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The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cabaret Voltaire: The Limelight, New York NY

Frank Owen, New Musical Express, 28 November 1987

TEN YEARS ago, Cabaret Voltaire gave the appearance of being needed on the principal that today's avant-garde is tomorrow's ready-to-wear. These days there's nothing as old hat as the shock of the new, there's nothing as out of date as the idea of experimental music.

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