20 years of contact: vol. 1

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1.	evokation (demo '97) 04:30	info	buy track
2.	geburah (severity) 06:24	info	buy track
3.	carbon (broiler) 05:53	info	buy track
4.	stir 04:22	info	buy track
5.	collisions 04:29	info	buy track
6.	binge & purge 03:55	info	buy track
7.	hope springs eternal 04:19	info	buy track
8.	disrupted 05:47	info	buy track
9.	strung (ligature mix) 05:21	info	buy track
10.	reticent 06:42	info	buy track
11.	downcycle 3 04:43	info	buy track
12.	relent less 05:40	info	buy track
13.	every last one 03:13	info	buy track
14.	towards a bright future 03:25	lyrics	buy track
aren't we proud of what we've built toys distract us from our guilt shining screens that watch us back high-speed, high-def, low on facts fattened up nice and kept well-trained masters speak and we'll obey feed our young to their machine so their hands stay nice and clean we will never learn
15.	disrupted (somnabulist mix by DJ Vrhovny) 04:39	info	buy track
16.	under the skin (Testube Treatment) 05:25	info	buy track
17.	clear (pollution mix by Phllox) 05:05	info	buy track

about

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of my trip down this rabbit hole, I wanted to release a sort of retrospective that would give newcomers a place to start, but also provide something for those that might have some (or all) of the available releases. To that end, this collection includes a track from each major release, plus a few rarities that are no longer available anywhere else, on both volumes. I also dug way back into the vaults to include a couple of tracks from my first demo tape (as in cassette) way back in 1997.

Volume one is made up of tracks that have a beat, and, as the name would imply, volume 2 contains the more experimental ambient/noise tracks. Each volume contains 17 tracks that span the history of Skin Contact.

As always, unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited, but sampling is ok.

20 years of contact - vol. 1
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01) evocation (demo '97) - from early cassette, 1997

02) geburah (severity) - from Geek demo, 1998

03) carbon (broiler) - from Carbon/Reset, 2001

04) stir - unreleased track from 2003

05) collisions - from The Fine Line, 2007

06) binge & purge - unreleased track from 2008

07) hope springs eternal - non-album track, 2006

08) disrupted - non-album track, 2006

09) strung (ligature mix) - non-album track, 2007

10) reticent - non-album track, 2006

11) downcycle 3 - 2011 remix of track from 1998's Geek

12) relent less - from Pleasure, Pain, and Distraction, 2008

13) every last one - from Antitrust, 2009

14) towards a bright future - from Machine Intelligence, 2016

15) disrupted (somnabulist mix by DJ Vrhovny) - 2009

16) under the skin (Testube Treatment) - 2009 testube.com

17) clear (pollution mix by Phllox) - 2009

20 years of contact - vol. 2
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01) transmission (demo '97) - from early cassette, 1997

02) SOL - from Geek demo, 1998

03) grains - from Carbon/Reset, 2001

04) over - from The Fine Line, 2007

05) sit - non-album track, 2006

06) scant - from Pleasure, Pain, and Distraction, 2008

07) in the thick of it - compilation track, 2009

08) intermittence III - from Antitrust, 2009

09) debase (cut down and manipulated) - 2011 re-working of a demo from '99, appears on Revisionist

10) extinction event - compilation track, 2009

11) mistakes were made - unreleased track from 2009

12) the technician's heavy error - compilation track, 2009

13) fail - from Abort, Retry, Fail, 2016

14) machine intelligence III - from Machine Intelligence, 2016

15) glass - unreleased track from 2011

16) not you - unreleased track from 2011

17) drift - unreleased track from 2011

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released April 22, 2017

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The music of SC has been described by the underground press as being “meticulously sculpted”, “expertly engineered”, and “intelligent”. Formed in 1997 out of Kevin Breidenbach's love of both electronic music & computers, SC has incorporated a wide range of influences to form a unique blend of dark electronics. ... more

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