Hugo Ball - " Six Sound Poems " - (1916)

The kraut responsible for all this sound poetry malarky,....it had to be a German didn't it!?...Was the father of the DaDa art movement,as well as inventing sound poetry,and starting the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, was Hugo Ball......that's him in his work clothes on the artwork.
These are  his complete recorded works captured on wax cylinder in 1916,and as you may hear,nothing much has changed over the ensuing century in modern sound poetry today.
Most men aged less than forty were at the time being butchered on battlefields all over the planet during that notorious conspiracy to cull the working class, called 'the Great War'; but not Hugo,no.He was too busy saying stuff like "Blago Bung,Bosso fatake, ba-omf!" in a surrealist pub in neutral Switzerland.

"What did you do in the war daddy?"
"Well Son, I dodged the draught,ran off to a neutral country, dressed up like a prat and made up silly words"
"Thank god for that daddy,you're not as stupid as you look-ed"

Germany is responsible for some of the most shameful variety of interests,hobbies, and pastimes that have ever shaken the foundations of civilisation. We've had...i think you know whats coming here.....Jew-Hating, guillotining students, expressionism, playing at being Nietzsche, Nazi glee clubs, wearing kinky boots, inventing and imbibing morphine replacements,Markism, Wagner,Neue Deutsche Welle,sausage munching,and, last but not least...the Dada movement. Without which we'd still be cooing at Constable's "The Haywain",and listening to Elgar.....many people still do amazingly!?


Tracklist:
1.Seepferdchen Und Flugfische (Seahorses And Flying Fishes) (0:41)

2.Karawane (Caravane)(1:24)

3.Wolken (Clouds) (1:04)
4.Katzen Und Pfauen (Cats And Peacocks) (0:52)5.Totenklage (Dirge)(1:48)

6.Gadji Beri Bimba (1:48)

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The Future - "The Golden half-Hour Of The Future (The 1977 Demo's)" (A Die Or DIY? Bootleg) 1977/2015

As we are on a brief Clock DVA/Sheffield trip,I thought I'd make an abridged version of the Human League/Future compilation,which inexplicably mixed up all the tracks into a non-sequential soup.
Of course Adi Newton was a founder member of The Future,which sprouted Clock DVA and The Human League.Kind of a London SS of Industrial Electronica I suppose?(discuss)
You can get the untampered version in FLAC here)

Tracklist:

1- Looking For The Black haired Girls
2- Blank Clocks
3- Cairo
4- Dada Dada Duchamp Vortex
5- Daz
6- Future religion
7- Pulse Lovers

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Also,as a Bonus,and so I can hide them from search engines,we have two boots of Sheffield scene Elvis's, the Cabs.
I got DCMA complaints for these from someone(twat!),but feel free to download them complete with my 'excellent' artwork, by the links below:
"Beat Rail(1976)"
"Chance vrs Causality(complete version)"
"Live at the Final Academy"

Enjoy.

Richard H. Kirk - "Vietsong" (unofficial release) 1976(?)

We have James T. Kirk, Jesus H. Christ, and of course, Richard H. Kirk. Is he(RHK) a combination of these two world icons, or are they the result of Richard H being beamed up and split into representations of good and evil; James T. Kirk being the good one of course!

Frankly this dilemma is beyond my frail intellect to decipher,so we'll stick to the music not the man,or men.

“Vietsong parts one and two” are very early solo outings for the bloke who played that echoey guitar in Cabaret Voltaire. Allegedly recorded in 1976 ,it sounds like.....er.......Cabaret Voltaire? Lots of swirly synthesiser kit noises,short wave radio dialogue cut-ups,and plenty of WatkinsCopycat echo* set to maximum feedback.

Very rare,and provided for your predilection by the remarkable Shivadescending. We thank you.

*The cheap British version of the Echoplex tape echo and precursor to the Roland Space echo.

