AUTUMNS – DYSLEXIA SOUND SYSTEM

Buy: https://touchsensitiverecords.bandcamp.com/album/dyslexia-sound-system

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR21
LP / Digital
Friday 5th March

Autumns Meets Post-Punkers Uptown.

A couple of years after the Dyslexia Tracks EP, and following a volley of killer releases on labels such as iDEAL, Death & Leisure and Opal Tapes, Autumns returns to Touch Sensitive with perhaps his most complete set to date.

Pitching down the BPM but maintaining the intensity of his recent recorded output and incendiary live shows, Dyslexia Sound System sees Christian Donaghey turn the edit on himself with a grip of eight dub-wave zingers.

Pulling from his love of On-U Sound, The Pop Group, and Public Image Limited, Dyslexia Sound System perfectly fuses dubbed-out dynamics with the tough and unrelenting electronics that has become Autumns' signature sound. Guitars squall, clarinets skronk, vocals echo, roto-toms repeat and - as always with Autumns - rhythm is king.

Dyslexia Sound System is the sickest handbrake turn in Autumns' relentless and wired journey to date.

Ltd. 250 vinyl. Mastered by The Bastard. Cut by Kitaro at Schnittstelle. Artwork by Rinky.

Autumns - Dyslexia Sound System

GROUP ZERO – EVERYONE’S ALREADY COME APART 
Touch Sensitive Records | TSR23 
LP / Digital
 Friday 22 October 2021

https://touchsensitiverecords.bandcamp.com/album/everyone-s-already-come-apart

'Everyone’s Already Come Apart' sees the return to Touch Sensitive of Group Zero, the solo project of Belfast-based musician, Cathal Cully.

The Group Zero moniker has been an outlet for Cully to explore a loose experimentalism within electronic production whilst still feeding off the same diet of his post-punk roots: repetition, repetition, repetition.

Four years on from his previous outing for the label, 'Everyone’s Already Come Apart' heralds a shift in trajectory - leaving behind the colder, industrial glaze and softening the angular edges to reveal warmer, psychedelic rhythms - hinting at heady optimism and playful escapism.

These five tracks take us on a trip that both pushes and pulls. Moments of meditative stasis are clipped by propulsive 4/4 grooves. Snatches of heavily treated vocals and keys further the unmapped journey.
We find ourselves in the headspace of those beautiful off-kilter 3am dance floor moments - flickering bright lights arrest us from being lost in fog machine haze. Next, we're soundtracking the patina of those early-morning trails - pushing through nature’s wow and flutter - equally as psychedelic. The call and response pairing of cuts on either side of the record both adds to the wooze and eases the orientation.

“Making music for this record was an exercise in playing for myself alone.” says Cully. “The catalyst for 'Everyone’s Already Come Apart' was a painter-like need for destruction of the canvas - reconstructing previous rough edits and forgotten weirder motifs into something even more unique and beautiful. It was almost more of an exercise in listening than playing. If it sounded weird, then it had to be made weirder. I wanted to let the sounds breathe.”

Time to jump in - everyone’s already come apart.

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Group Zero - Everyone's Already Come Apart

VOX POPULI! - PSYKO TROPIX
Touch Sensitive Records – TSR22 LP / Digital
Fri 15th April 2022

Touch Sensitive is honoured to dig into the vaults of legendary cult French group Vox Populi! with a collection primarily pulling from their creative highpoint of 1986-1990. The vast majority of the works are unreleased and all make their first appearance on vinyl. The recordings have been licensed from the group’s extensive archive, mastered by Rupert Clervaux and cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnitstelle. The release is completed by liner notes focusing on Vox Populi!’s creative process and prolific output.

Springing from the rip it up restart of post-punk in 1980 and primarily active throughout that decade, Vox Populi!'s discography is a perfect showcase of an almost unclassifiable group. The often-used ‘ethno- industrial’ tag - even if not approved by the group - goes some way to describing a melting pot of primarily self-taught techniques and vast cultural influences. Founding member Axel Kyrou’s parents were avant- garde musicians and filmmakers resulting in a heavy cultural immersion from a young age. His partner and bandmate Mitra moved from Iran to Paris in 1978 - followed a few years later by her virtuoso brother Arash who joined the group at the age of 14.

Based in their 14th arronidissement studio - previously Axel and his brother’s family playroom - Vox Populi! quickly became a lynchpin in the Parisian experimental scene and beyond through the burgeoning mail-art scene. The group contributed work to a huge number of independent labels.

Their music and approach quickly progressed from rudimentary experiments to harness transcendental spiritual qualities and moments of intense beauty. In this collection, we can feel the vibrations of Don Cherry’s Organic Music Society, Faust’s communal explorations and King Tubby’s forward-thinking studio experimentation.

“We recorded everything - every idea. We would always have a cassette or a reel running. We made such different styles - freaky, alternative, experimental, industrial etc. We had no rules and no plans - our main motives were play and pleasure. I think that many people can feel that in the music.”

Three tracks recorded in 2017 by a reconfigured Vox Populi! sit perfectly with music from 30 years previous - “We were never defined by fashion or the zeitgeist. So we remained ourselves. Our sound is still natural. We had to be turned on by our own music and we wanted the music to have an impact on consciousness. We were the subjects of our own experiments and there was also a kind of mystery - even for us."

The Psyko Tropix collection is another magical and mysterious addition to the open-hearted and open-eared world of Vox Populi!

“The music of Vox Populi! found me several years ago and it was one of my record digging highlights. Their stark contrast of dark and light paints a beautiful picture of the physical and mental world we all live in. This new album doesn’t miss a step in exploring further in both directions” 
Cut Chemist

Vox Populi! - Pysko Tropix

Elaine Howley - The Distance Between Heart And Mouth

AUTUMNS - DYSLEXIA SOUND SOURCE
TSR29 | Touch Sensitive Records
LP & Digital
Date: Fri 7th June

https://li.sten.to/autumnsdss

For his fourth release via Touch Sensitive under the 'Dyslexia Sound' banner, Autumns strips it right down to the bone and takes it back to the Source.

