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CABARET VOLTAIRE Members: Alan Fish – Drums, Percussion Richard Kirk – Guitar, Saxophone, Clarinet, Synthesizer Stephen Mallinder – Vocals, Bass-guitar The precursors of the synthetic beat Stephen Mallinder, Richard Kirk and Christopher Watson came together in Sheffield, Yorkshire in the year 1974. They replaced guitars and drums with synthesizer and rhythm-computers to get a surreal sound-collage as well as obscure sound-worlds between Pop, Punk and Electronic. They named after the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, which was a meeting-place for the Dadaists. They appeared the first time in May 1975. They had to interrupt their concert because the audience threw beer-cans and plastic-cups at them. In London it wasn’t much better, when they were the supporting-group of the Buzzcocks. They always used video-, movie- and slide-projections for accompanying their music, which showed expressive visions with hardly digestible rhythm-accessions. At this time their music was connected with the ...