The Time & Space Machine

Producer/musician Richard Norris had a long and varied career in the music industry, spending time in the '80s as a journalist, record exec (most notably at psychedelic reissue label <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Bam+Caruso%22">Bam Caruso</a>), and member of obscure bands the likes of <a href="spotify:artist:6Qm9stX6XO1a4c7BXQDDgc">the Fruit Bats</a>, Innocent Vicars, <a href="spotify:artist:4GWyclc3byUj9NDMZAtMHy">East of Eden</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:5CrxYXbjv7bVJJiZ4zIs5P">Mr. Suit</a>. By the end of the decade, Norris had fallen under the spell of acid house and made a splash working with <a href="spotify:artist:1LIz0YepKcwUvVwWfMAUA6">Genesis P-Orridge</a> of <a href="spotify:artist:3oi0s3WIuxBU5oh87n7za2">Psychic TV</a> on the legendary 1988 album Jack the Tab -- Acid Tablets, Vol. 1. This led to Norris and ex-<a href="spotify:artist:6aq8T2RcspxVOGgMrTzjWc">Soft Cell</a> member <a href="spotify:artist:0R4XJmyqnr0EOCmjyo1hse">Dave Ball</a> getting together and forming the long-running techno duo <a href="spotify:artist:1fN3lF5RILxJeG9H8EhEDo">the Grid</a>. The bandmembers went their separate ways in 1995, with Norris forming the electroclash trio <a href="spotify:artist:5lKsqRytUXAoNKWtGKBSXe">Droyds</a> along with <a href="spotify:artist:4HIta8WeidgXi1RCYwysBz">Andy Chatterley</a> and Matthew Best. The <a href="spotify:artist:1fN3lF5RILxJeG9H8EhEDo">Grid</a> re-formed in the mid-2000s, releasing the 2008 album Doppelgänger before going back on hiatus. During this period, he also partnered up with DJ <a href="spotify:artist:3jQ8hpdQo3TCEnb5gmOtH5">Erol Alkan</a> in the remixing duo <a href="spotify:artist:0DGGWrQLqX2Bli5KOPchgY">Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve</a>. They released a handful of 12" singles, which were gathered on the 2008 album Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Ark 1, and their remixes for bands like <a href="spotify:artist:4YsP5zmteLQ7etNjHAOu30">Midlake</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5BKsn7SCN2XmbF7apdCpRS">Goldfrapp</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:1GhPHrq36VKCY3ucVaZCfo">the Chemical Brothers</a> were collected on a self-titled album in 2009. Norris' next project, the Time & Space Machine, was a solo endeavor that delved deeper into the psychedelic aspects of his career. After two singles in 2009, TT&SM's debut album Set Phazer to Stun was released in early 2010 by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Tirk+Records%22">Tirk Records</a>. After working on remixes for people like <a href="spotify:artist:5INjqkS1o8h1imAzPqGZBb">Tame Impala</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5RNFFojXkPRmlJZIwXeKQC">Bryan Ferry</a>, the second TT&SM album, the more organic Taste the Lazer, was released in spring of 2012. Norris spent the next few years remixing the current crop of neo-psych fellow travelers like <a href="spotify:artist:4ogwGU9VPWrnVBs1GEwZVV">Temples</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6fEO1r9Y9TYL9O4w5kVPmc">Jagwar Ma</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:252Qg4E3R9CHhd7qeeiMpD">the Sufis</a>, with the results collected in 2014 by the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Ample+Play%22">Ample Play</a> label as The Way Out Sound from In. ~ Tim Sendra, Rovi