Cabaret Voltaire - Diskono

[sharomanet]

The version on Conform To Deform is a tad poppier?

[emile235]

somebody tell the goons at KERRANG that THIS is industrial

[scanner1978]

Awesome and amazing. 30 years!!!

[IpcressRecordings]

Favourite song from 'The Crackdown'. Favourite Cabs track full stop.

[AManNamedCM2]

First song I downloaded off Itunes.

And I was 12.

[fuzzface100]

This is such criminally underrated track. The Cabs were light years ahead of their time. Modern dance music wouldn't sound like it does without Cabaret Voltaire.

[das81]

Now I see where Ministry got its influence.

[firechinchilla]

@das81 si, los dadaistas tenian esa cuestion de ir contra lo establecido busca un tipo que se llamaba arthuir craven hay videos en youtube de el peleando con boxeadores en una exposicion dadaista el atendia a la gente desnudo.Era todo el tiempo una provocacion un desafio contra la sociedad.

[piedrada]

CV still sounds as good and innovative as they did in the 80s and early 90s!

[mickeybaumann]

!!! gods !!!!

[cm2dude]

Damn... This was the first song I downloaded off of iTunes in 2006.

[DrRocky666]

this is awesome

[deadvolvo1]

You forgot to mention Chris Watson in your description sir poster....

[Oesktchohova]

@deadvolvo1 chris watson left Cabaret Voltaire after the previous album 2x45

[MidoriNoSaru]

I would pay good money for a release of all their videos on DVD.

[TheMercyBeat]

A majority of them are released on DVD already. Check the "Doublevision Present. Cabaret Voltaire" (2004) and "Live At The Hacienda '83/'86" (2002) ones for them. The latter containes "No Escape", "Sluggin' For Jesus" and "Yashar". But I would pay good money to see the remaining "Gasoline In Your Eye", "Just Fascination", "Trust In The Lord", "I Want You", "Don't Argue", "Here To Go", "Hypnotised", "Keep On", "Searchin'", "Runaway" and "Colours" ones released on it so bad.

Blame EMI for that!

[TheMercyBeat]

Featured on:

"The Crackdown Bonus EP" (1983)

[TheMercyBeat]

Video directors trivia:

This video is made by Cabaret Voltaire.

[jermey1]

I did not even know that they did this video. I have heard so much about Peter Care did this video for Cabaret Voltaire and that video and so.. Thanks for the trivia knowledge!! :)

[TheMercyBeat]

Yes, they really did. Says so on the "Doublevision Present; Cabaret Voltaire" DVD's back sleeve. ...You're welcome! And some other time too! :-)

[triky808]

What year was this song? The Cabs remind me of not just Kraftwerk but Underworld too.

[TheMercyBeat]

1981 that is! ;-)

[NoelArtMedia]

This song has such a brilliant guitar hook. It still sounds ahead of it's time.

[54spiritedwill54]

very catchy . Pure dadaism. One of their best videos.

[labelfree904]

hehehe it's like dropping acid

[sixfeetjenna]

Those first couple of seconds are quite menacing...

[gummybits]

is this on the red mecca album

[jermey1]

It is from the album "The Crackdown"

[TheMercyBeat]

Actually, "Diskono", "Double Vision", "Badge Of Evil" and "Moscow" songs (the latter three's accompanying videos should be uploaded on here too IMO) originally were a part of an EP that came out in 1982 first. They were added to "The Crackdown's" MC and CD releases only later.

Someone must upload "Trash Part 1", "Eddie's Out", "Landslide", "Photophobia", "Trash Part 2" and the rather superb "Walls Of Jericho" ones on here as well!

[dreammenagerie]

no, you´re wrong. it wasn´t on the original lp version, but maybe on a later cd version ?

[TheMercyBeat]

Yes, it's true that alongside "Double Vision", "Badge Of Evil" and "Moscow", "Diskono" orginally was a part of an EP too and it wasn't on "The Crackdown's" original LP version per se indeed. The EP it came from was entitled "Crackdown Bonus EP" and it came with its (the album's) initial(!) copies. All the EP's tracks were re-released on its CD version a couple of years later. This is the right fact!

[discoverydavid]

@jermey1 It's from Hai!....the one with the Sumo wrestlers on the cover. I have the best feelings from this period Red Mecca to the Countdown they really had their shit together....they did some good stuff later, check out Xon on Network Records.

