Taking Snapshots

Taking Snapshots (or Taking Snapshots Vol. 1) is the debut studio album of Luc van Acker, self-released in 1982.^[1] The album was reissued on CD by Hard Records in 1994 and Fifth Colvmn Records on May 16, 1995.^[2] In 2009 the album was reissued for the first time since its release on vinyl record by Kindred Spirits.^[3][4][5][6]

Taking Snapshots
Studio album by Luc van Acker
Released	1982
Studio	Luc Van Acker's Bedroom (Tienen, Belgium)
Genre	Synth-pop experimental
Length	38:15
Luc van Acker chronology
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Alternative cover
1994 reissue
Alternative cover
1996 reissue

Music

The album was recorded and mixed by van Acker at the age of eighteen on a TASCAM 244 cassette recorder in his bedroom. The music was inspired by the calligraphy of Buddhist monks and each track recorded in a single tack.^[3]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]

Sonic Boom compared the music to Kraftwerk or Cabaret Voltaire and said "Luc van Acker was truly a man ahead of his time and it is a shame that his music did not see a wide spread release at the time it was written."^[8]

Track listing

All music is composed by Robert Salchak.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Introduction Fanfara"	1:49
2.	"Moments During Lifetime"	0:39
3.	"Taking Life Serious"	2:48
4.	"Try to Say Something"	3:34
5.	"Fanfara"	1:17
6.	"Find a Way"	3:10
7.	"China"	0:54
8.	"Vision One"	1:40
9.	"Freezing"	2:05
10.	"African Medicin Man"	1:13

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"It's a Day Change"	2:24
2.	"Frozen Tears"	2:52
3.	"Forced Into Light"	2:44
4.	"Take Her Away"	1:14
5.	"Vision Two"	1:39
6.	"What's Downtown"	2:27
7.	"Business"	2:50
8.	"Outro Fanfara"	2:55

Personnel

Adapted from the Taking Snapshots liner notes.^[9][10]

Musicians

• Luc van Acker – instruments, recording, mixing, photography

Production and design

• After Hours (1996 reissue) – design
• Zalman Fishman (1996 reissue) – executive-production
• Jimmy Machon (1994 reissue) – art direction, design

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Belgium	1982		LP	ZAS 001
Denmark	1994	Hard	CD	HARDEST 13
United States	1995	Fifth Colvmn		9868-63190
Netherlands	2009	Kindred Spirits	LP	KSE-01