Artist: Test Dept
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Bang On It!
Year: 1993
Tracks: 2
New World Order
Year: 1991
Tracks: 3
Pax Americana
Year: 1990
Tracks: 3
Materia Prima
Year: 1990
Tracks: 6
Gododdin LP
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
A Good Night Out
Year: 1987
Tracks: 7
European Network
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
Compulsion
Year: 1983
Tracks: 3
Tactics For Evolution
Year:
Tracks: 10
Shoulder To Shoulder
Year:
Tracks: 10
Ecstacy Under Duress
Year:
Tracks: 11
Atonal and Hamburg Live
Year:
Tracks: 7
More expressly political than their German counterparts Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Department followed the lapplander tack: A creative function of the ethos in which diverse objects (including large amounts of codswallop alloy and mightiness tools) back be used as instruments. Formed in London's Newly Sweep in 1982 by Alistair Adams, William Franklin Graham Merce Cunningham, Tony Cudlip, Gus Ferguson and Paul Jamrozy, the quintet became far-famed for the staging of vast multimedia system events at obliterate venues -- a railroad whole shebang in Glasgow, a grit pit, Cannon Street Station in London, a Welshman lift motorcar manufacturing plant -- and their political agenda, which has included action against apartheid, the get up of neo-Nazism and Britain's Criminal Justice Act. The quintette signed to Roughly Bizarre Records for 1984's Defeat the Retirement, and outlined their socialist agendum put to music on the next year's Shoulder joint to Shoulder, recorded with "the Confederate States Wales Hit Miners' Consort." Later forming their own Ministry of Force mark to organize multimedia system events, Quiz Department released deuce records -- The Unacceptable Boldness of Freedom and A Good Night Out -- in a MOP/Some Bizarre junction, just stricken out on their have with 1988's Terra Firma. Test Dept.'s sixth album, The Gododdin, was followed by their well-nigh scathing unfavorable judgement of Brits political sympathies, Pax Britannica, in conjugation with the Scots Chamber Orchestra and Choir. After releasing albums for Hobo camp Records and Dossier, the mathematical group gained a contract with the American industrial sound out Cleopatra in 1994 and released the fruit of their early-'90s exploit on Legacy (1990-1993). Signed to Cleopatra's foot soldier Invisible, Quiz Dept. released the newly albums Entirety (1995) and Maneuver for Rotation (1998), as well as reissuing respective old industrial plant.
