Cabaret Voltaire

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.

this whole thread and no mention of one of the best collaborations ever : ministry vs cabaret voltaire = acid horse.

this is the 9 minute version that's a lot more CV than the radio friendly A-side

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

CV vs On-U vs Kevorkian

one the best remixes of the CODE era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FucRo6uqDS0

i have long suspected the A-side of Acid Horse is nearly all Jourgensen and very little CV.

Was the remix of "Thank You America" a rejected remix that only saw the light of day later or is there a 'Code' era release of it?

i have long suspected the A-side of Acid Horse is nearly all Jourgensen and very little CV.

my impression as well, hence the 9 minute excess of the b-side which is very much more CV sounding.
and yeah, looks like the Kervokian remix was never officially released until this compilation.
guess there were plans for more singles off CODE that got pulled due to lack of interest.
this listing seems to imply the only other release of this remix was on another compilation (which is of course massively recommended as per my mention upthread) :

https://www.discogs.com/Cabaret-Voltaire-Remixed/master/134525

Sensoria 12 here too!

the video that a lot of us saw on Max Headroom :

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

aha.
oops.
same post as stirmonster.
still, can never have too much of this ...

Never Lose Your Shadow kind of amazed me when I first heard it around the time it was reissued by Minimal Wave. 1982!

https://richardhkirk.bandcamp.com/album/never-lose-your-shadow

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ztz3

A sixty minute Freakzone Playlist dedicated to Cabaret Voltaire's Richard H Kirk

(you don't get many CV songs to the hour by the looks)

Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria
Sweet Exorcist - Testone
Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar
Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination
Cabaret Voltaire - This Is Entertainment
Richard H. Kirk - East Of Nima
Cabaret Voltaire - Kneel To The Boss

(possibly because that listing is missing things. Nag Nag Nag after This Is Entertainment at least. i'll try and get it sorted)

just ordered the Sandoz boxset.
cannot wait to hear it.
and, i suspect like Prince, you just know that there will be a huge archive of unreleased RHK material.
hopefully he assigned someone who knows what to do and it doesn't end up being a mess a la Pete Namlook.

(last track on that Freakzone thing is Everything Is True btw)

Freak yourself, shake it shake it.

just wanted to say that "project80" is a perfect thing

I counted his aliases on Discogs yesterday, there were 42

tbh - i would have expected more.
after all, every track on the URP releases are by different aliases ..

ok, just checked and that statement is not 100% true.
i had always assumed that every track was a different alias.
i love the URP cds.
they are so so brilliant, and the tDR covers/colours just make them even more special.
i found volume 1 by accident, and then once i realised what they were (not obvious from the details), had to track down volumes 2 and 3.

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

astonishing to me

actually i meant to post "shadow of funk" but that one's just as good

can't see what video you posted brad due to regional crap.
but glad to see Shadow Of Funk ep getting love.
loving his final chunk of releases : 1 album of beats + noise, 1 ep of beats + noise, 2 albums of dystopian drones.
would have loved to have been given the option to get the Shadow of Funk ep on cd, but hey.
very glad i grabbed the Shadow of Fear cd/t-shirt bundle now.

in other news : for most of the time, RHK + Parrot = Sweet Exorcist.
however, there were times that Parrot helped out CV.
this EP is very much in line with their Groovy house era, but still has that CV love for extras in the mix.
the Rob Gordon mix totally knocks it out of the park of course.

https://www.discogs.com/Cabaret-Voltaire-Percussion-Force/release/34719

i posted "skinwalker" mark!

ahh.
for a relatively old fella, RHK still knew how to make electronica sound totally vital.
absolute f$cking legend.
time for URP volumes 1-3 all mixed up + wine.

only now figuring out that Stefan Betke (Pole) did the Drinking Gasoline remaster for the LP/DVD reissue, it sounds fucking awesome

I have dived into Sandoz a bit, cool stuff. Instead of investigating more recent RHK/CV stuff like I might normally do upon an artist's death, I just keep playing "Sleepwalking" over and over.

"Listen Up With Cabaret Voltaire" is another oddball favorite of mine, good overview of the 78-85 era

brilliant.

i have the Drinking Gasoline tracks on various other cds, and have put a playlist together to make the EP.

but now that i know re Pole remastered, means i may have to buy the ep all over again.

;)

it comes with the Gasoline In Your Eye DVD!!

https://www.discogs.com/Cabaret-Voltaire-Drinking-Gasoline-Gasoline-In-Your-Eye/release/5326835

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bhfy3gXh4Q

they should have made the cd replicate the music selections on the DVD.
i know most of the extra tracks on the DVD are included on the Conform boxset, but still, would be nice to have the audio of the DVD fully represented in the same manner.

at last a decent obit

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/08/richard-h-kirk-obituary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNwX_eY5YrE

wow thank you for sharing that

Don't sleep on Mal's latest project: https://lesdisquesducrepuscule.com/m/clinker_twi1256.html

give me your name
give me your code

conform to deform has got to be the greatest box set of all time

yeah, took a while for me to come around to it due its disjointed nature re the sequencing.
give me chronological sequencing everytime.
also, the final live disc is a little underwhelming re the sound quality, but after a few moments and you readjust then it can definitely hit the spot.
oh, and thread regular sirmonster was actually at that very gig.

ta for the nudge brad (as per usual).
was struggling to find the groove this evening.
dropped 'skinwalker' from the final ep onto the soundsystem, and yeah,
here we go ..

is it wrong to find "fourth shot" by cabaret voltaire beautiful

This entire new Mal album is really fuggin' excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJOD2rcoeus

Good tip!

Funnily enough had a high-maintenance visitor to our 80s disco night the other week who told us she went out with Stephen Mallinder for 5 years when we played Sensoria, and then throughout the night started to manhandle everyone on the dancefloor and kept trying to get us to plug in her iPhone so she could dance to Roisin Murphy instead.

haha! i know that mal lives in brighton - think he teaches at brighton uni? i haven't got any juicy stories but i do know the guy who designed the sleeve for 'sensoria'

shadow of fear is kinda the best album ever

Oh this is amazing. "Orchid vinyl" copies of the new Taylor Swift got mispressed with @EdCartwright's 'Happy Land' comp of **massively druggy** mid-90s electronica; TikTok is full of girls hearing Cabaret Voltaire for the first time and freaking tf out. https://t.co/A75hCigcXj?

— Swole Baby Jeebers 🛸 (@joemuggs) July 11, 2023

Would’ve been better if it was pressed with Living Legends or one of the early LPs.

Three Mantras

Three Mantras (Taylor's version)

Some of that early stuff is still pretty hair-raising, Kirlian Photograph is nightmarish.