinyl/turntable manipulation a step further. Chris Watson's Outside the Circle of Fire uses close-up...
1997
Release of the first solo CD by Mika Vainio from Pan Sonic (formerly Panasonic), and beginning of collaboration with Mark Van Hoen (Locust) and Scala which results in Last Flowers from the Darkness, a collection of works by Mark Van...
1996
Touch releases the first solo CD by Chris Watson, formerly sound recordist with the Royal Society for Protection of Birds, and later sound recordist for many BBC wildlife programmes, including David Attenborough's award-winning Life of Birds. Closely followed by...
1995
Touch releases Loopholes, the first solo cd by Philip Jeck, winner of the Time Out Performance Award in 1993 for Vinyl Requiem. The first time digitally-generated film becomes acceptable in the production process, so the beginning of our association with...
1994
Continuing to work with The Hafler Trio and Richard Kirk, whose Sandoz and Sweet Exorcist CDs and vinyl are released....
1993
Sandoz's (aka Richard H. Kirk) Digital Lifeforms CD is described in The Observer as 'dance music for the twenty first century'. In the next 7 years, Kirk records and releases 7 further CDs, Intensely Radioactive (1994), Every Man Got Dreaming...
1988-1992
Artworking out of the Neville Brody Studio whilst working on various parallel projects. Production and release of the Z'EV retrospective, One Foot in the Grave. 1989 Production of Spiral series with A.M. McKenzie. Vögel by Strafe Für Rebellion gathers together...
1986-1987
'Interaction' exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre, London, featuring Peter Blake, Brian Eno, Russell Mills, Jamie Reid and Touch. Feature on Channel 4's 'The Tube'. Screening of Alternation Perception and Resistance by The Hafler Trio on C4's 'After Image'. 1986...
1983-1986
Meridians One and Two, Touch Travel, Ritual: Lands End and Ritual: Magnetic North, featuring artists such as Test Department, A Certain Ratio, Derek Jarman, Russell Mills, Peter Saville, General Strike, Jah Wobble, Gilbert and George, Joseph Beuys, Jamie Reid, Greil...
1982
4th March - Official founding of Touch by Jon Wozencroft 11th March - New Order perform at The Newcastle Mayfair December - First Touch release, Feature Mist, one in a series of six cassette magazines. Exclusive tracks by New Order,...