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Cat: DE 215. Rel: 2 Jul 18
Coldwave/Synth

Side 1 - Track 1. Time Actor Side 1 - Track 2. Time Factory Side 2 - Track 1. Charming The Wind Side 2 - Track 2. Grandma's Clockwork Side 2 - Track 3. Distorted Emission I Side 3. The Silent Sound Of The Ground Side 4 - Track 1. Time Echoes Side 4 - Track 2. Time Actor (Maurizio Delvecchio remix)

There are plenty out there - the team behind Dark Entries Records included - who will happily tell you that that Time Actor is one of the finest and most overlooked albums of the 1970s. It was the debut full-length of Richard Wahnfried, an alter ego of pioneering German ambient don and electronic experimentalist Klaus Schulze preserved for collaborative projects. In the case of Time Actor, that collaborator was Arthur Brown (he of "The Crazy World Of..." fame), whose half spoken, half-sung vocals provide a focal point throughout. Musically, the album is deliciously trippy and other-worldly, with Schulze delivering a swathe of fine electronic grooves and bubbly Berlin School soundscapes. This edition also boasts a brilliant bonus track: a 12-minute, 1983 "Afro-cosmic" revision of the title track by Italian Maurizio Delvecchio.