Clock DVA • High Holy Disco Mass (1982) UK

Clock DVA are an industrial, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978 by 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' A Clockwork Orange; Dva is the Russian word for "two". The band split up in 1981, with the non-original members of the band going on to form The Box, and in 1982, Newton formed a new version of the band. First releasing the single "High Holy Disco Mass" on the major label Polydor Records under the name DVA, the band then released the album Advantage (with singles "Resistance" and "Breakdown") under the name Clock DVA in 1983.