Various - Ritual: Magnetic North album flac

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X1	–Unknown Artist	Within Living Memory Loops [4-track Phased Tapeloop Sent By] – Hydrobeast
X2	–Regular Music	Purcell Manoeuvres Producer – Andrew PoppyWritten-By – Jeremy Peyton Jones
X3	–Margaret Sambell	Metal Harmonics
X4	–S/Z	Call It Power
X5	–Gilbert And George	The World Of...
X6	–Biting Tongues	Feverhouse
X7	–Einstürzende Neubauten	Das Letzte Biest Am Himmel Composed By – Alexander Hacke, Blixa Bargeld, FM Einheit*, Marc Chung, NU Unruh*
X8	–Unknown Artist	Closing Prices Paper Late
X9	–Kent* And Sayer*	Memory Ground Recorded By – Touch
X10	–Nocturnal Emissions	Um Eh Eh Eh Arranged By [Re-arranged By] – Nocturnal EmissionsWritten-By – Traditional
X11	–Renaldo And The Loaf*	Extracting The Re-Re Written-By, Producer – Renaldo And The Loaf*
X12	–Kill Ugly Pop	One Minute Of Pure Venom
X13	–Strafe Für Rebellion	Rauperaha (Song Of The Maori Rebellion)
X14	–Fast Forward	Mamba Recorded By – Michael Mallery
X15	–David Cunningham	Two Different Places
X16	–Touch 33	North Star
X17	–Greater Than One	Making Love To A Green Monkey [Extract]
Y1	–Unknown Artist	Autocue
Y2	–The Residents	Theme For An American TV Show
Y3	–Gilbert And George	Shadowed Valley
Y4	–Camberwell Now*	Daddy Needs A Throne
Y5	–Wolfgang Wiggurs*	Casting Of The Skin
Y6	–Cabaret Voltaire	Diffusion Composed By – Kirk*, Mallinder*Drums – Mark TattersallProducer – Cabaret Voltaire
Y7	–Gregorio Spini	Passing Recorded By – Touch
Y8	–Unknown Artist	Japanese For Monks
Y9	–Last Few Days	Too Much Is Not Enough Written-By, Producer – Last Few Days
Y10	–Zazou And Bikaye*	Signorina Written-By – Bony Bikaye, Hector Zazou
Y11	–Val Denham & A.M. McKenzie*	I Touched The Memory Recorded By – A.M. McKenzie*Written-By – Val Denham
Y12	–Gilbert And George	Another World Of…
Y13	–Ricardo Mandolini	Cançion De Madera Y Agua (Song Of Wood And Water)
Y14	–Greater Than One	Urban Psychology
Y15	–S/Z	Who Is The Author? Recorded By – S/Z
Y16	–Touch 33	Greenhouse Effect
Y17	–Silent Tongues	Sadhu Ritual Chant Recorded By – Panni Charrington

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Suitcase Studios
• Recorded At – IPEM

Credits

• Design – Panni Charrington
• Edited By – J Wozencroft*
• Other [Publisher] – M Harding

Notes

112 page book with cassette in cardboard envelope with 2 color sticker band.

From the back cover cover:
"This 5th edition of TOUCH is based on the theme of Ritual. It contains a c90 cassettte MAGNETIC NORTH and kaing a visual + written montage to the music over 90 pages in a riot of colours. Included in this new collection are works by: Assorted Images, Joseph Beuys, Neville Brody, Cabaret Voltaire, Camberwell Now, David Cunningham, Einstürzende Neubauten, Gilbert and George, Last Few Days, Leaving the 20th Century, Kill Ugly Pop, Ricardo Mandolini, Russell Mills, Regular Music, Renaldo and the Loaf, The Residents, Jon Savage, Robert Spridgeon, Ski Wisniewski, Strafe Für Rebellion, Trashmuseum and Zazou & Bikaye.

