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01. YOU - Time Code
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02. YOU - Future/Past
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03. YOU - 20/11/28
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04. YOU - Deep Range
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05. YOU - Taurus-Fantasia
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06. YOU - Metallique
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07. YOU - Live Line
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08. YOU - Bluewater Dream
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09. YOU - Mision: Possible
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10. YOU - Controlled Demolition
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11. YOU - Zone Black
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ARTIST
YOU
TITLE
Time Code
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 074CD
BB 074CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
7/12/2011
The Bureau B label reissues
You
's
Time Code
, first released in 1983 on Rock City Records. As synthesizers grew more popular from the mid-'70s onwards, an increasing number of groups swapped the classic instruments of a rock band for sequencers and synthesizers. Pioneers (and paragons) of this electronically-created music included, of course,
Tangerine Dream
,
Klaus Schulze
,
Manuel Göttsching
et al, who represent the "Berliner Schule" (in contrast to the Düsseldorfer Schule which developed around
Kraftwerk
and company). A hitherto less celebrated, yet outstanding exponent of the Berliner Schule was the Krefeld combo
YOU
(
Udo Hanten
,
Albin Meskes
). Their debut album
Electric Day
immediately launched YOU into the elite echelon of Germany's electronic music scene. It would take four years for them to deliver their sophomore LP, entitled
Time Code
. If
Electric Day
was characterized by
Harald Grosskopf
's pulsating drums and
Uli Weber
's solo guitar,
Time Code
emerged as an altogether more electronic affair, with both Grosskopf and Weber having left the project. Reduced to a duo, YOU largely remained faithful to their style, but expanded upon it.
Time Code
displays more range and variation than its predecessor. Downtempo and faster numbers alternate and sugar-sweet melodies are followed by expanses of ominously dark or crystal-clear synthesizers. Hanten and Meskes' new sound was further refined by the use of drum computers and the omission of guitar. The album perfectly illustrates the transition of electronic music from the 1970s to the 1980s. Sequencer patterns owe much to the legacy of the Berlin School (Berliner Schule), while the synthesizer and drum computer sounds heralded the advent of the new decade. The level of interest and excitement was particularly high in Italy, where songs from the album featured heavily on the radio. Listeners were clearly impressed by "Live Line," which has resurfaced in various techno productions over the past 20 years, either as a cover (by
Diolac Duvai
, for example), or as "Elektro Message" (by
Gigi D'Agostino
). This reissue comes with two CD-only bonus tracks.
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