I love this album it actually freaks me out. I,m referring to their take on religion not the group itself!! The Cabs are genius and have alot to say. Ive been listening to them since about 81. They totally underated as a band. So innovative and ahead of their time. Thanks Galgo23 for posting.
What a great era for Cabaret Voltaire. later on they trapped themselves in wanting to sing melodies and get caught in mediocracy. But...Cabaret Voltaire do have a wonderful edge by having made this fab music and rhythms. I was completely caught by them. There live performance in Paradiso, Amsterdam in september of 1980 still tops the bill of live acts ! (they performed with Eric Random and... Metabolist ! What a mind blower that was, that evening...)
Thanks for posting. I think I heard CV in about '83 when I was in college. They were my introduction to avant-garde music. Thanks Jamie, wherever you are.
That's what I would like to know as well. '60s had Tangerine Dream, '70s Kraftwerk, '80s Cabaret Voltaire, '90s The Future Sound Of London. What do the '00s have?
uh,,wheew,,,that a tough one----im gonna peg my answer to the djs,,,like wink or icee,,,,,,,,,,,, but thats probably cus ive met em and like thier stuff,,,,,,,cab volt im grooving to very much right now,,,,,all your decades listing are superb---finnaly im listenin to eno/fripp while i commuted from thee saltmine THNX--mike in fla
Thanks for the compliments, Mike! Those were the artists who had a totally new approach to music and pushed things ways forward, each in their own time, of course. And all had been going for the whole decades as well. The exception were Tangerine Dream who were formed in the second half of the '60s. But I listed them for the decade as they were the very first band to use synthesizers like we know now. And that was something completely different from anything going on at the time. Cheers! :-)
Nope. I agree she brought a bit of otherness to nowadays' pop(!) music but she didn't give a new approach to music at all. And as she appeared only towards the last decade's end too, she's not its defining artist either.
No band is ahead of their time. It's a meaningless concept to me, implying that music is moving 'forward' in some definite direction. Total rubbish, usually a fantasy of technoheads. CV were merely making very interesting and enjoyable music, and also drawing on influences from their past, just like many others.
I must admit I mostly agree with you on this one, starting from the point where artists (and overall music itself as well) are nothing but a reflection of the times we're living at some particular moment in and that all are drawing on influences from the past. But reading CV interviews they often used to say they liked to do things a few steps ahead of the rest of the pack and as soon as they noticed they got copied they moved to something new too.
@TheMercyBeat I agree with you, I was being a little too deliberatively provocative. It's amazing some of the styles they touched on or near invented in short periods of time such as Johnny YesNo, then the 2x12" sound, each creating an electronic sub-genre all it's own. I do think the phrase 'ahead of their time' implies that finally others have caught up and are making music as good, but I don't think that's happened!! - or perhaps I'm just not aware of much good stuff being created nowadays
Never mind. The most important is that we understood each other ...Yes, "ahead of their time" really does imply what you said ...I too feel there's nothing much that crucially going on in music these days but you can find a handful of good artists as well. It's just they are not that interesting to media and most people hardly know about them. (...)
(...) Hence, Richard H. Kirk agreed with Brian Eno's views on the future of music - "There's not going to be any more new music, just endless curatorships, like endless exhibitions of old music in new boxes!" - in a Record Collector interview of circa 10 years back. It is all a 'closed circuit'(!), just like the title of his solo (Sandoz) record says. And that's very true.
@TheMercyBeat Interesting quote, I like quite a lot of modern bands such as Ladytron, Interpol to name just a couple. If I could find a more experimental band in the vein of Voice Of America or Taxi Music I'd be overjoyed but most modern stuff that passes for industrial, to me, actually lacks the subtlety of early/mid CV! Or maybe I just can't see past CV, TG, etc. I don't have any Sandoz bjut I have several of his solo 90s albums - electronic eye, step write run, etc - very good stuff
Glad to see you're operating in as the same vein as I am modern bands-wise and that we agree on experimentation in music. I too would be as overjoyed to find something as highly experimental as those early CV works in today's bands. Sometimes it's good to not see anything past CV, TG...etc., you know. You're saving your ears from all that crap mainstream media washes our brains with. CV, TG...etc. are the stuff you should be brainwashed with, and not Britney Spears et al. (...)
