| Sign | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 3 August 1993 | |||
| Recorded | Anterior Digital Research Station (Sheffield, UK) | |||
| Genre | EBM | |||
| Length | 48:40 | |||
| Label | Contempo | |||
| Clock DVA chronology | ||||
| ||||
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [1] |
Sign is the seventh studio album by Clock DVA, released on 3 August 1993 by Contempo Records. [2]
All tracks are written by Robert Baker and Adi Newton.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Signal" | 3:47 |
| 2. | "Voice Recognition Test" | 5:57 |
| 3. | "The Obsession Intensifies" | 5:32 |
| 4. | "Two Souls" | 4:22 |
| 5. | "Re-Entry" | 5:57 |
| 6. | "Pool of Shades" | 6:43 |
| 7. | "Return to Blue" | 6:14 |
| 8. | "Eternity" | 4:41 |
| 9. | "Sign" | 5:27 |
Adapted from the Sign liner notes. [3]
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | 1993 | Contempo | CD, CS, LP | CONTE 225 |
Clock DVA are an industrial, post-punk, and EBM group from Sheffield, England. They formed in 1978 by Adolphus "Adi" Newton and Steven "Judd" Turner. Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. Dva is Russian for "two".
Philip "Phil" Oakey is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer, songwriter, and co-founder of English synth-pop band The Human League. Aside from The Human League, he has had an extensive solo music career and collaborated with numerous other artists and producers.
The Anti-Group Communications is an open-membership collaborative art and information project formed in 1978 by Adi Newton and Steven Turner. The T.A.G.C. acronym refers to the four different types of DNA Nucleotide: thymine, adenine, guanine, and cytosine. The group's main objective was to combine interactive and mixed media art, installations, and research on psycho acoustics and philosophical concepts to produce fascinating presentations. Although the group disbanded in 1996, Newton continued the project with CD releases and live performances in 2009.
Blue Dog Records was an independent London record label located in offices above the original Barfly Club. Started in 1997 by Nick Moore and Jeremy Ledlin it was licensed and distributed by Richard Branson’s V2 Records, and had a mostly guitar band roster of artists including The Crocketts, Daytona, Contempo, Murry the Hump, Sona Fariq and Super J Lounge.
Ian Craig Marsh is an English musician and composer. He was a founding member of the electronic band the Human League, writing and playing on their first two albums and several singles, until leaving in 1980 to form the British Electric Foundation and later Heaven 17.
Holiday '80 is an EP released by the original line-up of the British synthpop band The Human League. The EP was issued in the UK by Virgin Records in April 1980, a month before the release of the band's second album Travelogue. The EP peaked at no. 56 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1980, but was later reissued and returned to the chart, peaking at no. 46 in February 1982.
The Golden Hour of the Future is a compilation album of recordings made by the electronic band The Future and early recordings by the original line-up of The Human League.
John Valentine Carruthers is an English musician, guitarist, and composer. He is mainly known for being a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees from mid-1984 until early 1987.
Man-Amplified is the fifth studio album by Clock DVA, released in 1991 by Contempo Records.
Vice Versa is an electronic band that formed in Sheffield, England. Vice Versa originally consisted of Stephen Singleton, Mark White, Ian Garth, and David Sydenham, the former two of whom would go on to later found the successful 1980s pop band ABC. The band was active from 1977 to 1980 with the aforementioned line-up, and reformed in 2015 without Garth and Sydenham. Vice Versa are considered as one of the "Big Four" late-1970s minimalistic electronic/synth-based bands from Sheffield. They share this title with Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA and the Human League.
Thirst is the second studio album by English post-punk band Clock DVA. It was released on 24 January 1981, through record label Fetish. Soon after the album's release, this incarnation of the band would split up, with several members going on to form The Box with singer Peter Hope.
White Souls in Black Suits is the debut studio album of Clock DVA, released in December 1980 by Industrial Records. It was originally issued only as a cassette, though it was reissued on vinyl and CD.
Advantage is the third studio album by Clock DVA, released in 1983 by Polydor Records. Singles from it were "Breakdown" and "Resistance". A video was filmed for the song "Resistance", directed by Peter Care.
Buried Dreams is the fourth studio album by Clock DVA, released in 1989 through Wax Trax! Records. Some of the tracks feature audio samples from the film Klute.
Transitional Voices is a live album by Clock DVA, released in 1990 by Interfisch Records.
Digital Soundtracks is the sixth studio album by Clock DVA, released on 11 December 1992 by Contempo Records. "E-Wave" is dedicated to Klaus Kinski.
Miligram is a Serbian pop band. The band is named after the founder and member Aleksandar Milić. Miligram's latest album Magnetic was released on 12 December 2015.
"4 Hours" is a song by the English post-punk band Clock DVA. It is the only single released in support of their second album Thirst.
Passions Still Aflame is an EP by Clock DVA, released on 26 May 1982 by Polydor Records.
"Breakdown" is a song by the English post-punk band Clock DVA. It was the second single released in support of their third album Advantage.