T.A.G.C. :: ISO-EROTIC CALIBRATION :: COLD SPRING :: 2025 :: CD/BLACK VINYL/BROWN VINYL
Originally released in 1994 on Musica Maxima Magnetica (Italy) and licensed to Side Effects, the label of Lustmord for the USA, Cold Spring is proud to present the album for the first time on vinyl, as well as the first official CD re-issue, fleshed out with 4 bonus tracks. The Anti Group Communications (T.A.G.C.) was devised by Adi Newton and Steven James Turner as early as 1978 as a multi-dimensional research & development project. TAGC are not affiliated to any one system of philosophy or epistemological paradigm or occult fraternity but are open more to individual systems and innovative thinkers Science, Art, Music Sonology, Visual Arts, Literature, Research & Publication are its main areas. The artwork is filled with text and illustrations supporting the different songs.
* CD bonus track
* CD bonus track
* CD bonus track
* CD bonus track
Album released January 17, 2025
All compositions and production by Adi Newton, 1994.
All tracks from original DAT masters recorded in Florence, Italy, 1993, at the Anterior Research Station.
Iso-Erotic Calibration originally released by Anterior Research Recordings (ARR 003), Musica Maxima Magnetica (eee 20) and Side Effects (DFX 21).
Bonus CD tracks:
Track 8: remix
Track 9: from the soundtrack to the TAGC film ‘Given’ (2011).
Track 10 & 11: from the digital-only edition (2013)
Mastered for Cold Spring by Martin Bowes at The Cage, Coventry.
Cover image by Leonor Fini, La Toilette Inutile (‘The Useless Dress’), 1964, oil on canvas. One of two paintings of Ophelia by Fini.
New artwork design by Adi Newton.
Layout by Abby Helasdottir.
Iso-Erotic Calibration: photograph of Unica Zurn by Hans Bellmer (used as the cover of Le Surréalisme, Même 4, 1958).
Union with Sirens: collage by Karel Teige, 1942
Mercurius & Neurological Engineering: montages by Adi newton, circa 2010.
Psychophonphilia: La Permutation Des Sens drawing by Hans Bellmer, 1950.
Annals of Sancity: 19th Century painting of Eerie Scene With Incubus Demon, after Johann Heinrich Füssli.
Ethemeral: Engraving by Louis-Jean Allais of a mural painting from Tomb KV9, Valley of the Kings, Egypt.