CABARET VOLTAIRE/KORA: Kora! Kora! Kora! - The Cabaret Voltaire Versions
By Martyn Pepperell
I like this CD very much. Quite how Kora managed to coax Sheffield post-punk auteurs Cabaret Voltaire out of retirement to gleefully re-imagine seven songs off their debut self-titled album into iconoclastic white noise sound art meets prototype blip bass dance music is beyond me. However I’m really glad it happened, because Cabaret Voltaire’s advanced production experience and refined sonic palette seems to offer a surprisingly logical solution to an often added up, subtracted and added up again equation/question. A question, which of course was, what was the missing piece in the puzzle on Kora’s debut album? Twitchy, wonky, and unapologetically glitch on Skankenstein, and somehow abrasive, bubbling and progressive on Pop Your Bubble, Kora! Kora! Kora! keys in perfectly with a statement I made about them in their (Dec/Jan 2008 issue) NZM cover story. Kora multi-process and regurgitate (Kora-fication?) rock, funk, house, reggae, dub, metal, hip-hop and more, in a fresh and original feel and form to constantly keep dance floors across the country tuned in and twitching.” Who could guess how well Kora was going to live up to the twitching part?
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