Rest in peace, Kirky. Man this one hurt. Ground-breaking pioneers. They were making proto-techno in the late 70s/early 80s. I used to LOVE them, they helped me thru a very difficult childhood. Wracked with pain, they offered me an oasis of happiness, a sliver of solace. Growing up in the states, I remember the fight, the battle, to try to get our hands on ONE MORE hard to find import 12" single or album of theirs. But u know what? The work that it took made it all the sweeter when we finally got it onto our turntable. Man were those times great. But now, one-by-one, the lights are going out, we are leaving the party. So sad, but those that experienced them will cherish those days in our hearts forever, and sip the memories like fine wine that has aged well. Thanks for all the good times Kirk and Mallinder. Legends.

this song and this album was an incredible leap forward for music. Skinny Puppy, Ministry, NIN they should give CV a lot a credit. Along with Kraftwerk and Throbbing Gristle of course.

They almost sound better to me now. Awesome.

Gritty, sinister, seductive, bizarre, sophisticated, cool. So good.

RIP - Richard H Kirk ! A sad loss, no words.

Listened to Caberet Voltaire for over 30 years and they still sound modern and relevant. This is my favourite track of theirs, and also the first time I heard or saw them.

I'm glad Richard & Mal were able to find a taxi after wandering around Sheffield for so long.

This is a great example of how complex and imaginative CV was. Their sounds, use of sampling and video was way ahead of what anyone was doing. True synth pioneers right up there with KW but rarely noted for it. AMAZING!

THIS VIDEO AGED VERY WELL..

Yeah, waaaaayyyy before Skinny Puppy. These guys were revolutionary.

This was my fave cabs tune. RIP Mr Kirk thanks for introducing the younger me the possibilities of avant-garde

i love the fact that this so-coherent RIGHT NOW!

Watching you watch others move... RIP Richard.

this is an amazing song! great beat and sounds! this video just reached 385K views, i am happy the interest is still there after 15 years. Let's hope for 386K by New Year's! 🙌

+ Lyrics + Scatter you, sweep your feet. Pick you up, and drag you in. Stubbing things to schemes and places. And someone, cracks down. Watching you watch others move. And sometimes, someone Flatter you, sweep your feet. Pick you up, and drag you in. Stick to you playing with fire. And it's so good that you scream. And someone, sometimes, cracks down. Someone, sometimes, cracks down. A bell rings, you jump a place, Making moves to the right spot. And someone, somewhere, cracks down. Flatter you, sweep your feet. Pick you up, and drag you in. Stubbing things to schemes and places. Pick a place. Watching you watch others move. Then sometimes, someone, cracks down. Cracks down. Flatter you, sweep your feet. Pick you up, and drag you in. Take to you playing with fire. And it's so good that you scream. A bell rings, you jump a place, Making right moves to the right spots. And someone, cracks down. Someone, sometimes, cracks down. Someone, sometimes, cracks down. Watching you watch others move. Cracks down. Someone, cracks down. Cracks down. Someone, cracks down. Someone, sometime, cracks down. Somewhere, someone, somewhere, cracks down. Watching you watch others move. Someone, sometimes, crack down. The crackdown. Crack down. Someone, somewhere, cracks down. Cracks down, cracks down, crackdown, someone, crackdown. You're seeing things, you're stopping things, Dreams and chasers, picking places. Watching you watch others move. Right places. And someone cracks down. Cracks down. Crackdown, crackdown, crackdown, crackdown, Someone cracks down.

Je te pleure, Richard...

this was one of my favourite bands to dance to in the 80s they rock!

Awesome song/video. The Cabs were so ahead of their time.

This was the 12 inch version of The Crackdown, it had a real power to it unlike the track on the album! This ones got so much energy.......

Love CV for all the amazing sounds and sights they used. The greatest concert I EVER attended was CV at the Toronto Concert Hall, summer 1985!!!

Man... I remember watching this video in the late 80s and then my friend gave me a VHS copy. Ahead of it's time. Some elements were copied by Nine inch nails a few years later. I was really chilling to Red Mecca and Time High Fiction also. 😢 miss those years.

Great song 1st time I heard it 11 17 2023 Wush I listened to it sooner Future proves past

still listen to "the crackdown" 24 24 24 hours a day

Don't try likening them to other UK bands. CV were formed in 1973 ,and well ahead of their time.

I would like to say the Cabs were ahead of their time but I disagree myself. They were spot on brilliance. Timeless

Thank you Richard. You left us too soon.

Crackdown was one of the great (last) tracks of 1983

Great song great video great band long live dada

I remember this from 25 years ago!!! I was blown away then, and am still blown away today... What true revolutionaries CV are... What a great song, video and lp inventing the genre of industrial along with Throbbing Gristle

RIP Richard :-(

Damn, I'm digin' this funky lil groooooooovie trak from Cabaret Voltaire. Heard many of their songs and I'm from the 80s. However, it's the 1st time to indulge in this master piece! Ah, taking me to another euphoric place away from all this agony...Ty!

without words .... simply excellent

Effin very hot and kewl video too! Watched it over like 21 times so far and can't get enough.

