The Scottish indie music scene has always prided itself on being open to projects of a collaborative nature.

So the Iberian liaison that has been brokered by Touch Sensitive should come as no real surprise.

Tomorrow evening Glasgow's hip city centre venue The Old Hairdressers will see the launch of a new compilation album by the website Touch Sensitive that teams six of the best new Scottish acts with half a dozen of the finest independent Spanish bands.

It is the culmination of around two years work by the project's founder, Adam Piggot, although the seeds for the concept go back even further than that, to his days as a teacher in Seville.

"I came back from working there in 2006 with this whimsical idea of festivals and exchanges and stuff, and it took a lot of time to work out what I could do with no budget," says Piggot, who's a graphic designer by trade and has previously worked on record sleeve covers for the likes of Mogwai and Arab Strap.

"It's been going officially for a year, I suppose, although for a year before that I was contacting bands in Spain and seeing what was going on there. By its very nature, the alternative scene in Spain is underground, so you have to go looking for it, as opposed to it finding you."

Originally, Touch Sensitive aimed to provide an online directory for underground acts based in Scotland and elsewhere, but the project rapidly progressed to the extent that a compilation seemed a viable idea. That resulted in 2x6, which will be available as a free digital download, and features Burnt Island, Plastic Animals, Randolph's Leap, The Son(s), Young Spooks and Zoey van Goey as the Scottish six.

The Spanish selection comprises Betunizer, Chiquita y Chatarra, Elle Belga, Hans Laguna i Albert Balasch, La Muñeca de Sal and No Parfum – a batch that Piggot believes offers a fine representation of Spanish music.

"There's some great pop bands there and there's a lot of great bands in Barcelona right now, which is the centre of the music scene," he says.

"It's a bit like what we have in Scotland, there's a whole range of music out there. I'm not particularly into dance music, but there's loads of that there too."

As Piggot suggests, a musical comparison between the scenes in the two countries produced some strikingly familiar music in many instances.

"Just in the attitudes towards making music there were a lot of similarities," he explains. "In Glasgow there's always that DIY ethic and there were lots of bands there putting out their own records on small labels and working together to get their music heard. I suppose the attraction of the music I'm into is that they're always looking towards working together."

That interest in joining together also meant that any language problems were swiftly overcome.

"The bulk of the communication has been by email, and I've got a big Spanish dictionary here, so we've been able to generally understand things," he says. "There's a willingness on their part to see what I'm trying to say and do – they probably had a good laugh at my Spanish and then replied in much better English."

As for the music the acts make, Piggot believes that the odds of anything being lost in translation are pretty slim.

"Whether other people will like it I don't know, but I really like a band singing in their own language and that gives it an added dimension to me. "Whether or not you understand them, it's more about the feeling of the music that comes across."

Budgetary restrictions means tomorrow night's launch for the project will be a purely local affair, with Adam Ross from Randolph's Leap headlining, ably supported by Plastic Animals. For Piggot, the gig is bringing up a mix of emotions.

"It's a bit like the album, it's the first gig I've ever organised so I'm going between total excitement and complete panic when I think about it. Hopefully if it goes well we can do some more, and maybe get some of the Spanish bands over. "It'd be great with the contacts we're building up in Spain to see about getting some of the Scottish bands over there, too. We're going to try and develop that, and it'd be lovely to get that exchange."

As yet, however, Piggott isn't thinking too far ahead. "It's all really organic and I guess a lot will depend on how things will go on Friday. When this started I hadn't thought about making a record, but it's already moved on so much over the past 12 months that here we are releasing an album. "I have no idea where it'll go as there isn't any money and it's something I do for fun. It's a good way to hear new music and to share it with other folk. As long as it stays fun, then great."

2x6 is officially launched at the Old Hairdressers, Renfield Lane, Glasgow tomorrow night and will be available through www.touchsensitive.org.uk.