"Raw Product" indeed, Dyslexia Sound Source sucks up and spits out influence over ten tracks that are both lean but massively heavy.

A decade on from his nascent, no-wave debut for Downwards Records, Autumns' productions have both matured and sonically expanded into a dubbed-out dysfunctional metal dance without losing any of the intensity from those early blasts.
Anyone who has caught him live over the last few years knows there is simply no compromise.

We hear the raw rhythm of Cut Hands, the weight of Jah Shaka's sound system, the slink of an ESG bassline, the sensuality of Chris & Cosey, and the soundboard magic of Adrian Sherwood.

However, as always, an Autumns release is far from a facsimile. With a unique touch and endless desire to push things forward, this collection can only be classified as thee Dyslexia Sound.

Autumns - Dyslexia Sound Source

Autumns Meets Post-Punkers Uptown.

A couple of years after the Dyslexia Tracks EP, and following a volley of killer releases on labels such as iDEAL, Death & Leisure and Opal Tapes, Autumns returns to Touch Sensitive with perhaps his most complete set to date.

Pitching down the BPM but maintaining the intensity of his recent recorded output and incendiary live shows, Dyslexia Sound System sees Christian Donaghey turn the edit on himself with a grip of eight dub-wave zingers.

Pulling from his love of On-U Sound, The Pop Group, and Public Image Limited, Dyslexia Sound System perfectly fuses dubbed-out dynamics with the tough and unrelenting electronics that has become Autumns' signature sound. Guitars squall, clarinets skronk, vocals echo, roto-toms repeat and - as always with Autumns - rhythm is king.

Dyslexia Sound System is the sickest handbrake turn in Autumns' relentless and wired journey to date.

Ltd. 250 vinyl. Mastered by The Bastard. Cut by Kitaro at Schnittstelle. Artwork by Rinky.

Dyslexia Sound System

How To Apply For A Job

They had been walking and wandering through the sandy outback for an awfully long time. It seemed as though they had been on their feet for a lifetime, moving slowly through the desert towards the hope of something more. They needed water, we needed water. The light was dying over the dunes in the distance and soon the sun would be gone leading to nothing but the dense bitter cold of an autumn night. 

Group Zero is the moniker of Belfast's Cathal Cully. This is a new project for Touch Sensitve Records and see's him dabble in experimental electronic flavours - a mutated, abstract, downtempo, dubby, krautrock inspired record which is not but one thing.

Everyone’s Already Come Apart

PREMIERE: Group Zero - We Need Water [Touch Sensitive Records]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-group-zero-memorial-device

@touchsensitiverecords are back with another LP of blistering electronics with a post-punk edge from @group-zero, the solo project of Belfast-based musician, Cathal Cully.

Group Zero - Memorial Device [Touch Sensitive Records]

Psyko Tropix

Vox Populi! - Golpari June

Vox Populi! - Mush Dubby Gnarls & Vrooms

The rain came down harder than ever before today, it left thick streaks down the windows that obscured the outside world. It seemed to mirror her mood; no matter how much she tried, she couldn't read him at all - his mouth said one thing but his eyes said something completely different. Unbeknownst to him she'd already been putting their relationship to the test, and as it stood he wasn't set to pass with flying colours. 

Cork-based singer and musician Elaine Howley has made a name for herself in Ireland's underground music scene as part of several groups, Crevice, Howlbux and The Altered Hours. As a solo artist her work is intimate and personal, weaving together dusty, textural motifs and lo-fi ditties that suck you into her sonic world. Her newest LP, The Distance Between Heart and Mouth, takes a diaristic form. Recorded on a four-track cassette machine during 2019 and 2020, the nine tracks are guided by Elaine's distant, wistful vocals which sit on a bed of sounds that touch on dub, alt-pop, soul, chanson and psychedelic folk, reminiscent of artists like Broadcast, Leslie Winer and Tirzah.

The Distance Between Heart And Mouth

PREMIERE: Elaine Howley - To The Test [Touch Sensitive]

'71 - Original Soundtrack By David Holmes
Limited Vinyl / CD / Digital - Friday 10th October. 



David Holmes - '71 - Sample 1

"For his fourth release via Touch Sensitive under the 'Dyslexia Sound' banner, Autumns strips it right down to the bone and takes it back to the Source.

"Raw Product" indeed, Dyslexia Sound Source sucks up and spits out influence over ten tracks that are both lean but massively heavy.

A decade on from his nascent, no-wave debut for Downwards Records, Autumns' productions have both matured and sonically expanded into a dubbed-out dysfunctional metal dance without losing any of the intensity from those early blasts. Anyone who has caught him live over the last few years knows there is simply no compromise.

We hear the raw rhythm of Cut Hands, the weight of Jah Shaka's sound system, the slink of an ESG bassline, the sensuality of Chris & Cosey, and the soundboard magic of Adrian Sherwood.

However, as always, an Autumns release is far from a facsimile. With a unique touch and endless desire to push things forward, this collection can only be classified as thee Dyslexia Sound."

Written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Autumns
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Artwork by Rinky

Dyslexia Sound Source

Inside The Bins

He sped down the freeway, the wild west on all four sides. The heat was blazing down upon no mans land from up above as he drove ever faster into the setting sun.

In the distance he could see the horizon, the end was in sight. Was he being entirely reasonable? Were his intentions pure?

Probably not. But as the car whizzed towards the cliff edge like some sort of extra from Thelma and Lousie, he cared little but for his decisions.

Touch Sensitive are set to release a record from Autumns, who once again channels leftfield experimentation into a bass tinged new album for the label.

