Mysticism’s Dubplate series continues, with a 2 x 12 Double Pack of German digidub pioneers TVS aka Trance Vision Steppers. A studio only project of Felix Wolter, the compilation looks at their earlier recordings, from 1995 – 1999.

Founded as an electronic side project to his band The Vision – see “sister” label Emotional Rescue’s 10” reissue of their post-punk-dub 80s output – the Steppers was an outlet for Wolter’s increasing interesting in electronic dance music and UK dub.

Having recorded and toured in The Vision for over a decade, his interest in sampling led to building a home studio. With further effects, keyboards and mixing desk installed, TVS was born. After experiencing tour burn out, The Vision was broken up and Wolter concentrated solely on studio work. Co-founding the Time Tools community in Hanover, Wolter enlisted live instrumentation to augment the recording process further.

Building on The Vision’s notable love of Adrian Sherwood, Dennis Bovell and Mad Professor, pilgrimages to Jah Shaka’s monthly sound system all nighters and a love of the likes of Alpha Omega are apparent. Wolter’s music history of krautrock, jazz-rock, new wave, post punk, reggae was coalesced in the recordings, merging with psychedelic and the burgeoning trance movement and sound.

Spread across two conjoined releases, Timeless presents the best of the early recordings from 1995 to 1999, but which only appeared later on CD albums in the early 2000s. Here then, they appear on vinyl for the first-time, the mix of driving trance dub of To All The Children, Timeless, TV Steppa and ReAction Dub, with the sampledelic digidub excursions that wear their influences clearly, in Oh George, Weekend Steppa and the closing ambient dub of Und Imma Weita, plus the koshmiche curiosity TestDept., that features no less than the legendary Klaus Schulze at his modular best.