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Cabaret Voltaire occurs as post-punk industrial and techno group from Sheffield, England consisting of Richard H. Kirk, Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson (who was also a founding member of the Hafler Trio). Their earliest performances were dadaist-inspired performance art. Within 1978 (see 1978 in music), Cabaret Voltaire signed to Rough Trade and after many extremely acclaimed initial singles/extended players, including "Extended Play", "Nag Nag Nag", 3 Mantras & Troika Crepuscule Tracks began releasing punk-influenced albums of experimental music like A Voice of Us around 1980 and the widely-hailed Red Mecca within 1981.
Inside 1983 (see 1983 in music), co-inciding with a departure of Watsin (world health organization went on when section of The Hafler Trio), Cabaret Voltaire began moving towards techno with the album The Crackdown on Virgin Records. Around 1984, the singles "Sensoria" & "James Brown" from either a album Micro Phonies (also in Virgin) following on the independent music stock and index charts. Inside 1987 (see 1987 in music), the band freed Code, followed by the house-influenced Groovy, Laidback & Nasty in 1990 (see 1990 in music). a series of wholly implemental works under the Cabaret Voltaire title were freed in Instinct Records in 1993 and 1994, but appeared to exist as largely a product of Kirk. Since so, Kirk has begun the solo career under many list, including Electronic Eye & Sandoz, when Mallinder has relocated to Perth, Australia and records with a collaborator under the title Sassi & Loco and more recently in another collaborative effort the Kuling-Bros.
Discography
Mix-Confusion (October 1979)
A Voice of Us (July 1980)
Red Mecca (August 1981)
"Three Mantras" 1981
"2x45" 1982
A Crackdown (August 1983)
Johnny Yesno (November 1983)
Micro-Phonies (November 1984)
A Covenant, A Blade & A Arm of the Lord (October 1985)
Code (October 1987)
Great, Placed-Mellow & Awful (June 1990)
Immune system & Soul (March 1991)
Percussion Inflict (July 1991)
Malleability (October 1992)
Technology:Western Re-Works 1992 (June 1992)
International Language (June 1993)
A Conversation'' (July 1994)
Trivia
In the picture show Ferris Bueller's Day Off you can see a Cabaret Voltaire poster in Ferris' room. These are a handle of their 1984 release Micro-Phonies.
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