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COIL's "Time Machines" CD

 
 
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02:44 / 12.01.03
I'm really not sure if this belongs in music or what, but magic IS important to Coil after all...

recently I finally got my copy of "Time Machines" in the mail. It said in back that it helped facilitate time travel, and the band says that it's supposed to create the impression of hallucigenic drugs via sound. One fan wrote to their website that he blacked out while listening to it and woke up in a different spot.

When I listened to it, I expected to black out but I didn't. I DID get a slight headache and a strange vibrating feeling in my head while listening, and when I closed my eyes I did see some odd images in my head, Victorian-era type stuff, men with top hats and women weraing veils on cobblestone streets etc. but that's probably my warped imagination at work, as usual (plus the book I'm working on has Victorian imagery so those images were probably weighing heavily on my mond as it is). I'll have to listen again, maybe on headphones this time.

Anyone else have any experiences with this CD?
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
02:49 / 12.01.03
It's good to use in ritual. It distorts time but the effect is subtle. But just enough to give that extra oomph to prolonged ritual.
 
 
Rev. Wright
10:09 / 12.01.03
haven't heard anything by Coil for years, can you provide the details so that I can track down a copy, please?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
11:28 / 12.01.03
I know I should buy my own copy - but it's only available on import here and is nigh-on fifty bucks... anyone?

Is it really worth that much? I'm quite tempted by it, if you get the results stated...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:33 / 12.01.03
You can get it for about twelve quid over here.

Haven't done "Time Machines" yet, but "Time Machines II" and "Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil" lend themselves well to ketamine/salvia-enhanced astral travel. As does "Queens of the Circulating Library", although "Time Machines II" (which comes free with "Musick To Play In The Dark vol 1) has a better version of its one track.

I got the impression that each track on "TM" is designed for ritual work in accompaniment with a different chemical.
 
 
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03:02 / 13.01.03
I got Time Machines off Amazon for about $25.

Time Machines 2? Is that even out? And I'm not sure about a free copy of Time machines coming with Musick to Play in the Dark vol. 1, my copy of that CD definetly did not come with it.

The only time I've ever played Coil in a ritual was my Pan invocation where I played "panic" off Scatology.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:39 / 13.01.03
My bad- TM 2 was with Musick... vol II, not I. It was basically their Cornucopia gig at the Festival Hall. In fact, I suspect it may even have been pre-recorded and just mimed to, making it the first ever live album to have been recorded prior to the gig it was a recording of... and if THAT's not time travel, I dunno what is.

Given that Balance always says that everything Coil do has a magickal purpose, I think that may indeed be the case.
 
  
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