quoted 7 lines Quite a while back, Tower Records (and, I imagine, other stores) put> Quite a while back, Tower Records (and, I imagine, other stores) put
> almost all of their Mute/Elektra stock in cutouts for like $5 a disc, and
> I stupidly passed up the opportunity to buy up literally dozens of CV
> albums. By any chance does anyone here know of a store, *anywhere*, that
> still has a bunch of Cabaret Voltaire cutouts? I can no longer find the
> domestics for sale, and completing my collection with imports would
> likely cost me well over a thousand dollars. No.
Umm... Something interesting, if you're after the early Cab Volt
recordings (70's and early 80's).
Mute in the U.K. and Sire in the U.S. re-released Cab Volt's
entire Rough Trade back catalog as well as some albums that I had not
seen on Rough Trade like _The Living Legends_ which is a complitation
of B-Sides and Singles (like Silent Command, Nag Nag Nag, & Is that
Someone Finding Me at the Door Again).
These are all mid-price recordings and retail in S.Africa for between
1/2 and 2/3 the price of full imports... Should be available as
domestics in the U.S. though cos thats where some of my discs come
from...
The Rough Trade period was C.V.'s first phase STS. IT was when
Christopher Watson was still playing the Vox Continential Organ with
Mal & Kirk. Mal played the bongos and screamed into vocoders. Kirk
used a steam driven (no joke) drum machine and "cheap 3 quid
guitars". You can really hear the deep influence that the Velvet
Underground and Can had on Mal, Kirk & Watson.
Trainspotter question... did Cab Volt form in 1972 or 1974?
Chillos
Matthew