PREMIERE: Autumns - Purely Reasonable [Touch Sensitive]

Artist: Autumns
Title: 'Digital Swing'
Label: Touch Sensitive Records
Cat. #: TSR29
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Release: 7th June, 2024
Pre order: https://touchsensitiverecords.bandcamp.com/album/dyslexia-sound-source

Sounds From NoWhere is pleased to premiere a new Autumns' gem on 'Touch Sensitive Records'.

For his fourth release via Touch Sensitive under the 'Dyslexia Sound' banner, Autumns strips it right down to the bone and takes it back to the Source.

"Raw Product" indeed, Dyslexia Sound Source sucks up and spits out influence over ten tracks that are both lean but massively heavy.

A decade on from his nascent, no-wave debut for Downwards Records, Autumns' productions have both matured and sonically expanded into a dubbed-out dysfunctional metal dance without losing any of the intensity from those early blasts.

Anyone who has caught him live over the last few years knows there is simply no compromise.

We hear the raw rhythm of Cut Hands, the weight of Jah Shaka's sound system, the slink of an ESG bassline, the sensuality of Chris & Cosey, and the soundboard magic of Adrian Sherwood.

However, as always, an Autumns release is far from a facsimile.
With a unique touch and endless desire to push things forward, this collection can only be classified as thee Dyslexia Sound.

@autumns
@touchsensitiverecords

Premiere: Autumns - Digital Swing [Touch Sensitive Records]

CHERRYSTONES PRESENTS CRITICAL MASS
Splinters From The Worldwide New-Wave, Post-Punk and Industrial Underground 1978 - 1984

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR002
Monday 25th May
CD / DL / 2xLP
14 Tracks
___________________________

Eight years have passed since Cherrystones stayed true to his Word and pulled together the sympathetic sounds of the psychedelic ghetto. We’ve reached Critical Mass and we need to wipe the slate clean.

London’s best kept secret, Cherrystones has been on the underground scene for a while. People kinda speak of his grooved-out genius in hushed whispers.

You might have clocked his genre-busting album of Cherry Edits? Or when he closed down the final night of ATP after a decade long residency? Or when his jams pricked up the ears of a certain Creation Records label boss and he flirted with the mainstream? Or when the heat moved from London to NYC which saw our man deliver an epic Morricone-inspired LP while spending time as DJ Harvey’s sole label-mate. You might be following his endless list of production and remix work for the likes of Goat, The Horrors and Hospital Productions or caught him opening and closing shows at the request of Faust, Sunn 0))), The Oh Sees, Moon Duo, Chrome, Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, Kutmah...

Or maybe you just know him from a night in a club with Cherrystones - where his distinctive ability to blend Italian film soundtracks, garage fuzz, krautrock and punk and translate them into a hip hop context defies categorisation.

"...As long as it makes people move on the floor, I'm into it. I've been running a rescue home for the culturally starved and ignored - a sonic soup kitchen within a philanthropic playground. That's the vibe"

On Critical Mass, Cherrystones tunes us in to fourteen groups separated by locale but united by a restless urge to create on their own terms. 
From Rizzo’s nihilistic Moogie-boogie to a pre-teen Chandra’s isolated no-wave. Through Dojoji’s Downtown-via-Lagos inspired punk-funk and Fote’s dark, industrial groove, Critical Mass presents a snapshot of an international underground enthralled with the possibility of the new.

“This compilation was put together through records I was enjoying at that time - loose chips, fragmented discoveries, random punts and the true excitement from that hit of “What the fuck is that?!”
It is an exercise in the good and the rad - solid jams from all corners of the world.
A veritable platter to switch on the uninitiated or those who hear and feel the truth - it is not an exercise in rarity to make people feel alienated.

I know what I feel and I hear the messages and feel the vibrations in these very songs - as will you if you allow them to”

In a world in search of an instant authentic buzz - this compilation is not a five second internet high. It is alchemy - made out of blood and sweat, and pure knowledge on how to make people move.
Don't you think you are worth it? Let Cherrystones shake your bones.
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Words on Critical Mass:

“Cherrystones has rabidly dug through decades of twisted cables and dusty circuits to present a collection of wonderfully obscure yet utterly essential tracks from the dark recesses of a place and time where innovation was a priority and boundaries were non-existent.”
Trevor Jackson

“Next to Weatherall, Cherrystones knows more about music than anyone I know. These killer post-punk rarities are a must for anyone who thinks they've heard it all but obviously hasn’t…”
David Holmes

“Critical Mass perfectly captures that electric moment when punk mutated into apocalyptic, synapse-shredding, cyborg grooves.”
Steven Krakow - Plastic Crimewave / Galactic Zoo Dossier

“Start to finish this compilation is a monster. Once again, Cherrystones makes me feel like I don’t know a thing about ‘post-wave-industrial’ or records in general.”
Gaslamp Killer

“Tough beats and synthetics run throughout Critical Mass. I’ve been Cherrystoned.”
Tom Furse - The Horrors

Dojoji: Quincunx

Rizzo: I Don't Care

MAYA – SYNTHEZOID HEARTBREAK / DISTANT VISIONS
Touch Sensitive Records | TSR005

A late night voicemail from Cherrystones: “Phone me! I’ve got something killer! It might not make sense at first but it’ll suck you in...”
After hearing the outsider psych of ‘Distant Visions’ we are suitably hooked and the wheels are in motion to reissue the music of Maya from 1975.

It’s at this point we realise we ain’t even heard the A-side yet! Turns out it’s the heaviest heartbreak jam going…

Following on from 2015’s acclaimed Critical Mass compilation, Cherrystones and Touch Sensitive come together again to proudly present a lost masterpiece from the U.S. hard rock and psychedelic underground.

Fully remastered and faithfully reproduced on limited 7inch vinyl with additional insert featuring lyrics and notes from Burk Skyhorse Price (Maya) and Cherrystones.

