CABARET VOLTAIRE - ANIMATION video free download

MrGeissbockfan

Brilliant track, 30 years ahead of time. The drums are classic Jaki Liebezeit motorik-style!

Jason Ritchie

Great vid but awful sound quality

Heather D

He's hot!

sclr

Cabs were not proto fascists! All their songs are about liberation. This one especially!!! I guess there are endless interpretations but c'mon they are named after a birthing of Dadaism which itself was anti fascist. And they were kicking against Thatcherism. Remember:'The nature of your oppression is the aesthetic of our anger'V true for this eras music.

MrRamto13

is there better music than this????

pigknickers

One of my favourite bands - I've not seen this before. Sounds great compared to LP version. And Ann Thorpe, I'm still laughing at Blancmange without the hooks ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Ann Thorpe

Blancmange without the hooks. I love both bands by the way. The Crackdown and Covenant are both great albums.

D Piedra

I can listed to CV anytime and the sounds are as complex and intricate today as they were then. It shows how far ahead they were. Absolutely under-appreciated as an influence on so many other bands.

sofia tsa

αγοοορι μουυυ !

antunivanovic

In terms of influence, yes, Cabaret Voltaire were there first, but I was referring to the post-avantgarde era Cabs, when they turned more towards electro-funk stuff (like this one). If you listen to some Simple Minds tracks from "Empires & Dance", it is not that far from the actual fact that Simple Minds did help informing The Cabs going in a certain direction... But then again, only The Cabs can tell :)

D Piedra

Not sure about that ... CV came up through the mid -seventies and were even involved with Factory Records who promoted many pioneers of the post-punk industrial sounds coming out of Sheffield and Manchester. The work of Wendy Carlos and other synth pioneers had a lot to do with CV's sound. Bands like Kraftwerk, BEF, Human League, Throbbing Gristle, Fad Gadget, etc. I think Simple Minds were wore influenced by New Romantic sounds like Ultravox and others.

MrRamto13

does any body know the lyrics?

graham burns

the start of the revolution..

antunivanovic

I do believe (and also read somewhere) that early-era Simple Minds in many ways influenced Cabaret Voltaire's post-Red Mecca sound (early pre-Crackdown singles like "The Dream Ticket" and "Safety Zone" sound dangerously close to what would have become of the Simple Minds themselves if they ever followed similar electronic path)... Both, "Empires & Dance" and "Sons & Fascination" on one hand and the Cabs' "Crackdown" album, indeed sound informatively close. And all are masterpieces, of course...

Kboy

yes....decadence....the 1930's...40's pastiche was very much 'in vogue' back then. An 'interesting' time....strange how, with the exception of Joy Division people NEVER saw these bands as proto-fascist?? Anyway, ...whats in a label anyway! Take care

Monty Peno

didn't know the futurists had fascist tendencies. 80's bands sure like to use art movement names; cabaret voltaire, bauhaus, Glad the reactionary attitudes did not affect the music. It's some of my favorite especially CV, Ultravox, and Japan :)

daniel krampf

@TheMercyBeat Just to let you know-that's an early 70's Microfrets Husky Bass(short scale)he's playing here,not a Thundermaster bass.which was an earlier Microfrets longscale design.

emile235

@khorrumg yes at last someone acknowledges the Cabs Burchill connection !!

Kboy

@PradaWilly Not alternative....Futurists!!! In England this was the genre which was begun 1979 or so...bands such as Cabaret Voltaire, Human League, Simple Minds, Ultravox, Gary Numan/Tubeway Army, D.Mode, Japan, John Foxx etc German bands such as DAF, Kraftwerk, the latter who were pioneers. The term was coined as a 'throw back' to the defunct Italian quasi Fascist art movement. Many sleeve designs by Peter Saville were emotive of that era. Even the clothes were ala 1930's/ 40's

Simple Minds

Simple Minds - I travel 1980