Clock DVA

   
Artist: Clock DVA

   Genre(s): 
Industrial
   Other
   Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Sign

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 9


   
 Bitstream

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 7


   
 Final program [EP]

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 3


   
 Hacker [Hacked] [CD5]

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 3


   
 Thirst

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 11


   
 Voice Recognition Test

   Year:    
Tracks: 3


   
 The Act

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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A product of the same mid-'70s Sheffield industrial music community of interests which likewise gave rise up to Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA emerged in 1980 from the ashes of area bands including the Studs, Block Opposite, Veer and They Must Be Russians as well as the Future, an early incarnation of the Human League. After a serial of shifting lineups, a roster comprised of vocaliser Adi Newton, bassist Steven Taylor, guitarist Paul Widger, saxophonist Charlie Collins and drummer Roger Quail recorded Clock DVA's debut White Souls in Black Suits, a cassette-only, improvisational release fusing metallic noise with funk and soul designs which was issued on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial label.


In 1981, the grouping issued Hungriness, which abandoned R&B accoutrements in favor of jittery, abrasive electronic racket. Following its release, all of Clock DVA omit Newton defected to form Box; after collecting a unexampled lineup of saxophonist Paul Browse, future Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist John Carruthers, bassist Dean Dennis and drummer Nick Sanderson, Newton wrangled a major-label deal with Polydor, and Clock DVA soon resurfaced with 1983's Vantage, an intense montage of dance beats, penetrative feedback and jarring tape measure manipulations. However, Carruthers and Sanderson both exited following the LP's release; after a brief attempt to forge on as a trio, Clock DVA disbanded in late 1983.


N later turned his focussing to the Anti Group, an industrial idle words and visual arts jut out created in tandem with engineer Robert Baker; after a series of singles, he reformed Clock DVA in 1988 with Browse and Dennis, cathartic the sample-fueled 1988 EPs The Hacker and The Act, as well as 1990's uncut Inhumed Dreams, on the Wax/Trax label. By 1991's Transitional Voices, Newton's Anti Group collaborator Baker had replaced Browse; Dennis departed shortly after, leaving the left duet to record a enormously prolific amount of material including 1992's Man-Amplified, 1993's Signaling, Black Words on White Paper and Virtual Reality Handbook, 1994's 150 Erotic Calibrations and 1995's Anterior.