TORTOISE remixed by electronic music pioneer CARL STONE // the band's EU TOUR starts October 31
(( Photo of Tortoise by Parcifal Werkman ))
Praise for Tortoise
“Few have managed the same sense of utopian possibility or satisfying interplay between minimal and maximal.” -Hearing Things
“Body music for head people” -Pitchfork
“While Tortoise's albums have experimented with the editing and overdubbing possibilities of the studio, the band thrives performing in real time.” -New York Times
“a live marvel” -Rolling Stone
“Thirty years in, Tortoise are still searching, still listening, still following the sound wherever it leads.” -Northern Transmissions
(( photo of Carl Stone by Akira Saito ))
Electronic music pioneer Carl Stone remixes Tortoise
Today, Wednesday October 14, 2026, Tortoise releases “Night Gang [Carl Stone Remix}” on all digital music platforms. The track, created by electronic and computer music pioneer Carl Stone, reimagines “Night Gang,” the closer from Tortoise’s 2025 album Touch.
Listen and purchase “Night Gang [Carl Stone Remix}” here.
Tortoise also shares details of their fourteen-city European tour, which begins on October 31 and includes stops at Pitchfork Festival (London UK), MIRA Festival (Barcelona ES), and Le Guess Who? (Utrecht NL). The band also performs in Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, and Italy. The full list of dates and links is below.
(( “Night Gang [Carl Stone Remix}” cover art by Heather Cantrell and Martin McEntire ))
Carl Stone’s transformation of Tortoise’s song was created in a hotel in Shanghai during the middle of his September 2026 Chinese tour. Here, “Night Gang” is chopped, scattered, chopped again, and ultimately rendered as an abstraction fit for a free-rhythm dance floor. Stone’s remix ultimately morphs the tune from cowboy sunset hero jam into disjointed danse concrète.
Tortoise Live Dates
October 31 - Birmingham, UK - The Crossing - tickets
November 1 - Glasgow, UK - Queen Margaret Union - tickets
November 3 - Dublin, IE - Button Factory - tickets
November 4 - London, UK - Pitchfork Festival @ Hackney Church - tickets
November 5 - Utrecht, NL - Le Guess Who? - tickets
November 6 - Barcelona, ES - MIRA Festival - tickets
November 7 - Valencia, ES - Sala Moon Valencia - tickets
November 8 - Madrid, ES - Sala But - tickets
November 9 - Reutlingen, DE - Franz.K - tickets
November 10 - Vicenza, IT - Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza - tickets
November 12 - Aarhus, DK - VoxHall - tickets
November 13 - Weissenhäuser Strand, DE - Rolling Stone Beach - tickets
November 14 - Groningen, NL - Rockit - tickets
November 15 - Antwerp, BE - Arenberg - tickets
Tortoise’s 2026 tour lineup – featuring Dan Bitney, James Elkington, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, and John McEntire – perform “I Set My Face to the Hillside” at a Munich show earlier this year, filmed by Enid Valu.
(( Touch cover art by øjeRum ))
On Touch (released October 2025 by International Anthem & Nonesuch Records), the five longstanding Tortoise band members – Bitney, Herndon, McCombs, McEntire, and Jeff Parker – harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego, towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise's unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist desert guitar panoramas are all imbued with Tortoise's now-signature internal logic — equally alluring and confounding, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved.
The stylistic diversity is also a reflection of the band's operating circumstances while working on the album. With two members in Los Angeles, another in Portland, and just two remaining in the band's Chicago hometown, their creative process shifted dramatically from when they lived together in a loft space in the late 1990s, honing their sound over endless hours of collective experimentation. Recorded between the three cities — Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago — Touch is the result of an intentional effort by these five musicians to reconnect, recenter, and reinvigorate their sound for what is perhaps the group’s most diverse release to date.
Touch is out now, buy/stream it here.
DELUXE VINYL PACKAGE
Touch comes on a 140 gram vinyl LP, inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket with IARC obi strip and poly-lined printed inner-sleeve. Lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST. North American stock pressed at New Orleans Record Press, all other international stock pressed at Pallas in Germany.
Classic Black Vinyl - $27
Compact Disc - $15
