Testure

"Testure"
Single by Skinny Puppy
from the album VIVIsectVI
Released	1988
Format	CD, 12"
Recorded	1988
Genre	Industrial music
Length	23 min 26 s
Label	Nettwerk/Capitol/EMI
Producer(s)	Dave Ogilvie and cEvin Key
Skinny Puppy singles chronology
"Censor" (1988) Testure (1989) "Tin Omen" (1989)

"Testure" is a single by the band Skinny Puppy, taken from their 1988 album VIVIsectVI. The phrase is most likely a play on words (a literary device used frequently by vocalist Ogre) of the words 'Test' and 'Torture' and equates medical experimentation on live animals as being akin to torture. A music video was made for the single which featured a man who presumably abused his pet dog and, upon discovering its corpse, is taken away by some strangers who place him in a medical/torture test while interspersed are shots of actual animal testing footage.

Track listing

Personnel

• N. Ogre
• cEvin Key
• D. Rudolph Goettel
• Rave

Guests

• Mr. Dale Plevin (fretless bass - 1, 2)

Notes

• Engineered by cEvin Key and Dave Ogilvie.
• Sleeve photography, typography and design by Steven R. Gilmore.
• This is the first (and only) Skinny Puppy release to also be released as a 3" mini-disc.
• "Testure" contains samples of dialogue from the animated film adaptation of The Plague Dogs, which depicts cruelty to animals in a government research facility.
• "Testure" was remixed by God Lives Underwater.
• The music video contains footage from the PETA film Unnecessary Fuss.

Other

• Track 1 re-edited by Sir Arthur.
• Additional production on track 2 by Greg Reely, with additional engineering by Adrian Sherwood. Remixed and re-edited by David Ogilvie and cEvin Key.

Chart positions

References

• Kern, Jay (2010). Skinny Puppy: The Illustrated Discography (Second Edition). Mythos Press. p. 80. 

External links

Single

• Testure at Discogs (CD, Mini, Capitol Records, )
• Testure at Discogs (Vinyl, 12", Capitol Records, )
• Testure at Discogs (CD, Maxi-Single, Nettwerk, )