Clock DVA

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Clock DVA is an electronic music group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adi Newton and Steven Turner. Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange; [1]] "dva" is the Russian word for "two".

The group was originally known for making a form of experimental electronic music involving treated tape loops and synthesisers. Clock DVA became associated with industrial music with the 1980 release of their album White Souls in Black Suits on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records. The album Thirst followed in 1981, by which time the band had combined musique concrète techniques with standard rock instrumentation.

In 1983, Newton formed a new version of the band. First releasing the single "High Holy Disco Mass" on the major label Polydor under the name DVA, the band then released the album Advantage (with several singles) under the name Clock DVA. After a European tour, however, the band split acrimoniously.

After the 1983 breakup of Clock DVA, Adi Newton formed The Anti-Group or T.A.G.C. They released several albums continuing in a similar vein to the early Clock DVA, yet more experimental.

In 1987, the band reformed with a lineup of Adi Newton, Dean Dennis and Paul Browse and moved in a different direction with the single "The Hacker" and the album Buried Dreams, a heavily electronic industrial music and EBM influenced album that became their defining sound for years to come.

Dean Dennis has released solo work under the moniker Sector. As of 2006, Clock DVA has not released an album since 1993's Sign.

In 2004, Paul Browse released an album Sensitive Disruption, under the band name Visions of Excess, in a similar musical vein as that of Clock DVA's earlier work.