Cabaret Voltaire
Formed in Sheffield, England, in 1973, Cabaret Voltaire took the noise of the
city's industrial core and turned it into dissonant, Dadaist soundscapes to
become antagonistic outsiders of the synth pop scene. Self-professed sonic noise
terrorists, they were inspired by the early German electronic artists and
started experimenting with synths, distortion, tape loops, and sampling in
keyboard player Chris Watson's attic. They released homemade cassettes, appeared
on the first-ever Factory Records compilation album, and regularly performed
alongside Joy Division before signing with R...
