CABARET VOLTAIRE - JUST FASCINATION

[TheElectroHoneys]

Setting the template !

[ahmedkhan1453]

Still one of my favourite bands. One of the greats.

[JustaScotsman]

Never liked their "Funky" sound..........give me NAG NAG NAG EVERYTIME.!!

[xulete007]

little by little

sound takes you

amazing group&music

5*****

[ianrussll]

Absolute genius

[lemonjello77]

This song is just pure sex. *Swoon*

[fuzzface100]

Criminally underrated band. Modern dance music owes so much to Caberet Voltaire.

[Mazurka1001]

Skilled music? Who needs it, give us more of 'em prognathous "urban" apes...

[cyhpherK]

Bring back the 80's. They don't make' em, like this any more. No mass produced trash....so much intensity...so much concentration.....Yeah !

[turpinaime]

@cyhpherK Do you think there was no mass produced trash in the 80?

[MissNovemberTuesday]

I am really loving the contrast between Mal's odd, yet strangely sexy intensity and the drummer rocking the big 80s doo!

[Syntpop]

Excellent. I miss the good old days..

[Tobias2012]

Great video never saw them play live like that... so very cool.

[qiflow88]

...thanks...i like to go back with a timmachine...back to the analog artists...i played synhts in this time too...now iam 45...cant believe it...flashback...big hug to all cabaret voltaire and independent fans from the 80`s ...

[RoebenSwart]

he is singing the lyrics in different order and mixes up the lyrics..

[rudyprotrudy08]

Bloody hell are 13 people deaf or what?!!!

[weaselidiotu]

dave gahan please watch this and die!

[curefreak]

i love this fucking song but i wish i could get you tube to play the video without pauses so i could see the band play the groove and the timing

[Stagnant197]

The sad part is that no one who looks like that could ever get an album released these days. Need gold teeth and linguistic minimalism or large breasts today, if MTV is anything to go by.

[MissNovemberTuesday]

@Stagnant197 For anyone interested in music, MTV is nothing to go by!

[Stagnant197]

@MissNovemberTuesday

It wasn`t always like that though. loads of good music was played there back in the 80s and 90s, whereas now it looks more like a soft-porn channel. And anyways my point was that CabVol and other bands like that would never have been published today, at least not on a major label. The same goes for almost all the good music from the 70s, 80s and 90s.

[MissNovemberTuesday]

@Stagnant197 Oh, I know and I agree. Way too many of the bands I love would never have a chance now. Even established bands have trouble with labels rejecting the albums they submit, saying they don't think there is anything worthy of being a single. This is what happened to Duran Duran's Reportage album, yet unreleased. They were pushed to work with Timbaland and things went downhill from there. Luckily, they released this latest album away from Sony's grubby little hands.

[TheWindfull]

These guys are just so brilliant. They were kind of pioneers of electronic/industrial music at the time. Love this sort of dark stuff along with new and old acts like Gary Numan, Joy Division, Human League, Throbbing Gristle, The Future, The Normal, Coil,Nine Inch Nails, Saul Williams, How To Destroy Angels, AllFlaws

[DarthTwitch]

@TheWindfull OMG, HTDA sucks. Reznors wife should have just made him a Goddamned sandwich, already ^_^

[fateofthenine]

@TheWindfull you put NIN in this list without Skinny Puppy! r u insane!

[sickolinokio]

@fateofthenine and ministry wtf

[quaxk]

@RainPoetry my guess, in retrospect, this song would sit somewhere between industrial and early EBM, on my side of the pond, before the term EBM started to be widely used, we called this sound and later bands like front 242 or skinny puppy 'electro-industrial'

[tommym1966]

Just about as cool as its possible to be

[ciclotron242]

Grandioso......quisiera retroceder el tiempo...

[PhantomsDesire]

Mmmm, "Slipping into new disguise, your eyes know your body lies.............." Cabaret Voltaire Forever! (I still have my & treasure my cassette tapes of them)

[HoleshotmotoTV]

that's pure orgasm

[Synthetrix]

That's a cool bass Mal is playing.

