Micro-Phonies
by Cabaret Voltaire
- Type: Album
- Released: November 1984
- Label: Some Bizzare
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 40:46
- Community rating: 3.4/5 from 2 ratings
Artists on this release: Roger Quail, Flood, Mark Tattersall, Richard H. Kirk, Stephen Mallinder
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Continuing their transition from abrasive industrial pioneers to underground dancefloor mainstays, the Sheffield duo fully embraces EBM rhythms and prominent vocal sampling on this record. Tracks like 'Sensoria' and 'James Brown' fuse mechanical drum machine patterns with funk-indebted basslines, creating a sleek yet menacing sonic landscape. The album proved highly influential to the emerging Chicago house and Detroit techno scenes.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic, repetitive, sampling
Tracklist
- Do Right (6:44)
- The Operative (3:14)
- Digital Rasta (3:40)
- Spies In The Wires (3:19)
- Theme From Earthshaker (2:48)
- James Brown (5:01)
- Slammer (5:37)
- Blue Heat (4:04)
- Sensoria (6:19)
Credits
- Phil Barnes - artwork [original]
- Stephen Mallinder - bass, voice, written-by
- Roger Quail - drums, percussion
- Richard H. Kirk - guitar, performer [wind instruments], synthesizer, sampler [fairlight], written-by
- Porky - lacquer cut by
- Mark Tattersall - percussion
- Eric Random - tabla [tablas]