Test Dept. - Total State Machine

[souseki929]

It couldn't be better, Feeling of tenshion is highest.

[malyfromhell74]

old classic with Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubauten and Cabaret Voltaire

[malyfromhell74]

old calassic with Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubauten and Cabaret Voltaire

[BewareTheWater11]

i was just listening to an interview with Trent Reznor and he says he is a big fan of Test Department. There's no legit reason to hate on NIN here

[rachelseagroatt]

This was the first video I came across of them, I remember reading the description "REAL industrial" and thinking "ORLY". So it turns out, yes... yes really... It actually sounds like a machine, love it.

[das81]

Where did they come from?

[grimeclobber]

wonderful

[infIikkt]

industrial vs industrial discussions annoy me. i like this and all old school industrial but post industrial and electronic industrial acts like frontline and wumpscut are vastly superior in every conceivable way. 

[prk1116]

this song needs to be done with a video compliation to "children of men"

[StateMachine92]

Did this band influence the movie Alien 3 by any chance?

[Stalin111]

excellent.

[SkeletonMr]

I remember as a child I went on a field trip to see the cotton mills in Lowell. When the instructor would turn on the machine to show us how the mechanism worked, I just remembered hearing an enchanting rhythm. It was very intriguing to me. Even after we left, those rhythms stuck with me.

[nickshel]

Just reiterates the idea that all sound is music really.

[posthumanhero]

this is the good stuff by test dep before they turned into nother trendy dance band like spk cbaret and the rest

[valeo626]

This is so great. Found it researching The Art of Noises manifesto by Russolo, which i found from The Art of Noise group. both worth checking out

[WimGrundy]

The challenge: record among the working machines themselves in futile harmony. i was a machine tester in my wild youth and attempted to sing along with them, but they alyays had the best harmonics and outlasted my best . . . Spend time among the machines. It is humbling.

[DarkMedievalTimes1]

Too much praising of communism for my liking!

[rachelseagroatt]

@DarkMedievalTimes1 better than praising of facism I guess! At least communism started with a good idea even if some people took it a little too... Stalin xD

[haroldofcardboard]

saw these guys early 80's, the ritz NYC.....

[MagnitudePerson]

REAL Industrial!!!

[39user274502]

i think i would call NIN like electronica/metal/synth pop. the only reason they call NIN industrial is because all the distortion he does on his instruments trying to imitate the sound of machinery. atleast bands like Test Dept used actual sounds of machinery and created a whole song and beats with only those sounds. no electronica synth pop crap.

[39user274502]

God, i think i have found what i was looking for..those trumpets sealed the deal, this is truly brilliant stuff. its like the soundtrack to the apocalypse. awesome fucking video too.

[TheTramsen]

This is fucking amazing

[lunaasmirror]

this is one of the best videos ever made...very intelegent veeeery good..... so powerfull...

[zeitok8]

NIN es excelente, Test Dept es excelente dejen de pensar que es industrial o no porque eso nunca existió como genero musical ni siquiera conceptual, solo es un nombre que necesita la industria, estas son bandas que experimentan, son verdaderos artistas.

[MrKevmacs]

Jasper's Alarm!

[TheLeatherNunn]

As much as I adore this music, these guys are subhuman socialist proletariat scum.

[FishTankliquid]

good acid song

[SlothNOIR]

(post 2 of 2) The term ‘Industrial’ originally related to the output of the Industrial Record label from about 1977/8 most notably Throbbing Gristle. I hope that this helps.

It’s a shame that no one has video of Test Dept. at Paddenswick Road. I’ve been to over 1,000 gigs, and this was possibly the best.

[SlothNOIR]

I saw Einsturzende Neubauten’s first UK gig, supporting the Birthday Party at the Lyceum in London (now home of Disney’s ‘Lion King’ musical!), and later gigs. I also saw Test Dept play at Cannon Street station, and later gigs including three awesome nights at the British Rail Paddenswick Road Maintenance Depot in Paddington to commemorate the end of the Greater London Council in 1985. At the time both band were considered ‘Industrial’. (post 1 of 2)

[PatrickArguello]

Definitely REAL industrial. Saw them live in Toronto in the mid-80s. Bloody brilliant...