(...) All the albums he released under the Sandoz moniker are superb, esp. the "Dark Continent" (1996) one I'm listening to the most. "Step, Write, Run" is an excellent compilation. Other '90s "solo" album he did I particularly like is the "Intoxica" one from 1996 he did as Nitrogen.
Thank you for the recommendation. I've listened to their i.e. your stuff you've put on this site and must say "Precipice" recalls some earlier Cabs tracks. I've noticed Pulp and Talking Heads influences in the "Bandwagon Bounce" one as well. All the best in the future! :-)
Um...that's a bit tricky question I need to think well first about before I answer anything. They were all - experimental, innovative and appreciated with a career spanning all through the decade. There's no doubt about that. But as they had that much highlighted(!) retro feel to themselves as well they always seemed to me somewhat neither here nor there. They are a perfect in-between-spaces/zones band so to speak. If you have other opinion I'll accept it very glad too. :-)
@TheMercyBeat exactly. The Cabs were / are peerless. No other group moved music forward like they did. They are criminally underrated and this track especially is light years ahead of its time.
Need some help..if anyone knows where i can locate, score even a dub copy of CTI (Chris/Cosey) Elemental 7 soundtrack and video please give me a heads up. willing to pay well and possibly trade vinyl, video etc.
@Sensoriexpansion69 I have Elemental 7 on vinyl (also converted to CD) but not the official CD or video. It's an amazing album, I thought t was actually on iTunes along with most of their stuff?
I found this on "Three Crepuscle (sic) Tracks" back in '84 when I was in a baptist school on Venice Bvld, Plams. This was when I became Anti-Xtian. H8 the fucking Xtians!!!!!!
This and especially sluggin' fer jesus part two were never off my turntable at 14. My mum would let me play all this stuff on the lounge stereo while she ironed. I guess I never fully appreciated just how cool she is. This is electronica at it's most ruthless and best. Thanks for the vid!
Great song! I also agree the late 70's and early 80's gave us some of the best bands and music, that will continue to influence others. Hopefully history repeats itself!
I love this song I lost my copy for a few years in the mid 80's but I have know found it & discovered this video as a bonus, I might be B.O.F. (Boring Old Fart) but the late 70's and the early 80's were inidated with such a brilliant array of excellent music.
You're not B.O.F. for thinking like this at all! Although I'm younger than you I think the late '70s and the early '80s were the most exciting period for music and culture ever in general. Just think of the number of quality bands, independent labels, fanzines, top movies ...etc coming out of it. Then there was that well familiar DIY ethic and so on. Bloody energic gigs. Corporate monster wasn't in the game as much as it is now. Bring it back!!!
You have reason. Was a time where really had great musical and cultural options. Now you do not see any of that. I'm from Mexico and here our cultural level is reduced to nothing but is good that still exists people who know good music in this troubled time.
You've reminded me of an interview with Warren Cann (ex Ultravox) I read a while ago now in which he said this:
"(...)Hottest acts in the world? We've gone from Led Zeppelin to Britney Spears. (...) Before rock music, if you asked a kid what they wanted to be, they'd have replied, "I wanna be a train driver." Skip along a few years and it would've been, "I wanna be a fighter pilot." ...
...Then, for a very long time, if you asked a kid what they wanted to be, they'd have replied, "I wanna be a musician." That escalated into, "I wanna be a Rock Star." You can see where this is headed. Now it's just, "I wanna be famous. For� whatever." (...)"
Too bad, huh? Is that really this world has come to?
As Soft Cell's song would say: "...Monoculture, over and over...". :-(
"Eight Crepuscule Tracks" is one of my favorite CV albums. Love experimental electronic music like CV. Wish some artists today could be as creative and push the envelope like that. I find it amazingly deep. Love to smoke some and listen to this.
I need the text of this track.
can somebody put here the complete text please ? Thanks !!
Fadknigge 3 weeks ago
i wanna hear what MAllinder is saying...
Oesktchohova 1 year ago
"i dont want anything under $100 dollars, no tips tonight i want sacrifice!!!"
