Clock DVA
| Clock DVA | |
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 Moscow, 2014 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Industrial , post-punk , EBM , ambient |
| founding | 1978 |
| Current occupation | |
| Adi Newton TeZ Maurizio Martinucci Panagiotis Tomaras |
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| former members | |
| Paul Baker Robert Baker Paul Browse John Valentine Carruthers Charlie Collins Dean Dennis Nick Sanderson Steven Turner |
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Clock DVA is a British band from Sheffield , England , whose name is derived from Anthony Burgess ' A Clockwork Orange , as well as the numeral for "two" ("dva") in most Slavic languages. In the cover text of the album Buried Dreams , the band relates the DVA to the Hebrew word avd (od) for the magic number 11 in Kabbalistic studies .
Band history
The band Clock DVA was founded in 1978 by Adi Newton and Steven Turner , after Adi Newton had previously worked with Martyn Ware (later The Human League and Heaven 17 ) in The Future , as well as with members of Cabaret Voltaire and Genesis P-Orridge (later Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV ).
After two self-produced cassettes ("Fragment" and "Deep Floor"), the first commercial release of Clock DVA was released with the third cassette "White Souls In Black Suits" on Throbbing Gristle's label Industrial Records , which was still heavily influenced by sometimes jazzy improvisations was already shaped by Adi Newton's pithy voice.
Following these two early works, the first regular album "Thirst" was released, which was able to position itself high in the British independent charts and has sold almost 100,000 copies to date.
After this respectable success, the band signed a lucrative contract with Polydor and released the album "Advantage" in 1982; but without Steven Turner, who had since left the band, but with Paul Browse and Dean Dennis. After the world tour for this album, the band broke up in the meantime, because Adi Newton of all people left the band and, together with Robert Baker, started the project The Anti Group to realize his visions of experimental music. It wasn't until 1987 that he reconciled himself with Dennis and Browse and restarted Clock DVA.
The style of Clock DVA changed significantly. The 1989 album "Buried Dreams" was electronically generated, less experimental and reflected Newton's interest in digital technologies. On this album, many (sound and speech) samples from films such as THX 1138 , RoboCop or The Thing from Another World are used and reinforce the dark atmosphere of the songs. Topics such as digital terrorism (“The Hacker”) and repetitive song structures suggest that the German band Kraftwerk - especially with their albums Die Mensch-Maschine and Computerwelt - influenced them.
Shortly after the release of "Buried Dreams" Paul Browse left the band and founded the techno-ambient project Effective Force with Johnny Klimek . He was replaced by Robert Baker, who stayed with him until the end.
The '92 album “Man-Amplified” was Clock DVA's first concept album and thematically follows on from the single “The Hacker”. The style of Buried Dreams was continued and refined and also musically represents the hard-cool digital aesthetic. In addition to the music, there is an essay written by Adi Newton on the respective topic for each song on the album in the CD booklet. During the tour that followed, Clock DVA presented themselves optically analogous to Kraftwerk, as the static stage show was accompanied by projections of computer-animated videos.
The album "Digital Soundtracks", which was released in the same year, is significantly more ambient or trance-heavy than "Man-Amplified" and represents a collection of fictional, singeless film music. According to the accompanying text, it is based on work during the recording of "Buried Dreams" . The text supplement to the album refers to the Swiss doctor Hans Jenny , the writer Stéphane Mallarmé and the influence of mind machines on the human brain .
During the recording of the 93 album "Sign" Dean Dennis left the band; Adi Newton and Paul Baker completed the last regular Clock DVA album as a duo. This album revolves around extraterrestrial intelligences and is stylistically closer to “Buried Dreams”, less cool and much more catchy.
In 1994 the retrospective and mix compilation of the years '89 -'93 "Collective" was the last album for a long time.
On June 10, 2011, Clock DVA performed at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig for the first time since 1994.
In the summer of 2013, “Post-Sign” (which contains previously unpublished and unfinished instrumental pieces) was a successor to “Sign”; Newer material was later to be published in 2013 as a limited USB stick edition; the USB media card was finally released in the summer of 2014 in direct sales and, in addition to three new pieces, contained the associated videos, a PDF booklet and remixes by Frank Bretschneider, Uwe Schmidt (AtomTM ) and Robin Rimbaud (scanner).
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
- Advantage (1982) LP Polydor 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
- 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
- Sign (1993) CD Contempo CONTE 225CD
- Collective (1994) CD Cleopatra CLEO94822; CD Sub / Mission CDWHIP003-166700003-2; CD Hypnobeat / SPV 04632
- Collective (1994) 3CD box Hyperium / Sub-Mission 391010629
- Kinetic Engineering (1993) VHS Contempo (201); STUD! O K7 (018)
- Horology (2012) Vinyl-on-Demand VOD96
- Post-Sign (2013) CD ANTERIOR RES. / Cargo Records 64215
- CLOCK2 (2014) USB media card ARM USB1
Individual evidence
- ^ Wave Gotik Treffen 2011 . www.gungirl.de. June 15, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
- ^ Sonic Seducer: "Clock DVA - The first new material since 1993 is coming soon" . www.sonic-seducer.de. May 29, 2013. Archived from the original on August 26, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
