Cabaret Voltaire

xp yeah really menacingly off, it felt like some secret transmission when I bought it based solely on the cover art aged 17

xp out of print dammit:

https://www.amazon.com/Cabaret-Voltaire-Art-Sixth-Sense/dp/0946719039

A chapter in RE Search's Industrial Culture Handbook which is WILDLY out of print I see now.

I'll have to dig up and post my freshman year electronic music class essay on the Cabs...it's pretty bad.

But quotes (at length), both those sources.

This as well: https://www.amazon.com/Tape-Delay-Confessions-Eighties-Underground/dp/0946719020

This is the best book I've read about CV, written as a memoir by the same guy who made the 'Art Of The Sixth Sense', it's not 100% Cabs related but is a great snapshot of that little corner of the Sheffield scene.

There is a kindle version, sadly the paperback cannot be gotten for less than about £40.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Industrial-Evolution-Through-Eighties-Voltaire-ebook/dp/B005FZ1MXO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1622711444&sr=1-3

dan, please do!

also a chapter in Tape Delay

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22650645597&cm_mmc=ggl-_-UK_Shopp_RareStandard-_-product_id=bi%3A%2022650645597-_-keyword=&gclid=Cj0KCQjw--GFBhDeARIsACH_kdbZC9wZVJe0KcHoqgIhZ77PuBEQHmU3tVQC_25rDnxNN8rFbOW_HpYaAr_YEALw_wcB#&gid=1&pid=1

lmao holy shit groovy, laidback and nasty is AMAZING

probably my most listened to cabs album these days! cabs + marshall jefferson + mark brydon, so fucking good

soooo right.... feels like maaagic

the guitar work on the early cabs records is quite... beautiful? can't be the right word

the guitar work on the early cabs records is quite... beautiful? can't be the right word

Psychedelic.

Hey Brad, just want to thank you for your enthusiasm on this thread, it’s got me going back to records I’ve not listened to for ages with fresh ears. My favourite thing about ILX is people who are passionate about things communicating that passion. <3

you're welcome! i got my doublevision and gasoline in your eye dvds today and i'm fuckin psyched to watch them!!!

utterly primo live tracks here -- I would have believed they were from '83 but it's Richard H. Kirk getting it done in 2014. If that pre-Crackdown era of the Cabs, that zeroed in paranoid sound, is your thing, rush to this link

https://berlinatonal.bandcamp.com/album/berlin-atonal-vol-3

I thought I had that record, whatever Kirk's working off, the drum and pulsing synth sounds like an old space disco record I have. I checked Universal Energy, which is another space disco record, but I don't think that's it.

Eh, wish Kirk and Mallinder would get back together. I wish Kirk wouldn't use the CV name by himself.

I wish Kirk wouldn't use the CV name by himself.

100% agree.

same here

i kind of agree, but i don't mind that he has done it.
if that makes sense.
i mean, i have no issue buying anything made by RHK irrespective of the name he attaches to the project.

damn, RIP RHK

It is with great sadness that we confirm our great & dear friend, Richard H. Kirk has passed away.
Richard was a towering creative genius who led a singular & driven path throughout his life & musical career.
We will miss him so much.
We ask that his family are given space. pic.twitter.com/Ok8u3dNx3T

— Mute (@MuteUK) September 21, 2021

oh no

Damn, that's unexpected

Just saw this via the Quietus. Damn. RIP.

This is horrible :(

Oh no, one of my first musical heroes ;_;

That guitar sound *swoon*

Oh man that’s a big one for me.

Funny that just yesterday, out of all the millions of songs and music snippets in my head “Motion Rotation” popped in my head unbidden.

This is really sad. I’ve been listening to him so much recently

big one for me. really, really sad to hear this; has been a towering presence most of my musical life.

dang i thought we were just gonna talk about how good shadow of fear is some more. RIP.

what the fuck

RIP dude

Was 65.

https://thequietus.com/articles/30559-richard-h-kirk-dead-cabaret-voltaire

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58641040

BBC obit. I’m so gutted about this

RIP. Huge fan here, what a stunning, sprawling back catalogue he leaves.

A few of my favorites: Every Man Got Dreaming (Sandoz), Virtual State (Kirk), The Number of Magic (Kirk), Spirit Guide to Low Tech (Sweet Exorcist), The Idea of Justice (Electronic Eye).

And none of those are the Cabs! 8 Crepuscule Tracks is one of my all time favorite LPs, The Conversation, etc., etc., etc.

absolute hero of mine.
unfortunately i don't have anywhere near enough of his 'solo' releases on cd as they were never easy to find, and now they are ££.
however, the one album i never see mentioned anywhere and yet is one of my favourites - dark, intense and bass heavy :

https://www.discogs.com/Richard-H-Kirk-Feat-Pat-Riot-Meets-The-Truck-Bombers-Of-Suburbia-Uptown-Vol-1/release/336734

8 Crepuscule Tracks is one of my all time favorite LPs.

dang i thought we were just gonna talk about how good shadow of fear is some more. RIP.

― adam,

adam : hope you picked up the ep that followed the album i.e. shadow of funk.
way more intense.
3 extended tracks that would not sound out of place on the Drinking Gasoline ep.

https://bleep.com/release/219165-cabaret-voltaire-shadow-of-funk

The reversed vocal that runs all the way through 'Eastern Mantra' is the name of another Sheffield electronic band - The Human League.

OK, so I just discovered this on wiki and it's blown my mind a bit.

i have been in denial and skirted around the peripherals all day.
however, i think it is time to go back to the source of my love : Sensoria 12" version.
it really was one of those records that changed so much for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-UiBiUUas0

hope you picked up the ep that followed the album i.e. shadow of funk.
way more intense.
3 extended tracks that would not sound out of place on the Drinking Gasoline ep.

i had missed this and it is awesome, thank you. am now on dekadrone which is beautiful gnarly Power Ambient, feels like the latest/last CV iteration had a lot of juice

the final 2 albums were billed as drones, and that they were.
perfect when in such a space for dystopian infused soundscapes.
however, i prefer the shadow of fear/shadow of funk tag team releases.
the press at the time said how RHK had dug out his old analogue kit (due to a s/w crash i think), and i think its very apparent in the sonics of all the last releases.

Sensoria 12" was the source of my love too. Do Right!

i'm sure it has been discussed here before but the video for the 7" is still incredible. it was the talk of the town when it was first shown with endless "how on earth did they do that?" conversations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2vCpT1H7u0

stirmonster : yeah, look upthread, it seems we all watched it on Max Headroom.

just found out that Sensoria 12" and the other 12" that changed everything for me (Depeche Mode Master & Servants vs On-U Remix), were released within weeks of each other.

decades of my listening were dictated by 2 12" records that i bought within weeks of each other when i was 16.

guess i just got lucky.

the press at the time said how RHK had dug out his old analogue kit (due to a s/w crash i think), and i think its very apparent in the sonics of all the last releases.

― mark e, Wednesday, September 22, 2021 11:11 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm finally investigating shadow of fear and wow, of course it's great, and more aligned aesthetically with classic cabs material than i necessarily expected

then can i also recommend the RHK solo release that came before he revived the CV name :

https://www.discogs.com/Richard-H-Kirk-Dasein/master/1201619

its very raw and brutal sounding, and totally brilliant.