Cabaret Voltaie: C or D?

Electronic pioneers, even in '74 much more funky than we give them credit for, but still often unlistenable. C but only in small doses.

remixes of 'nag, nag, nag' due from akufen among others.

"There's 50,000,000 influencees in there!"

"Where are they hiding?"

hah I have reviewed the new Mute Cab Volt 78-82 compilation for the Wire. It should appear, if not in the next issue, then in the November one.

CLASSIC if only for "Kino" and "Sensoria".

My feelings on this are a matter of public record.

omigod I've just been to WH Smiths in Hammersmith - the new issue's already out and my review is in it! Can't believe it, OMIGOD NEW THREAD URGENT AND KEY!!!!

WELL DONE, MARCELLO!

ha Sean I'm one of those smuglings you refer to who abandoned them in response to 'Trendy, Tinny and Useless' (cut out alot of elec stuff shortly after that for a few years, finally sick of the way it had changed from electronics to electro-nicks....)

CV a very mixed bag: I think this 'funk' strand only appeared on about 25% of their '78-'82 material (MC what's the track listing for that comp? - it's not on CV's website, though a nightmarish-looking description of yet another imminent fuckup remix (of NNN) is...)
They got much more electronic-funk with the '83-'87 Crackdown, MicroPhonies, Covenant & Code albums, but even when working in that mode/period they could still be mundane and flat (eg DrainTrain EP)
I find their strongest material to be scattered across both phases. To me it goes -
(78-80): some Awesome Classic (eg Expect Nothing, Photophobia, Baader Meinhof, Sex In Secret, Silent Command, 3 Mantras) amongst alot of grimy Dud.
(81-82): mostly lazy Dud with 2 or 3 venomous Classics (This Is Entertainment, Obsession, Seconds Too Late)
(83-87): mostly user-friendly 'Classique' haha but with enough added fibre to make it substantial.
('89 onwards): lightly soiled Duds with thin production, thanks to believing some selective half-wittery about them being 'the godfathers of techno'. Allowed various Dud tinpot trash remixes of their work, probably as part of the middle-aged-men-can-recapture-their-youth drive that Dance music allowed.

Since '90 I've only bought the compilations for old & mid-period stuff (Listen Up, Conform to Deform).

This is going to sound terribly snobbish, but the pre-78 material is perhaps my favourite.

"Kino", "I Want You", and their "Theme from Shaft" cover are all Classic Also, their poster appearance in Ferris Bueller!

Cabs discog:
http://www.brainwashed.com/cv/discography/cvframeset.htm

I say classic even though the Cabs have created mediocre songs their best outsize them by sheer quality and quantity.

youtube: video

Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBEj7T7WYM8

the perfect music for a hot hazy summer's evening

Oh yeah - not a video in the world like that one. Try not to get dizzy when the camera goes up in the air and down the other side.

I with you'd post a list of all these videos you've found on youtube from the 80's Martian.

totally classick