Cabaret Voltaire Go Back to the 70s

There was lots of unreleased material that hadn't been available so I thought it would be nice to put it out there for people that wanted it, then move on but the moving on stage led to me approaching Mute, to do something similar with a different period of the Cabs, the late 70s/ early 80s. And again, we did a Best of, which hopefully will serve as an introduction to younger people who are interested in electronic or dance music, who might like to see where a lot of the ideas came from. It's also a little more user friendly so hopefully people will hear it and want to go and explore the Cabs albums which is where all the definitive work lies anyway."

After 20 years it still sounds pretty good if you compare it to what's around at the moment. It's quite quirky. It was never part of any movement, it was instead three guys in Sheffield, who couldn't really play music, getting together to see what they could do- that was the end product. When it was done, the music was quite shocking to lots of people because they weren't used to hearing electronics and drum machines in music, which obviously is now very commonplace.
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