T.A.G.C - Broadcast Test
Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on Wax Trax Records (WAX 9104) in 1989 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio.
A Broadcast Test Transmission 1B Broadcast Test Transmission 2
Showing posts with label The Anti Group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Anti Group. Show all posts
Newton's Law II
T.A.G.C. - Meontological Research Recording [Record One]
Two sides comprising 23 minutes each of manipulated electronics, noise and taped loops recorded in Berlin in 1986. I ripped this as an mp3 years ago and have finally gotten around to re-ripping to a lossless format on a decent turntable. The Anti-Group were rarely known for their use of melody, harmony and rhythm and these recording were among their last before Adi Newton resurrected Clock DVA as an electronic beat group a few years later.
Ripped from a vinyl album released on Sweatbox Records (SAX 013) in 1987 to high quality lossless flac audio.
A. SonochemistryB. Synthesis 54 (Burning Water)
The Anti Group - Audiophile
Audiophile : ripped from a compact disc released on Side Effects (DFX 22) in 1994 to lossless high quality FLAC audio. A compilation of the 12" singles released by The Anti Group on Sweatbox Records in the UK between 1985 and 1990.
1. Ha
2. Zulu
3. Shgl
4. New Upheavil
5. F.E.M.
6. Morpheus Baby
7. Sunset Eyes Through Water
8. The Ocean
9. Big Sex
10. Big Sex II
11. Broadcast Test
Various Artists - Abstract Magazine : Volume 6
The sixth edition was to feature slightly more accessible artists, many of who have featured on the pages of this blog. Deacon's coup was the exclusive ACR remix and the first outing in public of Adi Newton's post-DVA Anti Group (who also signed to the Sweatbox label). Sheffield standards Chakk, Hula and Workforce contributed high quality industrial funk (with a little help from Hamilton Bohannon) and French obscurity Clair Obscur roped in with an early version of his techno Smurf single. Peel faves Clan Of Xymox lent an unreleased version of a session favourite and a twisted Blurt likely lost more fans than they gained.
Again ripped to a 32bit / 48000hz lossless wav file on a Soundlab Pro GO56C deck through a Creative 24bit USB External soundcard with Cool Edit Pro. Then manually cut up, de-clicked, balanced and normalised in Cool Edit Pro before resampling down to CD friendly 16bit 44100hz audio file and compressed to lossless FLAC (level 8) in Traders Little Helper.
As you can tell, I'm rather chuffed with the quality of this rip, though some rather nasty jumps on the Chakk track may well still be audible.
A1. Breach Birth (Remix) - In The Nursery
A2. Skin Scraped Back (Remix) - Workforce
A3. Moscoviet Musquito (Remix) - Clan Of Xymox
A4. Gravespit (Live) - Blurt
A5. Smurf In The Goulag - Clair Obscur
B1. Sounds Like Something Dirty (Remix) - A Certain Ratio
B2. Ha (Remix) - The Anti Group
B3. Theme - Chakk
B4. Motor City Nightmare - Hula
B5. They're Biting - A Primary Industry
Re:Upped
The Anti Group (T.A.G.C.) - Discography
The Anti-Group aka T.A.G.C. were a project formed in the mid-1980s by Adi Newton (although the idea existed as early as 1978). The Anti-Group was conceived as an open-membership experimental multimedia collective, focused on audio, visual, and textual research and production, as well as performance art and installations.
Newton formed it shortly after the third genesis (the major label version) of Clock DVA folded in 1984. T.A.G.C. remained active as such until the reformation of Clock DVA in 1988. A lot of the T.A.G.C. material is quite dark, but some of the works went so far as to earn the title of industrial-jazz. Newton employed the talents of fellow technocrat Richard Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire to do the production work on the initial material which was a combination of hard, oblique electro-funk, and free-form jazz. Co-conspirators also included Ian Marsh and Martyn Ware with whom Newton also worked as a member of early industrial act The Future before both finding fame with the original Human League and popsters Heaven 17.
Initial releases were on the experimental/industrial Sweatbox label,owned by the late Rob Deacon. Sweatbox were to go on to break minor industrial-funk and experimental acts such as A Primary Industry, Perennial Divide, Meat Beat Manifesto and the superb Workforce. Sweatbox were also the driving force behind the excellent Abstract audio magazine series.Some T.A.G.C. audio recordings were then reissued on Newton's Anterior Research Recordings label. "The theoretical underpinnings of these recordings, which are often primarily psycho acoustic experiments or carefully-constructed aural rituals", are made explicit in the lengthy
liner notes which accompany most releases. Clearly Newton was still taking the pills!
The acronym T.A.G.C. is also intended to represent the four nucleotides that make up DNA (thymine, adenine, guanine and cytosine) although those of a more conventional mind set regard them as The Anti Group Collective.
Ha - Zulu : From an original 12" single released on Sweatbox (SOX 009) in 1985
A. Ha
B. Zulu
The Delivery : From the original 12" import EP released on Atonal (ST3006) in 1985
Recorded live at the Atonal Festival located in Ballhaus Tiergarten, Berlin, on the 18th February 1985.
A1. Morpheus' Baby
A2. The Delivery (Part I)
B1. The Delivery (Part II)
B2. Love Flowers In The Desert
ShT : From an original 12" mini-LP released on Sweatbox (SEX 010) in 1986
A1. Shgl
A2. Sunset Eyes Through Water
A3. Po-Ema
A4. Further & Evident Meanings
B1. Morpheus Baby
B2. New Upheaval
Big Sex : From an original 12" single released on Sweatbox (SOX 011) in 1986
A1. Big Sex
B1. Big Sex
B2. The Ocean
Digitaria : From an original vinyl album released on Sweatbox (SAX 012) in 1986
A1. Blood Burns Into Water
A2. Dog Star
A3. Balag Anti
A4. Chozzar Over Abyss
A5. Pre-Eval
B1. Ghost Cultures
B2. Noosphere
B3. Lux Nox
Meontological Research Recording - Record 1 : From an original vinyl album released on Sweatbox (SAX 013) in 1987
A. Sonochemistry
B. Synthesis 54 (Burning Water)
Broadcast Test : From an original 12" import single released on Big Sex Records (BIG SEX 002) in 1989
A. Broadcast Test (Transmission 1)
B. Broadcast Test (Transmission 2)
Burning Water : From an unofficial CD album released on Side Effects (DFX 17) in 1994
1. Burning Water (SO36)
2. Burning Water (ARS Electronica)
Iso-Erotic Calibrations : From a CD album released on Anterior Research Recordings (ARR 003) in 1994
1. Iso-Erotic Calibrations
2. Union With Sirens
3. Mercurius
4. Annals Of Sancity
5. Nuerological Engineering
6. Psychophonophilia
7. Ethemeral
Dive on in - Part One : Part Two : Part Three : Part Four : Part Five
You need to pull down all five RAR files before attempting to extract
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