TEST DEPT NEW WORLD ORDER1. N.W.O (Crusader Mix)2. N.W.O. (Chemical Re-Mix)MOP 7 CD MINISTRY OF POWER / JUNGLE A HISTORY OF TEST DEPT. 1981 - 1994 TEST DEPT were formed in October 1981, making their first performance in February '82. Originally a music company TEST DEPT developed a style outside the 'normal' music industry practices of the 1980's. Through working from a highly percussive basis, (banging any old bit of scrap they could get an interesting sound out of) - alongside more conventional drums, cello, trumpet, bagpipes and varying instrumentation. The locations they chose to play ranged between the bizarre to the perilous - such as a Railway Arch Waterloo (arrested there,in '83); Cannon Street British Rail mainline station (''84); an underground car-park in Ljubliana (''85); London Transport Maintenance Depot, Paddington ('86); the Amsterdam Docks; the Monastery in Valladoid,Spain ('87); the Rover Car factory in Cardiff ('88); a stone quarry in Italy, a disused nail factory in Hamburg, an ice hockey stadium in Holland ('89); and reaching a peak at the St. Rollox engineering works in Glasgow for the 'Second Coming' performance ('90). Artists they've shared the stage with include Cabaret Voltaire,Laibach,Sarah Jane Morris,Einsteurzen Neubauten, The Drum Club and Hawkwind. Since then their attentions have focused on rave culture,a logical progression for their percussive style. Their 'Pax Americana'' released during the propaganda build-up to the Gulf War featured children singing 'We love Saddam Hussein' to an eastern-flavoured rhythm; on 'New World Order' (a dance-floor hit in the Mid-West of America) at the beginning of the war they sampled George Bush extolling the new world order he was trying to create. This period of their work is now collected together for the first time on the album 'LEGACY (1990-1993)',featuring singles and previously unreleased recordings. Stock photo. Factory shrinkwrapped.
