Cabaret Voltaire

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* Audio CD (June 1, 1994)
* Original Release Date: 2000
* Number of Discs: 2
* Label: Instinct Records
* Catalog Number: 273
* ASIN: B000001UU6
* Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #166,966 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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1. Exterminating Angel. Intro. 5m47 Listen Listen
2. Brutal But Clean. 11m-5 Listen Listen
3. The Message. An Original Hollywood Theme. 8m16 Listen Listen
4. Let's Start. 8m11 Listen Listen
5. Night Rider. 9m54 Listen Listen
6. I Think. 8m56 Listen Listen
7. The Heat. 7m52
8. Harmonic Parallel. 1-m52 Listen Listen
9. Project80. 53m-5 Listen Listen
10. Exterminating Angel. Outro. 8m-1 Listen Listen
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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Not bad, but..., March 19, 2004
Reviewer: Travis Miller (Shepherdstown, WV United States) - See all my reviews
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I've long been a fan of both Cabaret Voltaire and Instinct Records, so I was expecting a lot from this album. But after owning it for several years, I still can't get too excited about it. I listen to it once in a while, but it's not a record that I play for friends to check out.

Cabaret Voltaire were undeniably innovators in their heyday, but here they're following the pack instead of leading. There are some nice moments - most notably, the intro track "Exterminating Angel" (and its reprise on Disc 2), and certain passages from the 53-minute ambient piece "Project80" - but most of it is by-the-numbers ambient-electro-house, of the sort that Savvas Ysatis, The Drum Club, and Terre Thaemlitz purveyed in the 1990s. Don't get me wrong - those artists have produced some great ambient work - but the more house-oriented side of that scene has always been a little too generic and polite.

Moreover, this album has none of the rough edges that helped make earlier CV interesting and authentic; it's all very clean and polished. CV are known as musical chameleons, shifting styles from album to album, sometimes radically - and that's not necessarily a bad thing. But it's always been their melding of the electronic with the visceral that has made them vital, and here they've abandoned that. In fact, this work is hardly recognizable as CV at all.

If you're a die-hard fan of the 90s chillout techno and early IDM sound, as represented by Instinct Records and Warp's Artificial Intelligence compilations, this might be one for you. Fans of CV's earlier work, though, are likely to be disappointed.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Genius, January 10, 2003
Reviewer: "dfwatc17c" (Arlington, TX United States) - See all my reviews
I got this cd by mail order a year after it came out, I had no idea what I was getting. This CD is to ambient music what Frampton Comes Alive was to 70s rock, revolutionary. Project 80, an hour long, is an unequaled journey into darkness. Complex, textured, emigmatic, all words that describe this music. Nothing really compares to this cd, in its darkness and complexity. If you like your ambient deep and dark, do yourself a favor and find this cd.… (meer)

Album: International Language
Artist: Cabaret Voltaire
Release Date: 0 1993

International Language tones down the few Chicago house elements which had creeped into Plasticity, replacing them with sublime acid-electro, tribal elements on several tracks, and the same emphasis on samples which occasionally distorts the value of the underlying music. Though the melodies and chord progressions sometimes verge on the obvious,... [+] Continue

International Language tones down the few Chicago house elements which had creeped into Plasticity, replacing them with sublime acid-electro, tribal elements on several tracks, and the same emphasis on samples which occasionally distorts the value of the underlying music. Though the melodies and chord progressions sometimes verge on the obvious, International Language is a worthy addition to CV's mammoth discography. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide [-] Hide
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