''Time Tourist'', or ''TimeTourist'', is an album released by
B12
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in 1996 on
Warp
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. The inventive packaging for the album makes it appear as if TimeTourist is an educational computer game written in a
dystopia
A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...
n year 2166 and which looks back on the late 20th century as a primitive and quaint time in the development of mankind.
The track title "VOID/Comm" refers to "VOID/Comm R&D", a fictional 22nd-century company whose "B12 Systems" division developed "WorldCOM", a shared-mind technology which frees humans from physical interpersonal contact and the need to use very much of their brains. "VOID/Comm" is likely in reference to the Voigt/Kampf test administered in ''
Blade Runner
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''. The album's packaging makes reference to a number of other
science fiction
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names corrupted over two centuries — Phettt (
Boba Fett
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), Hein Len (
Robert A. Heinlein
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), Seaclarc (
Arthur C. Clarke), A.C Mov (
Isaac Asimov
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, birth_place = Petrovichi, Russian SFSR
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, death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
, nationality = Russian (1920–1922)Soviet (192 ...
), and Kaydich (
Philip K. Dick) — as well as to the
Roddenberry and
Lucas
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"Sacred StarTexts".
Although the featured artist for the album is B12, on the packaging, each track is associated with one of B12's aliases: CMetric, Redcell, or Musicology.
Track listing
#"VOID/Comm" – 5:50
#"Infinite Lites" – 5:21
#"Cymetry" – 5:58
#"Gimp" – 7:21
#"DB5" – 1:42
#"Phettt" – 5:52
#"Epillion" – 7:08
#"Scriptures" – 6:58
#"The Silicon Garden" – 3:29
#"Radiophonic Workshop" – 6:20
References
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1996 albums
B12 (band) albums
Warp (record label) albums