CABARET VOLTAIRE - But What Time is it Really ? (2026)

 

The biggest surprise of 2026 so far is the return of Cabaret Voltaire. With the death of Richard  Kirk I didn't think I would ever hear Cabaret Voltaire again.

I was wrong!!! The live performances of their 2025 UK tour were followed in 2026 by new releases and a new 2026 tour  (unfortunately,  Italy is not on the list).

There are LPs and CDs (with different setlists), Bandcamp digital releases and also a lot of youtube videos of the live tour performances.

For those who (like me) cannot attend a concert of this tour, here is a list of links that can be used as  an alternative.

BANDCAMP = cabaretvoltaire.bandcamp.com

YOUTUBE = Cabaret Voltaire live at Élysée Montmartre Paris 2026

YOUTUBE = Cabaret Voltaire Live at AB - Ancienne Belgique

REGRESSIVE LEFT - On the wrong side of history (2022)

 I took note of this name while listening to some Spotify playlist.

Something about their sound caught my attention; perhaps some hints of familiar music (Talking Heads, Devo etc.). But it doesn't matter, it's enough to deepen their knowledge.

This is their first EP (2022) after some single in 2020 and 2021.

ENJOY: On the wrong side of history

YELLO - Touch (2009)

Touch by the Swiss duo "Yello" was released in 2009 as celebration of 30 year of  their activity. Yello (Dieter Meier and Boris Blank + Carlos Peron ) are well known by the electronic/techno fans of '80-'90. Their "vanguard" (for the period) music and video were a good mix of technique, dance rhythms with a piece of irony.
Touch is a perfect balance of all ingredients of Yello music. Good choice on female voices on this work (Heidi Happy is one ).

Here: http://www6.zippyshare.com/v/oEAcpeUF/file.html

LAMB - Milan, Magazzini Generali - November 19, 2014

Really a strange couple form the LAMB.  The folksinger  Lou Rhodes and the techno composer and producer Andy Barlow. Two extreme in the music world and also two completely different appearance on the stage; Lou is ethereal in her white long traditional dress and Andy that seems just coming from a rave party.

It is like to have “Chemical Brothers” and “Loreena McKennit” together on the same stage. Difficult to image but incredible is the result.

LAMB combines these two extreme and melt together obtaining a very nice result . Techno, Trip hop, rock? Difficult to classify. Some song are similar to Portishead, some other to techno-disco (Andy help to move the stage in this direction!!).

At the end it was a good live act. Unexpected and for this more appreciate. Today I am playing “Backspace Unwind “(just released) again and again….

Lamb - Doves& Ravens 

THE KILOWATT HOUR - S. Mathieu/D.Sylvian/C.Fennesz (19/9/13 ALcatraz Milano)

Attracted by David Sylvian name I take the ticket for this concert at Milan. I saw D. Sylvian with R. Fripp several years ago and it this was the occasion to see him again.
Reading about the group THE KILOWATT HOUR I was disappointed to see that no voice or songs are part of the performance but electronic experimentalism and ambient music with video clips. I search on the web and I "tried " to listen to some piece (really not easy to listen to). So at the end I go to the concert with very few expectation and ready to attend to a bouring performance......but it was not so!!! It was really worse!!! Unbelievable. One hour and 15 minutes of flat and monothone noise with recorded voice  saying nonsense. Also the video on the back was something ridicolous. The three guys were sitting on their one desk (one for each one) looking at their  laptop video (and really I thought  "are they reading their mails or watching a film?")
Really a very poor experience last night. On the way home driving my car I prefer to listen to a CD. I played the new Franz Ferdinand one ....... Fine!!! That was the best part of last night.

KRAFTWERK - The Man Machine

Kraftwerk from Dusseldorf  are really the "beginning" of electronic music. From their experience  electro- music took different directions. New wave, Techno, Hi-pop and pratically any kind of future music areas took advantages from Kraftwerk sound experimentation.
The Man Machine is a 1978 work but would be a 1988 or a 1998 ones. How not to be impresses by "The Model" ? Really an out of  time track with several covers from different bands during the years.



http://rapidshare.com/files/1819558596/KWK.zip

At this link a complete article for italian fans:
http://www.ondarock.it/elettronica/kraftwerk.htm