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  Cabaret Voltaire (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cabaret Voltaire was a post-punk industrial and techno group from Sheffield, England consisting of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson.
A series of completely instrumental works under the Cabaret Voltaire name were released on Instinct Records in 1993 and 1994, but appeared to be largely the product of Kirk.
Hopes of a Cabaret Voltaire reunion were raised when Kirk dropped hints in the late 90s, the most significant being in the notes of a reissue of Radiation, where Kirk says he is working on new CV material due to be released soon.
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 Cabaret Voltaire
In 1982, Cabaret Voltaire began to mutate from the hardcore Industrial noise of their early years into a new phase of electronic body music inspired by proto-sampling technology and a tradeoff with the emergent beats of Chicago House.
Cabaret Voltaire suddenly found themselves strangers in a strange land they had originally helped uncover, and their reputation suffered accordingly.
Cabaret Voltaire had successfully exploited the faultlines opening up in musical form due to the increasing availability of cheap electronic keyboards, rhythm machines and processors, but it was difficult to grasp what that achievement entailed.
www.thewire.co.uk /archive/essays/cabaretvoltaire.html   (4250 words)

  
 Cabaret Voltaire
Like their contemporaries Brian Eno and Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire possessed the talent to apply what they'd learned during their decade of experimentation to the more accepting, and lucrative, electronic scene of the 80s.
By the early '80s Watson had left the band, and Cabaret Voltaire were taking more interest in dance music, and stronger beats began popping up in their music.
Cabaret Voltaire continued recording into the 90s, with Kirk maintaining a solo recording career on the side.
www.80smusiclyrics.com /artists/cabaretvoltaire.htm   (259 words)

  
 CABARET VOLTAIRE
The communications company Double Vision was founded by Cabaret Voltaire and Paul Smith in 1982, initially as a vehicle for this particular release but also with a view to releasing affordable music based video for a fraction of the price.
The band began working with Rough Trade in 1978, producing a string of brilliant singles and the now seminal triumvirate of albums "Mix Up" (1979), "Voice of America" (1980) and their most prophetic album "Red Mecca" (1981).
Cabaret Voltaire's rare but much anticipated live performances, with their innovative use of film and video, were documented on the three live albums, "Live at the YMCA" (1979), "Live at the Lyceum" (1981) and "HAI" live in Japan (1982), and the 90 minute video "Doublevision presents...
www.mutelibtech.com /cabaretvoltaire   (393 words)

  
 Cabaret Voltaire: The Original Sound of Sheffield '78-'82: The Best of Cabaret Voltaire: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
That's it for a refresher on the work of the oft-unheralded Cabaret Voltaire; it's not the place of this review to dwell on congratulatory back-patting or debate this band's place in the pantheon of music's heroes.
The shame of it is that on some level, the home-movie-esque documentation of Cabaret Voltaire's "gestation period"-- a number of singles, as well as samples from the first two full-lengths, Mix-Up and The Voice of America-- just can't present the best possible album.
At the very least, the collection presents an astonishing succession of advances; Cabaret Voltaire's music was truly "built from nothing" and that has rarely been as evident as it is here.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/cabaret-voltaire/original-sound-of-sheffield-78-82.shtml   (632 words)

  
 Cabaret Voltaire: lyrics, discography, biography, pictures, mp3 - Onda Rock
The Cabaret Voltaire, founded in Zurich in 1916 by the theatre works director Hugo Ball with a group of German artists, was the cradle of dadaism, breaking-out and innovative movement of traditional artistic logics.
Once again forerunners, Cabaret Voltaire coin a sort of industrial-funk (that is to say a funk-based music contaminated by electronics, by the first loops and by dance) that will open the doors to that multitude of house and techno bands of the early Nineties.
Pioneers of industrial rock, techno forerunners, visionary avant-gardist of pop, Cabaret Voltaire are one of the most influencing bands of british new wave.
www.ondarock.it /Cabaret_eng.html   (1698 words)

