The Anti-Group

The Anti-Group Communications, or T.A.G.C. are a side project of Clock DVA. Formed in the early 1980s 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 multimedia collective, focused on audio, visual, and textual research and production, as well as performance art and installations.[1] The acronym T.A.G.C. is also intended to represent the four nucleotides that make up DNA (thymine, adenine, guanine and cytosine).

The Anti-Group Communications
Also known asT.A.G.C.
OriginSheffield, England
GenresIndustrial, ambient, electroacoustic
Years active1984–1996, 2009–present
LabelsAnterior Research Recordings, Sweatbox, Big Sex, Side Effects
Associated actsClock DVA
Website
MembersAdi Newton
Past membersRobert E. Baker
M. Banks
P.H. Barke
A. Benett
J. Bennet
Dean Dennis
Darrell Fitzgerald D'Silva
R. Gordon
Barry Harden
David Heppenstall
Mark Holmes
Oskar M
D. Nicholson

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 which accompany most releases. In this way, T.A.G.C. presents itself explicitly as acoustic research rather than music.[2]

LIVE PERFORMANCES Pandoras Box "Der Doelen" center in Rotterdam, Holland, Sat. Sep 22nd, 1985 2nd Atonal festival "The Ballhaus Tiergarten" Berlin, Germany . Feb 18th 1985 3rd Atonal Festival "TU Mensa" Berlin ,Germany on Dec 13th 1986 The Pump Station SO 36" Berlin, Germany Feb 14th 1987 Museum of Contemporary Art" Prato, Italy Sept 23rd 1988 Electro-Acoustic Music Academy Stockholm, Sweden Aug 23rd 1990 ARS Electronica symposium on Virtual Reality Sep 8th 1990 Linz, Austria. National Art Gallery V&A inclusion .Smile Classified a magazine of multiple origins March/August 1992 London .UK I.C.A. Art Futura Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia Madrid Spain Sept 1994, Equinox Festival 14th June Conway Hall London 2009 TAGC SPECIAL PERFORMANCE EVENT THE CUBE / WGT Festival Leipzig Fri June 10th 2010 e.v.MMXI XWIF: 10.11.11 T.A.G.C. - Wroclaw : BWA art gallery Live Sono Visual Projection Invocation Integration in Ambisonics The Denizens. From the Meontological Research Recording 3 Transmission from the Trans-Yoggothian Broadcast Station. ATRIBUTETOJGBALLARD–,T.A.G.C.,PARADISO,AMSTERDAM -8/9/2012 TAGC live performance The Cube @ INCUBATE SEPT 22ND 2013 .De NWE Vorst The new King Theatre Willem II straat 49, 5038 BD, Tilburg. PERSUASION : Musique industrielle et contrôle mental / Exhibition inclusion jeudi 2 avril 2015 Exposition le 3 et 4 et les 15, 16, 17 et 18 avril 2015 de 15h à 19h Vernissage le 2 avril 2015 dès 19h précédé d’une journée de conférences dans le cadre du projet de recherche MIND CONTROL, Radical experiments in art and psychology Design Project Room Bâtiment HEAD La Prairie Rue de Lyon 22, 1201 Genève mercredi au samedi de 14 à 19h TAGC / CAFE OTO - 10 / 12 / 15 Meontological Research Recordings Experimental works 1985 / 2014 Mark Fell Curation / Reality Check with Thomas Metzinger TAGC / Visual staging Geräuschwelten Festival in The Black Box 08.05.2016: TAGC (The Anti Group) Münster TAGC / MATAR / MYKEL BOYD 06 /10/16 @ The Burlington Chicago ,IL and 07 /10/16 @ Feed Arts Centre Kankakee,IL. USA. OCT 13TH / TAG PRESENTATION NEW PLATZ STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK / MUSIC FACILITY . TAGC / FRI 2ND NOV 2017 / SPRINDALE STATION AUSTIN TEXAS DIMENSIONS GALLERY 2017 / AUSTIN TEXAS NOV 3RD TAG SPEACIAL PERFORMANCE SOUND PIECE AND DOCUMENTIVE EXHIBITION.

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)
  • 2018 - OBSOLETE CAPITALISM AND ADI NEWTON / TAG - CHAOS VARIATION III • VINYL 12 / 45 / NURKFM004 [ITA]
  • 2018 - Matar (4) / TAG* - Sculptures Of Daedalus / Spiritual Psychosynthesis (Flexi, 7", Shape) Anterior Research Media Comm FX1/FX2
  • 2019 - ARMComm Sampler - Anterior Research Media Comm CD 003
  • 2020 - THE ANTI GROUP "4 X 12" CD / PERIPHERAL MINIMAL RECORDS / ARMComm / Peripheral Minimal PM27
  • 2020 - ORGAN NEEDLES Limited Edition Box inc 1xUSB card / 10 dOUBLE SIDED Art Cards / Printed Tote / Anterior Research Media Comm – 005 / USB 02


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 [3]
  • 2016 - The Anti Group, Matar (4), Mykel Boyd - Phantom Airwaves Presents: (Flexi, 7", Shape, S/Sided, Single) Somnimage SOM100616

References
  1. Artcornwall.org interview with Adi Newton
  2. Reed, S. Alexander (2013). Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 170. ISBN 9780199832583. OCLC 1147729910 – via the Internet Archive.
  3. Abraxas Journal 2 contents
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