Electronic music has come a long way since Cabaret Voltaire began mixing it up with machines in order to evade boredom. As primitive as Watson, Kirk, and Mallinder's early material sounds decades after conception, in the wake of countless movements within the form, nothing can take away from the fact that no one will ever approach the spectral wonder inherent in the group's early work. Just over a third of The Original Sound of Sheffield: '78/'82 -- the sister release to 2001's similarly ...   [ read more ]

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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. Also related is that CV rarely stayed in one place for long, instead moving quickly from freeform experimentalism to arty white-boy funk and on to house music in the late '80s and electronica the following decade. The ban...   [ read more ]

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With Au Cabaret Sauvage, Lo' Jo hones and expands the sound of their last two albums. The familiar elements are all in evidence -- the rough, Serge Gainsbourg tones of lead vocalist Denis PTan, the melodious Maghrebi harmonies of the El Nourid sisters, and the lush gypsy flourishes of violin. But now those form the building blocks as they become more daring, as on "L'Une des Siens," with its bass-heavy dub underpinning; "Tangito," which casts an eye toward Latin America; or {&"Le...   [ read more ]

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