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Cabaret Voltaire, Eric Random, Take It: Clarendon Hotel, London

Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 11 October 1980

IN CABARET Voltaire's live spectaculars, the valuable process of disorientation begins with the uncompromising drumbeat that fires the music. No matter if you've seen them before, inquisitive eyes inevitably scan the stage for a hidden drummer, only to discover that their pulsing heart emanates from a tape intermittently reinforced by sparing slaps of electronic percussion.

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