Running Touch is one of the coolest electronic producers to come out of Australia over the past few years and the world's catching on.
It’s strange, given Sydney’s dire lack of clubs, that the past generation of Australian producers to hit mainstream success have been largely Sydney based. Think Rufus Du Sol, Flume, Hayden James, What So Not, etc. We mean, fuck, even Motez is from Adelaide.
Matthew Victor Kopp, aka Running Touch, has been one of the Melbourne exceptions, proudly representing the real home of Australian club culture. The one-time founding guitarist of Ocean Grove, now with 170 million streams under his belt, today he announced Carmine, his long-awaited debut album available Friday May 6. Carmine is a record about violence and love, that builds on the signature sounds that have made him a force to be reckoned with.
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Today he drops ‘Come With Me’, the lead single and video from his debut LP, with an addictive kick that lyrically ties together stories from Signs, Juno and to-be-released album titled track ‘Carmine.’
He explains, “Come With Me goes further into my love for anthem soundscapes. I love the idea of having these chorus stabs with depth enough you don’t know what the sound source actually is. It’s really given me something to chase and explore. I’m always trying to find a balance between organic and synthetic, so I can be in the electronic space but solo over things live.
“Come With Me follows the thoughts from my songs Juno, Signs and unreleasd track Carmine. Wanting and needing to escape wherever it is you are. Go wherever life leads, but wanting to do it with someone, but you’re unsure if they want to. Obsessiveness and escape.
“The Juno story is inspired from art and film. I tried to have a lot of colour, names and film excerpts around me while constructing this.”
For the official video, Director CIAN Marangos and Running Touch shot across Victoria from Daylesford to the Dandenongs, aiming to showcase the landscapes, colours, and settings that hadn’t really been explored before in music videos.
Director CIAN says, “Our goal was to use contrasting landscapes and textures to put us in the mind of our character. As a brief overview, the video aims to transport us into the mind of a painter in the moments of artistic expression. We wanted to explore the feelings of isolation, frustration, and anxiety that often come with creating art, particularly when working towards something that feels too big to achieve. Working with Running Touch was a super collaborative process, whilst there was so much freedom for me to build our world, we were constantly bouncing ideas back and forth to develop the look and feel of the clip into something that was different yet familiar to the RT visual landscape.”
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