[ultramouse]

@discoverydavid this is the studio version, Hai! is live. (Kinda prefer that version, actually but they're both cool)

[maciejoooooooooooooo]

d searchess b.

[Malocosa]

Cabaret Voltaire is STILL ahead of its time.

[TheMercyBeat]

And they always WILL be!

Come back to the song in, say, 20 years time from now and it will still sound as ahead of its time as in 1982 when it first came out.

[LKJony]

Wow, very catchy and hynotic. Pure dadaism. One of their best vids.

The Cabs made a few of the best videos i've ever seen, the mayority innovative and ahead of their time. An alternative and very delicious escape.

Hope that psychodelic things like this appear on MTV in the evenings to make kids left for a while some mediocre commercial punk and hip-hop.

CB FTW.

[dtla1730]

Though I couldn't get into a lot of CV's music, I loved their spirit. They were pioneers of a relevant and still relatively unselfconscious genre. I loved this song, too. Computers are killing American culture. They've taken the process out of creativity (the craft) and have left it to processors. Where at one time you had to be an artist to create music, graphical art, now you need only be a competent user for the most part. Throbbing Gristle invented and built their own instrumentation.

[LKJony]

Well, is absolutely true but is the most called Evolution, the same digital revolution that started 30 years ago. Young generatios and even veterans have to assimilate the fact that today is all a lot more easier and cheaper thanks to higly accesible digital processors and professional sound cards.

[LKJony]

(continue)

Of course that my mayor respect goes to all the pioneer masters that have really worked and sweated a lot more improving the genre 30, 40 or 50 years before, starting with Stockhausen in the fifties with the "musique concrète".

[LKJony]

But today, is a little bit stupid to be conservative and reject technology. If virtual instruments and sequencers can do the most technical part of the job and save us a lot of time, why complicate more our lives? Technology doesn't killing anything, quite the contrary it's allowing a lot of people with talent and no accesibility to expensive tools to do sometin good.

[dtla1730]

Consider that "technology" is just method. People today have made technology synonymous with silicon development but there are billions of undiscovered methods. Talented people without access to 'expensive tools' aren't handicapped. "Tools do not make talent". You see what I mean?

[dtla1730]

"...save us a lot of time, why complicate more our lives?" - Art is about problem solving. When we allow computers to remove "complication" from the equation, there's no longer any equation. No problems to solve. No need for creativity. Patience and dedication separated artists from non-artists. Only an artist would engage in The Process. Only a techie would take the time to learn + understand TCP/IP. You see?

[dtla1730]

But everything changes. So does perception. So, I guess, do definitions and Artist is one of those words that's having its definition overhauled. I guess I don't like it. I was fine with the first one. :) It was exciting.

[LKJony]

The talent and creativity of the human brain and soul is the only thing tah can't never be replaced. Till now i don't believe that a microprocessor can be equal to the talent and imagination of a human brain, maybe in a far future, but not for now. Today the joke is try to make something really innovative with quality, with the same purpose of the masters. I agree that this revolution of technical accesibility made that a lot of suckers be able to make mediocre shit without improving.

[Mrnin1]

It's not killing its enhancing for better for worse!

[mmmrenkas]

its quite often that the absence of expensive tools make the talent, look at the whole history of techno. When these young ghetto kids hadnt any money to buy a moog or an arp they used these cheap "toy" synthesizers, which later on shaped the whole music scene.

[das81]

This is what industrial used to be, now nobody know(or cares to know) what industrial really is!.

[cheaplalique]

I remember seeing this on USA Channel 'Nightflight' back in the early 80's. Nice to see it again.

[BDDave]

Electronic body music (acronymed and mainly known as EBM) is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic punk music.

Emerging in the early-to-mid 1980s, the genre's early influences range from the industrial music of the time (Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire), European electropunk (DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, Portion Control) and straight-ahead electronic music (Kraftwerk).

[rawknob]

lmao, you forgot front 242, which coined the term ebm, and test dept.

[mravka9]

and front line assembly and nitzer ebb...

[JenovaXiu]

Pretty hate machine is a pretty good example of Electronic Body Music.

[kraalomega]

wow, it lives. cut and paste boys.