Time Machines

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stink freak Coil created some of the most wildly imaginative music ever put to tape. This along with Queens of the circulating library are far and away the absolute peak of their drone music, with this one being the superior. Queens is all about repetition for 40 minutes, which is great, but these songs progress in a way so eloquent you may not even notice the first time. This is their magnum opus. Favorite track: 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyl- (5-MeO-DMT).

TARANTULA FACE I have probably listened to this at least 1000 times, no exaggerating. owned multiple formats. still new things to hear with every listen. far and away the best drone record that I know of.

Levrikon One of my favorite ambient records. Four long, slow, psychedelic pieces, each 'based' on a different hallucinogen. John Balance said he wanted to create music that let the listener escape time, and I think he succeeded.

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	1.	7-Methoxy-β-Carboline- (Telepathine) 23:23
	2.	2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine- (DOET-Hecate) 13:20
	3.	5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyl- (5-MeO-DMT) 10:02
	4.	4-Indolol,3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl],Phosphate Ester- (Psilocybin) 26:46

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Official remastered edition of COIL's 1998 drone/ambient masterpiece.

“4 Tones to facilitate travel through time.” So begins the listeners’ journey into what has become one of the most treasured and revered pieces of COIL history ever released.

Each of the four pieces on Time Machines is named after the chemical compound of the hallucinogenic drug that they were composed for, and the album was meticulously crafted to enable what John Balance referred to as "temporal slips" in time and space, allowing both the artist and audience to figuratively "dissolve time".

Inspired by long form ceremonial music of Tibet and other religions, where the intent is to lose oneself in the music – to meditate or achieve a trance state – Time Machines became Drew McDowall, John Balance, and Peter Christopherson’s “electronic punk-primitive” answer to this tribal concept.

Starting as a rough demo tape recorded solely by Coil member Drew McDowall, Time Machines started to take full form when McDowall enthusiastically delivered these demo recordings to Balance and Christopherson as sketches for a new Coil project with the primary goal of shifting Coil’s sound further into a more conceptually abstract direction. Largely recorded in 1997 using single takes with minimal post production, these four drones contain every intended fluctuation and tone, along with every glitch of the original – “Artifacts generated by your listening environment are an intrinsic part of the experience.”

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released September 1, 2017

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