#026 - Cabaret Voltaire

Cabaret Voltaire has some sort of "legend" sticker attached to them. Band was signed to indie labels more or less all their career that ended in mid-90s. Even though reunion rumors were out there end of the 90s it never happened. They had quite nice chart success even in the UK. In 15 years they released 15 albums, nice amount of compilation (including several after their split-up).

To my taste Cabaret Voltaire is way too "sound of the 80s". I was too young then to actually understand anything about this kind stuff. Their sound describes quite nicely what was going on then. Their career included many different eras though - from postpunk to synthpop and eventually even techno. But still this 80s sound is something that combines everything under one flag.

Here's one sample of that sound. Yashar was released orignally as a single in 1982 via legendary Factory Records.


Some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_Voltaire_%28band%29
http://www.last.fm/music/Cabaret%2520Voltaire
http://open.spotify.com/artist/2kS4yz85MaZlxp2VaS3BEe