Two tracks of timeless, heartfelt outsider music.

“In the drying up world of unknown homemade underground rock sounds, there never fails to be at least one scurrying rodent running for cover; bug-eyed under the flashlight of the modern-day sonic adventure seeker. Nearly all the LPs have been brought to the surface. More recently rabid fuzz and loner sound explorers are rubbing elbows with Northern Soul speed-freaks in the deep cold, hour-eating world of coverless 45s to seek out what could be seen as the final frontier of no budget, big dream and no fan base homemade local vulnerable Rock ’n’ Roll.

So what do we have here? A UK discovered and repressed Ohio private nuclear soul bomb by Burk Skyhorse Price with his Maya unit from the shadows of Cincinnati Ohio, in the music-world turmoil years of 1975.

The single has all the ingredients: songs about heartache, bubbling synths, alien feelings, proto-punk, backwards feedback, isolation.

Two lengthy songs of two different moods: “SYNTHEZOID HEARTBREAK” a "Fuck You!” to all partners that want you to join the Real Estate game and turn in your misfired Envelope pedals for a suit and tie; rendered musically in a raging underground punk damage mode.

But I think the small band of freaks that have heard Maya’s lone 45 agree that its the pro-Alien sad dirge of “DISTANT VISIONS" that gets the pen scratching the history books for another legendary entry. This reflective afternoon delay lurker makes me wonder what happened AFTER the fade out to "Visions”. 
Maybe the homemade air siren blew out the studio?
Regardless, here is a big dreaming band that left quite a brief one-two punch to the face of the industry that had no place for their punk and lonely sound poems. Funny but fitting how they have finally found a home forty years later and many continents away. Solid homemade damage here, touching AND sensitive, albeit crushingly loud.”

John Olson (Wolf Eyes / American Tapes / Third Man Records) Michigan, 2016.
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Tracklisting:

Side One: Synthezoid Heartbreak	
Side Two: Distant Visions

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR005 | 7inch / Digital
Release Date: Friday 26th February 2016
Mastering / Restoration: Stephen Quinn, Analog Heart 
Cut: Mike Grinser, Dubplates & Mastering

Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com


Maya - Synthezoid Heartbreak

Maya - Distant Visions

Documenta will release 'Love As A Ghost' as a digital download through Touch Sensitive Records on Friday 22nd July.

Originally appearing as the centrepiece of their 2015 album 'Drone Pop #1', the single version of 'Love As A Ghost' features additional inspiration and instrumentation from the tracks' producer, David Holmes.

Love As A Ghost's widescreen, spectral 7 minutes outlines a group enthralled with the endless possibilities of repetition, melody and rhythm; haunting the same sonic cathedrals as My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, and The Jesus and Mary Chain at their most ethereal.

Following a suggestion from Holmes, 'Love As A Ghost' is the first Documenta track to feature Roisin Stewart on lead vocals. Joe Greene (vocals, guitar) “knew it was her song as soon as I heard it. The sense of detachment yet feeling in her voice still gets me.”

“'Love As A Ghost' blows '60s girl-group Pop bubblegum as re-imagined by The Jesus & Mary Chain. An MBV see-sawing tremolo riff as drums suck backwards, their vacuum pulling everything with it. Like a goodbye replayed from memory, a retracing of steps. Trying to pinpoint where you went wrong.”
Rob Harris: testpressing.org

'Love As A Ghost' has gained airplay from 6Music's Jarvis Cocker and Gideon Coe alongside support from Tim Burgess (The Charlatans), A.R. Kane and more.

The release will be accompanied by select UK festival appearances and club shows:

Laverys Mister Toms, Belfast - 22nd July
Kendal Calling, Lake District - 28th - 31st July 
Electric Fields, Scotland - 26th & 27th August 
Festival No.6, Portmeirion - 1st - 4th Sept

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR007 | Download 
Release: Friday 22nd July 2016
Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com 

Love As A Ghost - single

Documenta - Love As A Ghost

GROUP ZERO - STRUCTURES AND LIGHT 
LP / MC / DL
Touch Sensitive Records | TSR08

Friday 24th February 2017

Vinyl: http://touchsensitiverecords.bigcartel.com/product/group-zero-structures-and-light-vinyl
Cassette: http://touchsensitiverecords.bigcartel.com/product/group-zero-structures-and-light-cassette
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'Structures And Light’ is the first record from Group Zero (Cathal Cully - Girls Names)

“Here’s a record from a Belfast bedroom that sounds nothing like the city, past or present. It’s made with synths and drum machines, and it glistens with subtle Euro sophistication.”

Written, recorded and mixed intermittently over four years, the narrative of ‘Structures And Light’ is bound by a deepening connection with electronics, instrumentation, and the studio.
With no imminent touring schedule or release deadlines, Cully built a modest home setup and began producing on his own again - “It was as an exercise in my own development and it was fun. It brought the naivety and spontaneity back to making music”.
Initially, it was for his personal consumption alone - selfishly indulgent.
In fact, this first collection of Group Zero music - along with a library of other ideas and sketches - was thought to be eternally lost and all but forgotten until a chance conversation with Touch Sensitive led to the tracks being salvaged and subsequently restored.

“Day breaks: dig those fast linear movements and rhythms (‘The Fantasist’). Then fall for the unexpected guitar line in ‘Pursuit’; a gentle kind of cold wave optimism.”

The genesis of this newly discovered musical freedom coincided with a viewing of ‘Pyramid of Light’ by Heinz Mack from the post-war Dusseldorf based Group Zero art movement which resonated deeply. “It stirred up questions and emotions which I could not get from a book or a screen. It was the direct relation between me, the light and the physical object hanging on the wall. New moments of beauty locked in the memory. I was in awe.”