  
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In Britain, Cabaret Voltaire are releasing on their own label (their music is licensed to Instinct for American distribution).
Cabaret Voltaire's new releases are the logical extension of the experimental work they began creating in the 70s.
Video is something that Cabaret Voltaire has worked with extensively in the past, to the point where they had even run their own company.
www.chaoscontrol.com /archives/cabaretv.html   (1091 words)

  
 Cabaret Voltaire
For a name, they chose the somewhat suspicious-sounding epithet "Cabaret Voltaire." They asked Hans Arp, Marcel Janco and Tristan Tzara, members of their circle, to collaborate, and the cabaret was opened on February 5th, 1916.
In his introduction, Ball wrote these programmatic words: "When I founded the Cabaret Voltaire, I was of the opinion that there ought to be a few young people in Switzerland who not only laid stress, as I did, on enjoying their independence, but also wished to proclaim it.
It is to exemplify the activities and the interests of the cabaret, whose whole endeavour is directed at reminding the world, across the war and various fatherlands, of those few independent spirits that live for other ideals.
www.peak.org /~dadaist/English/Graphics/cabaret_voltaire.html   (1067 words)

  
 Cabaret Voltaire (The Grey Area)
Cabaret Voltaire, who alongside Human League, Throbbing Gristle, Fad Gadget and The Normal, were at the forefront of the UK Electronic Movement of the late '70s and are one of the most truly influential and innovative acts of the last twenty five years.
Cabaret Voltaire were instrumental in defining a strand of popular music which became known as experimental or "industrial", whose practitioners Cabaret Voltaire moved on to leave far behind them and they continue to be a major inspiration to this day.
The Grey Area are re-issuing the entire Cabaret Voltaire back catalogue from '78 – '82 to coincide with the best of release and next year will release a Cabs DVD and a CD box set of previously unreleased tracks.
www.mutelibtech.com /cv/78-82.html   (506 words)

  
 Techno Guide: Cabaret Voltaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Cabaret Voltaire is one of the most influencial bands during the last decades of electronic music, specially in the genres of Industrial, Synth Pop, Techno, and Experimental.
The group was founded in 1973 in Sheffield by RICHARD H. (guitar, wind instruments), Stephen Mallinder (bass, vocals), and Chris Watson (electronics and tapes).
The pre-Industrial and post-Punk sound of the band called the attention of Rough Records to record a series of EPs in 1979 where the trio continued using tape loops, sampled "noise", recorded speeches from preachers and politicians, ethnic chantings, and cut-up techniques inspired by writer William Burroughs.
www.intuitivemusic.com /tguidecabaretvoltaire.html   (195 words)

  
 Browse by Artist: CABARET VOLTAIRE
As with most BBC sessions, the album is an excellently produced collection that displays the band at the peak of their creativity, capturing the energy of a live performance with the quality of a studio recording.
Cabaret Voltaire were Chris Watson, Stephen Mallinder & Richard H. Kirk.
"Cabaret Voltaire (along with Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Chrome, and the like) were responsible for pioneering the acceptability and use of many sounds that were instrumental in defining a strand of popular music which became known as experimental or 'industrial'.
www.forcedexposure.com /artists.../cabaret.voltaire.html   (1314 words)

  
 Queer in Your Ear 15
The band's songs simulate a form of musical semiconsciousness akin to the sensation of being asleep but just awake enough to incorporate sounds in the "real" world into your dreams – the phone rings by your bed and it rings in your head, that sort of thing.
If Cabaret Voltaire hadn't hired him, Brody might be a mere footnote to graphical history now and contemporary designers would have had to come up with their own designs instead of using Brody's œuvre as a form of auxiliary brain.
Anyway, count me in as one of the Cabaret Voltaire faithful, though my new passion for this old band makes me think of the legions of 19-year-olds who are only now discovering the Smiths and scurrying onstage at every Morrissey concert.
www.joeclark.org /QiYE15.html   (638 words)

  
 A Guide to the Progressive Rock Genres
Bands such as Jethro Tull, Van Der Graaf Generator and Family were defined by their vocalist's signature, some of them achieving great success especially in mainland Europe.
Bands that fall under the Zeuhl rubric vary from offshoot bands such as Weidorje and Zao, those with contemporary influence such as Eskaton, Potemkine and Eider Stellaire, to modern groups such as Xaal, Koenji Hyakkei, Ruins and Happy Family.
These bands are often considered close to the genesis of progressive metal or prog-metal due to their more overt inclusion of 70s symphonic rock influences in their style.
www.gepr.net /genre2.html   (10533 words)

