Cabaret Voltaire – Conform To Deform '82 / '90. Archive;
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Virgin – 7243 8 11244 2 0 |
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Europe |
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Genre: |
Electronic |
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Experimental |
Tracklist
| Conform '82 /'90. Archive 1; | |||
| 1-1 | Diskono (Alternate Version) | 6:02 | |
| 1-2 | Code (12 Mx) | 7:04 | |
| 1-3 | The Web (12 Mx) | 6:44 | |
| 1-4 | Shakedown (Original Version) | 6:38 | |
| 1-5 | Bad Self Part 1 | 6:40 | |
| 1-6 | Automotivation 2 | 5:54 | |
| 1-7 | Slow Boat To Thassos | 6:20 | |
| 1-8 | The Web (Respun) | 6:06 | |
| 1-9 | Eastern Track | 6:25 | |
| 1-10 | Cut The Damn Camera | 3:50 | |
| 1-11 | Lost Possibilities Of Modern Dreams | 10:45 | |
| Deform '82 /'90. Archive 2; | |||
| 2-1 | Drink Your Poison (12 Mx) | 6:12 | |
| 2-2 | C.O.M.A. | 8:34 | |
| 2-3 | Safety Zone | 6:22 | |
| 2-4 | Hypnotised (A Guy Called Gerald's Music Mx) | 6:09 | |
| 2-5 | Easy Life (Rob Gordon Strange Mx) | 6:24 | |
| 2-6 | Sex, Money, Freaks (Kevorkian 12 Mx) | 7:35 | |
| 2-7 | Ghost Talk | 7:58 | |
| 2-8 | Diffusion | 7:59 | |
| 2-9 | Just Fascination (R H Kirk 2001 Mx) | 5:51 | |
| 2-10 | Sex, Money, Freaks (Kevorkian Dub) | 7:54 | |
| Liveform 8 June '90 Edinburgh. Archive 3; | |||
| 3-1 | Intro / Runaway | 7:22 | |
| 3-2 | Keep On | 5:23 | |
| 3-3 | Sex, Money, Freaks | 5:23 | |
| 3-4 | Sensoria | 5:43 | |
| 3-5 | Thank You America | 6:45 | |
| 3-6 | Positive ID | 6:04 | |
| 3-7 | Whole World | 4:35 | |
| 3-8 | Easy Life | 6:24 | |
| 3-9 | Ride Baby Ride (Acid) | 7:48 | |
| 3-10 | Searching | 6:53 | |
| 3-11 | Hypnotised / Outro | 7:15 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Western Works
- Mixed At – Western Works
- Recorded At – Pluto Studios
- Mixed At – Sarm West Studios
- Recorded At – Fon Studios
- Mixed At – Fon Studios
- Recorded At – Trident Studios
- Mixed At – Trident Studios
- Recorded At – Red Bus Studios
- Mixed At – Red Bus Studios
- Glass Mastered At – EMI UK
Credits
- Coordinator [Project Co-ordination] – Jason Day
- Design – MITDR™*
- Design [R+d / D+ad Made In] – The Designers Republic™*
- Liner Notes – Tom Rowlands
- Management [Project Consultant] – Richard H. Kirk
- Mixed By – Ian Tregoning (tracks: 1-9)
- Mixed By [Live Mix By] – Oz (3) (tracks: 3-1 to 3-11)
- Performer [Personnel], Drums – Dee Boyle* (tracks: 3-1 to 3-11)
- Performer [Personnel], Keyboards – Richard H Kirk* (tracks: 3-1 to 3-11)
- Performer [Personnel], Percussion – Dave Palfreeman* (tracks: 3-1 to 3-11)
- Performer [Personnel], Vocals – Stephen Mallinder (tracks: 3-1 to 3-11)
- Photography By [Cabaret Voltaire: Taxi To Terminal Zone By / Originally Published / Nme 16. 07. 83 / Issn™00286362. Used By Kind Permission Of Ipc Media Ltd.] – Andy Gill (2)
- Photography By [Conform Cover Image From Don't Argue Promotional Video Directed By], Photography [Deform Cover Image From Sensoria Promotional Video Directed By], Photography [Pages 8 / 16 + 17 / 25 Image From Don't Argue Promotional Video Directed By], Photography [Pages 12 + 13 / 15 / 22+ 23 Image From Sensoria Promotional Video Directed By] – Peter Care
- Photography By [Page 18 + 19 Found Image Taken From Cabaret Voltaire Live Performance Visual Archive / Mutated] – MITDR™*
- Photography By [Page 20 Location Shot From Don't Argue Shoot By] – Lynne Clarke
- Photography By [Page 4 Image Taken From Ghost Talk / Directed By / Taken From The Doublevision / Virgin Video Gasoline In Your Eye] – Cabaret Voltaire
- Producer – Flood (tracks: 1-9, 1-10)
- Recorded By – Flood (tracks: 1-9, 1-10)
- Remix – Cabaret Voltaire (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-8, 2-1 to 2-3)
- Written-By – Mallinder*
Notes
Disc 1
Track 1-1: Record Studio Pluto Manchester 1982. Previously unreleased. Original version Doublevision 12 free with The Crackdown Some Bizzare / Virgin CVCD1
