Cabaret Voltaire

where are they hiding?

Love to know the origin of this sample - always puzzled me, as there aren't 70 billion people anywhere.

Oh, sorry, they're ants.

almost makes me regret getting rid of 'groovy laid back and nasty'. almost.

xpost : it has been years since i was in the mood for their funk, but today its not going to be anything else but - i just know it...

http://www.dustscience.com/FrontPage/RichardHKirk-FearProject.php

yummy yummy

look carefully at the proposed line up :

http://www.thestar.co.uk/rotherham/Antiracism-rock-festival.4279091.jp

steve mallinder has been back in the uk now for a while so obviously things are back on track.

!!!

i have been advised that this is not confirmed, and that in the past promoters have advertised a solo set by RHK as being a CV show.
still, seeing as Stephen is uk based there is at least a possiblilty that this is ferreal.

One of the top 5 best bands ever? I mean who the fuck cares about Kraftwerk when you've got Sensoria? Even as it is, only a tiny miniscule of their brilliance, and yet it's still probably the best music video ever made:

(The Mind Boggles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkfzXq0tA3c

did I mention I'm more goth than you?

Well, I reckon I'm goth enough . . anyway, forgotten just how great 'Sensoria' sounds - played the 12" for weeks after it came out. It's a disgrace that I don't own all of the Cabs work on any modern format.

Consider me agog for any news on a reunion.

Re Disposable Half-Truths: Someone at the Princeton Record Exchange talked me into buying that cassette when I was 15. I had heard "Nag3" on Wanna Buy A Bridge? but had no conception of "industrial" music beyond that.

Fuck. Scariest music I ever heard up to that point (excluding "Revolution 9"). I remember listening to it on my Walkman as my parents drove us home through the Mercer County burbs, all the while that chant of "no fucking chance at all...no fucking chance at all..." echoing in my brain.

Bimble is most assuredly not more goth than me as real goths were disgusted with sell-out Sensoria and won't suffer any Cabs later than the Fools Game/Eddie's Out 12".

basically, if you can understand what Mallinder's saying and you still like it, you gotta turn in yr goth card

I like the early-middle period Cabaret Voltaire. Still dark and weird, but getting a little pop. Kinda like the UK electronic version of Chrome. For some reason I put them along the same lines.

I can definitely hear parallels with Chrome

Aw yeah. Kiss my assz bitchez.

Cheers to Mike A. for mentioning "Disposable Half Truths".
You're going to make me pull that out now. And add it to my iPod.

Burt, I sent you an email the other day. Check yer spam folder if you don't see it.

i like three mantras and red mecca and that's all i ever felt the need for (except for 24x5 but I listen to that less, in fact, never)

I think I had a problem with looped matter-of-fact phrases over noisy backup. Something about the repetition seemed ominous and creepy to me.

Love this band.

Has any band ever spawned more imitators, all of whom are not remembered now?

Photo finish with Throbbing Gristle

well following that gig i posted about a few months ago (did anyone here go along ?) it looks like the 'band' are back.
just heard that they have remixed NZ band Koras.
well, it's not really 'they', as Mal is still remaining a silent partner, it's Kirk doing the work, a la Conversation era.
i've also heard that there are to be a couple of shows with a lot of emphasis on the visuals.

loving this declaration on the cd-r label : "forged in sheffield"

is there any way one can get said cd-r

attention any Cabs fans past or present btw, this is incredible: http://goatsend.blogspot.com/2008/08/cabaret-voltaire-rock-city-nottingham.html

What in god's name is better than this? WHAT?
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"Over And Over" is the name of the song. What in the hell in this world is better than that? Please let me know.

DAN! Thank you!!!

It's all about the drummer's mullet, btw.

just heard that they have remixed NZ band Koras.

this is now available in shops.
for those that remember, Fon Records bloke, Amrik Rai is behind the release, and getting RHK back in line with the use of the CV name.
the use of cut-up vocals and synths is very much in line with mid-80s CV, but the overall production is a lot more current sounding.
naturally, i love it.

billy ray martin covers the cabs : here

didn't expect this to work as well as it does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6d4_X3ZIeI

^ pretty good!

Sorry, that's the Billie Ray Martin cover btw.

the roman polanski referencing video for the other version is also great :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vns_3nAsL5k&feature=player_embedded

good to hear, I need to check it out

another aspect i love, is how TDR have remained part of the inner circle,
even for this post RHK release.
i realise the glory years were all about the brilliance of neville brody, but since then, TDR have given RHK/CV some cracking coverart.

Well the SF show last night was a fine treat for sure. (And I was up front on the railing so honestly the sound worked for me!)

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:kqdyhnklmmv34nmml6btyqv6/bafkreich5xn73vtpkod7kkdibaq74xj7tfwoynxmmib3ha5l4hyoky5pk4

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The other members there are Tara Busch from I Speak Machine pulling double duty after a great opening set, Benge on the percussion and semi-band-vet Eric Random on keyboards and guitar.

they were great in LA too, love that they played “easy life”

They come to the East coast in the autumn and I get nervous about bands from abroad being let into the USSA

oh man this was great

I missed what happened with Chris Watson, is he unable to tour? I think he's still a band member

I missed a bit of the show as a friend had a medical issue and had to be taken to the hospital. I thought the sound was good! Another friend joked that the show was like a highschool reunion… I saw a bunch of people I hadn’t seen in years.

a bit here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002wf0b

they talk about the gigs and growing up in Sheffield with libraries and cheap public transport

starts about 36 minutes in