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Time Machines is Coil
Coil (band)

Coil were an English cross-genre, industrial music experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka 'Sleazy'....
's landmark drone music
Drone music

Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repetition sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drone s....
 album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
, released under the alias Time Machines. It consists of 4 tracks which are composed of a single tone
Pitch (music)

Pitch represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. It is one of the three major auditory system attributes of sounds along with loudness and timbre....
, called a drone
Drone (music)

In music, a drone is a harmony or monophony effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout much or all of a piece, sustain or repetition , and most often establishing a tonality upon which the rest of the piece is built....
. Each tone represents a certain hallucinogenic chemical (see track titles). It is similar to Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
's early ambient
Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses on the timbre characteristics of sounds, particularly organised or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality....
 albums, but more functional in that, instead of creating an atmosphere of calm, it facilitates time travel
Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects backwards in time to a moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period ....
, according to band founder John Balance
John Balance

John Balance , born in Mansfield, England, England, was the founder of the experimental music group Coil , along with his partner Peter Christopherson....
. Each tone was tested and retested in the studio for maximum narcotic
Narcotic

The term narcotic is believed to have been coined by the Greek physician Galen to refer to agents that benumb or deaden, causing loss of feeling or paralysis....
 potency.






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Time Machines is Coil
Coil (band)

Coil were an English cross-genre, industrial music experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka 'Sleazy'....
's landmark drone music
Drone music

Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repetition sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drone s....
 album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
, released under the alias Time Machines. It consists of 4 tracks which are composed of a single tone
Pitch (music)

Pitch represents the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. It is one of the three major auditory system attributes of sounds along with loudness and timbre....
, called a drone
Drone (music)

In music, a drone is a harmony or monophony effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout much or all of a piece, sustain or repetition , and most often establishing a tonality upon which the rest of the piece is built....
. Each tone represents a certain hallucinogenic chemical (see track titles). It is similar to Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
's early ambient
Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses on the timbre characteristics of sounds, particularly organised or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality....
 albums, but more functional in that, instead of creating an atmosphere of calm, it facilitates time travel
Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects backwards in time to a moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period ....
, according to band founder John Balance
John Balance

John Balance , born in Mansfield, England, England, was the founder of the experimental music group Coil , along with his partner Peter Christopherson....
. Each tone was tested and retested in the studio for maximum narcotic
Narcotic

The term narcotic is believed to have been coined by the Greek physician Galen to refer to agents that benumb or deaden, causing loss of feeling or paralysis....
 potency. John Balance described the album as an attempt to "dissolve time".

At one point, a five disc "Time Machines" box set was planned. In January 2006, a two disc version was announced as a future release.

Track listing


CD version (1998)

  1. "7-Methoxy-ß-Carboline: (Telepathine)" – 23:10
  2. "2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine: (DOET/Hecate)" – 13:28
  3. "5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyl: (5-MeO-DMT)" – 10:02
  4. "4-Indolol, 3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl]' Phosphate Ester: (Psilocybin)" – 26:51


2X12" version (2001)

Side A:
  1. "7-Methoxy-B-Carboline: (Telepathine)"
Side B:
  1. "2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine: (DOET/Hecate)"
Side C:
  1. "5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyl: (5-MeO-DMT)"
Side D:
  1. "4-Indolol,3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl], Phosphate Ester: (Psilocybin)"


See also

  • Harmala alkaloid
    Harmala alkaloid

    The MAOI alkaloids found in seeds of Peganum harmala - harmine, harmaline, and tetrahydroharmine- are collectively known as harmala alkaloids....
    s
  • DOET/Hectate
    2,5-Dimethoxy-4-ethylamphetamine

    2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylamphetamine, mostly abbreviated to DOET, is an analog of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine, and is the three-carbon chain homologous series to 2C-E....
  • 5-MeO-DMT
    5-MeO-DMT

    5-MeO-DMT is a powerful psychedelic drug tryptamine. It is found in a wide variety of plant and psychoactive toad species, and like its close relatives Dimethyltryptamine and bufotenin , it has been used as an entheogen by South American shamanism for thousands of years....
  • Psilocybin
    Psilocybin

    Psilocybin is a psychedelic drug indole of the tryptamine family, found in psilocybin mushrooms. It is present in List of Psilocybin mushrooms of fungi, including those of the genus Psilocybe, such as Psilocybe cubensis and liberty cap , but also reportedly isolated from a dozen or so other genera....


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