Test Dept.
Test Dept.
Top Songs
| 1 | The Unacceptable Face of Freedom - Face 3 | ||
| 2 | Once the Red Dust Passes..., Pt. 2 | ||
| 3 | Zazen | ||
| 4 | Al'rabih (The Spring) | ||
| 5 | Rolihlahla (Stirring up Trouble) |
Albums
Nov 2019 • 8 songs
Nov 2019 • 2 songs
Apr 2019 • 1 song
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Biography
London's Test Dept. are one of the most influential acts to emerge from the industrial music scene during the early 1980s. More expressly political than their German counterparts Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept. followed a similar tack: A creative use of the ethos in which diverse objects (including large amounts of scrap metal and power tools) can be used as instruments. However, Test Dept. were always far more rhythmic, and their concerts were ambitious multimedia events staged at site-specific locations. The group's recordings throughout the 1980s -- including 1984's Beat...