"Few groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil, the partnership of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance. 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'." - Dais Records
- 1998 electronic ambient / drone album from cult UK experimental band
- clear green colored double vinyl pressing
- remastered sound
- housed in gatefold jacket w/ printed inner sleeves
- digital download included
- limited edition of 600
- music label: Dais Records 2021