The Anti-Group Communications, or T.A.G.C. are a side project of Clock DVA

Clock DVA

Clock DVA are an industrial music, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adolphus "Adi" Newton and Steven "Judd" Turner. Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess'...

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Formed in the early 1980s

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 by Adi Newton (although the idea existed as early as 1978), T.A.G.C. (originally The Anti-Group) was conceived as an open-membership experimental

Experimental music

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 multimedia

Multimedia

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 collective

Collective

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, focused on audio

Sound

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, visual, and textual

Written language

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 research

Research

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 and production, as well as performance art

Performance art

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 and installations.

T.A.G.C. audio recordings are released on Newton's Anterior Research Recordings label. The theoretical underpinnings of these recordings, which are often primarily psychoacoustic experiments or carefully constructed aural rituals, are made explicit in the lengthy liner notes

Liner notes

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 which accompany most releases.

In 2005, a maxi CD 'Psychoegoautocratical Auditory Physiogomy Delineated' was released as T.A.G.C. without Adi Newton's involvement or approval.

After years of silence, Adi Newton with his creative partner Jane Radion Newton re-activated T.A.G.C. for a live multimedia performance at Equinox Festival, London in June 2009.

The acronym T.A.G.C. is also intended to represent the four nucleotide

Nucleotide

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s that make up DNA

DNA

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 (thymine

Thymine

Thymine is one of the four nucleobases in the nucleic acid of DNA that are represented by the letters G–C–A–T. The others are adenine, guanine, and cytosine. Thymine is also known as 5-methyluracil, a pyrimidine nucleobase. As the name suggests, thymine may be derived by methylation of uracil at...

, adenine

Adenine

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, guanine

Guanine

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 and cytosine

Cytosine

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Discography

• 1985 - The Delivery - Atonal Records LP ST3006
• 1985 - Ha/Zulu - Sweatbox 12" SOX009
• 1986 - ShT - Sweatbox 12" SEX010
• 1986 - Digitaria - Sweatbox LP SAX012 / CD SACD012 / Cass SAXC012
• 1987 - Meontological Research Recording - Record 1 - Sweatbox LP SAX013
• 1987 - Big Sex - Sweatbox 12" SOX011 / 7" OX011
• 1988 - Meontological Recordings - Record 2: Teste Tones - Side Effects LP SER12
• 1989 - Broadcast Test - Wax Trax 12" WAX9104 / Big Sex Records 12" Big Sex 002
• 1994 - Burning Water - Anterior Research Recordings CD ARR004 / Side Effects CD DFX17
• 1994 - Iso-Erotic Calibrations - Anterior Research Recordings CD ARR003
• 1994 - Audiophile - Anterior Research Recordings CD ARR001
• 2005 - Psychoegoautocratical Auditory Physiogomy Delineated - Die Stadt maxi-CD DS67 (unofficial release)

Compilations

• 1986 - You Bet We've Got Something Against You - Cathexis LP
• 1986 - Abstract Magazine Issue 6 - Sweatbox LP
• 1986 - Berlin Atonal '86 - Cass
• 1987 - Minutes To Go! - Interphon CD / Les Temps Modernes LP
• 1988 - Provoke N° 3 - IMC Cass
• 1988 - Bark - Sweatbox LP
• 1989 - Funky Alternatives Vol. 4 - Concrete LP/CD
• 1990 - Total Volume 1 - Total LP
• 1991 - Project 91 - Hyperium CD
• 1994 - Taste This 2 - Discordia CD
• 1996 - Deepnet - Side Effects 2xCD
• 1996 - Alternator - Concrete Productions 2xCD
• 1997 - Exclusive Alternatives - Cleopatra CD
• 1999 - Industrial Meltdown - Cleopatra 3xCD
• 2000 - Industrial Rock - Edel America CD
• 2010 - Antibothis Vol. 3 - Chili Com Carne / Thisco Book+CD
• 2011 - Tesserae - Abraxas Journal 2 Audio Supplement - Fulgur Book+CD