“Night heals: there’s ‘pummelling repetition’ here too, for the club freaks or shut-ins. Slow, industrial shocks that give way to ‘Pyramid of Light’s stark new-age burst.”

Cully was also taking influence from a range of contemporary electronic producers - on labels such as LIES, Diagonal, Optimo Music, Blackest Ever Black, and PAN: “These records felt as much in keeping with post-punk traditions and my own DIY background whilst tapping into the primitive ideas of masters such as Cluster, Suicide, Malaria! and the proto-techno of pre-club music.”
Just as a structure obscures or reflects light furnishing us with new ways of seeing; the propulsive rhythms in 'Structures And Light’ reveal subtle differences on each repeated cycle.

This is music to go away from and travel to.

“It’s a record for the present - full of gorgeous themes that dream unwired.” 

Quotes: JC, Low Profile - Belfast 2017
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Tracklisting:
1. The Glaze Over
2. The Fantasist
3. The Pummelling Repetition Inside
4. Pursuit
5. I Dream Unwired
6. Saturnine Adorations
7. Pyramid Of Light
8. Love And The Present
9. Vernissage
10: Zero Symphony (Digital Bonus Track)

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR08 | LP / MC / DL
Released: Friday 24th February 2017
Mastering: Stephen Quinn – Analog Heart
Cut: Christoph Grote-Beverborg – Dubplates & Mastering
Cut: Artwork: Rinky
Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com

Structures And Light

Group Zero - The Pummelling Repetition Inside

BARRY LYNN – TAURUS TAPES VOL. I
Touch Sensitive Records | TSR09 MC / DL

Released: Friday 28th April

After 2015's Esalen Lectures LP for Touch Sensitive, Barry Lynn returns to the label under his given name with a twin set of ambient cassettes. 
The majority of the music on the Taurus Tapes results from live looping experiments using an electric guitar as the sound source, although a few tracks on Volume 1 were also created using synthesisers, and embellished with loughshore birdsong and fretless bass guitar.  
The result is an intimate and evolving sound, sculpted live in the moment. Moving away from over-arching concepts, the tracks are mostly titled after the constituent stars in the constellation of Taurus, Barry's star sign, and a common sight in the northern winter sky. 
Shades of Fripp's experiments with Eno can be detected in the Gibson fuzz tone and drifting loops, as well as more Gottsching-styled exercises in tight repetition.

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR09 & TSR10 | Ltd. Cassette / Digital 
Released: Friday 28th April
Performed & Produced by Barry Lynn
Artwork by Rinky: rinkydesign.com 

Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com

Taurus Tapes Vol. I

Atlas

BARRY LYNN – TAURUS TAPES VOL. II
Touch Sensitive Records | TSR10 MC / DL

Released: Friday 28th April

After 2015's Esalen Lectures LP for Touch Sensitive, Barry Lynn returns to the label under his given name with a twin set of ambient cassettes. 
The majority of the music on the Taurus Tapes results from live looping experiments using an electric guitar as the sound source, although a few tracks on Volume 1 were also created using synthesisers, and embellished with loughshore birdsong and fretless bass guitar. 
The result is an intimate and evolving sound, sculpted live in the moment. Moving away from over-arching concepts, the tracks are mostly titled after the constituent stars in the constellation of Taurus, Barry's star sign, and a common sight in the northern winter sky. 
Shades of Fripp's experiments with Eno can be detected in the Gibson fuzz tone and drifting loops, as well as more Gottsching-styled exercises in tight repetition.

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR09 & TSR10 | Ltd. Cassette / Digital 
Released: Friday 28th April
Performed & Produced by Barry Lynn
Artwork by Rinky: rinkydesign.com

Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com

Taurus Tapes Vol. II

Pleiades

Chi Tauri

Lambda Tauri

Kappa Tauri

Ruby Star

Merope

Alpha Tauri

Gliese 176

AUTUMNS - DYSLEXIA TRACKS

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR11 | 12” Vinyl / Digital 
Released: Friday 3rd November 2017

Autumns is the solo project of Christian Donaghey from Derry, Northern Ireland.

Following several releases on Downwards and Clan Destine and hot on the heels of his debut LP, ‘Suffocating Brothers’, the ‘Dyslexia Tracks’ EP sees Autumns deliver 5 tracks and 38 minutes of brutal beauty for Touch Sensitive.

Aligning itself closely to his recent devastating live performances - where snares (and belts) crack like whips and synthesizers “wriggle like a fucking eel” - ‘Dyslexia Tracks’ completes Autumns’ journey from his post-punk beginnings to producing some of the tautest and toughest electronic music we’ve heard in some time.
From the Hidden Reverse of Whitehouse and Throbbing Gristle to the futurism of Drexciya, Underground Resistance and other Detroit dons, Autumns sucks up influence and spits it out onto the darkest, sweatiest, haze-filled dance floors.

Alongside progressive appearances on cult labels and an acclaimed collaboration with renowned techno experimentalist Samuel Kerridge at the 2016 edition of Paris Fashion Week, Donaghey’s restless work ethic has seen him share stages in Europe and the US with The KVB, Lust For Youth, Beak>, Silent Servant & DVA Damas.

Autumns will play an extensive run of shows throughout Europe in support of ‘Dyslexia Tracks’ and his debut album.

Tracklist

1. Self Consumed
2. Headache Tablet 
3. You're A Right Useless Cunt Aren't You 
4. City Secrets
5. Distorted Thinking

Artwork by Rinky: rinkydesign.com 
Label: info@touchsensitiverecords.com 
Distro: joe@cargorecords.co.uk 
Autumns Management: freaks@freaksrus.net

Dyslexia Tracks

Autumns - Self Consumed

Autumns - Headache Tablet

MOSAIC - MUSIC FROM THE HBO LIMITED SERIES BY DAVID HOLMES

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR12
Limited Transparent Red Vinyl / CD / Digital 
Friday 27th July 2018

Nearly four years since David Holmes minted our label with his Ivor Novello award winning score for Yann Demange’s ’71’, Touch Sensitive is both proud and very pleased to present the release of his latest soundtrack ‘Mosaic’.