Track 1-2: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1987. Previously unreleased. Original version Code album EMI CDP 7 46999 4
Track 1-3: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Previously unreleased. Original version The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord Some Bizarre / Virgin CVCD3
Track 1-4: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Previously unreleased. Alternate version Drain Train EP Doublevision DVR21
Track 1-5: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. ℗1984 Virgin Records Limited. Original release James Brown b-side Some Bizarre / Virgin CVS412A
Track 1-6: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Previously unreleased. Automotivation 1 Gasoline In Your Eye Soundtrack. Doublevision / Virgin Film VVD078
Track 1-7: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Previously unreleased. Gasoline In Your Eye Soundtrack. Doublevision / Virgin Film VVD078
Track 1-8: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Previously unreleased. Original version The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord Some Bizarre / Virgin CVCD3
Track 1-9: Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield / Sarm West London 1984. Previously unreleased. Taken from Microphonies sessions. Microphonies Some Bizarre / Virgin CVCD2
Track 1-10: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield / Sarm West London. ℗1984 Virgin Records Limited. Original release Sensoria b-side Some Bizarre / Virgin CVS312B
Track 1-11: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1983. Originally released as 'Lost Possibilities And Modern Dreams', and credited to 'Phil Barnes Featuring Cabaret Voltaire', on TV Wipeout - Naked art video exhibition soundtrack. Doublevision Film DV4.
Disc 2
Track 2-1: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield. ℗1985 Virgin Records Limited. Original release I Want You b-side Some Bizarre / Virgin CVSB5
Track 2-2: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield. ℗1985 Virgin Records Limited. Original release I Want You b-side Some Bizarre / Virgin CVSB5
Track 2-3: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield. ℗1983 Virgin Records Limited. Original release Dream Ticket b-side Some Bizarre / Virgin CVS2B
Track 2-4: Original producer for FON Force. Original Record / Mix Studio FON Sheffield. Licensed courtesy of EMI Commercial Markets ℗1990 EMI Records Ltd. Original release Parlophone 12RX 6227B. Original version Groovy, Laidback And Nasty album EMI PCSX7338
Track 2-5: Remix producer for FON Force. Original producer for FON Force. Original Record / Mix Studio FON Sheffield. Licensed courtesy of EMI Commercial Markets ℗1990 EMI Records Ltd. Mislabeled "Vocal Mix" while it is actually the "Strange Mix". Original release Parlophone 12RX 6261B. Original version Groovy, Laidback And Nasty album EMI PCSX7338
Track 2-6: Original Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield / Red Bus London. Licensed courtesy of EMI Commercial Markets. Previously unreleased. Original version Code album EMI CDP 7 46999 4
Track 2-7: Record Studio Western Works Sheffield. ℗1985 Virgin Records Limited. Original release Drinking Gasoline EP Some Bizarre / Virgin CVM 1B
Track 2-8: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Gasoline In Your Eye Soundtrack. Doublevision / Virgin Film VVD078
Track 2-9: Record / Mix Studio Trident London. Previously unreleased. Original version The Crackdown Some Bizarre / Virgin CVCD1
Track 2-10: Original Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield / Red Bus London. Licensed courtesy of EMI Commercial Markets. Previously unreleased. Original version Code album EMI CDP 7 46999 4
Disc 3
Recorded live on the Groovy Laidback And Nasty tour at Edinburgh Carlton Studios June 08 / 90 (correct date for this gig was June 07 1990)
Box / Booklet cover image found image taken from Cabaret live performance visual archive.
