#Test Dept.

[ourladyofomega]

📷 source: Wax Trax! Records (FB)

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for March 30, 2020; #225.

Ministry “Where You At Now? / Crash And Burn / Twitch”

Revolting Cocks “38”

Tackhead “Mind At The End Of The Tether”

Keith LeBlanc “Get This”

Meat Beat Manifesto “I Got The Fear”

Consolidated “Consolidated”

Skinny Puppy “Dig It”

Cyberaktif “Nothing Stays” (EXT)

Doubting Thomas “Father Don’t Cry”

Ministry “You Know What You Are”

Laibach “Gubert Einer Nation”

Einsturzende Neubauten “Feurio!”

Test Dept. “New World Order” (Chemical)

Clock DVA “Sound Mirror”

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult “A Daisy Chain 4 Satan”

Coil “The Snow”

Psychic TV “I Believe What You Said” (Laetherstrip RMX)”

Controlled Bleeding “The Fodder Song”

Electric Hellfire Club, The “Mr. 44”

Pigface “Asphole”

Sister Machine Gun “Deeper Down”

Nine Inch Nails “Physical”

Front Line Assembly “Surface Patterns”

Filter “Under”

KMFDM “Godlike” (RMX)

Gravity Kills “Guilty”, “Enough”

Die Krupps “Isolated” (RMX)

Chemlab “Exiled”          

Ministry “Just One Fix”

Killing Joke “Drug” (Youth RMX)

Ashtrayhead “Phonecall”

Cubanate “Human Drum” , “Oxyacetylene”

Killing Joke “Hollywood Babylon”

Bonus Omega; farewell classic industrial broadcast.

[lifeinasmalltowninjapan]

Test Dept. (1984)

[musicktoplayinthedark]

[postpunkindustrial]

Test Dept. - Beating The Retreat Cassette

Test Department's were pretty much in their prime at this point with their primal percussive sound. This was released on Some Bizzare so it’s out of print and fair game. An essential mid 80′s Industrial release.

Get it from my Google Drive HERE.

[leftoverluck]

[zef-zef]

Album Art for:

Test Dept. - Beating The Retreat (Some Bizzare, 1994)

[omegaplus]

# 4,325

Diamanda Galas & Test Dept.: The Convention Of Hysteria (1985) 

I never caught up to Diamanda Galas but yet I always hear about her. It’s one of many from the long list of artists I should’ve brushed up on already. So what would be my own entry point into the world of Galas? The performance she did on February 3, 1985 with Test Dept. at London’s Albany Empire. If, like me, you’re more inclined towards Test Dept.’s earlier metal-on-metal era, then you’ll certainly get a ton of it. Though both artists had their own time on separate days of the festival, on day three they both came together for a non-written performence. Galas had three or four microphones taped to each other while Test Dept. banged away (with one of them out of view and up near the top of the venue firing off). Technical difficulties arose but both Galas and Test Dept. fought forward anyway without the electronics. Diamanda went off as if her body, mind, and soul were taken over in a stream-of-consciousness-type rally and had the evil forces-that-be pilot her vocal art-performance for miles. Test Dept. backed her up with their rigorous force and arsenal of metals and objects; more-than-determined to get the job done no matter what the cost or error. Not a well-known moment, but a notable one at that with both at their great game early on in their careers.

No official release of this exists, and no one is 100% certain if Galas or another party bootlegged it themselves.

[gamtozu]

test dept. & katiejane garside

[radiophd]

test dept. -- new world order

[ourladyofomega]

Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel: "The Only Good Christian Is A Dead Christian"

Cabaret Voltaire: "Product Patrol"

Test Dept.: "Total Nervous Phenomonom"

Marc Almond: "Love Amongst The Ruined"

Psychic TV: "Twisted"

The The: "Flesh And Bones"

Coil: "The Wheel"

Yello: The Roxy Cut"

Virginia Astley: "Waiting To Fall"

Einstürzende Neubauten: "Wardrobe"

🖌️: Andy Johnson + Val Denham

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for January 12, 2015; #73.

Harry Pussy Ride A Dove

Test Dept. "Mind & Body"

Athenian Mercury "Carbamazepine"

Masonna "Shock Rock track 2"

Etat Brut "Karol Simon"

Whitehouse "Pro Sexist 1981"

Pedestrian Deposit "You Smeared Your Lipstick"

Athenian Mercury "Another Overlooked Disaster Waiting To Happen"

Konstruktivists "My Name Jade"

Controlled Bleeding "Scourge Tides"

Sutcliffe Jugend "Whores Endlosung"

Cherry Point "Makeout Music"

M.B. & William Bennett "Examples Of Cannibalism" (Side A)

Ethnic Acid "Severed From Life"

Clock DVA "Number Two"

Airthrob In "Empty House’

DCLXVI "Asphyxiation"

Giancarlo Toniutti "Quertanz"

Zoviet France "Ascend A Fall"

Massimo Toniutti "Gravi"

FM Einheit & Caspar Brotzmann "Kowa Axis"

Pharmakon "Xia Xinfeng"

Laibach "Drzava"

Mauthhausen Orchestra "Fuck Mastery"

JfK "Teenage Fantasy"

Lussuria "Keys To Unlock Paradise (Roman Showers)“

Bonus broadcast; industrial, noise, obscura, and experimental sounds.

[lifeinasmalltowninjapan]

Test Dept. (1983)

[musicktoplayinthedark]

[postpunkindustrial]

Test Dept. - Kick to Kill

[crumbargento]

Test Dept : Program For Progress

compiled by Brett Turnbull , Filmed and edited Chris Barclay and Andrew Delaney - 1983 - UK