One of the easiest ways to describe Running Touch’s music is to borrow one of his own song titles, two words that seem to encapsulate the musician and the world he’s building around his craft: Post modern.

Raised in Melbourne, Running Touch’s work has always been one to bend conventional limits, regardless of the project it’s representing. As a founding member and key studio writer of Ocean Grove (the Australian hardcore band he formed when he was 13), he moulds heavy rock experimentalism with fragments of electronica and pop. As a silent member of Adult Art Club, he warps and buckles techno into its most potent and thrilling. As Running Touch, he’s a somewhat-enigmatic master-of-all-trades: A songwriter, producer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and creative director whose work stretches beyond limits to create art - entire, multi-sensory universes - that distinctly sound like Running Touch rather than anything else.

Since the very beginning, Running Touch and The Post Modern Collective – the group of artists and aliases linked to Running Touch, including the visionary’s solo project – have constantly been one step ahead of current day trends. That is, after all, what post-modernism is all about.

Written by Hayden Davies