[RainPoetry]

Sorry if this is an annoying/tired question, but how would this burgeoing musical style be labeled? I know CB were the innovators in this sound, but what is it? I think it's a sort of proto-industrial sound...

[Malocosa]

@RainPoetry when I sought out CV albums at commercial record shops (Tower, Licorice, Sam Goody's, Warehouse Music) back in the 80s CV was always put in the "Other" category. Most Indy shops just had them in the main selection, but I never saw them categorized in terms of music genre.

[belzondium]

@RainPoetry  It may have influenced the 'industrial' scene but it wasn't labelled as such back in the day. It's more avant-garde New Wave or post-punk.

[caitlinniamh]

Never seen this filmclip before. Love it. Thanks sooo much

[completelycrazed]

My cousin was at art school with them and he did the original FAST CUT vids with CabVol...back to the old days NAG NAG NAG and stuff. He has copies still. It's great to see. My fave song is Just Fasc but the Sensoria videao is amazing...that was ground breaking and a cool song.

[piedrada]

To this day, one of the best shows I ever swaw was 1985 CV in Toronto's Concert Hall ... video footage in the background and some of their best hits.

[NumanFanlfc]

BEST SONG THEY EVER DONE  NUFF SAID

[danzbean]

So super fab!

[poisondose]

Marry Me

[xxxIzekeIxxx]

how the hell anyone could ever play an instrument and deliver lyrcs at the same time is wayyy beyond my comprehension

[whitenbc]

Excellent ! Never saw this clip . but it brings back so many memories ! Thanks for sharing !

[Knispel1963]

NO NEED 4 COMMENTS.... GENIUS

[CRAPCANNONS]

why don't they go back to this?

[djsmithy]

because time must move on....

[sagi7ario]

Fantastico!!!!

[hadahh]

i love his face....:DD

[spookygothu]

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Can't we have music like this anymooooooooreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeee

[fabiorock6]

Post Punk in the vein of Section 25 cool......

[RGMS58]

This is great. I ws only familiar w/ the promotional vid.

[LemovisGuadalion]

Another awesome track by Cabaret Voltaire. (Actually, in my city, there's a cool place with this name, sometimes they play these songs!)

Thanks for posting! Greetings from southern Brazil =D

[pixelatedinvader]

I got Red Mecca on tape at a flea market years ago. I've been into Cab Volt ever since.

[aaesme]

i agree a lot of early human league had that post punk/experimental feel but as someone else already said, apples and oranges..

i like human league (especially the early stuff) but they sound nothing like cabs even when they both got poppy they do it in very different ways.

[mesmoland]

This video was the one that got me into them,all those years ago now.

[CLASSACHERRY]

Both HL and CV are totally influential in the UK Electronic scene

[vonligoten]

Just another great Cabs song.

[ketaminebean]

im getting an erection

[one01ctf]

@ketaminebean you give me an erection

[srslytv]

@ketaminebean AHAHAHAHAHA!

[socratesjr]

@ketaminebean join the club bonerboy

[skatetolive34]

back by popular demand- vikesh81! Few others have dared to look so foolish as to mock pioneers such as these with their credibility firmly established in their timeless "staying power". However, your "groovy" comments reveal that you have none yourself to appreciate my point. I believe that I have been fair to encourage you to delve deeper to find what YOU might like- you know- bands like Primal Cuddling and Flagrant Fudge Finger Four or whoever. "Good" music is being made daily, right?...

[skatetolive34]

vikesh81 has just officially decided to turn their pallet of opinions into a suppository...

[riverrocks]

you are clueless aren't you? this is one of the most influential and important bands of the industrial/electronic/ambient genre. Their impact cannot be understated. They were WAYYYYY ahead of their time.

[vikesh81]

ok dude !!! far out man !!! way to go !!!

[butheadVSbevus]

dude fuck you Im sick of you coming on cab volt videos and dogging them if you don't like them don't watch there videos fuckerhead.Human league was good but, a different style oh well who cares you could never be as cool as cab volt or human leagues your just a big douche.

[vikesh81]

ok dude, far out man, way to go brother.