Live Form cover image from spanish tv live performance L'Edad D'Oro 1984.
Page 7 image from spanish tv live performance L'Edad D'Oro 1984.
Page 32 found image taken from Cabaret Voltaire live performance visual archive.
All tracks Copyright Control except track 3-9 Universal / Island Music Ltd / Copyright Control. This compilation ℗&© 2001 Virgin Records Limited. © 2001 Virgin Records Limited
Insert Virgin logo. Printed in EU.
Made in the EU.
Incidental info:
Cardboard boxset with a 32 pages booklet. Spelling mistakes on box and booklet (Hynotised in lieu of Hypnotised).
A collection of B-sides, alternate versions and various rare tracks and outtakes from the Virgin era.
Disc 3 features a complete concert from the 'Groovy, Laidback And Nasty' tour.
"Conform To Deform" was a Some Bizzare label motto.
Some copies of this release contain a "Made in Holland" sticker that typically appears on the lower right-hand portion of the back of the cardstock box, although it sometimes appears on the box's spine.
Track 1-1: Record Studio Pluto Manchester 1982. Previously unreleased. Original version Doublevision 12 free with The Crackdown Some Bizzare / Virgin CVCD1
Track 1-2: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1987. Previously unreleased. Original version Code album EMI CDP 7 46999 4
Track 1-3: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Previously unreleased. Original version The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord Some Bizarre / Virgin CVCD3
Track 1-4: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Previously unreleased. Alternate version Drain Train EP Doublevision DVR21
Track 1-5: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. ℗1984 Virgin Records Limited. Original release James Brown b-side Some Bizarre / Virgin CVS412A
Track 1-6: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Previously unreleased. Automotivation 1 Gasoline In Your Eye Soundtrack. Doublevision / Virgin Film VVD078
Track 1-7: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Previously unreleased. Gasoline In Your Eye Soundtrack. Doublevision / Virgin Film VVD078
Track 1-8: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Previously unreleased. Original version The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord Some Bizarre / Virgin CVCD3
Track 1-9: Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield / Sarm West London 1984. Previously unreleased. Taken from Microphonies sessions. Microphonies Some Bizarre / Virgin CVCD2
Track 1-10: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield / Sarm West London. ℗1984 Virgin Records Limited. Original release Sensoria b-side Some Bizarre / Virgin CVS312B
Track 1-11: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1983. Originally released as 'Lost Possibilities And Modern Dreams', and credited to 'Phil Barnes Featuring Cabaret Voltaire', on TV Wipeout - Naked art video exhibition soundtrack. Doublevision Film DV4.
Disc 2
Track 2-1: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield. ℗1985 Virgin Records Limited. Original release I Want You b-side Some Bizarre / Virgin CVSB5
Track 2-2: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield. ℗1985 Virgin Records Limited. Original release I Want You b-side Some Bizarre / Virgin CVSB5
Track 2-3: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield. ℗1983 Virgin Records Limited. Original release Dream Ticket b-side Some Bizarre / Virgin CVS2B
Track 2-4: Original producer for FON Force. Original Record / Mix Studio FON Sheffield. Licensed courtesy of EMI Commercial Markets ℗1990 EMI Records Ltd. Original release Parlophone 12RX 6227B. Original version Groovy, Laidback And Nasty album EMI PCSX7338
Track 2-5: Remix producer for FON Force. Original producer for FON Force. Original Record / Mix Studio FON Sheffield. Licensed courtesy of EMI Commercial Markets ℗1990 EMI Records Ltd. Mislabeled "Vocal Mix" while it is actually the "Strange Mix". Original release Parlophone 12RX 6261B. Original version Groovy, Laidback And Nasty album EMI PCSX7338
Track 2-6: Original Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield / Red Bus London. Licensed courtesy of EMI Commercial Markets. Previously unreleased. Original version Code album EMI CDP 7 46999 4
Track 2-7: Record Studio Western Works Sheffield. ℗1985 Virgin Records Limited. Original release Drinking Gasoline EP Some Bizarre / Virgin CVM 1B
Track 2-8: Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield 1985. Gasoline In Your Eye Soundtrack. Doublevision / Virgin Film VVD078
Track 2-9: Record / Mix Studio Trident London. Previously unreleased. Original version The Crackdown Some Bizarre / Virgin CVCD1
Track 2-10: Original Record / Mix Studio Western Works Sheffield / Red Bus London. Licensed courtesy of EMI Commercial Markets. Previously unreleased. Original version Code album EMI CDP 7 46999 4
Disc 3
Recorded live on the Groovy Laidback And Nasty tour at Edinburgh Carlton Studios June 08 / 90 (correct date for this gig was June 07 1990)
Box / Booklet cover image found image taken from Cabaret live performance visual archive.
