Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Exhaust
2. Synthi Aks Piece One
3. Synthi Aks Piece Two
4. Jet Passing Over
5. Sad Synth
6. Treated Guitar
7. Treated Clarinet
8. Treated Drum Machine
9. Possibility of a Bum Trip
10. Space Patrol
11. Jack Stereo Unit
12. Magnet
13. Counter Reaction
14. Capsules Version
15. Makes Your Mouth Go Funny
16. Dream Sequence Number Three [Short Version]
17. Reverse Piece One
18. Stolen from Spectra
19. Shes Back, Pt. 1
20. Jive
21. Single
22. Speed Kills
23. Fascist Police State

Disc 2:

1. Synthi Aks Piece Three
2. Data Processing Instructions
3. Fuse Mountain
4. Calling Moscow
5. Dream Sequence Number Two [Ethel's Voice]
6. Attic Tapes
7. Treated Speech
8. Dream Sequence Number Three [Long Version]
9. Henderson Reversed Piece Two
10. Bed Time Stories
11. Loves in Vein
12. Do the Mussolini (Headkick) [They Kill Him Dub]
13. Shes Black, Pt. 2

Disc 3:

1. Its Not Music
2. Slo Change
3. Original Voice of America
4. Heaven and Hell
5. Do the Mussolini (Headkick)
6. Here She Comes Now
7. Capsules
8. Oh Roger
9. Havoc
10. Talkover
11. No Escape
12. Photophobia
13. Set Up
14. Minute Is a Life Time
15. Baader Meinhof
16. Nag Nag Nag
17. Its About Now

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #159388 in Music
• Released on: 2003-05-20
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

Album Description
3 CD box set from Cabaret Voltaire's most creative period. Cardboard sleeves housed in a slimline box. Mute. 2003.

Customer Reviews

yeah, finally more early cabaret voltaire
This is an excellant piece of music history at a more than reasonable price. This is early industrial music that that sort of falls into line with Throbbing Gristle, Einstruzende Neubauten, Nurse With Wound, but it's also very much it's own thing. Much of it reminds me early music concrete ala Pierre Henry. The whole thing has a really gritty, dirty sound that I think is just beautiful. It's got the sounds of analog machines all over it, and by today's standards, it sounds pretty lo-fi, but it's an endearing quality that makes for a pretty erie listening experience. At time's they're light-hearted which allows you to forgive the fact they might be pretentious. This package is far superrior to the single CD import that covers 74-78, and I think it's also a little less expensive. It's not music that you're going to dance to, but I don't dance much so it's great for me. I shake a little bit, and wiggle my arms. Maybe I should have given it five stars. If any of this sounds remotley appealing to you, then you'll probably appreciate having this set around. If you want something that's early but more accessible, I would reccommend The Original Sound of Sheffield 78-82. This is also an excellant collection.

A very exhausting listening experience
This box set is very exhausting as it is so perserveringly dark but there are flashes of humour along the way. I can only best describe this as being made to watch all of your nightmares in one go. Good music and if it were to remind me of anyone it would be Philip K Dick just because they both release a hell of a lot of material that has equally unsettling topic issues.

If you are new to the Cabs game - I would suggest either of the two Original Sound Of Sheffield CD's ( preferably 83-87 ) as they are a bit more accessible to the ear. Otherwise wait until you buy a few more of their releases before settling for this as this is what Richard H Kirk describes as " music for people who had nothing to lose and only themselves to please "

Good historical snippets of early CV experimentation... but not a good introduction to the Cab
Cabaret Voltaire is a group that I have always had completist tendencies towards, wanting to see what new direction they veer off to next, and buying nearly everything they have released as a group and as solo projects. By comparison to today's electronics, synthesizers, and multi-track recording, the tracks found here sound very dated and and sometimes minimalist in feel. But it makes for a very interesting listening experience for one of the true innovators of electronic and industrial music. Listening to all of the electronic experimentation that is included on the first two CDs of this three-CD set are a bit like turning the radio dial back and forth through all of the various college radio stations' late-night experimental music programs... either that or it would be what both Hunter S Thompson and William S Burroughs would come up with during a really bad LSD trip (with Burroughs slicing up the words, phrases, and tones to come up with new sentences) - they make for some very challenging listening rich in sonic textures, at times sounding like early Throbbing Gristle (or vice versa). Like the audio commentary now included on many movie DVDs, and as the "Methodology" title suggests, I think the first two CDs serve more as a historical perspective than as stand-alone "tunes" or "songs". One gets the distinct impression that during all of this electronic experimentation, Richard H Kirk started to build up a library of sounds, tones, distorted saxophones and vocals, etc. that pleased him more and you can detect many of these sound snippets appearing in their works during the late 70s and early 80s. The third CD of the three-CD set is far more accessible, but most of the songs there are also included in their various other recordings and compilations. Overall, still far more accessible and rhythmic than what I consider to be the Cab's most challenging recording ever done - the two-part "Dead Relatives" track that takes up the entire second CD of the two-CD set in Richard H Kirk's High Time Fiction recording.