Time Modem – Transforming Tune

Fantastic album, perhaps my favourite purchase of the year. The reissue sounds great. As was said below, every track on this is great - you can listen to the album from start to finish without skipping.

Matrix/Runout on mine is like in the photo, not in the notes.

Самые оригинальные представители раннего техно. Впервые услышал их в далеком 1994 в программе Back to the Uníverse. Слушаю и сейчас, спустя 27 лет. Музыка Time Modem никогда не постареет.

Indeed a solid album and time document, though i only care about the straight 4/4 .tracks 'Suono Elettrico', 'The Time Is Over' and 'Mantel der Nacht' which are excellent dancefloor fillers. Compared to some other tracks i highly regard from those years with a similar atmosphere/structure/use of melody) (for instance by the band Konzept with Last Night (Nuclear Winter mix), S.M.T. - Silence! i would say this is indeed more 'mechanical', 'square', 'electro' sounding, rooted in ebm style (if that says something). I don't know what came after 1992 that continues this type of sound that's worth listening to, but this is one those reference albums before bpm's go further up, other synths and fx create different, liquid atmospheres and the standard (goa)trance format reaches it's form.

This album is a rare example where every single track is at least good. Most albums I've encountered generally have 50-80% average or bad filler tracks. Many times I buy an album, I buy them for 1-3 tracks out of 10-12. There isn't a single dud or average track in "Transforming Tune". Deserves more credit and praise than many other overrated, drooled over albums.

Track 6 should read “Insensitive World”, at least it says so on the 12":
https://youtu.be/Rwia0qoK0sc

Another favorite album of mine.

Released on legendary BOY records, a label with a rich history of very interesting releases and somewhat underrated. This album is a mixture of different styles, some uptempo trancy tracks, some slow new beat-ish track, some ebm-influenced. Above all, this is a mysterious and dark album. There are some lush strings on certain tracks, but the addition of great FX and pads turn them into driving menacing tunes. The inclusion of some old German movie-samples is great, they really add to the atmosphere. You can compare them to the style used by "Klangwerk", another influential German act.

I wish this album included "time of the gathering", their single from a few years earlier, that would be the icing on the top ;)

I found this in a used CD store and it sounded worthy of further investigation when I tried it out, so I bought it. There is definitely a significant amount of Kraftwerk influence, but the focus here tends to be more on dark, atmospheric dancefloor fare...the kind of album that would feel right at home in the collection of Dieter (from the SNL skit "Sprockets"). Opening with the brooding, half-tempo "Wibanah", you aren't really sure what you're going to get from this album (dark industrial?). However, the follow-up cut sets the predominant tone - a pulsating techno number complete with vocodered vocal and German drama film samples. Overall, it's pretty solid.