Cabaret Voltaire - Three Mantras

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Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this? Has it turned up on any comps? Used to have the vinyl, like to relive me misery, doom and raincoat days.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

It's still available on CD via Mute - I sold one on eBay about a month ago for only $4
after several attempts . . . I'd try there first.

Pretty fine record, and is CV the most underrated Rough Trade act or what?

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Thankyou kindly ;-)

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Didn't prove that easy to get hold of. The Mute CD isn't available and the only other version I could find was in Japan were they wanted £60 with postage on top! After months of this ditty banging about in my head a copy pops up two days ago on eBay. Weird how that happens. Still cost me £20 mind.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Saturday, 29 April 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

I love how on ILM, when I'm dying to talk to folks about the Cabs there's no one around, then later when I'm least expecting it, folks come around.

― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 April 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

Cabaret Voltaire fans are like termites, etc.

― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Saturday, 29 April 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Cabaret Voltaire fans are like termites, etc

So that's how Chris Watson got into nature recordings...

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 29 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I found a copy of this languishing in BooBoo records in San Luis Obispo in, like, '83 or '84 - rode the Greyhound back home to L.A. & was waiting around the Greyhound station for my transfer bus, bored. Decided to play some pinball. Anybody who knows the L.A. Greyhound station knows where this story's goin', 'cause it's like the ultimate realization of the big-city Greyhound station slime-magnet experience. I set down the bag that had the elusive Three Mantras EP in it (along with Mallinder's solo album, Pow Wow, and a third record I don't remember any more) just to the right of my right leg, leaning up against the very pinball machine I was playing. Game ends, I look down. Goodbye, obscure Cabs records I was looking forward to lording over my jealous friends. See you in the next life.

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 29 April 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Aww...that's really tragic. Much worse than the brand new pair of Levi's that disappeared in the mall when I was a teenager. Greyhound bus experiences just make me think "yuck" all around.

― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

And you know that whoever took those records probably had no particular appreciation for them at all. I had some rare cassettes stolen from me once and it was the same kind of thing - the thief was probably just looking for money and trashed them or taped over them.

― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

eighteen years pass...

i was a bit sklow on the uptake here because this is over a year old but this is a pretty cool dubbed-out tribute to Three Mantras on one of the best labels around at the moment...

https://spiritualworld.bandcamp.com/album/sw004-n1-sound-mantras

― Clock DVLA (NickB), Sunday, 9 March 2025 18:36 (one year ago)

sorry if already mentioned on one of the numerous other CV threads

― Clock DVLA (NickB), Sunday, 9 March 2025 18:37 (one year ago)

oh that is so cool. I bought the CD reissue when it happened -- less mysterious years later, knowing more about the band and the people in it and how things work/worked in the music biz -- back then it was an object of profound mystery to me. now it's a super-long cabs-in-dub-rock mode tune backed with an extended drone experiment...which is cool as hell. I've been very into the CV catalog the past 4-5 years, they really covered a lot of ground and have a lot of underpraised stuff...as well as some undercooked stuff!!...but this one is/was a very cool EP, a bizarre artifact, glad to see somebody saluting it

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 9 March 2025 19:16 (one year ago)

Western Mantra is my fave.

But where's the third mantra?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 10 March 2025 19:27 (one year ago)

it's a gnostic secret that you unlock by listening to the first two ;)

― sleeve, Monday, 10 March 2025 19:28 (one year ago)

extremely cool record and yes it was so hard to find in the US (until the Mute reissues)

― sleeve, Monday, 10 March 2025 19:28 (one year ago)

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