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Rating: I believe that they are one of those fundamental, indispensable bands to frame a historical period and understand its evolutions. Newton is a bright mind, who in the electronic field has given birth to unusual and futuristic works, one of the first innovators and theorist-appliers in the field of electronics. Already in the early '80s, they stood out thanks to works where everything from postpunk to new wave to jazz could be found. Masterpieces like "Thirst" or "Advantage" are remembered as among the best of the period.
Clock Dva made a leap forward by modernizing the sound.
"Buried Dreams" from 1990 is a true watershed with one of the most daring album covers ever, which brought the group some trouble. The album is magnetic, much harder and more electronic than its predecessors, and a journey into the recesses of the human psyche, in the murky waters of a disturbed consciousness. It is a cyborg work, wonderfully cybernetic and pounding, psychedelia with blows of sidereal electronics. I believe that Pansonic owe a lot to these Clock Dva. Once you've discovered them, you'll have the subtle pleasure of being trapped by Adi's seductive killer voice, narcotic and sickly, the perfect guise for a dark and daring universe. It would be the perfect soundtrack for the William Gibson sprawl trilogy; all that cyberpunk imagery is embodied here, the matrix, the ICE, the yakuza, the cyber implants, the neuromantic antiheroes, plus a morbid and intriguing noir shadow, a remnant of the band's dark wave period. The music of this album is a virulent virus that shocks the memory circuits, they have calculated a new algebra, a program for mental insanity, a sound that is a nuclear device. "Velvet Realm" is physiological fetishism of the psycho-sexual sphere, the title track is based on the story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who during her life killed several women in her castle, her crimes were lesbian-sadistic meticulously cataloged in her trial in 1611, she was imprisoned where she died at the age of 54, in the artistic imagination she was considered one of the heroines of the erotic dreams of the venerable master Marquis De Sade. "Hide" is an essay on dual identity and mutilation, Doctor Jekyll and a Mister Hide shelved to make room for various young ladies who were the object of his lust and cross-dressing. The album unfolds in a oppressive post-technocratic apocalyptic climate; with "Sound Mirror", spiritism and kabbalah come into play, the shattered mirror as a symbol of karma, future reflections of subliminal abysses. "The Unseen", still occultism and that technology seen as the new God descended on earth, and with "The Reign" even astral travels O.B.E. and the 7 bodies are brought up. "The Hacker" speaks the language of computer programming codes, digital assassins, terrorists of mathematics, a techno beat that was also chosen as a single, dedicated to the legendary hacker Klaus Koch aka Agberd Celine executed by the CIA at 23 for activities against the system. "Sonology Of Sex", in other words, mysticism of eros, that is, the extremity, the frontier zone, the beyond, the afterlife, like in everything that loses its exoteric character, according to Dr. Sperber the auditory stimulations can fully perform the work of neuro-muscles, music has the power to stimulate the muscular action of vertebrates, the piece is nothing else but audio monologues of Dr. Sperber exposing his field of examination under the beat and the menacing gusts of the synths.
Numbers are nothing more than one of the many abstract, profound, and philosophical expressions that man adopts and has adopted to try to understand his true original nature and everything that surrounds him, and consequently, geometry is nothing but the physical representation of those mathematical or numerical expressions, radionics studies the waves of shape realized on graphic circuits through the aforementioned expressions or formulas elaborated from the experience of all these sciences, it is possible to tap into forms of action-thought and expression through the radiations they emit related to a given problem for which we need an answer more directly, deeply, and abstractly, hence unknown to us at a rational level.
"All is number. Number is in all. Number is the individual. Ecstasy is a number".
Charles Baudelaire
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Buried Dreams (04:01)
La Comtesse de Sang
Your seeds of madness
The colour of eternity
They blossom in torture
In an autumn of fear
In a harvest of pain
In a garden of evil
La Comtesse de Sang
Can you recall
The faces
The bodies
The voices
The blood that flows each dawn
A chemical nightmare
Just look in the mirror
Stain of your image
Burnt into metal
La Comtesse de Sang
They could not destroy you
Only keep you prisoner
And left you to die
And buried your dreams
With the earth of justice
And they could not suppress
The darkness the image the power
La Comtesse de Sang
Your seeds of madness
The colour of eternity
They blossom in torture
In an autumn of fear
In a harvest of pain
In a garden of evil
02 Hide (04:30)
There was something strange
In my sensations
Incredibly new and incredibly sweet
I knew myself to be tenfold more evil
This intoxicated me like wine
Here was a realm you have never known
You will be transported to paradise
The transformation begins
The chemistry of love
The vapours of hate
Soul turned inside out
The alchemistry of sex
The apparatus of blood
We have no more solid core
Lycanthropy unfolds
Dark Aegis
New boundaries broken
03 Sound Mirror (05:43)
Can you see
Can you see
Can you see
Can you see
Can you see the echo
Can you hear
Can you hear
Can you hear
Can you hear yourself
Glass embrace
Glass embrace
Glass embrace
Glass embrace
Emit refractions
I can see
I can see
I can see
Phonetized apparitions
Look in to
Look in to
Look in to
Absolute resonance/Sonant Spectre
Can you see
Can you see
Can you see
The imitation of noise
Can you feel
Can you feel
Can you feel
Can you feel image
In your face
In your face
In your face
Emit refractions
I can see
I can see
I can see
In the Sound Mirror
07 The Act (05:22)
I see your face
A desert I'm inside
Lost in your eyes
Where I can hide
Where do we run
Where do we run
I know we're gone
Like a shadow of a wing
Burning of light
Here in this night
Where do we run
Where do we run
I came from within
Like a shadow in the dusk
Biding my time
Out on a line
Where do we run
Where do we run
I know your act
A mirror broken glance
I know your act
A mirror stolen chance
Where do we run
Where do we run
I see your face
Through a starless sky
My heart is black
I know you cry
Where do we run
Where do we run
In this embrace
I feel you sigh
I feel the knife
Buried deep inside
Where do we run
Where do we run
I know your name
It's burned upon my heart
I saw your eyes
Ignite me inside
Where do we run
Where do we run
I've seen your past
It's written here in blood
Here in your face
A moment we can trace
Where do we run
Where do we run
I see your face
A desert I'm inside
Lost in your eyes
Where I can hide
Where do we run
Where do we run
08 The Hacker (07:23)
A digital murder
Programmed by mathematical terrorists
Outside of mortal bounds
Silently hacking
A binary plague
Serving information
This is the time of the hacker
This is the code of the hacker
This is the hacker
An algebra of fear
Within the language of machines
Uninfringed my human emotions
Within global systems
Silently moving
A digital maze
Cutting information
This is the way of the hacker
This is the extremity of the hacker
This is the hacker
Protect now or be erased forever
A binary virus
Unleashed by subversive programmers
Inside corporate systems
Silently eating
The endemic wave
Erasing information
This is the sign of the hacker
This is the genius of the hacker
This is the hacker
Learn now
Or be cut down forever
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