Test Dept

   
Artist: Test Dept

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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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

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More expressly political than their German counterparts Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Department followed the same tack: A creative role of the ethos in which diverse objects (including large amounts of rubbish metal and might tools) rear be used as instruments. Formed in London's New Cross in 1982 by Alistair Adams, Graham Cunningham, Tony Cudlip, Gus Ferguson and Paul Jamrozy, the quintuple became far-famed for the staging of vast multimedia events at obscure venues -- a railroad whole shebang in Glasgow, a moxie pit, Cannon Street Station in London, a Welsh elevator car 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 quintuple signed to Some Bizarre Records for 1984's Licking the Retreat, and outlined their socialist agendum arrange to music on the next year's Shoulder joint to Shoulder, recorded with "the South Wales Striking Miners' Choir." After forming their own Ministry of Power label to organize multimedia system events, Test Department released two records -- The Unacceptable Face of Freedom and A Good Night Out -- in a MOP/Some Bizarre conjunction, only stricken out on their own with 1988's Terra Firma. Test Dept.'s sixth album, The Gododdin, was followed by their nearly scathing unfavorable judgment of British political sympathies, Pax Britannica, in conjunction with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Choir. After releasing albums for Jungle Records and Dossier, the mathematical group gained a shrink with the American industrial pronounce Cleopatra in 1994 and released the fruit of their early-'90s work on Legacy (1990-1993). Signed to Cleopatra's subsidiary Invisible, Test Dept. released the new albums Totality (1995) and Tactics for Revolution (1998), as well as reissuing respective old works.





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