[hirnlaerm]

devil's favorit 

[kristalklass]

This is what the 80's was all about.

[CosmicRey]

One Voice! One Will!

[SirLancelot0120]

cool, interesting and kind of scary. I've always liked this track

[DannyHennesy]

weeeehaaaa Great!!!

[tool619]

is this noise? no! its industrial!

[aidsinhales]

argh! why is the audio in Mono!? Can't stand to hear it there's so much missing ;(

[Silks]

musique concrète

[lolmaster117]

this is art

6/5

[kombikrajsta]

This is real Industrial if you ask me.SPK,TG and other bands before them played more experimental style of "Inustrial" Noise,but this is the first "Radical Industrial" band ever if you ask me.

They were first true and only industrial along with E.Neubauten(Kollaps 1980-1983 era) and Laibach(1980-1985 era).Skinny Puppy,NIN and other fuckers play pop music if you comapared them with early Test Dept.

[MutleeIsTheAntiGod]

@kombikrajsta I love you. Whoever you are, you are a beautiful person on the inside and if you are a girl, would you like to have my babies? Jk, but fuck yes TEST DEPT AND EINSTURZENDE!

[nebeklam]

@MutleeIsTheAntiGod :)

[gombie]

This is actually quit close to music what you'd think that ''industrial'' music sounds like.

Put it lacks of some sounds that spk had, in old ones there was always 1 melodic loop, and rest was metal bashing and machine-like noise.

[aworldanonymous]

@kombikrajsta I personally cconsider alot of later developments in industrial to be more along the lines of dark dance music, that's not to say I don't like them, just that it's better to think of them for what they are instead of what they're claimed to be, except for NIN of course, they're just alternative music in general.

[Starduster93]

@kombikrajsta Test Departement in the days of "beating the retreat" have done "atonal industrial", later in their early days Skinny Puppy have done "industrial EBM", now Suicide Commando, Dawn of Ashes do "harsh EBM"; all of these are not to be compared to atonal industrial where original sounds are produced and maybe sampled, but there are no synth-sounds. I hate categories but they seem necessary.

[posthumanhero]

@kombikrajsta spk leichenkri is my fav lp of industrial music.............quite like this but lots of overlayed polyrhythms and transitions from what i remember.

[beat205rik]

comes this nr. by the double 12 inch of test, good song

[aikighost]

The voice sounds very similar to Nitzer Ebb on this track.

[F00nus]

Whats the Test Dept. Song where Katie Jane Garside sings?

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Whoa...that sounds awesome.

Speaking of Garside, is Queen Adreena still going?

[angelforfreedom]

Mac Inductrial (ie: "industrial" music that can ONLY be played on a Mac) is sorta lame, in my opinion. Trent Raznor did a neato thing with the IDEA of using a Mac to make AL of Year Zero...but it's good as an EXPERIMENT - not a standard nor staple for the industrial genre!

[mruuz]

Why there is Jaruzelski at the end of this clip? What does it mean?

[saturn99999]

Unglaublich, then best industrial comment ever. Viedo und music Top!!!!!

[AtBunkergateSeven]

All post TG Neubauten etc is post Industrial? but Industrial sounds cooler therefore :W: is industrial :)

[psytari]

\/\/ I will agree with swampman and also say that the bands as stated are not even EBM, but embody something else entirely (ie: the "rave sound") that deserves another designation than Industrial.

This is more live noise oriented.

[cokis83]

poderoso

[swampman]

Fucking excelent!,

I think it´s terrible to call Suicide Commando, Wumpscut & stuff like that "Industrial Music", when obviously real industrial music has a wider and richer background.

[cretinousfool]

Not to mention the genre was pioneered by artists, which is always good for keeping the creative spirit alive.

[gombie]

Well, most of the new ones suck, but at least Wumpscut has some industrial sounds and stays Experimental (always trying something new).

It's Electro-industrial... For a reason.

There should be more bands who use this kind of percussion (like Test dept and SpK).

[clout9sangel]

wumpscut have never toured; end of story. more like techno if you ask me compared to Skinny Puppy

[visceralanguish]

I somewhat agree with you swampman... However Suicide Commando and Wumpscut are a whole new realm of industrial music altogether. I do prefer Test Dept. and similar acts of the electronic based industrial music. But I still enjoy it nevertheless.

