ClockDVA - Advantage
It was mooted a few years back that Mute were planning a reissue of ClockDVA's Advantage album. This has never happened and Adi has now gone quiet on the subject. That gives me more than a reasonable excuse to revisit this classic in 24-bits. This time I can expand to include all the Polydor era singles and remixes (all carefully re-ripped), plus the album demos recorded at Strawberry studios in late 1982.
Advantage is very much a concept album, like a film noir tribute to avantgarde jazz, with funk overtones and experimental soundscapes to which Newton's gravelly tones are incredibly well suited. It's not as good as Thirst, but is more accessible and represents another delve into Newton's dark, and occasionally twisted conscious. Advantage was recorded with a different band to Thirst after the original DVA abandoned Newton en masse to become The Box. For Beautiful Losers everywhere.
Ripped from a vinyl LP released on Polydor Records (POLS 1082) in 1983 to high resolution 24bit flac audio.
A1. Tortured Heroine
A2 Beautiful Losers
A3 Resistance
A4 Eternity In Paris
B1 The Secret Life Of The Big Black Suit
B2 Breakdown
B3 Dark Encounter
B4 Poem
Advantage Plus
01 Sons Of Sons
02 Theme From (I.M.D.)
03 Don't (It's Taboo)
04 Noises In Limbo
05 High Holy Disco Mass
06 High Holy Disco Mass (Dance Macabre)
07 The Voice That Speaks From Within (Triumph Over Will) Part 1
08 Resistance
09 The Secret Life Of The Big Black Suit (Instrumental) The Suit Walks On (Size 7)
10 Breakdown (Remix)
11 Black Angels Death Song
Advantage Demos
From a tape dated 10th November 1982, these are demo tracks for Polydor Records, recorded at Strawberry Studios. All these songs eventually found their way onto the Advantage album, but here they are in their purest, fledgling form - unpolished and still in keeping with the experimental edge that Clock DVA had before signing to a major label, the recording is of a mixing desk quality in 16bit.
01 Tortured Heroine
02 Beautiful Losers
03 Eternity In Paris
04 Breakdown
05 Secret Life Of A Big Black Suit
06 Dark Encounter
07 Resistance
08 Poem