  
 Cabaret Voltaire: The Original Sound of Sheffield '78/'82 Best Of - PopMatters Music Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Cabaret Voltaire sputtered and shifted, creating all sorts of tangential art projects and industrial-techno tracks up to the present.
Neither band ever appealed to music critics much, which is puzzling, but their influence is incalculable.
As a sonic critique of the new authoritarian state that came in with Margaret Thatcher (and safe to say she was not a friend to Sheffield's students or workers), Cabaret Voltaire do a brilliant job of making elitism look just as ugly as fascism.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/cabaretvoltaire-original.shtml   (1073 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/thecabaretvoltaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Cabaret Voltaire is housed in the ancient subterranean caverns that underpin the bustling streets of Edinburgh's Cowgate district, right in the heart of Scotland's capital city.
Open seven nights a week, Cabaret Voltaire is a thriving, twin-roomed venue that hosts some of the best-known club events in the capital.
Cabaret Voltaire is also a key player in the city’s thriving live music scene.
www.myspace.com /thecabaretvoltaire   (819 words)

  
 village voice > music > Cabaret Voltaire's Methodology '74/'78. Attic Tapes;; Factrix's Artifact by Simon Reynolds
Cabaret Voltaire, Sheffield Roxy Music fans who liked to dress sharp, probably despised straggly-haired, afghan-clad hippies.
Factrix's Cole Palme echoed the famous flinch-inducing image in Un Chien Andalou when he talked of the group's desire "to take a razor to the mind's eye," while Cabaret Voltaire nicked their name from the original Dadaist nightclub in WW I Zurich.
Cabaret Voltaire, meanwhile, got deeper into dance music (a journey you can follow on 2001's box Conform to Deform '82/'90.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0331/reynolds.php   (1127 words)

  
 MTV.com - Cabaret Voltaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Though they're one of the most important groups in the history of industrial and electronic music, Cabaret Voltaire are sometimes forgotten in the style's timeline -- perhaps because they continued recording long after other luminaries (Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Chrome) called it quits.
The band, formed by guitarist Richard H. Kirk, bassist Stephen Mallinder and tape manipulator Chris Watson, were influenced by the Dadaist movement (whence came their name) and as such, came closer to performance art than music during many of their early performances.
The singles "Sensoria" and "James Brown" hit the indie charts during 1984, and Cabaret Voltaire moved to EMI/Parlophone in 1986 for The Code.
www.mtv.com /bands/az/cabaret_voltaire/bio.jhtml   (339 words)

  
 Switzerland
On Saturday February 3, 1916 was the inauguration of the Cabaret or 'artist-tavern' Voltaire located at Spiegelgasse 1 in Zurich.
In addition to the literary character of Cabaret Voltaire the Zurich Dadaism attented in a second phase to the pictorial art.
It was at the height of the war that Dada began with the opening of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich (Alexandrian 29).
www.geocities.com /lein3_2000/switzerland.htm   (1867 words)

  
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As part of Cabaret Voltaire (they took their name from a dada-ist nightclub from the early 20th century) with Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson (who left in 1981), he has released groundbreaking records from 1973 until 1995.
Always to off-kilter for the pop kids and too white for the scene they took much of their inspiration from, Cabaret Voltaire are still a huge influence in the world of techno to this day.
Richards' obsession with the tribal energy of the beat can be traced back to their '2x45' record from 1981, the time when Watson left the band, leaving Kirk as the main creative force.
www.groov.ie /ultramack/kirk.htm   (951 words)

