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All tracks written, produced and engineered by Ashley MacLaughlin apart from track 5, written, produced and engineered by Kieron Grieve and Ashley MacLaughlin. Track 1 contains vocal excerpt from movie "In The Valley of Elah" Track 3 contains vocal excerpt from movie "Burn After Reading" Track 4 contains vocal excerpt from movie "Transformers 2" Track 5 contains vocal excerpt from movie "Rendition" BIO: Distant Touch is 26 year old Ashley MacLaughlin, a British born trance producer and DJ living in Cape Town, South Africa. Ashley's production and DJ style is a mixture of progressive to full-on melodic daytime through to full-on twisted, mind-bending night time psychedelic trance. His musical background began at the age of 8 when he started to learn to play the guitar. At the age of 17 he was playing trance in London clubs and small squat parties and started to write his own music in 2004 at the age of 19. Since moving to South Africa in January 2009 he has performed both live sets and DJ sets regularly at various parties including The Village, Cryptic Symmetry, regular guest slots at Psynopticz amongst others, as well as returning back home within that time to play at parties in his home country. He has shared the stage alongside some of the premier acts in the global scene including Talamasca, Shift, John Phantasm, Hydraglyph, Biorhythm, Slug, Xatrik and Dejavoo as well as playing various back to back DJ sets with some of the biggest trance DJs in the UK and South Africa including Kristian, Libra 9 and Rubix Qube. Ashley has also worked with various influencial producers on a number of collaborations both in the UK and South Africa and has various side projects also currently gathering momentum.The forthcoming year is looking especially bright with a number of festival bookings confirmed in both Europe and Africa.