Initially released as an interactive app in which the viewer directed the narrative - Mosaic is a six-part HBO series conceived and directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Sharon Stone.
Mosaic is a twisting tale of passion, intrigue and deception focusing on the disappearance of a high-profile resident of picturesque Summit, Utah and the four-year effort by law- enforcement and civilians to discover the truth behind the crime.

With that in mind, Mosaic’s original soundtrack weaves as intriguing a tale. Recorded between Belfast and Los Angeles by Holmes, the album features a modern-day Wrecking Crew of musicians.
Echoes of Maestro Morricone abound alongside the influence of avant-garde pioneers and Holmes' current soundtrack contemporaries in a selection of deep listening tracks.

To quote Mark Kermode, 'Mosaic' outlines Holmes’ expertise at “ratcheting up the tension” with strings, horns and synthesizers swelling throughout.
As this tension peaks there is inevitable release - in rhythmic and harmonic tracks such as ‘What I Want Is The Red Room’ and Badalamenti-esque lounge eeriness in the likes of ‘Four Years Later’ - guiding the 20 cues presented on this release into a cohesive, full and nuanced album that reveals subtle and rewarding intricacies on each repeated listen.

‘Mosaic’ once again outlines Holmes as a modern master of the original soundtrack.

Mosaic - Music From The HBO Limited Series

David Holmes - Eric Neill Is Left Handed

DOCUMENTA – LADY WITH THE RING

Order: https://touchsensitiverecords.bandcamp.com/album/lady-with-the-ring
Promo Video: https://youtu.be/i2lYAkzo2Yc

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR14 
Limited Vinyl EP / Digital
Friday 12th October 2018

Following on from their sold-out LP for Touch Sensitive and a digital reissue of it’s predecessor, Documenta take a break from their Drone Pop trilogy to introduce the Lady With The Ring - Margorie McCall - “lived once, buried twice”.

McCall lived in rural Ireland in the early 18th century. She succumbed to a fever and was hastily buried in Lurgan’s Shankill cemetery. Her grave was visited by “a tramp of disreputable character with a reckless and thieving disposition” who drew blood as he tried to prise the ring from her finger, awakening the dead woman who subsequently lived for many years after.

The Lady With The Ring EP sees Documenta’s regular seven-piece lineup temporarily swell with narration from author and musician Will Carruthers (Playing The Bass With Three Left-Hands, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized) providing counterpoint to Roisin Stewart’s hazed vocals as she tells the story from the dead woman’s lips.

Self-recorded in one weekend a stone's throw from McCall’s grave and subsequently re- worked and shaped by the group, Lady With The Ring introduces sparkling synthesized passages and an organic ‘cosmic-blues’ to Documenta’s already lush sonic expanse.

Tracklist:
1. Lady With The Ring (Narration) 
2. The Blue Sleep
3. It's Quiet Now
4. Jack Morbus
5. The Fullness Of Years

Lady With The Ring

Documenta - The Blue Sleep

DOCUMENTA – LADY WITH THE RING

Promo Video: youtu.be/i2lYAkzo2Yc

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR14 
Limited Vinyl EP / Digital
Friday 12th October 2018

Following on from their sold-out LP for Touch Sensitive and a digital reissue of it’s predecessor, Documenta take a break from their Drone Pop trilogy to introduce the Lady With The Ring - Margorie McCall - “lived once, buried twice”.

McCall lived in rural Ireland in the early 18th century. She succumbed to a fever and was hastily buried in Lurgan’s Shankill cemetery. Her grave was visited by “a tramp of disreputable character with a reckless and thieving disposition” who drew blood as he tried to prise the ring from her finger, awakening the dead woman who subsequently lived for many years after.

The Lady With The Ring EP sees Documenta’s regular seven-piece lineup temporarily swell with narration from author and musician Will Carruthers (Playing The Bass With Three Left-Hands, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized) providing counterpoint to Roisin Stewart’s hazed vocals as she tells the story from the dead woman’s lips.

Self-recorded in one weekend a stone's throw from McCall’s grave and subsequently re- worked and shaped by the group, Lady With The Ring introduces sparkling synthesized passages and an organic ‘cosmic-blues’ to Documenta’s already lush sonic expanse.

Tracklist:
1. Lady With The Ring (Narration) 
2. The Blue Sleep
3. It's Quiet Now
4. Jack Morbus
5. The Fullness Of Years

Documenta - Lady With The Ring (Narration)

Ai Messiah - Sentience & Sapience

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR15 Limited Vinyl / Digital
Friday 16th November 2018

A soundtrack for gutted metropolises, virtual sanctuaries and utopian enclaves, 'Sentience & Sapience' is a seamless, psychedelic journey through possible near futures in the age of Artificial Intelligence.

Its overlapping arrangements alternately evoke glittering digital realms and bleak, decrepit landscapes populated by ghostly natives drifting in fractured and multiplying realities. Eastern drones, processed guitars and field recordings are warped, dubbed to cassette and re-sampled again. Meditative gongs and bells punctuate the mix, as human-sounding voices drift in and out intoning synthetic chants. Digital and analog textures dissolve into a continuum, suggestive of blurred and vanishing boundaries between the natural and the artificial; the real and the simulated; the evolved and the designed...

Inspired by the outlandish prophecies of Tech guru Ray Kurzweil, and the Transhumanist evangelism of 20th century psychonauts like Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson, ‘Sentience & Sapience’ is an album for bewildered Homo sapiens contending with intelligent machines in the shadow of the singularity.

