Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up
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Artist: Cabaret VoltaireEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2002-02-19
Music Label: Mute U.S.
Soundtracks:
- Kirlian Photograph
- No Escape
- Fourth Shot
- Heaven And Hell
- Eyeless Sight (Recorded Live)
- Photophobia
- On Every Other Street
- Expect Nothing
- Capsules
Music reviews of Mix-Up
Music Review: 'Expect Nothing'
Rating: 5 Stars
There are very few things I know about Voltaire: a philosopher, great liberal social reformer, and a big buddy of Montesquieu.
That's about it.
Quite where that leaves us as far as 'Mix-Up' is concerned, I'm really not sure.
Industrial Sheffield, part of the grim North of England (indisputable no 1 - Cabaret Voltaire cannot come from London); much rain, unemployment, grim humour, Sean Bean and despair. A fabulously fertile breeding site for a music (irrefutable no 2 - Cabaret Voltaire are not a pop music entity) such as 'Mix-Up'.
Smog seeps from the cd case when you open it. Some-one speaks, steel, knives...
The first I heard from Cabaret Voltaire was 'Baader-Meinhoff' around the reign of Queen Victoria (disputable no 3 - Q V never went to Sheffield) and it had an effect along the same lines as 'Transmission' or 'Porno-Base'.
A loosening of brain cells to an accordance; a way of thinking which is easy to calmly analyse now - but when you're a boy...
You leave the lights on.
Yet again all experimental roads lead to 23 Skidoo and the monolithic 'Seven Songs' (hopeful no 4 - 'Seven Songs': I will cease to be obsessed by it), and although 'Mix-Up' is less of a party, they share kinship in the most observable way. Art school pseudo-punk white noise, discordantly sieved through Can and Suicide, and the results seized on by self-satisfied, university educated, middle-class music journalists, and projected.
'Kirlian Photograph' opens 'Mix-Up' and leads the way for the accompanying 'Eyeless Sight,' 'Photograph' and 'Capsules' as the album's central spine (grateful no 5 - that the titles give so much of the album away and saves the reviewer words).
This is one of a number of Cabaret Voltaire albums (indispensable no 6 -'Voice of America') which any great sensible will buy immediately and quizzically imbibe to oblivion.
Voltaire probably enjoyed the classics, but I don't know what he'd make of damp Sheffield and a group of 'musicians' who distrust the very fundamental concepts of melody and cohesion.
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