{"id":13853,"date":"2015-06-14T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T20:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=13853"},"modified":"2015-10-20T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:18:13","slug":"test-dept-announce-book-album-re-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=13853","title":{"rendered":"Test Dept announce book + album re-release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Test Dept\u00a0will release their book, \u2018Total State Machine\u2019 on August 10 and\u00a0re-releases their album \u2018Shoulder to Shoulder\u2019 in October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Total State Machine&#8217; will have a special launch at Rough Trade East on July 16 from\u00a07 \u2013 9 pm, featuring a Q &amp; A with Test Dept members and Robin Rimbaud, led by Luke Turner of The Quietus, a live remix performance by Scanner and a book and album signing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Test Dept - Total State Machine Book Ad\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/129707257?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Test Dept &#8211;\u00a0\u2018Total State Machine\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TD_FRONT_cover-copy.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13942\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/TD_FRONT_cover-copy.jpg?resize=240%2C296\" alt=\"TD_FRONT_cover copy\" width=\"240\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a>\u2018The Miners Strike, the Wapping Dispute, the Poll Tax, Touring behind the Iron Curtain and the East German Stasi police files, music and theatrical DIY shows on the scale of Danny Boyle\u2019s Olympics opening ceremony, police raids, Tony Benn and re-invigorating the Beltane Festival all part of the story in \u2018Total State Machine\u2019 the definitive book about British musical pioneers Test Dept.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer to shape it&#8221;<\/em> Bertolt Brecht<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Total State Machine\u2019 will be out on\u00a0August 10 via\u00a0PC-Press and is a unique historical document and visual representation of Test Dept, one of the UK\u2019s investigative agitators, authentic industrialists, utilisers and recyclers of society&#8217;s debris.<\/p>\n<p>Printed on high quality art paper, the book contains chapters and reflections from Test Dept founding members Paul Jamrozy, Graham Cunnington, Angus Farquhar and Brett Turnbull; Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire); Robin Rimbaud (Scanner); Marek Kohn; Malcolm Poynter; Ivan Novak (Laibach); Alan Sutcliffe (Kent Miner) and many more with an introduction by Alexei Monroe and Peter Webb. The book also contains original artwork, photography and documentary images of the group from all periods of their work.<\/p>\n<p>PC-Press is a DIY publisher of Sound, Ideas and the Visual. They publish books in many forms and maintain the importance and centrality of the book in the era of computer mediated communication.<\/p>\n<p>The band will also re-issue \u2018Shoulder To Shoulder\u2019 (1985), the second in a series of re-releases, the first being the 12\u201d \u2018Tested Product\u2019 for Record Store Day, in new and adapted artworks, via PC-Press. This special red vinyl edition paves the way for more back catalogue releases late October 2015, namely both 6 x CD &amp; 6 x vinyl box sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Shoulder to Shoulder\u2019 encapsulates the tour organised by Test Dept in support of the Miners Strike in 1984\/85 and features a choir of South Wales miners, brought together by the group for a one off concert in London. Such was the bond formed on that occasion; it led to a nationwide tour, a landmark meeting and lasting memory of music, solidarity and political struggle. As such it can be viewed as an important historical document.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to<em> Fuel to Fight<\/em>\u00a0lifted from &#8216;Shoulder to Shoulder&#8217;\u00a0below via Soundcloud.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"03 Fuel To Fight by PC-Press\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F208740323&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500&#038;secret_token=s-9TJbH\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Test Dept\u00a0will release their book, \u2018Total State Machine\u2019 on August 10 and\u00a0re-releases their album \u2018Shoulder to Shoulder\u2019 in October. &#8216;Total State Machine&#8217; will have a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=13853\" title=\"Test Dept announce book + album re-release\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,25,28,30],"tags":[3195,3039,3037,3040,3036,3038],"class_list":["post-13853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-live","category-music","category-new-release","tag-book","tag-fuel-to-fight","tag-re-release","tag-shoulder-to-shoulder","tag-test-dept","tag-total-state-machine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/test-dept-gdansk-BBC85-copy-2.jpg?fit=312%2C240&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-3Br","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23481,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=23481","url_meta":{"origin":13853,"position":0},"title":"The Radio Dept. announce North American tour kicking off Valentine&#8217;s Day 2017","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"September 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Radio Dept.\u00a0have announced\u00a0North American tour\u00a0dates beginning February 14, 2017 in support of their politically-charged fourth LP 'Running Out Of Love,'\u00a0which will be out\u00a0Oct 21, 2016\u00a0via\u00a0Labrador Records. 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