Touch Base is Steve Jones and Scott Lumsden.Both members of various bands and projects during their musically formative years, Jones became frustrated with the resistance to experimental composition and electronic instrumentation in the surrounding local music scene, and diverted his attention to other mediums. Eventually meeting Lumsden, a known unconventional guitar technique and effects pedal experimenteur with an interest in computer music, the two quickly started exchanging what would prove to become fundamental music creation ideologies.During their first project in Lumsden's studio, (scoring and sound designing for a multimedia performance art piece being designed and performed by Jones at a local venue) many shared opinions in the importance of cultural recycling (neighbourhood 8-bit gaming, old vinyl coloured audio, the future as envisioned by the early 1980s) were revealed. Sharing an appreciation for vintage rare groove and a love for emerging champions of electronic pop such as Air, Royksopp, The Chemical Brothers and Prefuse 73, as well as composers of early video game scores, the two would often share DJ duties at festival events, some actually hosted by the duo.After schooling in Recording / Music Production, and working on other projects, schedules finally convened for a long overdue collaboration that was celebrated early on on by national press, and the nightlife of local London Ontario, (a musical port-city, being home to 3 of the most vital music production and music performance schools in the country, and thousands of eager 'new music' seekers.)The album was recorded and rough mixed during the winters of '04 and '05, When the warmest places to be were the studio and the clubs, and the frozen view outdoors lay soundless and white. The effort finds Touch Base in top form: clever, bold, articulate, and as always, ambassadors of the frosted nostalgia and glowing intensity that makes every moment memorable, and every cut a classic.Diedrich Thirsk Forest City Free Press April 2006
Touch Base - Live at Alex P. Keaton's, July 13th, 2007
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