Chris And Cosey – Trance

This is one of those records that gets better with age. Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti bring us their interpretation of trance… at the early age of 1982. To get comfortable, you may want to start with track 5, just to feel like you’re somewhere within the soon-to-be UK dance / trance explosion of the late 1980s. If I were an electronic dance music revisionist, I’d put this somewhere in the first-wave “EBM”; but for the strict traditionalists, this remains experimental or (begrudgingly) synth-pop for now. ‘Trance' is often cited by electronic musicians as being highly influential in contemporary electronic music. Primarily an instrumental album 'Trance' covers everything from minimal electro and polyrhythmic sequences to rhythm heavy industrial dance tracks.

 "High-tech sequencer dazzles mix with heavy stews of sound, teasing atmospheric pieces with abrasive disco forgeries” John Gill - Time Out 1982

"No one else currently turning out commercial music has anywhere near Chris and Coseyʼs intuitive grasp of the stimulating possibilities of electronic rhythm. Trance is just what it claims to be: a mesmerising chance to reassess the suggestive potential of sound, which in turn, attempts to intoxicate the listener into a reinvestigation of surrounding environments.” Steve Sutherland - Melody Maker 1982.

Ripped from the 1988 CD reissue UK edition to trancy fancy MP3 @ 320kbps

Chris And Cosey; Trance

1.       Cowboys In Cuba
2.       Lost
3.       The Giants Feet
4.       Impulse
5.       Re-Education Through Labour
6.       Secret
7.       Until
8.       The Gates Of Ancient Cities