Live Form cover image from spanish tv live performance L'Edad D'Oro 1984.
Page 7 image from spanish tv live performance L'Edad D'Oro 1984.
Page 32 found image taken from Cabaret Voltaire live performance visual archive.
All tracks Copyright Control except track 3-9 Universal / Island Music Ltd / Copyright Control. This compilation ℗&© 2001 Virgin Records Limited. © 2001 Virgin Records Limited
Insert Virgin logo. Printed in EU.
Made in the EU.
Incidental info:
Cardboard boxset with a 32 pages booklet. Spelling mistakes on box and booklet (Hynotised in lieu of Hypnotised).
A collection of B-sides, alternate versions and various rare tracks and outtakes from the Virgin era.
Disc 3 features a complete concert from the 'Groovy, Laidback And Nasty' tour.
"Conform To Deform" was a Some Bizzare label motto.
Some copies of this release contain a "Made in Holland" sticker that typically appears on the lower right-hand portion of the back of the cardstock box, although it sometimes appears on the box's spine.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Printed On Box): 7243 8 11244 2 0
- Barcode (Scanned): 724381124420
- Barcode (Disc 1): 7243 8 11245 2 9
- Barcode (Disc 2): 7243 8 11246 2 8
- Barcode (Disc 3): 7243 8 11247 2 7
- Other (Disc 1 Catalog): CVBOX1.1
- Other (Disc 2 Catalog): CVBOX1.2
- Other (Disc 3 Catalog): CVBOX1.3
- Other (Distribution Code): UK: CVBOX 1
- Label Code: LC 03098
- Rights Society: BEL BIEM
- Matrix / Runout (Disc 1): 811245 2. 1 EMI UK
- Matrix / Runout (Disc 2): 811246 2. 1 EMI UK
- Matrix / Runout (Disc 3): 811247 2. 2 EMI UK
- Mastering SID Code (Discs 1 & 2): IFPI L042
- Mastering SID Code (Disc 3): IFPI L041
- Mould SID Code (Disc 1): IFPI 1452
- Mould SID Code (Discs 2 & 3): IFPI 1450
Other Versions (2)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Conform To Deform - The Virgin / EMI Years (3×CDr, Promo, Compilation) | Virgin | CVBOX 1 | UK | 2001 | |||
| Conform To Deform '82 / '90. Archive; (3×CD, Compilation, EMI Uden, Box Set, ) | Virgin | CVBOX1, 7243 8 11244 2 0 | Europe | 2001 |
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Reviews
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This review will kind of be adding to what Crijevo mentioned below me, although my complaints are a bit different. The 'dropout' on Diskono (alternate) is VERY minor and likely just an issue with the source material. Imperceptible on speakers and audibly harmless on headphones. The rest of the tracks are fine (Heck, "Theme from Doublevision" on the 2013 remaster of The Crackdown does the same thing. I'm pretty sure it's just the source material, both tracks were recorded around the same time). What's nice is that this compilation wasn't super compressed/brickwalled like other releases of the early '00s.
My personal complaints are on the ordering of material and what they chose to include/exclude. As another commenter mentioned, there is no "Intro" or "Outro" from Gasoline in Your Eye, despite the inclusion of "Diffusion," "Slow Boat to Thassos," and "Automotivation 2" (the original "Automotivation" is on the Listen Up compilation). Those are the sole tracks from that film that have yet to be upgraded from VHS quality (but maybe they were lost, who knows). Why was "Ghost Talk" included though, when it was/is already available on a CD copy of the Drinking Gasoline EP? (Kind of a similar issue to "Kino" being on "The Original Sound of Sheffield" comp, but that made more sense as it technically had a 7" promotional mix). Anyways, it's not an alternate mix or anything, so they literally just threw in an 8min track, already available through other means, that could've been dedicated to the previously mentioned missing Gasoline tracks or even another Groovy, Laidback, and Nasty mix.