  
 Cabaret Voltaire - Radiation
I'm not going to go into individual track-by-track details, since this is very much a disc for those who're already Cabaret Voltaire fans and want to hear alternate versions of familiar tracks (and an otherwise unavailable rarity or two).
None of the tracks are any the worse for the bare-bones approach either, with all retaining their identity, and the more basic electronics and increased use of guitar (Kirk) and bass (Mallinder) giving the material a subtly different flavour.
It goes without saying that this disc is a must-have for the serious Cabaret Voltaire fan, especially those who've grown rather disenchanted with the Kirk-dominated CV of recent years.
www.awrc.com /review/c/radiation.html   (1014 words)

  
 Xploited Cinema - CABARET VOLTAIRE: LIVE AT THE HACIENDA
The first ever DVD to feature Cabaret Voltaire, leaders of the Industrial genre and one of British music's most enigmatic alternative bands.
Cabaret Voltaire have long been celebrated for the stunning visual aspects to their shows, with video footage and projections playing a big part in the overall mood of a gig.
The two shows featured are both examples of this.Also featured are three of the band's promo videos, "No Escape", "Yashar" and "Sluggin' Fer Jesus", which again capture their talent for the visual aid to their music.
www.xploitedcinema.com /dvds/dvds.asp?title=4222   (205 words)

  
 Cabaret Voltaire MP3 Downloads - Cabaret Voltaire Music Downloads - Cabaret Voltaire Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
It should come as no surprise that there is an album in Nick Cave's oeuvre called Prayers on Fire; a fascination with the dark, (self-)destructive side of religion is more than evident in his later work with the Bad Seeds.
Punk may have been the initial spark for the Fall, but by 1983 they had made it clear that whatever trend was next was not for them.
Brix Smith made her debut with the band on Perverted by Language, helping to introduce the slightly more pop-friendly era of the group with another fine album.
www.mp3.com /albums/25926/similar.html   (453 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Cabaret Voltaire
The prolific Cabaret Voltaire is one of the most energetic, progressive and dissonant forces in modern music.
Working primarily in the electronic form, specializing in found sounds and tape manipulations, Cabaret Voltaire has relentlessly pushed at the outer edges of style, shedding an early primitivism for a subsequent accessibility that plays on the (almost) familiar.
Extended Play launched Cabaret Voltaire — Richard H. Kirk (guitar, synth, horns, clarinet), Stephen Mallinder (bass, vocals) and Christopher Watson (organ, tapes) — and gave an early boost to Rough Trade (it was the label's third single).
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=cabaret_voltaire   (1773 words)

  
 Cabaret Voltaire : Hai! (Live in Japan) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
As the '80s rolled around, Cabaret Voltaire began to flesh out the harsh electro-industrial minimalism that had characterized their previous releases.
By the time of this performance, the band's tape and noise manipulator, Chris Watson, had left to form the Hafler Trio, and Alan Fish, who had contributed to 2 x 45, had been enlisted by Stephen Mallinder and Richard H. Kirk to provide live drums and percussion.
In the early days, melody had not been particularly high on Cabaret Voltaire's sonic agenda, as the band focused on sparse rhythms and dark, abrasive montages that featured loops and samples of found sounds.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,60042,00.html   (360 words)

  
 Music: Tiny Tunes (Weekly Alibi . 08-02-99)
The most peculiar thing about Cabaret Voltaire was that for a band so reliant on electronics and tapes, they thrived in live settings.
Therefore, it follows that Cabaret Voltaire's BBC recordings, made for such programs as the John Peel Show, share little more than their titles and a few basic building blocks with the band's studio tracks.
Recorded during the most artistically successful era of Cabaret Voltaire's long career (translation: "before they started to suck"), The BBC Recordings is a worthy archival release.
weeklywire.com /ww/08-02-99/alibi_tunes.html   (475 words)

  
 Cabaret Voltaire (band) Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-20)
Cabaret Voltaire is a post-punk industrial and electronica band, consisting of Stephen Mallinder, Chris Watson and Richard H. Kirk.
In 1983 (1983 in music), co-inciding with the departure of Watson, Cabaret Voltaire began moving towards electronic dance music with the album The Crackdown on Virgin Records.
Since then, Kirk has begun a solo career under several names, while Mallinder has relocated to Perth, Australia and records with a collaborator under the name Sassi & Loco.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cabaret_voltaire__band_.html   (257 words)

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