Wednesday, July 9, 2014

OSCILLATIONS: #7885 ELECTROPUNK TO TECHNOPOP by Cabaret Voltaire


Although I have these tracks already in one form or the other,  just the thought of uniting the group's early independent (most via Rough Trade) singles with later commerce-oriented dance tracks (through Some Bizarre/Virgin) makes for an inviting listen.  These, along with Karlheinz Stockhausen's early electronic works were my introduction to noise as form, provocation, poetry and substantive experience. I certainly never would have bridged the supposed chasm between my work in the visual arts and that other idiom,  "music" without them.  For those who've never experienced the unremitting tension of "Nag Nag Nag" and the diseased funk of "James Brown",  this is certainly a convenient form of self-abuse.

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