[xXBuckhamXx]

@swampman couldnt agree more, this and Eine Sturzenda Neubauten are real industrial

[MagnitudePerson]

@swampman Precisely, they are not Industrial they are Aggro-tech.

[manman246]

@swampman Suicide Commando is EBM. Which many consider a form of industrial. Just like Ministry, and NIN are considered Industrial Rock/Metal. Quite honestly I find this to sound a lot more like Power Electronics. However I guess you could say the same about TG, but they're often credited for creating Industrial. In my opinion some completely random Post-Punk bands are also responsible for creating a lot of the sub-genres of Industrial we have come to know today.

[manman246]

@swampman Even stuff like SWANS, and Godflesh have been come to be know as Industrial because of their avant-grade methods. Basically what I'm getting at is there are TONS of sub-genres of Industrial, and the word is extremely loose. Many different sub-genres emerged at the same time. EBM has been around nearly as long as TG, and KMFDM started the entire Industrial Rock scene as early as 1984.

[odenskrigare]

@swampman

I listen to both.

[gombie]

@swampman

They're post industrial, electro-industrial and ebm (harsh ebm).

But not pure industrial. They're drifting far away from it, even though wumpscut is trying to find his old sound wich was more ''pure'' industrial.

[christiandolman]

@swampman I agree with you, aggrotech and terror ebm are industrial-based but not industrial

[Nihistal]

@christiandolman They are Subgenres. Industrial music is so varied and far spread that anything from rock groups like KMFDM and Pitchshifter, to more techno stuff like Aryia, to stuff like Test Dept falls under the umbrella of "industrial music".

[MrFichot]

@Nihistal Ayria ? Industrial ? Thats no industrial. Industrial is music from the cassette-culture. Sleep Chamber, Krylon Hertz, Eva Johanna Reichstag,Throbbing Gristle, SPK usw, are industrial. Other stuff is no industrial. Umbrella of industrial music ? What is that ? I say: Real Industrial= oldschool industrial. The rest= techno crap wich is called industrial by the music industry.

[das81]

@swampman Blame the cybergoths.

[fabianfanfar]

Oh, I loved this band in my youth in the mid-80s. and this song i still great

[vernaculovermelho]

Ó! Muito bom.

[Kalunga76]

Industrial MESMO

[Nicholasparkinson]

Deus é pai

[luvinbuzzin]

TY - so pleased to find test dept posted - get ya grinders ready :)

[mikheii]

this is the alarm song in the movie children of men!

[MutleeIsTheAntiGod]

sweet! children of men is probably the most industrial movie to come out in recent years, considering REPO! was more goth

[gombie]

Well, Repo wasn't even industrial really... In my opinion.

[grahamlaur]

@mikheii Children of Men had an amazing soundtrack... it used King Crimson as well, to brilliant effect.

[sloanmidwestXTC]

@grahamlaur Test Dept, King Crimson, Aphex Twin were all in that movie, pretty cool sountrack eh? Good movie too

[prk1116]

@mikheii its great

[DeusXLMII]

..or the rest of that lost era!!

[garypulse]

Is there any footage around from the Miners Strike tour? - that was the first time I saw them and it blew me away....

[Anarchro]

Long live the Miners strike!!

[jamschnitter]

Awesome visuals, and angry violent lyrics, plus the right touches of horns and music to go along with the percussion, I love it ^^

[crashinwwII]

Dead Metal!!

[Oceanfishpond]

It,s great theres only 22,000 have watched this.. it just go,s to show the world is full of fuckin idiot,s....

[darkriver29]

idiot's who's industrial range only spans to Nine Inch Nails and Tool :(

[3232siobhan]

"only 22,000 have watched this"

That's why it's called 'underground' stoopid..... you get top prize for spectacularly missing the point.

[inflikkt]

rofl

[arnie61]

got the album it came in a box set of 2 albums and picture of the band members in fact i still have it,its some album

[angztek1]

Wicked Awesome

[pintofnewcastle]

Yes this is REAL industrial complete with machine/factory noises (hence the name "industrial.")

[vaspers]

congratulations. today this video was selected by the NYC Punk Rock Evolution Foundation. way to go!

