who would have ever thought that old cabaret voltaire material would end up as the foundation of a fine 17 min mix of throbbing electronic disco in 2010?
while most people of a certain age prefer the darker more harder edge era of the varied cabaret voltaire output, i didn’t catch up with them until the life changing, commercial crossover toe dipping 12″, sensoria.
subsequently upon hearing the 12″ literally hundreds of times following its purchase, i started digging deeper into their history.
and to cut a long story short, i have to say, their some bizarre/virgin records releases, ( from the crackdown single and album through to i want you, and its associated album, the covenant, the sword and the arm of the lord) are still the ones that get the most airplay.
the crackdown album from which these covers have been lifted was a perfect cold slab of disturbing monotonic electro-funk that stands up 20 years on from its release, and never fails to send shivers up my spine when its given a spin
so, to hear two of the albums highlights, just fascination and crackdown, redone in such a fashion is a bit of a head fuck.
but a hugely enjoyable head fuck, with billie ray martin (electribe 101) playing the electro ice queen to perfection over the top of various flavours of bleeps and bumps.
oh, and the more observant of you may pick up on the fact that stephen mallinder himself has added backing vocals to the proceedings.
the crackdown project minimix by billie ray martin
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