Time & Motion

Radio Massacre International (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 26, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: CUNEIFORM
• ASIN: B002ZIABV8
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #310,723 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Take their musical cues from the classic 1970s "Berlin electronic sound"

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks!, March 7, 2010

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CFT (Oregon House, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time & Motion (Audio CD)

Just wanted to say thanks to Cuneiform for having the courage to issue some great, unusual CDs recently. This is one of the best, IMO. Rather like (and as good as) early Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, but a little more human because of Martin Archer's lovely sax and clarinet. The Ergo record is well worth a spin too. Having once run a record label myself, I know you don't release this kind of music simply to make money!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Third Cuneiform release by Radio Massacre International, January 30, 2010

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BENJAMIN MILER (Veneta, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time & Motion (Audio CD)

Radio Massacre International has so many releases, it's hard to keep track. They're probably by now rivaling Acid Mother's Temple for how many releases they can cough up in a short time. Tangerine Dream certainly has a huge back catalog but they had 40 years to do it, while RMI only had 15 years, same for AMT.

Time & Motion is their third release for Cuneiform (as usual, they already released a ton more privately issued CD-Rs, and Steve Dinsdale even made a solo CD called New Church), and is quite a departure from Rain Falls in Grey, their previous for the label. Actually Rain Falls in Grey was a rather untypical release as they went the space rock route, where keyboards take second-fiddle to rock instruments (guitar, bass, drums). It was a dedication to Syd Barrett. That CD certainly proves they can operate in the space rock/psychedelic field with no problems at all. Their first Cuneiform release was Emissaries, which gives people a basic idea what RMI is all about. Like Emissaries, Time & Motion is a 2-CD set. At first, the music isn't too different from Emissaries: high emphasis on sequencers, with lots of analog and analog modeling gear, with Mellotron. "Kairos" is that prime example what I'm talking about, with some just truly intense use of sequencers that would put TD's Ricochet to shame. With one ambient piece, "Aeon", they pretty much keep up this familiar format until you reach "Fission Ships Pt. 1". From this piece (which closes Disc 1) all the way to "Nine:Four:One", all the sequencers have been dropped. "Mayba a Last Look at Joe's House" finds the group exploring that similar space rock found on Rain Falls in Grey, with Gary Houghton on guitar, Steve Dinsdale on drums, and Duncan Goddard on bass, while all three also use electronics. The rest: pretty much abandoning all traditional structures and melody, much like Tangerine Dream did for Zeit (although not sounding like Zeit). Some of it will remind you of the sinister droning of Zabriskie Point (if you can get a copy of that disc, do so, it's a great release, and they don't even use sequencers, and prove they can float by without them). "30 Years (Slight Return)" is the first time you hear sequencers on this 2-CD set in over an hour. I completely forgot, guest Martin Archer makes an appearance on several cuts (as he had on Rain Falls in Grey, as well as tours since that time). He provides sax and clarinet. It's nice to have the use of wind instruments on a Radio Massacre International release.

This is a rather challenging CD, especially the second CD, but regardless, RMI has another winner.