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Time Machines
Studio album by Time Machines
Released	26 January 1998
Genre	Electronic drone
Length	73:32
Label	Eskaton
Producer	Coil
Time Machines chronology
Time Machines (1998) Coil Presents Time Machines (2000)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Time Machines is a 1998 studio album by English experimental group Coil, originally released under the one-off project alias Time Machines. The album was created under the premise of psychedelic drone pieces named after corresponding hallucinogenic drugs, "tested and retested" during the album's studio sessions for apparent narcotic potency. Main member John Balance also described the album as an attempt to create "temporal slips".

Background and composition

Time Machines is composed of four electronic drone pieces created with modular synthesizers, which as hinted at in their track names are an attempt to recreate the chemically derived psychedelic and narcotic potency of telepathine, DOET, DMT and psilocybin mushrooms (telepathine and DMT being primary components of ayahuasca). As well as this, Balance intended the album to cause "temporal slips": he commented that the musical effect was demonstrated when the group "listened to it loud lost track of time". Drew McDowall created the original demo for the record, at first inspired by what he saw as a hypnotic state created in Tibetan music, but his final idea with Balance and Christopherson was to use filters and oscillators on the tones of the demo to induce trance-like effects.

When Time Machines was first released, the group was very conscious that it not be labeled as a Coil album, due to how abstract and different it was compared to previous Coil albums. However, Coil later tended towards regarding Time Machines a part of the Coil catalog; this led the 2000 follow-up album Coil Presents Time Machines to bear the Coil name on it.

Legacy

A five-disc Time Machines box set was announced in 1998, but never developed. A two-disc version was announced in January 2006 as a future release, but this was never expanded on either, although an album by Peter Christopherson, called Time Machines II, was released posthumously. In retrospect, Drew McDowall has remarked that "eople tell me how much of an impact it had on them – which is always pretty surprising."

Reception

Sean Cooper of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars and described it as "njoyable, if a mite limited in scope." Record distributor Boomkat praised the album upon its re-release, calling it a "now-classic chemical songbook".

Track listing

Footnotes

References

1. ^ Cooper, Sean. "Time Machines – Coil". AllMusic. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
2. ^ Keenan, David (July 21, 1998). "Coil Interview". Brainwashed. Brainwashed Inc. Retrieved April 28, 2017 – via Brainwashed archive.
3. ^ Strachan, Guy. "Coil, "Strangers In The Night" (Terrorizer #110, 2003)". Brainwashed.com. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
4. "The News". Brainwashed.com. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
5. Keenan, David (September 1998). "Time Out of Joint". The Wire. No. 175. pp. 48–53. ISSN 0952-0686 – via the Internet Archive.
6. Archived January 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
7. Lipez, Zachary. "Almost 20 Years Later, Coil's Drone Masterpiece Is Still a Record Out of Time - VICE". VICE. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
8. "Coil - Time Machines - Boomkat". Boomkat. November 3, 2017.

External links

• Time Machines at Discogs (list of releases)
• Time Machines at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
• Time Machines at Brainwashed
• Time Machines website
• stickers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• "Persistence Is All" badge

See also

• Harmine
• DOET/hecate
• 5-MeO-DMT
• Psilocybin

• 1998 albums
• Coil (band) albums
• Drone music albums by English artists
• Psychedelic drug research