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Hold your body and mind belts, and immerse yourself into a cornerstone of cosmic music in a double remastered vinyl – one them filled with rarities – called Crystal Machine by the visionary Tim Blake, English composer and synthesizer master. Recorded in 1976/7, it remains echoing as a timeless effort, pretty much still alive. This is a deadly serious art piece, accordingly trippy in all its aspects, full of strangeness and sheer beauty.

This serious art piece contains all the strangeness, audacity, and the beauty of a distinctive cosmic excursion. It is an oddity, and it doesn't belong to any of the generations of the rock or pop fabrics because of its character of being strangely ethereal and eternal. In the context of cosmic rock, alongside all German pioneers such as Kluster, Tangerine Dream, Organisation, Kraftwerk, and Ash Ra Temple, the English born, French based, Tim Blake occupies a highlighted seat. However, Blake is also a mastermind-pilot of the so-called electronic prog, where other stellar names like Klaus Schulze, Michael Garrison, Edgar Froese and Vangelis, figure as exponents. Timothy Blake (London, 1952) is a composer, keyboardist, synthesizer player, tape operator, vocalist and arranger who gained attention when working with cult acts like Gong and Hawkwind, as well as a freelancing member of the French cosmic-proggers Clearlight Symphony and for Steve Hillage. His knowledge of propelling the expansion of his musical-psychological plus the phenomena-antenna - that occurs when his genuine synth chords create solid waveforms – hit your brain like no other sound-visions dare to do. It is an early kind of what became to be known worldwide as new age and, at the same time, the cement for the foundations of ambient music. It seems you are entering a magnetic field where the manipulated sound layers act as bridge between your ears and the enigmas of an alien atmosphere. It is like an UFO-godsend in terms of.......
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