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Despite the Water Supply

by Jim O'Rourke

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The seventh in Touch’s impeccable 7″ singles series, ‘Despite The Water Supply’ finds avant-garde icon Jim O’Rourke making some of the very finest drone music of his life. You can hear shades of that early, academic work in here – the organ-like sustain is clearly inherited from his late ’80s and early ’90s recordings, (most recently exemplified by his fantastic ‘Long Night’ reissue) but far from the static meditations that characterised those early emissions, these pieces are incredibly developed and intricately detailed, barely even hinting at structure and yet somehow sounding composed and resolved. Perhaps it’s partially due to the short-form nature of the 7″ but you feel there’s an awful lot of activity packed into these two sides. Even those of you not ordinarily favourably disposed towards the genre might just be blown away by this stuff – it’s quite some antidote to anyone under the impression that drone music is all about holding a note down on a synthesizer. Awesome.

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released August 13, 2008

Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft
Cut by Jason at Transition

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7″ vinyl was the quintessential format for popular music. Today, it is an undervalued and mostly promotional medium, used as a fetishistic signpost to a time of musical authenticity and a “healthy” popular culture. It might seem like another retrograde step to launch a vinyl series just as the download format threatens to dominate, and indeed there is an element of “the rear view mirror”… ... more

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