Clock DVA

Clock DVA
Origin	Sheffield, England
Genres	Industrial music/Post-punk/EBM
Years active	1978–1981, 1982–1984, 1988–1994, 2008–present
Labels	Industrial Records
Associated acts	The Anti-Group/T.A.G.C., The Box, Siouxsie & the Banshees
Website	clockdva.com[dead link]
Members
Adi Newton
Past members
Steven "Judd" Turner Jane Radion Newton Simon Mark Elliot-Kemp Dave Palmer Joseph Hurst Charlie Collins Roger Quail David J. Hammond Rod Siddall Paul Widger John Valentine Carruthers Paul Browse Michael Ward Nick Sanderson Dean Dennis Robert E. Baker

Clock DVA are an industrial music, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adolphus "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.

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 cassette album White Souls in Black Suits on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records.^[2] The album Thirst, released on Fetish Records, followed in 1981 to a favourable critical reaction,^[3] 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. "4 Hours", the single from "Thirst" was later covered by former Bauhaus bassist David J on his 1985 solo e.p. "Blue moods turning tail".

The band split up in 1981, with the non original members of the band going on to form The Box.^[2]

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.^[3] They released several albums continuing in a similar vein to the early Clock DVA, yet more experimental.

In 1987, Adi Newton reactivated DVA and invited Dean Dennis and Paul Browse back into the fold to aid Newton's use of computer aided sampling techniques which he had been developing in the Anti Group. The album Buried Dreams, an electronic album which received critical acclaim as a pioneering work. Browse left the group in 1989 and was replaced by R E Baker. The album Man-Amplified was the next album to be released, an exploration of cybernetics. Digital Soundtracks, an instrumental album, was the next release. Following Dennis's departure, Newton and Baker produced the album Sign.

Adi Newton reactivated Clock DVA along with his creative partner Jane Radion Newton in 2008. Clock DVA is scheduled to perform live at Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Germany in June 2011, for the first time since 1994.^[4]

Discography

• 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)^[5]
• Passions Still Aflame (1982) EP Polydor Records POSPX 437
• High Holy Disco Mass (1982) 12" Polydor Records POSPX 499
• Advantage (1982) LP Polydor Records POLS 1082
• White Souls in Black Suits (re-released 1982) LP Italian Records EX24
• Resistance (1983) 12" Polydor Records POSPX 578
• Breakdown (1983) 12" Polydor Records POSPX 627
• The Hacker (1988) CDEP Interfisch IF-SETH 001 C
• The Act (1988) CDEP Interfisch IF-SETH 008 C
• Advantage (re-released 1989) CD Interfisch 01706-10
• Buried Dreams (1989) CD Interfisch 01717-26; CD Wax Trax! WAXCD 7094; CD Contempo CONTEDISC 193
• Sound Mirror (1989) CDEP Interfisch IF-SETH 013 C
• 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
• Final Program (1991) CDEP Contempo Tempodisc 173
• Man-Amplified (1991) CD Contempo CONTEDISC 182
• Bitstream (1991) CDEP Contempo Tempodisc 183
• 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
• Voice Recognition Test CDEP Contempo Tempo 224CDS
• Sign (album) (1993) CD Contempo CONTE 225CD
• Eternity CDEP Contempo Tempo 226CDS
• 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

Various Artists Compilation

• Hicks from the Sticks (1980)

References

1. ^ Clock Dva discography
2. ^ ^{a b} Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0, p. 271-2
3. ^ ^{a b} Larkin, Colin (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-579-4. 
4. ^ Wave-Gotik-Treffen Bands and Artists 2011
5. ^ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1999. Cherry Red Books. ISBN 0-9517206-9-4. 

External links

• Anterior Research/Clock DVA/T.A.G.C. Official website
• Anterior Research/Clock DVA Official US website at the Wayback Machine (archived August 3, 2008)
• The Clock DVA on Myspace
• Last.FM group
• Review on TrouserPress