Cabaret Voltaire

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.

Where are they hiding (the Taylor Swift albums)

Kind of a blindspot for me, but approx what year did CV go from fringe to uh... not-fringe? I love their gritty distorto lo-fi dub period if that makes sense.

diff ppl will give diff answers but... when they signed with Virgin in 1983?

it was gradual so hard to say. You can def break it up to a few periods.

The early stuff that's tape loop and experimental, with some garagey post-punk adjacent moments,

then in the middle of 2x45 Chris Watson left and they started getting funkier.

then you have the virgin years where it's electronic funk/new wave kind of stuff, which is maybe what you'd call not-fringe. Certainly a lot of people drop off before that, but for even more people, that period is prime Cabs.

THEN you have the "ok maybe we are pop stars" period of Code? And the introduction of heavy house and and techno influences and a bit of aiming for the charts. But even that period sort of gets balanced out with the sound of Kirk's solo stuff coming into the cabs, bleep techno, dubby ambient sounds etc.

I like all periods to be honest, though some more than others.

not an easy question to answer as the bands history is so convoluted.
for me, the main change was when they signed to Some Bizarre/Virgin and released the 12" versions that would then end up on Crackdown,
but for others it's the 12" releases prior to the major label era.

xpost : exactly.

I remember seeing the video for "Sensoria" in 1984 on one of the after-school rock video shows, so someone thought kids would be interested by that point.

Sensoria : that was my entry point, and i worked backwards.
got Crackdown on cassette with all the extras : loved it,
got Voice Of America on vinyl : hated it.
subsequently i thought that i knew where my line in the sand was.
note that this was pre internet/££ times.
even now, having heard the pre Crackdown stuff, i am of the same opinion.

noooo <3 u mark but VOA is alltime for me

ha.
i know it's a beloved classic,
but sorry ..
i like my CV with production values.

I think the good pre-crackdown stuff is the best stuff, but there's a lot of it that's far from easy listening. The Virgin era stuff sounds so great, but I hate to admit it that I think some of is kind of repetitions, I mean yeah we dig repetition, but sometimes it sounds like it should be a pop song...and the closest they get to pop in the Virgin years (Animation from Crackdown, Motion Rotation from Arm of the Lord) is some of my favorites.

Some of my least favorite stuff was the last few years where it seems like Kirk was saving his more interesting stuff from solo/Sandoz type projects, which were funky and dancey, while the Cab Voltaire albums were more ambient techno-y.

I don't care what anyone says, I will have "Partially Submerged" played at my funeral.

Where's the rest of this I wonder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkL7bBE7azY