Track Listing:

1. Vietsong part one

2. Vietsong part two

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Various Artists - " Northern Lights, Issue One" 1981

Hopelessly obscure cassette, referred to as an “Audio Magazine” on the insert. Blessed with previously unavailable live Cabaret Voltaire rarities from the Les Disques du Crepescule era. Can't go wrong there then, one of the most influential bands of all time to start and finish yer magazine promises much.

What follows up “Sluggin' for Jesus”? Only the bard of Leicester himself, Kevin Hewick, reciting some of his poetry in a fine example of a toned down east midlands accent; thats right we (yes, I am from Leicester!) don't have brummie accents you southern dick 'eads.

Then, a revelation, Rire to Laugh (I'm sure there should be a comma after Rire?) made more recordings than the ones featured on the classic “Four Ways Out” compilation. These two tracks sound a lot more hip and competent than previous efforts, which is both a good and bad thing. Rire to Laugh were not wilfully amateurish one trick ponies apparently!?

Malc Smith, he of the Mudhutters, does his best impression of the backing music from “Harry Smiths Anthology of American Folk”. Lo-fi acoustic instrumentals that are just lacking Dock Boggs or Blind Lemon Jefferson to add some Appalachian tales of murder and infidelity to finish 'em off.

Or maybe Malc Smith could have accompanied 'member' of “The Situationist Youth Collective”; and his very 'student entertainments officer' monologue. He drones on about the various acts put on at Plato's Ballroom (Sounds like an episode of Star Trek?), which included the very Great Cabaret Voltaire, who finish off this cassette-zine, with an edited version of theWestern Mantra.

This in turn, reminds me of getting an afternoon off school to go to the Dentist in 1980,but instead I went and bought “The Three Mantras” and went home. I never went to the dentist again and still have a full set of reasonably pearly gnashers. I attribute this good fortune to perhaps thee most influential group of my youth; I thank thee CV.

Just brush your teeth after every meal, and floss regularly; and at the first opportunity get your mercury amalgam fillings removed and replaced. These things are toxic, and 'they' put this shit in the mouths of innocent kids,mostly unnecessarily, to cash in on the old skool NHS. Never trust the advice of a professional!

Track Listing:

A1 Cabaret Voltaire – Sluggin' for Jesus

A2 Kevin Hewick – KH recites and comments

A3 Rire to Laugh – Let the Children play

A4 Rire to Laugh – Silent water

B1 Malc Smith – Happy pig dance

B2 Malc Smith – Lookin' over under yonder

B3 Malc Smith – Mountain Song

B4 The Situationist Youth Collective – monologue

B5 Cabaret Voltaire – Western Mantra (Edit)

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Various Artists - "The Men With The Deadly dreams" (White Stains Tapes WERK002) 1981

Ultra scarce compilation tape released by Geoff Rushton whilst producing his fanzine 'Stabmental' in 1981.
Produced by Chris Watson in May/June 1981, it includes two rare tracks from the long forgotten enigma that was Rema Rema.A droning bass driven dirge call "Why Ask Why", and 8 minutes of staccato Bass twanging with Kenny Morris style drumming(by Max aka Dorothy) that is called simply,"Christopher". Rema Rema were famed for the excellent "Wheel In The Roses" ep on 4AD, and more so for containing the infamous,or rather the Not famous,'Dorothy' in its ranks; the co-creator of the sublime Dorothy single on Industrial Records. Also contained within this group was one Marco Pironi,late of the Banshees and the Models, and later to find fame in Adam and the Ants.(Also credited with some stupid statement about how he lost interest in 'punk rock' when his little clique was infiltrated by 'us', and ruined it for him......ahhhh diddums; and here's me thinking it was elitism that ruined punk rock'....well, that and all the main bands selling out to the 'man!!)
There are two impossibly rare solo tracks from Cabaret Voltaire's Chris Watson and Richard H. Kirk. Watson's 'News Cut up 2/5/81 is an almost danceable industrial disco number, with relentless 808 deprogramming,and bubbling electronics, which point towards "2x45" era Cabs.
Whereas Richard H. Kirk's "Powermad" looks back to the proto-cabs sound of "Disposable Half-Truths", swapping clarinet for alto sax,improvising over a fuzzy rhythm-scape.
Throbbing Gristle's Chris Carter makes a rare solo appearance as well, with a rather creepy number called "climbing",complete with 'gristlised' electronics, merged with Diamanda Galas style screeching,and disembodied drum fondling.
Eyeless In Gaza go 'Industrial' with their track "Pale Saints",which sounds not unlike a combination of the Chris Carter and Richard H. Kirk numbers.
Culturcide, the crazily monikered M A Peacock and A House, all tread the same turf, with plenty of found sound cut up techniques a-plenty.
In all, a highly consistent compilation, full of lovely early industrial electronic experimentation.
If ever there was a K-Tel compilation of Industrial Music, it would have sounded like this. Mmmmmmm......nice.

