Clock DVA

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Clock DVA is an Industrial music/Post-Punk group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adi Newton and Steven "Judd" 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". Adi had previously worked with members of Cabaret Voltaire in a collective called The Studs and with Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware in a band called The Future. Ian and Martyn went on to found The Human League.

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[edit] History

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, released on Fetish Records, followed in 1981 to a favourable critical reaction,[2] knocking Adam and the Ants' Dirk Wears White Sox from the top of the NME Indie Charts, by which time the band had combined musique concrète techniques with standard rock instrumentation. The band split up in 1981, with most of the band going on to form The Box.[3]

In 1983, Newton formed a new version of the band. First releasing the single "High Holy Disco Mass" on the major label Polydor Records 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..[2] 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. In 2006, he released the album "Metropolis", under the moniker Nohno, in his own label, Out To Lunch Recordings.

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.

As of 2007, Clock DVA have not released an album since 1993's Sign.

Adi Newton still creates music and film and teaches video and audio.

[edit] Album list

  • Lomticks of Time (1978) Cassette
  • 2nd (1978) Cassette DVATION 01
  • Deep Floor (1979) Cassette DVATION 02
  • Fragment (1979) Cassette DVATION 03
  • White Souls In Black Suits (1980) Cassette Industrial Records IRC31
  • Thirst (1980) LP Fetish Records FR2002 (UK Indie #7)[4]
  • Advantage (1982) LP Polydor Records POLS 1082
  • White Souls in Black Suits (re-released 1982) LP Italian Records EX24
  • Advantage (re-released 1989) CD Interfisch 01706-10
  • Buried Dreams (1989) CD Interfisch 01717-26; CD Wax Trax! WAXCD 7094; CD Contempo CONTEDISC 193
  • White Souls in Black Suits (re-released 1990) LP Italian Records EX24
  • Transitional Voices (live; 1990) CD Interfisch Records 01718-26; CD Contempo CONTEDISC 194
  • Bit Mapping (live bootleg; 1990) CD Dunedin Records 025
  • Man-Amplified (1991) CD Contempo CONTEDISC 182
  • White Souls In Black Suits (re-released 1992) CD Contempo CONTEDISC 157
  • Advantage (re-released 1992) CD Contempo CONTEDISC 191
  • Thirst (re-released 1992) CD Contempo CONTEDISC 192
  • Digital Soundtracks (1992) CD Contempo CONTE 217
  • Tour 1992 (live bootleg; 1992) CD Smurf SMURFCD92-01
  • Sign (1993) CD Contempo CONTE 225CD
  • Collective (anthology; 1994) CD Cleopatra CLEO94822; CD Sub/Mission CDWHIP003-166700003-2; CD Hypnobeat/SPV 04632
  • Collective (anthology; 1994) 3 CD Hyperium/Sub-Mission 391010629
  • Buried Dreams (re-released 1998) CD Nextera ERA 9815-2

[edit] References

  1. ^ Clock Dva discography
  2. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-579-4. 
  3. ^ Strong, Martin C. (1999). The Great Alternative & Indie Discography. Canongate. ISBN 0-86241-913-1. 
  4. ^ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1999. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4. 

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