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\u20184 HOURS\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The A-side of our latest seven-inch is a post-punk diamond. Blending alt-funk, avant-pop and dark electronics, \u20184 Hours\u2019 was the only song to be released as a single from \u2018Thirst\u2019, Clock DVA\u2019s acclaimed second album. Nothing else sounded anything remotely like it when it came out in 1981.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of what Clock DVA did back then came out of improvisations,\u201d says Adi Newton, the founder and mainstay of the Sheffield experimentalists. \u201cWe used to rehearse a lot and we were always trying ideas that went beyond what other bands were doing, using our instruments in experimental ways and pushing the effects further and further.\u201d<\/p>\n The source of many of the wildest noises on \u20184 Hours\u2019 was sax man and free jazz freak Charlie Collins.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t imagine the power of the baritone saxophone when you stick a microphone down it,\u201d says Charlie.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a huge B flat on the baritone at the start of the track and I used aMemory Man pedal to get different lengths of delay on it. I wanted to make it sound like a synthesiser.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI guess you would describe \u20184 Hours\u2019 as our signature song,\u201d notes Roger Quail, DVA\u2019s drummer at the time.<\/p>\n \u201cI think a lot of people were intrigued by the lyrics, especially the lines about black suits and black ties. I don\u2019t want to second-guess what Adi wanted to put across, but he seemed to have been influenced by some of the black and white movies of the day, such as David Lynch\u2019s \u2018Eraserhead\u2019 and Woody Allen\u2019s \u2018Manhattan\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere is definitely a noir vibe to the song and a Lynchian thing going on with the black suits stuff,\u201d admits Adi. \u201cOn the face of it, a suit is a symbol of convention, but you can\u2019t always be sure of what\u2019s really going on, can you? Sometimes it\u2019s interesting to use something that seems conventional as a way to subvert people\u2019s assumptions about the world around them.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018SENSORIUM (DVATION REWORK EDIT 2026)\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Another highlight of Clock DVA\u2019s \u2019Thirst\u2019 album, \u2018Sensorium\u2019 was the B-side of the original \u20184 Hours\u2019 single, so we\u2019re delighted to have it as the second track on our single. And even more delighted that this is a previously unreleased refresh by Adi Newton and his current DVA collaborator Maurizio Martinucci.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s great to have these two songs together on a seven-inch again,\u201d says Adi. \u201cWe decided we\u2019d do extended updates of both of them to include on a reissue of \u2018Thirst\u2019 that\u2019s coming out later this year. We\u2019re putting them into the live show too. I think they fit in and work well. This version of \u2018Sensorium\u2019 isn\u2019t an edit of the extended track, though. It\u2019s something we\u2019ve rebuilt and remixed into an exclusive new reworking for this release.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2026 overhaul is more obviously electronic than the 1981 cut and even edges into acid territory in a couple of places. A heavily treated saxophone is again a key element, this time courtesy of Mick Ward from Sheffield jazz-funk outfit Floy Joy.<\/p>\n \u201cMick was in one of the line-ups of DVA that came after \u2018Thirst\u2019,\u201d explains Adi. \u201cIt didn\u2019t work out at that point for whatever reason, but he went on to form Floy Joy and also work with people like Was (Not Was). I\u2019ve done lots of projects with him over the years and I was pleased to get him involved with these updated tracks. I\u2019m really happy with how they\u2019ve turned out.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAdi told the guys in the old band that he wanted to remix a couple of things and we said, \u2018Sure, just let us have a listen before they go out\u2019,\u201d says Roger Quail. \u201cI think this version of \u2019Sensorium\u2019 is very good and Mick Ward does a brilliant impersonation of Charlie Collins on it. I\u2019ve always thought the lyrics were some of Adi\u2019s best. Listen out for the reference to \u2018uptown apocalypse\u2019, which was also the title of the track that he did with Martyn Ware on the first British Electric Foundation album.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-21-alle-08.07.07-300x300.png\")
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