Track Listing:

A1     Christopher R Watson –News Cut-Up 2/5/81     3:02    
A2     Rema Rema – Why Ask Why?                            8:25    
A3     Eyeless In Gaza – Pale Saints                            5:37    
A4     Culturcide – Land Of Birds                                4:32    
B1     Chris Carter  –     Climbing                                5:44    
B2     Rema Rema –     Christopher                             4:28    
B3     A House – Words From A Radio                        4:46    
B4     Richard H Kirk – Powermad                              4:29    
B5     M A Peacock –     Voices                                     2:56

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Cabaret Voltaire - "Live YMCA 27-10-79" (Rough Trade 1979)

It was in the interests of the larger labels to make their product look like a bootleg,and/or a DIY release. The cheapness of the artwork and price,(i think it was £2:49), attracted this fifteen year old with three quid in his pocket to buy said product. It was my first introduction to the dark world of Cabaret Voltaire and Industrial musick. And what a bargain! This was the "Faust Tapes" of the post punk era, eye-opening.
Dark,murky,and lo-fi, this was not gonna trouble the uk top 30,but undoubtedly sold well in excess of 20,000 copies....which these days would make it a number one LP.
Cope describes the sounds contained within these grooves perfectly below:
"Live at the YMCA is intense, in a way only really rivaled by Bob Dylan's live '66 bootleg and the 30 Minutes Over Brussels EP by Suicide. Although the audience is more appreciative here than on either of those, there is a sense of menace and bile that few artists have ever looked to release as a live album. And to end the album on the experimental noise-fest that is "Baader Meinhof", a tribute to or comment on the German terrorists from the 70s, took some guts, in my book.

So, whilst not confrontational -the at first quite quiet (disconcerted, maybe?) audience seems to quickly succumb to the dark charms of Cabaret Voltaire- Live at the YMCA is dark and aggressive, uncompromising and sullen like the artists themselves were. It wasn't put out to please or get you head-banging (hence the sound quality), but rather hit its audience in the gut and demonstrate the full, snarling fury of an average Cabs gig. These aren't showmen, they're fiercely anti-rock, anti-frills. But it is powerful, pulsating with suppressed energy and hidden menace. And, it is also one of the very few live albums to document the post punk period and the omnipresent anti-rock, anti-showbiz, pro-experimentation mentality that was streaking across Britain at the time. Seeing as PiL, Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle all missed the boat when it came to live albums (PiL's post-everyone except Lydon one was a disaster)#, thank some fictional God that Cabaret Voltaire were out there letting us know the abuse they were heaping on their audiences. Who seemed to enjoy it and I bet were actually dancing?"

#The teardrop exploder obviously forgot "Paris Au Printemps" (1980)!....it was crap anyway.Also he seems unaware that Throbbing Gristle released virtually every gig they did on cassette!(see the up and coming repost of the 24 hours of TG live box set downloads)....not such an expert on 'post punk' as he leads us to believe.....very poor Julian.