Still my favorite Cabs song and one of my absolute favorites of all time. I watched the video so much when I was younger that I adopted the style of dance of the two guys in the video.

Timeless sound and vision.

oh i remember this well. ignited my love affair that lasted decades. still stands the test of time. one of the best shows I've seen was them at the Ritz in NYC in the late 80's. Perfect in every sense.

And that’s why we need a Cabs documentary while we still have Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson among us. This is a way too important and revolutionary project for modern music and video. A comprehensive book would help too. Will someone do it?…

dear youngsters - pls acknowledge these were the streets of Poland in late 70s/early 80's, i've been there and felt the terror... never again!!!

This is another one of my favorites to watch from time to time.

Brilliant music !!

Politics aside, this is a great song from a time when electronic music made leaps and bounds over the mainstream crap of the day. This dark electronic sound complete with haunting video was the hallmark of CV.

The best bassline you can't hum ever (the synth bass that is)

The r/OldElectronicMusic subreddit brought me here! 🔥 💣 💚

incredyble how these songs sounds like today,even better!the video is likes new!!We used to dance on this thwenty years ago

True inspiration in every sense of the word. Brilliant.

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this shows they were ahead of their time

Stuff like this that got me into dada the occult and how to explore my mind cabs hell yeah

I remember when I first heard this it gave me goosebumps, bloody love the Cabs, I still play them when I DJ

Timeless....Brilliance

Oh wow -Skinny Puppy obviously lifted the sounds and beat and some of the sections for "Testure". I prefer testure as dance material but this is cool too.

Awesome music! Industrial ftw!

Awsome video, awsome music. i am a big fan of Cabaret Voltaire . . . Thanks for the info about the video . . . this is real music . . .!!!

man. you took the words right out of my mouth

notice the flashframe of Diskono near the end of the song.... i sincerely believe that the entire Cabaret Voltaire song library ties to each and every other CV song,......it's a story....if you watch carefully maybe you can learn it too..... #kNOw #eYedidCthat

Visuals and sound at the start are chilling.

Always interesting. Always innovative.

1983 air banding this song in my bedroom, in Calgary Ab.

great song and nice video ...

Rock City Futurist days! Awesome!!

I dig this stuff. Ever since when I dj'ed at WZRD 88.3 FM Chicago, I have switched off the mainstream stuff. I dig this stuff.

Now THERE's a bleak, sexy song... That's right ! those 2 can go together

Riot in Poland 70/80...

RIP Richard H Kirk

the whole thing feels like some sort of strange dream of desperation and urgency without a findable cause

amazing!!!!!!

This beat reminds me so much of Testure from Skinny Puppy...Both are great bands...

They have a stroll outside my old work place on Effingham road. Rip rich

Great song !

i have not seen this since 1984, when I was watching an episode of "Night Flight" with my godmother. she did not like the video. thanks for the post.

great way to look at it i like the way you think cheers!

A Great Band ! Pure underground sound A neo realistc and surrealist letters with a god prodand mix on studio And malkes a good record Icone music even today.

dear youngsters-pls this could be anywhere,,and still..this is popmusic and we´ve felt the terrors of know-how.. DADA!

The Cabs!

AWESOME!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Here it is folks - the greatest music video ever made! Watch those nightmare images combined with truly great editing and music that was and still is far ahead of its time. This puts to shame trash like NIN. Enough said.

Bloody Good. Sounds fresh still.

I married my ex-husband because he was a Cabs fan. I think that's what he liked about me as well. It didn't work out but the draw of two loving the Cabs is strong! My next tattoo is gonna be one of the CV bits of art from the MicroPhonies LP.

⚘⚘⚘RIP Richard H. Kirk ⚘⚘⚘

Poland has changed, I am a Pole, it actually pictures from the 70s of the 80 strikes of the twentieth century, the so-called communist era, when in opposition before the communist Solidarity was the peoples government led by the USSR (Soviet Union). These were very difficult and bad times for Polish citizens. Then I was a boy. But a lot has changed in this country. We are in the European Union

ha! he broke character @ 8:06 - great track and video, love Cabaret Voltaire!

skinny puppy has stolen this one: testure

'83 & yeah!!!

awesome!

modern day dada. lovin it

Best Club Music @ Red Parrot 1985.

I'd have to say that this is the greatest video that I've ever seen to this date and I've probably seen 40,000 -- give or take a few thousand... Talk about influence with super fast and amazing editing with repeat nightmare visuals which sooooo many truly awful bands such as one of the bottom 5 bands of all time NIN owe a great debt to... duh

God i hate Mainstream music when i come back to the listen to such classics.

Big Love,Big Funk

He reminds me of Matt Johnson of The The

Sheffield really knew ho to produce excellent music

A truly sickening bassline.

I've been a fan of the Cabs for over 30 years now, and have always wondered why they never broke in to the 'mainstream'. They had the sounds, and, as this video shows, had the looks. Too good for the masses. Possibly.

4m 20s the 2 dancers haha cracks me up every time

1984...

rock and roll yeah

R.I.P. Richard H. Kirk

It's so good that you scream.

THIS to me was their brightest show of brilliance. they were so close to going into the dark side......SO CLOSE :)