Sentience & Sapience

Ai Messiah - Dream Into Being

Various Artists - Wacker That

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR16
Limited Cassette / Digital
Friday 18th October 2019

Touch Sensitive marks it’s fifth birthday with Wacker That - their first ever compilation of music from contemporary artists.

Featuring contributions from TS family and friends, the selection follows the non-linear trajectory the label has pursued over it’s half decade.

From Radio Weirdo’s spectral opener, to Autumns’ dark-techno thump, through Cherrystones’ mutoid groove, Bloom’s abstract, avant-grime and wrapping up with Natalia Beylis’ (Woven Skull) cosy, cosmic coda for electronic piano.

There’s a bunch of other stops along the way introducing new cuts from Sonopy, Barry Lynn (Boxcutter/The Host), Ai Messiah, Fears, Documenta, Elaine Howley (The Altered Hours), and Group Zero.

Wacker That, then. A celebration of five years under the vibrating plate and an excited look to the future in twelve deadly tunes.

Wacker That

Autumns - Loosen Up

Sonopy - Diamante Shithouse

Touch Sensitive Records | TSR17
Digital (Fri 6th Dec)
Limited Vinyl (Fri 13th Dec)

Touch Sensitive is proud to present it's third release with Ivor Novello and Bafta Award-winning modern master of the soundtrack, David Holmes, working in collaboration with composer Brian Irvine.

Set in Northern Ireland, directed by Holmes’ longtime friends Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa (Good Vibrations, Cherrybomb), and written by legendary Irish playwright Owen McCafferty (whom Holmes has known for forty years), the film tells the extraordinary story of Tom (Liam Neeson) and Joan (Lesley Manville) - their life and love as they enter the uncertainty and upset of Joan’s cancer diagnosis.

In a career rich in highly personal work, Ordinary Love is up there with the most affecting in Holmes’ canon.
Recorded between Abbey Road and Holmes’ own Drama Studio, the soundtrack features input from some of his most trusted collaborators. Holmes states: “I worked on the score with Brian Irvine. He is a longtime friend and the first person I ever had studio experience with 27 years ago. It felt important to work with Brian on this as his father (Ronnie), Owen’s father (Gerry) and my father (Jackie) - all now deceased - were great friends through a shared love of Point-to-Point horse racing and their work as bookmakers. For the three of us to work together on this was an opportunity I couldn’t ignore.”

There is also contributions from Holmes’ bandmates, Jade Vincent and Keefus Ciancia, who comprise the trio Unloved. The group’s sound has been central to the much lauded Killing Eve soundtracks, which saw Holmes and Ciancia pick up a Bafta in 2019.
Vincent provides a stand-out performance - lending her haunting and smoky vocals to the albums centrepiece and final track - ‘Isn’t It So’.

The score to Ordinary Love wasn’t inspired by any other soundtrack or even musical composition but by a mathematical theory called The Game of Life. Devised by mathematician John Conway in 1970, The Game of Life is not your typical computer game. It consists of a collection of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply as the cells form various patterns throughout the course of the game.
“Because of the nature of the story, this really spoke to Brian and I in a musical sense and we started to create the score with the notion that the notes in each cue resembled human cells, living
and dying as Joan’s journey with cancer unfolded.”

Much like the film's recurring motifs - such as the couple's regular hospital visits - the score uses gentle rhythms and repetition to underline the comfort and balance in Tom and Joan’s routine - even though a potentially life-changing event looms over them.
The score grounds the listener whilst providing an almost dreamlike blank canvas in which to live and to love.

“Creating the score to Ordinary Love was by far the most challenging I’ve ever worked on. The film is a very delicate piece and Tom and Joan’s everyday life is very normal so trying to create a soundtrack that not only felt like their world but had its own unique voice with real emotion wasn’t easy.”

“David Holmes and Brian Irvine’s perfectly judged music is as quietly powerful and profoundly moving as the film itself. Beautiful”
Mark Kermode

“A woozy, uplifting cloudscape with flashes of sunlight and an unforgettable final track”
Mark Cousins

Ordinary Love

David Holmes & Brian Irvine - Mammogram

David Holmes & Brian Irvine - Ordinary Love

Touch Sensitive Records - TSR19 Gatefold Double LP / CD / DL - Friday 6th November 2020 

“I like the drive as much as the scenery”. Buckle up as producer, DJ, and archivist Cherrystones (Gareth Goddard) takes you on a return trip to Critical Mass! 

Those in the know speak of Cherrystones alongside the finest curators and compilers of our time. Preferring to move in the shadows, you won’t find Cherrystones on every identikit summer festival line-up or playing the big bucks Discogs tease on social media. However, it is why you will find him as one of the most long-standing members of the NTS family - “the greatest ever to do it”, according to founder Femi Adeyemi. And it’s why a host of underground artists make the call to check out his legendary record vault when passing through town. Or maybe you will have caught him at ease for hours behind the decks in the corner of an intimate, dimly lit joint pulling out killer jam after killer jam... 

Running parallel to his world renown for collecting, archiving and sharing the furthest-flung sounds, Goddard’s own productions and soundtracks have long been revered - recently scoring campaigns for Adidas, Stone Island and YMC. Self taught as a teenager on a range of instrumentation and DIY production/programming techniques, his work is driven by the original idea of punk as an aesthetic - a creative portal devoid of rules. He has a life-long obsession with the soundtrack and was also gripped early by a love of rap (a trusted MPC 2000 never far from his side). The channeling of context, underscore, timing and placement has always fuelled the distinctive flavour of Cherrystones’ output. 

This open-eared and open-armed approach is what makes ‘Critical Mass Vol.2’ another stunning compilation. As Goddard states: “this is not a rare-for-rare-sake appendix of bands designed to showcase exclusivity and superiority”. These are tracks that have lived with him, and he has lived within, gathered over travels throughout Europe - living, DJ-ing, and creating. 

