Achim Mohné And Philip Jeck
VINYL+, Live At ZKM, Karlsruhe 21st April 2012

Listening notes

Released in 2012 on Touch, VINYL+, Live At ZKM, Karlsruhe 21st April 2012 is a file-format release by Achim Mohné and Philip Jeck, catalogued as Touch Radio 77. As the title makes explicit, the recording documents a live performance that took place on the 21st of April 2012 at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany — the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, a institution with a long association with electronic and media-based arts.

The release consists of a single continuous track running to 63 minutes and 16 seconds, sharing its title with the release itself. Falling across the genres of abstract, electronic, experimental, and minimal, the work sits within a broad tradition of extended-duration electronic and experimental performance documentation that Touch, as a label, has consistently supported throughout its history.

Philip Jeck is an artist known for work involving turntables and found recordings, and Achim Mohné is a German media artist. The title VINYL+ suggests a thematic or material engagement with vinyl as a medium or concept, which is consistent with Jeck's broader practice, though the specific nature of the collaboration and performance at ZKM is not elaborated upon in the available release information beyond what the title itself conveys.

Touch Radio, under which this release appears, is a series associated with the Touch label that has made audio works available in downloadable or streaming formats. The catalog number Touch Radio 77 places this within that series.

Given the file format and the Touch Radio imprint, this release was made available digitally rather than as a physical pressing. Listeners or researchers approaching this release through a vinyl reference context may find its subject matter — particularly the involvement of Jeck and the VINYL+ title — of relevant interest despite the absence of a physical disc.

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