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Coming on the heels of 1990's techno-style GROOVY LAIDBACK AND NASTY, the seven-song, 44-minute COLOURS EP is Cabaret Voltaire at the band's most overtly "normal." This release subverts the group's previous tendency towards aggressive sound montage into surprisingly commercial and inviting dance music. The shift is particularly evident on the "Club Mix" of the title track (the CD also contains an "Original Style Mix" and a "Thunder Mix"), which adds various state-of-1991 club beats and samples to Stephen Mallinder and Richard H. Kirk's original sound mix. Of the other four tracks, the relatively placid "Smooth" and "Ex" are the closest Cabaret Voltaire have ever come to Orb-style ambient house.
Recorded at Western Works Studios, Sheffield, England. Cabaret Voltaire Colours Songs | 1. | Colours - (original style mix) |
| 2. | Alright |
| 3. | Smooth |
| 4. | Colours - (Thunder mix) |
| 5. | Wildlife |
| 6. | Colours - (Club mix) |
| 7. | Ex |
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Purchase Colours CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Soft Cell Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing CD (1981) (Import) Germany; Remastered
Colours
 $11.79
Soft Cell's NON STOP ECSTATIC DANCING has been remastered and bolstered with six extra tracks.
As with so many groups of their time and place--synthesizer-obsessed England in the early '80s--Soft Cell's first album is also their best. NON-STOP EROTIC CABARET is a self-consciously seedy but nonetheless delightful excursion into knowing decadence. The artifice is plain--Marc Almond's coyly melodramatic vocals and Dave Ball's witty synths suggest that you shouldn't take this album seriously for a moment--but the songs are mostly strong enough to make this a satisfying album. The hyperspeed "Frustration" careens directly to the glorious "Tainted Love," an archetype of '80s pop music unmatched by anything else the duo ever did, though "Bedsitter," "Sex Dwarf" and the blatantly sentimental "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" come close.
Digitally remastered 1998 reissue of their second release,1982's ...
| | Soft Cell Art Of Falling Apart. CD (1983) (Import) Remastered; Germany
Colours
$9.39 
This 1999 reissue contains bonus tracks not included on the original release.
The title is more than a clever rhyme. The unexpected success of 1982's "Tainted Love" took the duo of singer Marc Almond and keyboardist Dave Ball off guard and seemingly unprepared for its consequences, and while it's perhaps dangerous to read too much into these songs, it's easy to hear that the duo is in the process of disintegrating and would split within the year. Almond's vocals are much more querulous and melodramatic than before, and as Ball's synthesizers move further into cold abstraction, ...
| | Cabaret Voltaire Crackdown CD (1983)
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| | Cabaret Voltaire Micro-Phonies CD (1984) (Import) United Kingdom
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$11.79 
Cabaret Voltaire's second album, MICRO-PHONIES features 11 electronica tracks, highlighted by "Sensoria" and "James Brown." The album closes with two 12-inches mixes.
Following neatly after The Crackdown's aggressive art/funk/electro combination, Micro-Phonies shows the duo taking that combination to a stronger level. Having invented the shadowy, murkier side of industrial/noise experimentation, here the Cabs made their equally justified claim at fully kickstarting the beat-heavy crunch such labels as Wax Trax! would pursue shortly thereafter. DAF and the On-U Sound collective deserve as much notice for this, but the Cabs' relatively higher profile in the English/American cultural scheme made them the harbringers as much as anyone. Flood's sympathetic coproduction with the band is another feather in his cap, and the album sounds just as strong even today as upon its release. Micro-Phonies' most noted tracks are the appropriately funky, horn-heavy "James Brown" and the gripping "Sensoria," which makes for a brilliant album closer, nervous-tension synth signals and a spare but compelling guitar line over another strong beat combination. Subtler moments abound as well, a nice combination of the Cabs' initially understated approach and the greater opportunities available to them in the album's recording. "The Operative" is an unheralded highlight of the release, Mallinder's low-key speak/singing sidling along the crisp but not overpowering rhythm, controlled ...
| | Cabaret Voltaire Red Mecca CD (1981)
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RED MECCA is one of the strongest offerings in the wildly eclectic catalogue of this seminal art-noise ensemble. Crucial to the development of electronic dance music, Cabaret Voltaire experimented with hardcore industrial, avant-garde noise, house, and electronica. The music on 1981's RED MECCA falls somewhere between these categories, borrowing a bit from each. Bookended by warped, unsettling versions of the theme music from the Orson Welles film TOUCH OF EVIL, RED MECCA spins the listener though a sinister soundscape that is mesmerizing, challenging, and, at times, danceable.
In Cabaret Voltaire's world, nothing is as it seems. Vocalist/bassist Stephen Mallinder's rants are electronically manipulated to blend into Chris Watson's tape loops, while Richard H. Kirk's wiry synthesizer and guitar lines create an almost underwater effect. The programmed drums are punchy and aggressive, giving the whole an insistent, violent edge. It is oddly fascinating to listen to this synth- and tape loop-based music in the wake of the avalanche of '90s IDM and laptop artists. Although the record sounds ...
| | Various Artists Bargrooves - Black CD (2006) (Import)
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Black, the deeper, harder, faster shade of Bargrooves, encompasses 28 tracks of driving electro-edged ...
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| | 1 Mile North Minor Shadows CD (2003)
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A joint collaboration between guitarist Jon Hills and analog synth enthusiast Mark Bajuk, One Mile North's second record imagines how Papa M's echo-drenched instrumental guitar work might sound filtered through the tonal warmth of Brian Eno's tremulous mid-'70s synthpad excursions. Although a few brittle drum machine patterns, trumpets, and well-placed samples also factor into the mix, Minor Shadows is essentially forged on this interplay -- it's about how a guitar's rhythms can resound against an analog facade, or how an arpeggio can draw new colors out of a thick cloud of chords. Built on a repeating guitar motif and a swell of synths, nine-minute album opener "In 1983 He Loved to Fly" is an appropriately sleepy statement of intent. Other highlights include the gently percolating guitar tones in "The Sick," the vaporous chord progressions in the gentle "Black Lines," and the sprawling sawtooth lullaby of album closer "The Manual." Too active to be regarded as proper ambient music, Minor Shadows is nonetheless a slow and meditative record that ...
| | Alan Parsons Eye In The Sky: The Encore Collection CD (1999)
Colours
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Buyer beware: this isn't the Eye in the Sky which launched Alan Parsons' ...
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