Full 1998 album. Sourced from FLAC but converted to WAV for this video. 1. 7-Methoxy-ß-Carboline: (Telepathine) 0:00 2. 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine: (DOET/Hecate) 23:23 3. 5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyl: (5-Me0-DMT) 36:43 4. 4-Indolol, 3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl]' Phosphate Ester: (psilocybin) 46:46 John Balance Peter Christopherson William Breeze Drew McDowall Originally released under the pseudonym Time Machines, because Coil felt that their fan-base would reject such a rapid departure from their traditional music. Instead, "Time Machines" became a landmark drone album, and the band soon re-released bearing their name. Each song title is a reference to a hallucinogenic drug. According to John Balance, the premise behind this release is that hallucinogens act as time machines - they can conjure up histories of yourself and/or act as predictors of the future. In any case, they can remove you from "temporal reality". These tracks on this disc are not only formulas for hallucinogens, but the tracks have been tested, retested, rejected, et cetera. The intention was for the listeners to lose themselves to the music and be transported to another world. "One of the interesting things with Time Machines is that there's a handful of responses which we've had where what happened to the listeners was exactly what we intended to happen. There would be some kind of temporal disruption caused by just listening to the music, just interacting with the music. The drugs thing is actually a hook we hung it on - it originally came out of me and Drew talking that some of the types of music you listen to - sacred musics like Tibetan music or anything with a sacred intent which often is long ceremonial type music which could last for a day or three days or something. There are periods of time in that where you will come out of time. That's the intention of it to go into a trance and achieve an otherness. We thought can we do this sort of electronic punk-primitive? We did demos with a simple mono synth and we managed it. We sat in the room and listened to it loud and we lost track of time - it could be five minutes in or 20 minutes in but you suddenly get this feeling, the hairs on the back of your neck, and you'd realise that you'd had some sort of temporal slip. We fine-tuned, well, filters and oscillators and stuff, to try and maximise this effect. It was that we were after with simple tones - somehow you could slip through." - John Balance, in a 1998 interview in "The Wire" magazine. When Coil began performing live again in 2000, their first two concerts were based on this album. The two dates were under the title of "Time Machines from the Heart of Darkness". Additional info: http://www.brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/eskaton10.php?site=coil08 Enjoy!

• published: 27 Feb 2014
• views: 81