GLN isn't my favorite Cabs release, but I appreciate the attempt at archival of some of its material in 2001. However, even when compiling all the remixes from this release and 'Remixed,' there are still GLN-era tracks/remixes missing from a CD release. B-Sides "Fluid" and "Positive ID" are both stuck on vinyl as far as I know, for example. Still, only two GLN remixes were included here, and Disc 2 could've still fit 1, maybe 2 more tracks with a 1h10m length total (Disc 1 is 1h12m, so still possible room for one on there).
A name like '82/'90 would almost suggest things are in archival order, but they're quite scattered. Starts at '82, goes to '87, '85, '86, '84, etc. I think things would have flowed better, even from a listening standpoint, if ordered by year/album/soundtrack release. Why are all the Gasoline soundtrack entries on Disc 1 except "Diffusion," for example? It doesn't even really fit the 'Conform to Deform' title, even if the name is supposedly an easter egg to the Some Bizarre label.
I love the inclusion of unreleased 12" versions of "Code" and (especially!) "The Web." The alternate mixes of "Diskono," "Shakedown," and "The Web" are each great in their own right. Even Disc 3, being a GLN tour concert, is cool to hear when there is already enough live archives of Cabs stuff from 1980-1986. There's this concert, then the 'Live in London' one from 1992... and what else? I hope there are still live recordings from the '90s that have yet to be released by somebody, because it's such an underrated era for the duo.
I don't think the unreleased tracks alone are worthy of the heftier price tag this one typically sells for. But, if you're like me, you'll probably want to save money by getting this anyways instead of the now grossly inflated #8385 Collected Works. There are still a couple mixes #8385 has an edge over this box with (including the Earthshaker 'soundtrack'), but that one is still technically incomplete without a working code. So, either way, I think this bundle is better for your wallet if you want the B-Sides AND additional tracks unavailable on the newer release. -
Edited 5 years agoA nice addition to Cabaret Voltaire's list of compilations out there, some might say - but from a closer look, nothing that special, and sadly not without technical fault. To start with, there's a strange (digital?) dropout at the very beginning of the first disc - "Diskono (Alternate Version)" suddenly cuts a millisecond not long after it kicks off, which immediately leaves bitter taste in the mouth before getting into it even started. For many years now, the quality of CD releases (box-sets especially) continues to degrade due to a customary problem of clumsy supervision, that is in the end affecting the buying public who justifiably expect decent digital treatment, especially when it comes to value for money.
And then there's the contents itself - surely there are moments on this collection not to be missed but "Conform to Deform" is audibly a missed opportunity just the same, making excuses with the choice of repeated material (read - remixes and dub versions) included on the two thirds of the box-set. The remaining, third segment is reserved for the selection of the group's late 80s live material, established firmly in the house camp, which for better (or worse) marks the core duo's smart move and honest intention to explore the genre in their own right.
While the regular variant "The Best Of - The Original Sound Of Sheffield" cleverly relies on the Virgin/Parlophone-era 12" mixes in a nice consistent overview, "Conform To Deform" is a deceptive mess not intended to relate to that regular compilation's A-side material. Thus it is too bad that "Conform To Deform" didn't reach further into the vault for the more obscure Cabaret Voltaire material that was always known to be plenty out there.
Instead, try "Technology", "Listen Up With", "Radiation", "Methodology", and "The Living Legends". These were constructed with more attention to a certain chronology, the obscurity factor and enthusiasm. "Conform To Deform" sadly leaves the impression it was heading more in the direction of an inevitable cash cow. -
This release is a nice treat for Cabaret Voltaire fans who want more of the Drinking Gasoline era. The live disc is a nice curiousity because it demonstrates their ability to play live house music. By the way, I had to buy this release 3 times. I kept exchaning it because "Disconon" (alternate mix) has a skip. I think it was recorded that way because every CD player I played on it would skip at that point and the CDs looked totally fine.
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