Five years on from the first volume, this eighteen track compilation once again fully outlines the breadth and possibility of the post-punk and new wave era. “Many of these artists fell by the wayside as underdogs or were just too ahead of their time. These selections have strong rhythmic undertones - percussively and tonally - and you can hear the subtle influence of dance music and the dance floor as a reference point.” 

On our journey we hear hyped up punk-funk from the Netherlands in the form of Konec, the cosmic synth-stomp of Daniele Baldelli approved Italians - Neon, the gonzo, outsider shrieks of England’s Loco Lotus, through to the dark, dance floor groove of Belgium’s Siglo XX and, of course, there’s a whole heap more outré excursions on the way. 

“From one of the last true originals - a personal, passionate draft of a "scene" that could have been. As far as possible from diggers' wet dreams - most of the music here is/was hidden in plain sight. So take one step back and figure out what might have gone wrong." 
Vladimir Ivkovic

"There are not many people who can dig like Cherrystones. Never exploiting nostalgia and never after the rarest Discogs $$$ - he just puts his culture on the platter. This new volume does not fail - clean discoveries and forgotten hits. This is about knowledge but also about soul."
Ivan Smagghe (Kill The DJ/Channeling)

"Thank you for saving us with this re-education of what musical expression and language is really about!"
Andrew Fearn (Sleaford Mods/Extnddntwrk)

“Cherrystones has led me wide-eared into countless thrilling rabbit holes of discovery. He is a fountain of arcane knowledge and a constant source of inspiration. Critical Mass 2 is another killer! Buy it and be prepared to be both staggered and utterly beguiled!"
Nathan Gregory Wilkins (Cowboy Rhythmbox/Channeling)

"Cherrystones - the best to ever do it."
Femi Adeyemi (NTS Radio Founder)

Cherrystones Presents Critical Mass Vol. 2 'Hearts Of Champions'   

Vitor Hublot - Clip Eroclap

Koneć - Hey

https://touchsensitiverecords.bandcamp.com/album/cherrystones-presents-critical-mass-vol-2-hearts-of-champions

Friday 6th November 2020

“I like the drive as much as the scenery”. Buckle up as producer, DJ, and archivist Cherrystones (Gareth Goddard) takes you on a return trip to Critical Mass!

Those in the know speak of Cherrystones alongside the finest curators and compilers of our time. Preferring to move in the shadows, you won’t find Cherrystones on every identikit summer festival line-up or playing the big bucks Discogs tease on social media. However, it is why you will find him as one of the most long-standing members of the NTS family - “the greatest ever to do it”, according to founder Femi Adeyemi. And it’s why a host of underground artists make the call to check out his legendary record vault when passing through town. Or maybe you will have caught him at ease for hours behind the decks in the corner of an intimate, dimly lit joint pulling out killer jam after killer jam...

Running parallel to his world renown for collecting, archiving and sharing the furthest-flung sounds, Goddard’s own productions and soundtracks have long been revered - recently scoring campaigns for Adidas, Stone Island and YMC. Self taught as a teenager on a range of instrumentation and DIY production/programming techniques, his work is driven by the original idea of punk as an aesthetic - a creative portal devoid of rules. He has a life-long obsession with the soundtrack and was also gripped early by a love of rap (a trusted MPC 2000 never far from his side). The channeling of context, underscore, timing and placement has always fuelled the distinctive flavour of Cherrystones’ output.

This open-eared and open-armed approach is what makes ‘Critical Mass Vol.2’ another stunning compilation. As Goddard states: “this is not a rare-for-rare-sake appendix of bands designed to showcase exclusivity and superiority”. These are tracks that have lived with him, and he has lived within, gathered over travels throughout Europe - living, DJ-ing, and creating.

Five years on from the first volume, this eighteen track compilation once again fully outlines the breadth and possibility of the post-punk and new wave era. “Many of these artists fell by the wayside as underdogs or were just too ahead of their time. These selections have strong rhythmic undertones - percussively and tonally - and you can hear the subtle influence of dance music and the dance floor as a reference point.”

On our journey we hear hyped up punk-funk from the Netherlands in the form of Konec, the cosmic synth-stomp of Daniele Baldelli approved Italians - Neon, the gonzo, outsider shrieks of England’s Loco Lotus, through to the dark, dance floor groove of Belgium’s Siglo XX and, of course, there’s a whole heap more outré excursions on the way.

“From one of the last true originals - a personal, passionate draft of a "scene" that could have been. As far as possible from diggers' wet dreams - most of the music here is/was hidden in plain sight. So take one step back and figure out what might have gone wrong."
Vladimir Ivkovic

"There are not many people who can dig like Cherrystones. Never exploiting nostalgia and never after the rarest Discogs $$$ - he just puts his culture on the platter. This new volume does not fail - clean discoveries and forgotten hits. This is about knowledge but also about soul."
Ivan Smagghe (Kill The DJ/Channeling)

"Thank you for saving us with this re-education of what musical expression and language is really about!"
Andrew Fearn (Sleaford Mods/Extnddntwrk)

“Cherrystones has led me wide-eared into countless thrilling rabbit holes of discovery. He is a fountain of arcane knowledge and a constant source of inspiration. Critical Mass 2 is another killer! Buy it and be prepared to be both staggered and utterly beguiled!"
Nathan Gregory Wilkins (Cowboy Rhythmbox/Channeling)

"Cherrystones - the best to ever do it."
Femi Adeyemi (NTS Radio Founder)

Martin Rössel & The Dum Dum Boys - Pablo Picasso

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-autumns-having-it

Returning to Belfast’s @touchsensitiverecords once more, ‘Dyslexia Sound System’ sees @autumns taking his sound in exciting new directions, interrogating the notion of dub wave with captivating results.

Autumns - Having It [Touch Sensitive Records]

Record Label - Belfast.

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