''Time Tourist'', or ''TimeTourist'', is an album released by

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in 1996 on

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. The inventive packaging for the album makes it appear as if TimeTourist is an educational computer game written in a

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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 ''

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''. The album's packaging makes reference to a number of other

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names corrupted over two centuries — Phettt (

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), Hein Len (

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), Seaclarc (

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), A.C Mov (

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), and Kaydich (

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) — as well as to the

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and Lucas "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

{{Reflist 1996 albums B12 (band) albums Warp (record label) albums