[RainPoetry]

It's an insult to Cabaret Voltaire to compare them to Human League. They both may be in the general "electronic" category, but nothing at all alike beyond that!

[butheadVSbevus]

You really can not compare apples to oranges.

[jdrukman]

actually when they both started (late 70's) they had a lot in common. check out the real early human league stuff before they went all poppy... a lot of it verges on industrial noise ala CV.

[folksnake]

beatrice, that's a MicroFrets Thundermaster bass, made in Frederick, MD, USA, back in the late 60's/early 70's. They made some odd and interesting instruments.

[beatricethecat]

anyone know what kind of bass he's playing?

[niswel]

OMG, now i know where Lassigue Bendthaus got the inspiration to "Automotive"...

[funbuggycaribe]

master work

[craigdamage]

This music is far more creepy and disturbing than the so called "heavy" bands of this era.

[rickequinox]

did someone do a cover of this song or is it just me havin another flashback?!

[Rockstafar]

This is awesome

[theehoneytwin]

One of the innovators in industrial music!

[NUskater88]

best version of this song. love these guys.

[eddie23a]

cool, never seen this before, what tv show was this on

[visualFER]

such strange and interesting creations of this band

[robotaholic]

omg i adore this band so much!

[specialgueststar]

one of favourite songs...and I saw it at my favourite gig - where they supported New Order in Marbella 1983? Great live - I think they played Moscow as well

[firechinchilla]

They are better than New Order

[TheMercyBeat]

When Joy Division came to end after Ian Curtis' sudden death in May 1980 the rest of the band (NO) wanted to continue their career in a more electronic way as they thought the future would be synthesized. And Cabaret Voltaire were one of the key influences!

It is very unfair to see that New Order and Depeche Mode (who site Cabaret Voltaire as one of their key influences as well) are getting more recognition in electronic music field than them even though I like (some of) their music too.

[butheadVSbevus]

New Order and Depeche mode are still awesome though yeah shame Cab volt is under rated but I guess what makes them great is they are one of the forgotten gems. Acid horse was cool I wish he would have done some more with Acid horse.

[TheMercyBeat]

Glad we think the same on the matter. That just confirms what I said on here a while ago as well. The best things in music are happening deeply down the track covered by mystery indeed, even though you can find some interesting stuff (New Order, Depeche Mode...etc.) upwards too. Good music is good music regardless of the charts placement. And good music is good music regardless of how old it is as well. Good always remains good just like bad always remains bad.

[butheadVSbevus]

word!! Cab Volt and Front 242 is some the best music out there not very popular though Im glad i got microponies on vinyl good deal\m/

[TheMercyBeat]

They weren't as popular/familiar as some other bands/artists from their era because they were underEXPOSED by a largely CONSERVATIVE oriented media services, both - audio and video (especially the latter) which is a cardinal error. ..."Micro-Phonies'" artwork is just stunning and it looks sooo much better on vinyl than on CD. The record sees its jubilee 25th anniversary release date this year. Bloody 'ell!

[butheadVSbevus]

hell yeah !! fucking old school wax trax for life!!! does anybody know about idiot got that vinyl too best al jourgenson/paul barker side project ever!!!

[TheMercyBeat]

I love old school (especially breakbeat) as much 'cause it possessed charge. Those brutal drum machine beats were just awesome! They sounded sooo sexy and challenging. And when they were combined with some great bassline, even more. Just listen to Peter Murphy's remixed version of "Final Solution" for instance. Pure brilliance!

[butheadVSbevus]

Oh yeah you gotta love peter murphey did you check out the remix of indigo eyes good stuff. Yeah I like a good bit of ebm like nitzer ebb and such almost all that stuff is good totally driving beats love the stuff!

[TheMercyBeat]

Brilliant on all counts! ...Nitzer Ebb were another vastly underrated/underexposed band from their era.

[antonooooo]

Even better than the album or single version.

[macca157]

Rare and fantastic clip !!!!!! . :)

[RainPoetry]

What a fantastic, talented group of musicians. I miss the 80s for bands like this...

[doublethink921]

why do they have a drum they always use a drum machine

[RainPoetry]

Groups like New Order and Depeche Mode (known as "electronic" bands) do the same.

