Yashar by Cabaret Voltaire
“merlin [PIAS] can stick their indiscriminate copyright policies and shove them and their bot's algorithm into a tar pit. This, the one they missed has to be appreciated really loud in a place where people who wear mostly black and drink cider and black from straws. I still think Cabaret Voltaire needs to be more than just one person to do the name justice. #JamADay”
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merlin [PIAS] can stick their indiscriminate copyright policies and shove them and their bot's algorithm into a tar pit. This, the one they missed has to be appreciated really loud in a place where people who wear mostly black and drink cider and black from straws. I still think Cabaret Voltaire needs to be more than just one person to do the name justice. #JamADay
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Initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson, the group was named after Cabaret Voltaire, a nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland, that was a centre for the early Dada movement. Their earliest performances were Dada-influenced performance art, but Cabaret Voltaire later developed into one of the most prolific and important groups to blend industrial dance, techno, dub, house and experimental electronic music with pop. The single was released in May 1983 on Factory Benelux (FBN 25) and Factory Records UK (FAC 82). It reached No. 6 on the UK Indie Chart. The track features a sample "There's 70 billion people of Earth; where are they hiding?" from the Outer Limits episode "Demon with a Glass Hand".
Probably Cabaret Voltiares finest hour. Post- 2x45, however, Cabaret Voltaire started to sound an awful lot like a lot of other people. They seemed to be bandwagon jumping rather than innovating. I lost interest around the time of 'Microphonies'.
I was in Hanrahan's Cocktail Bar for a birthday drink with the crew of ROTT before the show went out . We'd been trailing a live studio interview to support "Microphonies" for weeks. Coincidentally, they turned up at the same bar and sat a couple of tables along from us. We decided to say nothing and just leave them to it. A couple of hours later, we were getting twitchy as they were late. We received a phone call, the conversation going thus:
"Sorry, we can't make it as we're stuck in London".
"London? "
"Yes."
"Not Hanrahans?"
"Um . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .no."
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2x45 is still bloody awesome though.
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