Consistently brilliant throughout all periods, the recent live boxset reaffirms just how weird and out there they were (moreso than Throbbing Gristle I would argue).
Kirk is supposedly bringing out new music under the CV name. Could be interesting.
Consistently brilliant throughout all periods
Even the house period?
Yip.
Groovy, Laidback and Nasty gets as much airplay in my house as Three Mantras.
Yip.
Groovy, Laidback and Nasty gets as much airplay in my house as Three Mantras.
Yep, love CV event he house period. I don’t think they’re weirder than TG, but I do like them better. They’re just less photogenic and less able to move media and thusly, less remembered. Hopefully these re masters will help event he score. I haven’t heard them yet, are the remasters of good quality or are they just hyper compressed?
Now listening to Remixed.
Thanks guys for reminding me. I haven’t listened to the Cabs for aeons.
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I didn’t bother with the studio boxset because I have (more or less) everything in it, but I’ve been told it’s up to standard. The boxset I was referring to was this one:
https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/cabaret-voltaire-archive
I think TG stole the headlines because they had the COUM background, and were writing numbers about murders. But did they ever make a track as trippy as The Voice of America / Damage Is Done? Or put out anything like Three Mantras? Or done anything like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4iBEh7vNhc
Don’t get me wrong, I love TG. But CV stuck with me a lot more. And I put this down to their ever changing modus operandi: industrial psychout freaks through to electro pop, acid house and minimal techno.
TG diversified into pop and house too, they had just split into a few different bands by that point.
Great band…
TG diversified into pop and house too, they had just split into a few different bands by that point.
That’s the key difference. CV have a diverse body of work under their own name.
On a completely different note, Coil do not click with me at all.