Prime 5.8.6. (pt 2)

• instrumental versions/jam based on 5.8.6.
• Cassette 61 minutes

Touch's first release from December 1982, now a C60 cassette with original music from New Order, Simple Minds, Tuxedo Moon, Soliman Gamil, The Death & Beauty Foundation, Flesh, Eric Random and Shostakovitch, excerpts from an interview with Robert Wyatt and other works from Vladimir Mayakovsky and Hans Eisler. Feature Mist prefigured the current idea of the digital, CD 'programme' and reinvented the idea of Multimedia years ago; here is also the incubator of many a techno sample!

Interview with Jon Wozencroft, Touch
by Barry Nichols, Saturday 12 December 1992

For Feature Mist, we more or less instantly decided we wanted to ask New Order to contribute. The group, at this point in time, 1981-82, was highly unusual, innovative in a number of subtle, mysterious ways (building up to 'Blue Monday'), and we tapped in to an enormous network. At the time, the definition of the word fanatic was the New Order fan-base, full of strange tales. I went to see them play in Newcastle, the night after Leeds. I knew Dec, who used to drive half the night cross country from Bedford to see every gig, even if it was in the North of Scotland; he introduced me to Hooky and we went backstage. I told them that we'd got this idea in a mumbling nervous mumble and would they help out by contributing. They said yes, and were very generous about the whole business. Basically a short discussion, then a few weeks later Rob (Gretton) handed over a tape and said "there, off you go".

Did they receive any royalties for that?

No. We spent so much money setting up Feature Mist that what money we made went in to doing Meridians which, although it wasn't a disaster, took us a long time to recoup any costs from. Colour printing was not such a good idea. Then we did Travel, which did well enough to enable us to do Ritual, which for us at the time was the last word on that particular subject, combining a tape and magazine. It has all been very hand to mouth. We paid recording costs in some cases, but we never sorted out all the royalty stuff until we started to put out CDs.
 

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