The Anti-Group

The Anti-Group Communications (often referred to as The Anti-Group or T.A.G.C.)  is an open-membership collaborative art and information project formed in 1978 by Adi Newton and Steven Turner. The T.A.G.C. acronym refers to the four different types of DNA Nucleotide: thymine, adenine, guanine, and cytosine. The group's main objective was to combine interactive and mixed media art, installations, and research on psycho acoustics and philosophical concepts to produce fascinating presentations. Although the group disbanded in 1996, Newton continued the project with CD releases and live performances in 2009.

T.A.G.C. audio recordings are released on Newton's Anterior Research Recordings label. The psychoacoustic experiments and carefully constructed aural rituals are usually accompanied by lengthy liner notes, explaining the theoretical underpinnings of the recordings. In this way, T.A.G.C. presents itself explicitly as acoustic research rather than music.

Live performances

 * Pandora's Box "Der Doelen" center in Rotterdam, Holland, Sat. 22 Sep 1984 pandora's music box
 * 2nd Atonal festival "The Ballhaus Tiergarten" Berlin, Germany. 18 Feb 1985
 * 3rd Atonal Festival "TU Mensa" Berlin, Germany on 13 Dec 1986
 * The Pump Station SO 36" Berlin, Germany 14 Feb 1987
 * Museum of Contemporary Art Prato, Italy Sept 23rd, 1988
 * Electro-Acoustic Music Academy Stockholm, Sweden 23 Aug 1990
 * ARS Electronica symposium on Virtual Reality 8 Sep 1990 Linz, Austria
 * National Art Gallery V&A inclusion. Smile Classified a magazine of multiple origins March/August 1992 London.UK I.C.A.
 * Art Futura Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Sept 1994
 * Equinox Festival 14 June Conway Hall, London, 2009
 * TAGC SPECIAL PERFORMANCE EVENT THE CUBE / WGT Festival Leipzig Fri 10 June 2010 e.v.MMXI
 * XWIF: 10.11.11 T.A.G.C. - Wroclaw: BWA art gallery
 * Live Sono Visual Projection Invocation Integration in Ambisonics The Denizens. From the Meontological Research Recording 3 Transmission from the Trans-Yoggothian Broadcast Station
 * ATRIBUTETOJGBALLARD–,T.A.G.C.,PARADISO,AMSTERDAM -8/9/2012
 * TAGC live performance The Cube @ INCUBATE SEPT 22ND 2013. De NWE Vorst The new King Theater
 * Willem II straat 49, 5038 BD, Tilburg.
 * PERSUASION: Musique industrielle et contrôle mental / Exhibition inclusion jeudi 2 avril 2015
 * Exposition le 3 et 4 et les 15, 16, 17 et 18 avril 2015 de 15h à 19h
 * Vernissage le 2 avril 2015 dès 19h
 * Précédé d’une journée de conférences dans le cadre du projet de recherche MIND CONTROL, Radical experiments in art and psychology Design Project Room Bâtiment HEAD La Prairie Rue de Lyon 22, 1201 Genève mercredi au samedi de 14 à 19h
 * TAGC / CAFE OTO - 10 / 12 / 15 Meontological Research Recordings Experimental works 1985 / 2014
 * Mark Fell Curation / Reality Check with Thomas Metzinger
 * TAGC / Visual staging
 * Geräuschwelten Festival in The Black Box 08.05.2016: TAGC (The Anti Group) Münster
 * TAGC / MATAR / MYKEL BOYD 06 /10/16 @ The Burlington Chicago, IL and 07 /10/16 @ Feed Arts Centre Kankakee, IL. The USA.
 * OCT 13TH / TAG PRESENTATION NEW PLATZ STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK / MUSIC FACILITY
 * TAGC / FRI 2ND NOV 2017 / SPRINGDALE STATION AUSTIN TEXAS
 * DIMENSIONS GALLERY 2017 / AUSTIN TEXAS NOV 3RD TAG SPECIAL PERFORMANCE SOUND PIECE AND DOCUMENTIVE EXHIBITION

Discography

 * 1985 – The Delivery - Atonal Records LP ST3006
 * 1985 – Ha/Zulu - Sweatbox 12" SOX009
 * 1986 – ShT - Sweatbox 12" SEX010
 * 1986 – Digitaria - Sweatbox LP SAX012 / CD SACD012 / Cass SAXC012
 * 1987 – Meontological Research Recording - Record 1 - Sweatbox LP SAX013
 * 1987 – Big Sex - Sweatbox 12" SOX011 / 7" OX011
 * 1988 – Meontological Recordings - Record 2: Teste Tones - Side Effects LP SER12
 * 1989 – Broadcast Test - Wax Trax 12" WAX9104 / Big Sex Records 12" Big Sex 002
 * 1994 – Burning Water - Anterior Research Recordings CD ARR004 / Side Effects CD DFX17
 * 1994 – Iso-Erotic Calibrations - Anterior Research Recordings CD ARR003
 * 1994 – Audiophile - Anterior Research Recordings CD ARR001
 * 2005 – Psychoegoautocratical Auditory Physiogomy Delineated - Die Stadt maxi-CD DS67 (unofficial release)
 * 2018 – OBSOLETE CAPITALISM AND ADI NEWTON / TAG - CHAOS VARIATION III - VINYL 12 / 45 / NURKFM004 [ITA]
 * 2018 – Matar / TAG - Sculptures Of Daedalus / Spiritual Psycho synthesis (Flexi, 7", Shape) - Anterior Research Media Comm FX1/FX2
 * 2020 – 4 X 12 CD / PERIPHERAL MINIMAL RECORDS / ARMComm / Peripheral Minimal PM27
 * 2020 – Organ Needles Limited Edition Box inc 1xUSB card / CD / Anterior Research Media Comm – 005 / USB 02
 * 2021 – Meontological Research Recording III - Transmission from the Trans Yuggothian Broadcast Station / Anterior Research Media Comm - Rizosfera/NUKFM - NUBKFM 013 (Book + USB Card)
 * 2022 – AMMA / Armcomm Europe / Rizosfera CD

Compilations

 * 1986 – You Bet We've Got Something Against You - Cathexis LP
 * 1986 – Abstract Magazine Issue 6 - Sweatbox LP
 * 1986 – Berlin Atonal '86 - Cass
 * 1987 – Minutes To Go! - Interphon CD / Les Temps Modernes LP
 * 1988 – Provoke N° 3 - IMC Cass
 * 1988 – Bark - Sweatbox LP
 * 1989 – Funky Alternatives Vol. 4 - Concrete LP/CD
 * 1990 – Total Volume 1 - Total LP
 * 1991 – Project 91 - Hyperium CD
 * 1994 – Taste This 2 - Discordia CD
 * 1996 – Deepnet - Side Effects 2xCD
 * 1996 – Alternator - Concrete Productions 2xCD
 * 1997 – Exclusive Alternatives - Cleopatra CD
 * 1999 – Industrial Meltdown - Cleopatra 3xCD
 * 2000 – Industrial Rock - Edel America CD
 * 2010 – Antibothis Vol. 3 - Chili Com Carne / Thisco Book+CD
 * 2011 – Tesserae - Abraxas Journal 2 Audio Supplement - Fulgur Book+CD
 * 2016 –  The Anti Group, Matar (4), Mykel Boyd - Phantom Airwaves Presents: (Flexi, 7", Shape, S/Sided, Single)	Somnimage	SOM100616
 * 2019 – ARMComm Sampler - Anterior Research Media Comm CD 003