Tracklist

	Untitled	5:51
	On Every Other Street	4:16
	Nag, Nag, Nag	4:55
	The Set Up	4:13
	Expect Nothing	6:18
	Havoc	3:02
	Here She Comes Now	4:12
	No Escape	3:42
	Baader Meinhof	4:10

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Cabaret Voltaire - "1974 - 1976" (Industrial Records IRC 35) 1980

Cabaret Voltaire were making their own tapes from 1974. Joint creators of the Industrial genre, they pioneered the make-do home recording process that lead to the home taping boom of the late seventies. This tape shows a band in the process of evolving into something unique. All their early albums and singles for Rough Trade follow this pattern,and are all landmark recordings of this epoch. But this is the Cab's at their most DIY.(recorded in Chris Watson's Mum and dad's Loft)

Track listing:

1 The Dada Man 8:31
2 Ooraseal 4:30
3 A Sunday Night In Biot 3:24
4 In Quest Of The Unusual 2:43
5 Do The Snake 6:53
6 Fade Crisis 3:15
7 Doubled Delivery 5:42
8 Venusian Animals 5:27
9 The Outer Limits 8:48
10 She Loved You 8:42

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Cabaret Voltaire - "Western Works Demo's (1977-79)" (Bootleg cassette) 1982

You are being spoiled!
More obscure Demo's from the Industrial Music primaeval soup.
Many familiar "Hits" are here in there naked form, including a punked up "Nag Nag Nag" which races along at 120 bpm plus. This is perfect, even down to the misspelled group name on the tape spine.
(note to trainspotters: track listing differs from the insert 'cus i used the remastered versions and couldn't be arsed to resequence them)

Tracklist:

	Photophobia
	The Set Up
	Nag Nag Nag
	A Minute Is A Lifetime
	Baader-Meinhoff
	No Escape
	Kirlian Photography
	Expect Nothing
	Love In Vein
	Control Addict
	Oh Roger
	Heaven & Hell
	Hovaco

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Cabaret Voltaire ‎– "The Outer Limits" (self-released demo) 1976

This is the mythical Demo Tape made by the attic dwelling Cabaret Voltaire,probably culled from hours of tapes made between 1974 and 1976. Some of these tracks found themselves on the Industrial compilation from the same epoch,but others haven't appeared anywhere before. Of course, "Is That Me" was the b-side to "Nag Nag Nag",
This is like listening through the wall from Chris Watson's neighbours house, on a traditional miserable wet and smoggy day in Sheffield, with an inverted glass,full of cotton wool. Its rare to hear something genuinely unique and innovative being born,and here we have the evidence that it actually happened,and wasn't done by aliens.

Tracklist:

A1		Capsules	7:29
A2		Is That Me (Finding Someone At The Door Again?)	4:48
A3		The Single	3:30
A4		Ooraseal	4:22
A5		Loves In Vein	4:30
A6		Dream Sequence 1	2:56
B1		Dream Sequence 2	3:42
B2		Do The Snake	5:59
B3		A Sunday Night In Biot	3:26
B4		She Loves You	8:44
B5		Stolen From Spectra	4:09
B6		Bedtime Stories	6:33

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Richard H. Kirk - "Disposable Half Truths" -cassette (Industrial Records IRC34) 1980

First solo effort from Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire. Good stuff indeed,sounds very much like ......erm....Cabaret Voltaire!
Disposable Half-Truths was released on cassette only, on Industrial Records (IRC 34) in 1980.

Track Listing:

1. Synesthesia
2. Outburst
3. Information Therapy
4. Magic Words Command
5. Thermal Damage
6. Plate Glass Replicas
7. Insect Friends Of Allah
8. Scatalist
9. False Erotic Love
10. L.D. 50
11. L.D. 60
12. Amnesic Disassociation

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