[notbeliever]

uno de los 1ros industriales

de la ptmr la banda!

.

[steinber]

I was lucky enough to catch them live in 86 for the "Unacceptable Face of Freedom" tour and I'll never forget it.

[ketaminebean]

the UK has done so much for music

[WarriorOfTime]

Fuckin' eh, the UK!

[ketaminebean]

yes fuckin test dept, awesome! cheers for uploading this.

[facethefacts101]

test dept still sound so fresh

[facethefacts101]

BONER!!!

[segnalezero]

One of the best live concert I have ever seen!

[oneguycoding]

I saw these guys play in the early 80s in Toronto. Best show I ever saw. Hands down.

[Leitmotivation]

hey! is this song just on the video works vhs "program for progress" or is it on another album too? thanx for your help!

[heshter]

This and the Compulsion videos were on the back of the CD re-releases of Beating the Retreat and The Unacceptable Face of Freedom.

[dkpulsor]

From "Beating the Retreat" box set.

[KezBizarre]

I've got this on vinyl, but haven't been able to play it for some years, due to lack of a functioning turntable, so thankyou very much heshter for sharing this!

[decondhim]

my heart beats

[luistun]

Monte Cazzaza´s slogan "Industrial Music for Industrial People". Used for first time by Throbbing Gristle Record Studio: Industrial Records. The rebelion against politics turned into music.

[ScrapeTapes]

Industrial music is much, MUCH more than just political rebellion. In fact, TG were barely about politics at all.

[luistun]

Why "Industrial" Name? Was taken from MOnte Cazzaza´s idea of Industrial Music for Industrial People slogan. Used for first time by Throbbing Gristle record studio. Industrial Records.

[iamdeprogram]

It's a sad state of affairs when some kid tells us that this is not industrial, and I suppose stuff like NIN is.

[feathertea348]

for a while I didn't even know NIN was industrial...in some ways this new stuff that they show on popular music channels on tv to me, never show awesome musicians that industrial music has stemmed from or even relates to. It's too much like alternative rock or something.

[Komatzu]

actually Nine Inch Nails is barely, if at all, industrial. That is what iamdeprogram is saying. it was joke.

[macen13]

@iamdeprogram I like this I have recently discovered Test dept. Wumpscut has touches of Industrial, And I am a Big Fan of NIN Also. NIN is not Industrial it could be its own Genre along with Test Dept. and Throbbing Gristle also being their own. They are all set aside in their own brackets each representing their own genre by themselves solo. Each known for different contributing aspect to music. But yeah i would call this original Industrial.

[SpawnofHastur]

@iamdeprogram At first I thought you'd typed "NON" instead of "NIN". At which point I would have said "Well, yeah, he IS, but he's a total fucking dick."

NIN? Not industrial at all.

[gombie]

@SpawnofHastur

At least not anymore.

The side-project How to destroy angels is also terrible, and the name is not a tribute to coil.

Jhon is spinning in his grave and maby is peter too.

[Absinthus]

@iamdeprogram Yeah. All too common. I still take the debate, but it's like a fight that can't be won.

[mniamos]

Dobra, stara szkoła industrialu-Classic!!!  !Poland -England!

[tomhikon]

That was really good.

[MekanikalVoid]

i would want this job. it kicks ass. this is industrial along with Lugi Russolo.

[Outlanderpsy]

This sounds very tribal.

[heshter]

Now THAT'S industrial.

[JohnRamirez666]

My grandpa used to work with a blast furnace at a pig iron smelting factory and this song would probably remind him of going to work a lot

[magma10011]

Ya, its amazing how many people don't know the REAL history of "Industrial" music....these guys were some of the one's who laid the groundwork.

[lindaje]

i've got to agree too .. no show like it on earth!

[lindaje]

i've got to agree .. I saw them in an industrial round house in London which was about to be demolished the next day they were amazing and totally original... you had to see them live to get what they were about

[djdangler]

I've seen many shows in my days, these guys were one of the best!

[heshter]

Really couldn't agree with you more, almost reduced me to tears...

[lindaje]

have to agree .. you had to see them to get how great they were

[20jazzfunkgreats]

how groovy they were :-)

[bzzzbzzz]

This is a revelation for me. Thank you very much, This is what we should have learned at school.