"im fighting battles of freedom as the last true voice on religious television"
i love those lines...
skrapyard444 1 year ago
@skrapyard444 The lines are borrowed from the late Dr. Gene Scott.
lezwitch 7 months ago
@lezwitch just read a little bit about him...seemed like a weirdo
skrapyard444 7 months ago
Like observational music made by aliens... outstanding
ignatiev01 1 year ago
I love this album it actually freaks me out. I,m referring to their take on religion not the group itself!! The Cabs are genius and have alot to say. Ive been listening to them since about 81. They totally underated as a band. So innovative and ahead of their time. Thanks Galgo23 for posting.
caitlinniamh 1 year ago
My Xbox Live gamertag :D
VexonCAEU 1 year ago
I have been a fan since 1979. Best band ever!
rudi1957 1 year ago
The. Fucking. Greatest.
diskochimp 1 year ago
What a great era for Cabaret Voltaire. later on they trapped themselves in wanting to sing melodies and get caught in mediocracy. But...Cabaret Voltaire do have a wonderful edge by having made this fab music and rhythms. I was completely caught by them. There live performance in Paradiso, Amsterdam in september of 1980 still tops the bill of live acts ! (they performed with Eric Random and... Metabolist ! What a mind blower that was, that evening...)
Devito46 2 years ago
diss stuffs choice thnx YT....thnx
mmykiee 2 years ago
slug away
Localulu27 2 years ago
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wut album is this on
MushroomBluex 2 years ago
"Eight Crepuscule Tracks" is the one! ;-)
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago
Thanks for posting. I think I heard CV in about '83 when I was in college. They were my introduction to avant-garde music. Thanks Jamie, wherever you are.
eatsandsleeps 2 years ago
one of many Cab favs. I like the Gene Scott vocal - "No 10s or 20s, I want sacrifice"
Still sounds fresh and different. Who are the current bands with a new approach? I'd like to know.
yragntman 2 years ago
That's what I would like to know as well. '60s had Tangerine Dream, '70s Kraftwerk, '80s Cabaret Voltaire, '90s The Future Sound Of London. What do the '00s have?
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago 3
uh,,wheew,,,that a tough one----im gonna peg my answer to the djs,,,like wink or icee,,,,,,,,,,,, but thats probably cus ive met em and like thier stuff,,,,,,,cab volt im grooving to very much right now,,,,,all your decades listing are superb---finnaly im listenin to eno/fripp while i commuted from thee saltmine THNX--mike in fla
mmykiee 2 years ago
Thanks for the compliments, Mike! Those were the artists who had a totally new approach to music and pushed things ways forward, each in their own time, of course. And all had been going for the whole decades as well. The exception were Tangerine Dream who were formed in the second half of the '60s. But I listed them for the decade as they were the very first band to use synthesizers like we know now. And that was something completely different from anything going on at the time. Cheers! :-)
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago
Lady Gaga?
papaupa601 2 years ago
Nope. I agree she brought a bit of otherness to nowadays' pop(!) music but she didn't give a new approach to music at all. And as she appeared only towards the last decade's end too, she's not its defining artist either.
TheMercyBeat 2 years ago
All she does is play dress up, and let's be honest Elton John did it a thousand times better than her.
juankenon 1 year ago
No band is ahead of their time. It's a meaningless concept to me, implying that music is moving 'forward' in some definite direction. Total rubbish, usually a fantasy of technoheads. CV were merely making very interesting and enjoyable music, and also drawing on influences from their past, just like many others.
chrisnoaro1 1 year ago
@chrisnoaro1
I must admit I mostly agree with you on this one, starting from the point where artists (and overall music itself as well) are nothing but a reflection of the times we're living at some particular moment in and that all are drawing on influences from the past. But reading CV interviews they often used to say they liked to do things a few steps ahead of the rest of the pack and as soon as they noticed they got copied they moved to something new too.
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
@TheMercyBeat I agree with you, I was being a little too deliberatively provocative. It's amazing some of the styles they touched on or near invented in short periods of time such as Johnny YesNo, then the 2x12" sound, each creating an electronic sub-genre all it's own. I do think the phrase 'ahead of their time' implies that finally others have caught up and are making music as good, but I don't think that's happened!! - or perhaps I'm just not aware of much good stuff being created nowadays
chrisnoaro1 1 year ago
@chrisnoaro1
Never mind. The most important is that we understood each other ...Yes, "ahead of their time" really does imply what you said ...I too feel there's nothing much that crucially going on in music these days but you can find a handful of good artists as well. It's just they are not that interesting to media and most people hardly know about them. (...)
