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Sheffield, England (1977 – present)

Clock DVA is an electronic music group from Sheffield, England. Originally founded, in late-1977, by Adi Newton and Steven Turner. They were first known for experimental electronic music.

They became associated with music with the 1980 release of their album White Souls in Black Suits on Industrial Records, although in reality the early material that predates this release is a blend of extreme electronics and frequencies that was heard only by a spartan few, including Jhon Balance and other notaries. (This early archive material, which includes the Sex Works Beyond Entanglement 12” EP (1979) originally planned for release by Cherry Red with the tracks Throbbing Sweeping Obscene/Coil/The Pop Hell, is due for release with a number of other extreme pure-electronic compositions and will readdress the morphology of DVA history.) The album Thirst followed in 1981, by which time Adi Newton and Steven Judd Turner had combined musique concrète techniques with guitar, bass, and drum instrumentation, fused with Newton’s unique art direction and existential lyrics and writing.

After the tragic death of Steven Judd Turner, Adi Newton formed a new version of the band in 1983. First releasing the singles Passions Still Aflame and High Holy Disco Mass on the major label Polydor under the name DVA, the group then released the album Advantage (along with several singles). During a European tour a dispute amongst the musicians occurred resulting in Adi Newton disbanding the group.
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  • Advantage
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  • Sign
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  • Buried Dreams
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  • Neuralblastoma

    Amazing atmosphere. You can't get any more cyberpunk than this.

    18 days ago
  • Spacebel

    Front 242

    March 2012
  • Auland

    Newton really tends to show his ass but he sure knows how to make the sounds work...

    January 2012
  • Musilov

    You mean: THEY ARE ACTUALLY TOURING?

    November 2011
  • AMDA

    Cool concert in Madrid. The visuals in the hacker was amazing...

    November 2011
  • zuzochka

    nice

    October 2011
  • Musilov

    I don't think Autechre is boring, but you're right for one reason: all those electronic dudes ripped Sheffield and Manchester off; listen to Cabaret Voltaire and some 1987 acid house music and you know why. As for Clock: my favourite album is Advantage and my favourite track is: "Morpheus Baby" by the Anti-Group; those are pre-electronic.

    September 2011
  • LOSTFREEQ

    http://www.lastfm.pl/music/LOSTFREEQ/_/photon

    September 2011
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A 20 Year Timeline

25 Oct 2005 | from blog.myspace.com/clockdva

Clock DVA 1978-1998: A 20 Year Timeline by Martin Hastings This year being DVA's 20th anniversary, I thought it would be a good time to write this timeline. Prologue: The Future In June of 1977...

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