Yes, you’re reading it correctly. We’re reviewing an album that was initially released in 1994. But I’ve checked the archives it seems we didn’t get a chance to review it back then. So we might as well do it now, right? In the last months of 2024, Adi Newton and friends did a European tour to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Clock DVA “Buried Dreams” album. Flawless synced audio and video by the man we’ve all known for so long. For many of us, Clock DVA was a gateway to ‘difficult’ or maybe ‘different’ music. For me, I know it was. But it wasn’t the beat / rhythmic driven part of Clock DVA; for me, it was the complexity and experimentalism of the ‘Meontological Research Recordings’ and that one album that is a desert island item “, Burning Water”. Becoming an artist myself, I think those albums partially defined me.
So, during my life, I did continue to investigate as one should. I got some older albums of several ‘Adi related’ projects, and after 1994, at some point, I got the “Iso-Erotic Calibrations” album, which I’m now listening to again. And yes, I love it still / again. Feel free to choose any of those two choices. After 30 years, it still stands solid; it is as hypnotising as the first time you heard it, the sound design is impeccable, and the atmosphere is intense. But… Yes, I am writing ‘but’. Adi has many faces when it comes to creating music. And it is as if with “Iso-Erotic Calibrations” it was too dark or too experimental to be labelled as Clock DVA; it completely fell out of the perspective of a possible Psychophysicist release and – here is the ‘but’ – for me, it is not experimental enough to be considered a T.A.G.C. recording. It’s rhythmically structured; you can recognise a lot of compositional techniques that can be found in Clock DVA tracks. But this would have never fitted a Clock DVA release. This goes way beyond.
I hear you thinking, ‘Get to the point,’ so here it goes. THIS ALBUM IS SO GOOD!!! This is probably the most ‘Adi’ album possible. In its 76 minutes (next to the original seven tracks now available on vinyl), the CD version has four extra tracks. Two were included in a digital version early in the 2010s, one is taken from a video project from the same era, and there is one remixed version.
Archaeology sometimes speaks of the ‘missing links’ if they find something that enables them to connect different findings. This album is the missing link between Clock DVA and The Anti Group Communication and possibly other projects that Adi Newton has been a part of. It was released 30 years ago and is as impressive now as it was then.
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