When Cabaret Voltaire signed to Some Bizarre in 1983, it was an industrial band with a cult following. That all changed when the first album under the deal hit the streets:...
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Electronic music has come a long way since Cabaret Voltaire began mixing it up with machines in order to evade boredom. As primitive as Watson, Kirk, and Mallinder's early...
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One of Cabaret Voltaire's strongest albums, The Crackdown features the band working a number of menacing electronic textures into a basic dance/funk rhythm; the result is...
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The most abstract of the three Cabaret Voltaire albums released by Plastex/Instinct, The Conversation has the occasional flair of a film soundtrack, especially considering...
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As the '80s rolled around, Cabaret Voltaire began to flesh out the harsh electro-industrial minimalism that had characterized their previous releases. Rumblings of funk were...
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International Language tones down the few Chicago house elements which had creeped into Plasticity, replacing them with sublime acid-electro, tribal elements on several...
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Given the band's constant outpouring of work in its late seventies/early eighties days via both singles and albums, it's no surprise that enough unreleased or...
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Cabaret Voltaire first performed live during a student disco at Sheffield University in 1975. In keeping with the group's Dadaist ethos, the show was cut short as the...
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It's true that Cabaret Voltaire's first two proper studio albums hardly match the greatness of later works like Red Mecca, 2 X 45, and even 3 Crepuscule Tracks. Despite...
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Re-emerging with a much more original sound after their 1990 house album, Kirk and Mallinder for the most part rely on abstract electro-inspired ambient-techno with extended...
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Twelve items from the jaggedy universe of Cabaret Voltaire, here given the '90s facelift treatment as they're stripped down for dancefloor functionality. Sometimes it seems...
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If one needs a starting place to discover how an obscure trio of Sheffield sound experimentalists became one of the founders of industrial/EBM music, not to mention a whole...
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It would actually be more accurate to call this album 'Two Mantras,' given that it consists of two sidelong pieces, "Eastern Mantra" and "Western Mantra," which gives the...
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The Voice of America introduces itself with a Southern policeman delivering instructions to what could be a riot squad. Part of the instructions direct those offering...
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Collecting two separate sessions, one with Chris Watson and one without (the former also with guest drummer Alan Fish of fellow Sheffield experimentalists Hula), 2X45 shows...
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On the two-record set Drinking Gasoline, Cabaret Voltaire stand oddly balanced between accessibility and abrasiveness. On each of the album's four tracks (one track per...
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An expansion of the original Three Crepuscule Tracks, Eight compiles a variety of slightly random tunes from the group's early eighties days for general consumption. The...
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The results of their trips to Maida Vale during the mid-'80s, BBC Recordings 1984-1986 includes new versions of the group's industrial-dance scores like "Sensoria" and "I...
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Designed as a companion piece to the 12" compilation The Original Sound of Sheffield, the three-disc Conform to Deform is the flip side, literally speaking in places. The...
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