[synthetikhuman]

this is just great, good quality too. wanted to see this for years. thanks for loading.

[dwdanni]

There are no other words for them. SIMPLY the best ever!! Thanks for posting.

[TheMercyBeat]

Aren't they just?

They (and The The) changed my perception of everything going on in this world for good!

[HarryUpHarry]

They are "not rubbish" at best

[innerasylum]

I love this band! I just got to know it a few days ago..lol?

amazing

[industrialvideos]

Video added to playlist.

[54spiritedwill54]

Love this track my fave from a great album.

[H0LL0WBELLY]

eee-takes me right back to me youth.most excellent.

[kinkygirl2008]

must have been a few years ago then?!

[redindustrial]

excellent stuff from the cabs

[matteodemma]

assomiglia ad un pezzo dei cure

[DeusXLM]

The Guitarfeedback & this narcotic keyboard

"Just Fascination"!!

[janenil]

Fascinating fantastic. Hope the guys will merger again, they have made some 35-40 awesome dance tracks, no other come near to that.

[schlummbumm68]

who need the tracks from the cd?

the cd is mine they released it...lol

[kavring]

this is great music

i cant belive i forgot them

[linnerdady]

oh my god I forgot them too! HOW?!!!

[remyrem12]

As awesome as this is sober, it's even better on acid.

[lotreamon01]

this one is excellent! live! Cabaret Voltaire is...i'm fascinated!

[lovesGenet]

I can't believe they got this good a sound with puters and components LI?VE .How did they get this complex stuff live? W o w

[armeurh]

Mallinder simply scares me !

[maciejoooooooooooooo]

hes too good to be true,true!

[TheMercyBeat]

Mal is one and the only! So is Kirk! Totally irreplaceable as long as this world turns! The greats!

[019142]

i saw the cabs way back in yesteryear at the retford porterhouse along with the red crayolla i met a lad there who was to become the lead singer with a band called b movie the cabs early sets where a bit like a bad acid trip a wonder to behold i met chris watson in newcastle a few years ago gave me a shit load of stuff hafler trio etc owne a tv camra co. called hoi polloi or something like taht a true gent

[mikehibb606]

Saw them at Derby Blue Note club, took a good friend with me called Christine, she was from Retford, We went to the Porterhouse a couole of time too

[cremester]

I saw them at Tiffany's in Leeds - could have been same tour. Still one of the best bands ever live. No worthy imitators - way ahead of their time.

[Darius2355]

Awesome! I never seen this video from CV. Thanks

Darius2355

[bleuroo]

Excellent version of this song! I think I prefer it to the original -- primarily because the bass and rhythm are stronger here, and because the lyrics are better served by this moodier, darker singing.

[marisols31]

que alguien me tome de los pelos y me lleve al lugar de la fascinacion sin miedos.......

fascination for the memories....

and old pictures

mary cabaret pop

[manxmark]

Its the Old Grey Whistle Test

[redindustrial]

Great album...

[Fletchirwin71]

Brilliant. Thanks for this.

[perwolll93]

can you give a little bit more details connected with this performance? I mean, the date and the venue...

[lagowski]

TV prog called 'The Switch' - 1982, I think.

[FurtherFielder]

i thought it waas the Tube, on channel 4 in uk about 83...

[MissXena]

absolutely BRILLIANT !! One of my favourite CV vids.

[ncaso]

:D myslałem ze nikt w Polsce juz nie pamieta CaVol. Pozdrowiania z Kielc

[avalokiteshvra]

Tylko fascynacja. I want more and more.

[avalokiteshvra]

Tylko fascynacja! I want more!

[miketb42]

can anyone post the full video version of "this fascination" ? i have half of it copied off of nite flight...

[ianoreilly]

Love this track my fave from a great album.

Thanks for posting

[fishermane]

Great song by a classic band. I noticed you posted a few clips that seem to be taken from the same performance, which I'm guessing was around the release of "The Crackdown". Anyhow, cheers for the great hook-up. Anything from Cabaret-Voltaire is worth posting.