Clock DVA - White Souls In Black Suits

Happy New Year to all blog followers. To kick off 2012, this is not so much a vinyl rip - it is more of a painstaking reconstruction from multiple sources. I have two versions of this release, the 1982 vinyl and one of the many unofficial CDs which snuck out of Italy on Contempo. The vinyl is as crackly as hell and the Italian CD masterings leave much to be desired. The original version of this album was as a cassette on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records released in 1980. It features contributions by several members of Cabaret Voltaire.

I think you'll agree that this stuff should be heard at its best, so until Vinyl On Demand get around to their much vaunted DVA vinyl boxset, here is the result of my work, all caressed with love & care from vinyl and CD. The result is a fuller and warm sound (no limiting required), with space and depth in the mix. It works well and breathes life into what was essentially a fifteen hour jam cut down to an album of work. This is hardly music for iPod and deserves to heard lossless.

This is Clock DVA under going a change. Under a metamorphosis from industrial tape loops, noise and electronics to more natural instruments with sharp stabbing guitars, plucked bass, sax and flutes. Two or three of the tracks can actually be described as songs. In places, it becomes warped neo-jazz improv, in others, a post-punk drone. Adi Newton even finds time for poetry. This new direction was eventually to evolve on to the band's first proper album, Thirst.

White Souls In Black Suits : ripped from a vinyl album released on EXpanded Music (EX 24) in 1982 and a compact disc released on Contempo Records (CONTEDISC 157) in 1990, and lovingly polished and wrapped up in glorious lossless FLAC audio.

A1. Consent

A2. Discontentment (Parts 1 & 2)

A3. Still/Silent

A4. Non

B1. Relentless

B2. Contradict

B3. Anti-Chance (Soundtrack : Keyboards Assemble Themselves At Dawn)