…these songs resonate as loudly as when they were first created” –  MOJO
When they were young, members of Cabaret Voltaire used to walk up to strangers at bus stops in Sheffield and spray them with sounds from reel-to-reel tape recorders. They wanted to liven up everyday life in a Northern industrial town, and observe what would happened when people were jolted out of familiar habits. This pranksterism sticks in the memory, not just because it speaks to the DIY graft that’s part of Cabs’ origin story, but because spending hours splicing sounds onto tape and then blasting them out for a few seconds touches upon a question lurking over the live performance of electronic music as whole: if all the work takes place in the studio…

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