Cabaret Voltaire - Conform To Deform '82 / '90 Archive

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Label:	Virgin Records, Virgin Records
Catalog#:	CVBOX 1, 7243 8 11244 2 0
Format:	3 x CD, Compilation
Box Set
Country:	UK
Released:	Sep 2001
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Electro, Industrial
Credits:	Drums - Dee Boyle* (tracks: 3.01 to 3.11)
Other [Project Co-ordination] - Jason Day
Other [Project Consultant] - Richard H. Kirk
Percussion - Dave Palfreeman* (tracks: 3.01 to 3.11)
Producer - Cabaret Voltaire
Notes:	Cardboard boxset with a 32 pages booklet: each CD comes in a cardboard sleeve and has an individual catalogue number, CVBOX 1.1 to 1.3. Spelling mistakes on box and booklet (Hynotised in lieu of Hypnotised). Track 2.05 is mislabeled "Vocal Mix" while is actually "Strange Mix".
A collection of B-sides, alternate versions and various rare tracks and outtakes from the Virgin era;
CD3 features a complete concert from the Groovy, Laidback And Nasty tour, recorded live at Carlton Studios, Edinburgh.

Track 1.05 released on James Brown 12"
Tracks 1.07 & 2.08 released on Gasoline In Your Eye VHS
Track 1.10 released on Sensoria 12"
Track 1.11 released on TV Wipeout (Video Magazine) VHS
Tracks 2.01-2.02 released on I Want You 12"
Track 2.03 released on The Dream Ticket 12"
Track 2.04 released on Hypnotised (Remixes) 12"
Track 2.05 released on Easy Life (Robert Gordon Remixes) 12"
Tracks 2.06, 2.09 & 2.10 released on Just Fascination / Sex, Money, Freaks 12"
Track 2.07 released on Drinking Gasoline double 12"
All other tracks are previously unreleased.

"Conform To Deform" was Some Bizzare label motto.

Catalog numbers of the individual discs:
Disc 1: 7243 8 11245 2 9
Disc 2: 7243 8 11246 2 8
Disc 3: 7243 8 11247 2 7

Tracklisting:
 	Archive 1: Conform
1.01 	  	Diskono (Alternate Version) (6:02)
  	  Drums - Alan Fisch
1.02 	  	Code (12 Mx) (7:04)
1.03 	  	The Web (12 Mx) (6:44)
1.04 	  	Shakedown (Original Version) (6:38)
1.05 	  	Bad Self (Part 1) (6:40)
1.06 	  	Automotivation 2 (5:54)
1.07 	  	Slow Boat To Thassos (6:20)
1.08 	  	The Web Respun (6:06)
1.09 	  	Eastern Track (6:25)
  	  Producer [Additional] - Flood
  Remix - Ian Tregoning
1.10 	  	Cut The Damn Camera (3:50)
  	  Drums - Roger Quail
  Percussion - Mark Tattersall
  Producer [Additional] - Flood
  Tabla - Eric Random
1.11 	  	Lost Possibilities Of Modern Dreams (10:45)
 	Archive 2: Deform
2.01 	  	Drink Your Poison (12 Mx) (6:12)
  	  Drums - Mark Tattersall
2.02 	  	C.O.M.A. (8:34)
2.03 	  	Safety Zone (6:22)
2.04 	  	Hypnotised (A Guy Called Gerald's Music Mx) (6:09)
  	  Producer [Additional] - Mark Brydon , Robert Gordon
  Remix - A Guy Called Gerald
2.05 	  	Easy Life (Rob Gordon Vocal Mx) (6:24)
  	  Producer [Additional] - Mark Brydon , Robert Gordon
  Remix - Robert Gordon
2.06 	  	Sex, Money, Freaks (Kevorkian 12 Mx) (7:35)
  	  Producer [Additional] - Adrian Sherwood
  Remix - François Kevorkian
2.07 	  	Ghost Talk (7:58)
2.08 	  	Diffusion (7:59)
  	  Drums - Roger Quail
2.09 	  	Just Fascination (R H Kirk 2001 Mx) (5:51)
  	  Drums [Additional] - Alan Fisch
  Remix - Richard H. Kirk
2.10 	  	Sex, Money, Freaks (Kevorkian Dub) (7:54)
  	  Remix - François Kevorkian
 	Archive 3: Liveform. Edinburgh, 8 June '90
3.01 	  	Intro / Runaway (7:22)
3.02 	  	Keep On (5:23)
3.03 	  	Sex, Money, Freaks (5:23)
3.04 	  	Sensoria (5:43)
3.05 	  	Thank You America (6:45)
3.06 	  	Positive ID (6:04)
3.07 	  	Whole World (4:35)
3.08 	  	Easy Life (6:24)
3.09 	  	Ride Baby Ride (Acid) (7:48)
3.10 	  	Searching (6:53)
3.11 	  	Hypnotised / Outro (7:15)

User Reviews:

    unitary, Sep 03, 2007

    While Disc 1 and 2, respectively, are brilliant collections of rare tracks and remixes, the real gem is the live disc. It is not the "best of" set that the crowd obviously expected - some fans are yearning for "Yashar! Yashar!" after every song but the Cabs didn't include it in their set. Instead the main focus is put on stuff from the "Groovy Laidback and Nasty" era and thereafter. Beside vivid reworks from album tracks, enriched by very cool voice samples, you can hear rarities such as the outstanding "Positive ID" (originally on the B-Side of the "Easy Life" 12"), the powerful analogue-sounding "Whole World" and a really cool Acid House Track called "Ride Baby Ride". The concert sounds as if it was an open air performance, and it is in fact so 'live' that everytime I hear it feels like being there.