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
(...) Hence, Richard H. Kirk agreed with Brian Eno's views on the future of music - "There's not going to be any more new music, just endless curatorships, like endless exhibitions of old music in new boxes!" - in a Record Collector interview of circa 10 years back. It is all a 'closed circuit'(!), just like the title of his solo (Sandoz) record says. And that's very true.
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
@TheMercyBeat Interesting quote, I like quite a lot of modern bands such as Ladytron, Interpol to name just a couple. If I could find a more experimental band in the vein of Voice Of America or Taxi Music I'd be overjoyed but most modern stuff that passes for industrial, to me, actually lacks the subtlety of early/mid CV! Or maybe I just can't see past CV, TG, etc. I don't have any Sandoz bjut I have several of his solo 90s albums - electronic eye, step write run, etc - very good stuff
chrisnoaro1 1 year ago
@chrisnoaro1
Glad to see you're operating in as the same vein as I am modern bands-wise and that we agree on experimentation in music. I too would be as overjoyed to find something as highly experimental as those early CV works in today's bands. Sometimes it's good to not see anything past CV, TG...etc., you know. You're saving your ears from all that crap mainstream media washes our brains with. CV, TG...etc. are the stuff you should be brainwashed with, and not Britney Spears et al. (...)
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
(...) All the albums he released under the Sandoz moniker are superb, esp. the "Dark Continent" (1996) one I'm listening to the most. "Step, Write, Run" is an excellent compilation. Other '90s "solo" album he did I particularly like is the "Intoxica" one from 1996 he did as Nitrogen.
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
@TheMercyBeat dunno but the tenners got plushandplastix from sheffield...it's a start at least.
dannyofthededd 1 year ago
@dannyofthededd
Thank you for the recommendation. I've listened to their i.e. your stuff you've put on this site and must say "Precipice" recalls some earlier Cabs tracks. I've noticed Pulp and Talking Heads influences in the "Bandwagon Bounce" one as well. All the best in the future! :-)
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
@TheMercyBeat thank you very much! ;¬)
dannyofthededd 1 year ago
@dannyofthededd
You're most welcome! :-)
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
@TheMercyBeat lady GAGA!!!
Barbaraplease 1 year ago
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Moony1397 1 year ago
@TheMercyBeat ...Air?
Moony1397 1 year ago
@Moony1397
Um...that's a bit tricky question I need to think well first about before I answer anything. They were all - experimental, innovative and appreciated with a career spanning all through the decade. There's no doubt about that. But as they had that much highlighted(!) retro feel to themselves as well they always seemed to me somewhat neither here nor there. They are a perfect in-between-spaces/zones band so to speak. If you have other opinion I'll accept it very glad too. :-)
TheMercyBeat 1 year ago
@TheMercyBeat exactly. The Cabs were / are peerless. No other group moved music forward like they did. They are criminally underrated and this track especially is light years ahead of its time.
fuzzface100 1 year ago
@TheMercyBeat gagaga
dezmastah 1 year ago
These guys and so many from this time blew everything out of the water!
Absolutely amazing!
sisterdiggins 2 years ago 2
Need some help..if anyone knows where i can locate, score even a dub copy of CTI (Chris/Cosey) Elemental 7 soundtrack and video please give me a heads up. willing to pay well and possibly trade vinyl, video etc.
Sensoriexpansion69 2 years ago
@Sensoriexpansion69 I have Elemental 7 on vinyl (also converted to CD) but not the official CD or video. It's an amazing album, I thought t was actually on iTunes along with most of their stuff?
chrisnoaro1 1 year ago
I found this on "Three Crepuscle (sic) Tracks" back in '84 when I was in a baptist school on Venice Bvld, Plams. This was when I became Anti-Xtian. H8 the fucking Xtians!!!!!!
cheaplalique 2 years ago
not electronica
its Industrial
calaverasgrande 2 years ago
This and especially sluggin' fer jesus part two were never off my turntable at 14. My mum would let me play all this stuff on the lounge stereo while she ironed. I guess I never fully appreciated just how cool she is. This is electronica at it's most ruthless and best. Thanks for the vid!
