Name: Systems / Layers
Brand: Rachels

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

qs075lp

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Download code: No

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2016-11-25

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Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Rachels

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Touch and Go

Touch And Go Records was started in Lansing, Michigan, by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson in 1981 as an outgrowth of Touch And Go Zine, a fanzine the duo published. Their intent was to document their local hardcore punk scene.

Necros bassist Corey Rusk hooked up with Tesco to help run the label soon after it started and assumed full control after Vee moved to Washington, DC, in 1983. In 1987, Rusk moved the label to Chicago, Illinois, where the label still resides.

Over the years, Touch And Go has issued records by influential bands like *The Jesus Lizard*, *Slint*, *Shellac*, and *Big Black*. However, in 2008, Rusk announced that the label would be cutting back on its activity and ending its distribution services due to the economic climate of the times.

Systems / Layers is the fifth release and final LP of the instrumental group Rachel's. It was released October 7, 2003 on Quarterstick Records. The album is a collaborative dance/theater piece with the New York ensemble SITI Company. A modern soundtrack to city life - an aural survival pack that pulls out moments of delicate beauty from all the shit and cacophony. Sonic layers, classical elements, pieces that seem unfinished, no guitars - and somehow it all works.

2LP - Originally released only as a CD (in 2003), this double vinyl LP issue of Systems / Layers also includes the vinyl debut of the Rachel's 2005 CD EP, Technology Is Killing Music. Packaged in a Gatefold album jacket with printed inner sleeves, designed and layed out by Louisville native Jeremy deVine (of Temporary Residence fame).

Systems / Layers

Music GB