[eblonk]

I saw Test. Dept in The Hague, The Netherlands in 1988. Awesome.

[Absinthus]

Wonderful. Pretty friendly tunes, in an industrial kind of way.

[Steve0011]

the alarm song in the movie Children of Men

[DeadDoll68]

FANTASTIC! this blows shit like Combichrist out of the water. Amazing stuff this is. Real industrial indeed! Old school all the way. : P

[nohero23]

Haha, heshter you fail Industrial. Are they labeled Industrial? No? Then they are not industrial! :D

[heshter]

You're eighteen and trying to teach me what is and is not "industrial" ? You fail, immediately.

[fisk0]

What is the point you are trying to make? Test Department are obviously industrial. They just about created the entire genre along with Throbbing Gristle, SPK and Cabaret Voltaire (and Lou Reed).

Test Department made the genre name make sense, because things just can't get much more industrial than this, as opposed to KMFDM, Rammstein and all that stuff people call industrial even though there isn't anything even remotely industrial about them.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

While I agree that nohero23 is a retard, you've gotta consider that industrial's a pretty vast genre. Early KMFDM is very similar to Einsturzende Neubauten. Later KMFDM and Rammstein is a more techno-metal approach but it's done in an industrial way: i.e. the vocals and instruments are heavily processed and the imagery remains typically industrial. I like that stuff just as much as Test Dept but whatever floats yer boat I guess.

But yeah, like I said, nohero23 is a fucking moron.

[tgcryder]

"Early KMFDM is very similar to Einsturzende Neubauten"

?

maybe "5 on the open ended richter scale"...

not knocking the early KMFDM, but really.

[fisk0]

The only things by KMFDM I even think are remotely close to industrial might be a couple of the tracks on the 1984 demo cassette Opium and the 'bonus' tracks at the end of Trust (from the album Nihil) and Wrath (from XTORT).

I love KMFDM, but no, they don't play industrial music.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Eh, they do have some elements of industrial.

I guess they fit into the "electro-industrial" genre, for bands that picked up where the Cabs left off: industrial music you can dance to.

S'all fun & games really.

[Tongetamo]

No, @Sesquipedaliantique . This is strictly Industrial Music. This is what the term was invented for, for these people, SDK and Einsturzende Neubauten. There is an electronic variant (like Esplendor Geométrico) but they were/are in other line.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Not industrial? You're a dumbarse. Test Dept's about as industrial as it gets, if you want something more industrial may I suggest throwing yourself into a steel-press.

[trollfinger]

Is star wars real sci fi ? no, no it's not.

[aylastarsaphire]

I can also feel the'Russian Constructivism', warmth, strenght and togetherness in Test Dept.

Their videos have such a unique quality, that they should go down in History as one great artistic achievement.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Yeah, Russian Constructivism & Italian Futurism are all over British industrial: look at Throbbing Gristle, Nitzer Ebb, etc. The latter's That Total Age album makes good use of Constructivism's bold, totalitarian imagery. I like! :)

[fisk0]

Yeah, this video reminds me a lot of Sergei Eisenstein's "Стачка"/"The Strike" from 1925.

Test Dept were wonderful both visually and audially.

[aylastarsaphire]

What a find! Stunning photography and sound. There is a warmth, a togetherness in their videos beyond comparison. Thanks

[skinjobb2000]

The are great!

[chromeflux]

the best

[Tchoutoye]

great vid from their best album.

ah... good memories.

[gibletneck]

industrial music at its best ....saw these guys perform at an old railway factory in glasgow ..amazing..

[heshter]

Saw them live 2 or 3 times in London, like a Russian Constructivist poster brought to life. Nearly dropped me bacon sandwich and shed a tear, awesome.

[nurjahceir]

I saw them in Canon Street Station in London @1984. There waere about 60 people there. Totally fucking awesome.

[edgar5555]

I think there were a few more than 60, I was there and it was sold out. T'was indeed a great concert though. Apart from being attacked by hardcore industrials for dancing.

[drwilczur]

attacked for dancing? what a story!

[nightwatch01]

Extremly Great Stuff!! Thanks for uploading!