djbethell 3 years ago
Great song! I also agree the late 70's and early 80's gave us some of the best bands and music, that will continue to influence others. Hopefully history repeats itself!
china027 3 years ago
I love this song I lost my copy for a few years in the mid 80's but I have know found it & discovered this video as a bonus, I might be B.O.F. (Boring Old Fart) but the late 70's and the early 80's were inidated with such a brilliant array of excellent music.
johnquays23 3 years ago
You're not B.O.F. for thinking like this at all! Although I'm younger than you I think the late '70s and the early '80s were the most exciting period for music and culture ever in general. Just think of the number of quality bands, independent labels, fanzines, top movies ...etc coming out of it. Then there was that well familiar DIY ethic and so on. Bloody energic gigs. Corporate monster wasn't in the game as much as it is now. Bring it back!!!
TheMercyBeat 3 years ago 2
You have reason. Was a time where really had great musical and cultural options. Now you do not see any of that. I'm from Mexico and here our cultural level is reduced to nothing but is good that still exists people who know good music in this troubled time.
Azkrav47 3 years ago
You've reminded me of an interview with Warren Cann (ex Ultravox) I read a while ago now in which he said this:
"(...)Hottest acts in the world? We've gone from Led Zeppelin to Britney Spears. (...) Before rock music, if you asked a kid what they wanted to be, they'd have replied, "I wanna be a train driver." Skip along a few years and it would've been, "I wanna be a fighter pilot." ...
TheMercyBeat 3 years ago
...Then, for a very long time, if you asked a kid what they wanted to be, they'd have replied, "I wanna be a musician." That escalated into, "I wanna be a Rock Star." You can see where this is headed. Now it's just, "I wanna be famous. For� whatever." (...)"
Too bad, huh? Is that really this world has come to?
As Soft Cell's song would say: "...Monoculture, over and over...". :-(
TheMercyBeat 3 years ago 3
CV's "The Theme from SHAFT" is still my favorite track from this album.
Malocosa 3 years ago
Its original creator (Isaac Hayes) sadly passed away in his 65th year a few days ago. Always will be missed around. R.I.P. :-(
TheMercyBeat 3 years ago
Featured on:
"Eight Crepuscule Tracks" compilation (1988)
and
"Coincidence Vs. Fate Compilation" (various artists) (1984)
"State Of Excitement Compilation" (various artists) (1986)
"In The Beginning There Was Rhythm Compilation" (various artists) (2001)
TheMercyBeat 3 years ago
Dada spirit...
lapiveauthentic 3 years ago 3
Weird, amazing CV!!!
vidz4free 3 years ago
"Eight Crepuscule Tracks" is one of my favorite CV albums. Love experimental electronic music like CV. Wish some artists today could be as creative and push the envelope like that. I find it amazingly deep. Love to smoke some and listen to this.
shir2008 4 years ago 9
"Fool's Game - Sluggin' Fer Jesus (Part 3)", "Your Agent Man", "Gut Level" and "Invocation" are true gems! Luv them all!
TheMercyBeat 3 years ago
@shir2008
This track was first released as 12" on Cabaret Voltaire - 3 Crépuscule Tracks on Les Disques Du Crépuscule (EU) and Rough Trade (US) in 1981
bissia 1 year ago
Complete geniuses. They were so, so far ahead of their time...
fuzzface100 4 years ago 15
@fuzzface100 They were the Best !!!
Sensoria1 1 year ago
HOW GOOD ...
...they were !
Devito46 4 years ago 3
That's the late Dr. Gene Scott in the audio. He was such an ornery yet sincere man.
MrUnidyne 4 years ago
fuckin" brill.................!
superbawestside 4 years ago
Nothing, surely nothing, gets better than this.
kraalomega 4 years ago 3
girls?
maciejoooooooooooooo 4 years ago
Clearly I meant within the context of music, music videos and the cerebral experience which is the great 'Cabs'.
Girls, I grant are better than this.
Lovely girls.
kraalomega 4 years ago
Love to make out with a girl with this track adds to the pleasure!
shir2008 4 years ago