First edition 3,000"

Within Living Memory includes a recording made in the intensive care unit of a London teaching hospital, at a Russian Orthodox funeral in Paris and at a firework display on Primrose Hill, London, mixed with a 4-track phased tapeloop sent by the German group Hydrobeast.
Margaret Sambell's "Metal Hamonics" was composed at Birmingham University's electronic studio in April 1983 and featured at the EMAS concert held during the 1984 Almeida Festival, London.
Gilbert and George were recorded in their home in Spitalfields, London, in March 1985 - the text is taken from the film "The World Of Gilbert and George", as are other brief excerpts on this tape, produced by The Arts Council Of Great Britian, 1981.
Feverhouse is a film released by Ikon FCL of Manchester, directed by Howard Walmsley, with a screenplay by Ken Hollings and soundtrack by Biting Tongues, available on Factory Records.
Einstürzende Neubauten were recorded live in London on March 1st, 1985.
"Closing Prices Paper Late" was recorded in Baker St. Underground station, by chance the day new broke of the JAL jumbo disaster.
"…Pure Venom" was recorded in 1928 at the birthplace of The Church Of Immaculate And Bloody Deception, Little Rock Baptist Alabama Surrey, and is dedicated to Rev. Ian Paisley, doyen of mail-order clerics.
Fast Forward was recorded live in April 1984 at New Langton Arts, San Francisco.
David Cunningham's "Two Different Places" was originally recorded for Geoff Dunlop's film "Just What Is It?" to accompany the section on Edward Allington's sculptures, and re-recorded in Brixton in 1985.
"North Star" is made up of three simultaneous transmissions recorded the same evening, just after midnight, from radio and TV.
"Theme For An American TV Show" was intially recorded for that purpose, but rejected by the TV producer The Residents sent it to, (though only just).
"Shadowed Valley" is a reading from the book sculpture "Dark Shadow", published by Gilbert and George in 1974.
"Diffusion" was produced at Western Works, published by Island Music Ltd.
Gregorio Spini was recorded live whilst visiting London in February 1985.
The buddhists are at breakfast in a monastery in Northern Japan.
"Too Much Is Not Enough" was written and produced in March 1985.
"I Touched The Memory" was recorded in October 1982 at The Suitcase Studio.
"Cançion De Madera Y Agua", featured at the 1984 Almeida Festival, was recorded in 1982 at The Institute For Psycho-Acoustics And Electronic Music, Ghent, Belgium.
"Urban Psychology" includes a recording made in The Anthony D'Offay Gallery during the installation of Joseph Beuys' "Plight", and the sound of Japanese recruits counting off in Manchuria in 1942.
"Who Is The Author?" was recorded in London early in 1985.
Sadhu Ritual Chant, an extract from a forthcoming work "Silent Tongues", was recorded in Hampi, Karnataka, India.
Thanks to all who helped with the contents of the tape, esp. Stephen Montague, Rob Collins, Hardy Fox, Brooke Marie Wentz, Bill Petit, Pink Elln, Paul Belford, Marc Hollander, Lee and Michael.
Dolby B.

Ⓟ Touch 1985
© Touch & individual contributors, and as indicated above: Also;
Biting Tongues © Twist And Shout Music
Einstrürzende Neubauten © Some Bizzare Label
Kent And Sayer © Sayno Productions
Renaldo And The Loaf © Rotcod Productions
Kill Ugly Pop © Feral Music
Strafe Für Rebellion © Strafe Für Rebellion
Fast Forward © Obsolete Music
David Cunningham © David Cunningham
The Residents © The Cryptic Corporation/Warner Bros Music Ltd.
Camberwell Now © Various Voices
Cabaret Voltaire © Island Music Ltd.
Zazou and Bikaya © Crammed Music
Denham/McKenzie © Copyright Control
Ricardo Mandolini © GEMA
Margaret Sambell © Copyright Control

Typesetting by The Printed Word, London. Printing by Sprinting. Colour reproduction by The Clifton Studio and Patina. Texts set in Albertus, Bodoni, Garamond, Futura, Zapf, Perpetua and Platin.

Thanks to Rob Keloch for editorial and production directions on mastering the cassette in April and November 1985. Thanks too to everyone who's helped these past two years - contributors and correspondents without which...

A cassette-only version of the above was released in 1986 as: Touch: Ritual (T5c)

Limited Edition of 3000

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
T5c	Various	Ritual: Magnetic North ‎(Cass, Comp)	Touch	T5c	UK	1986