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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Exterminating Angel
2. Brutal But Clean
3. Message, The
4. Let's Start
5. Night Rider
6. I Think
7. Heat, The
8. Harmonic Parallel
DISC 2:
1. Exterminating Angel
2. Project 80
| Details | | Producer: | Cabaret Voltaire | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Recorded at Western Works, Sheffield, England.
This two-CD set, with the entire second CD taken up by only two tracks, "Project 80" and "Exterminating Angel (Outro)," was released in 1994. The curious credit "composed, programmed, arranged, and sonically orchestrated by Richard H. Kirk" subordinated singer/bassist/co-founder Stephen Mallinder to a supporting role and left longtime Cabaret Voltaire fans wondering how equal the duo's partnership had ever been.
THE CONVERSATION sounds remarkably like Cabaret Voltaire's early-to-mid-'80s work. The presence of more "normal" industrial-dance elements, prevalent in the band's work since 1987's CODE, are downplayed in favor of trance-inducing extended drones overlaid with manipulated sounds and voices. "Brutal But Clean" and the fascinating "Harmonic Parallel" are particularly impressive. Either would have fit comfortably on Cabaret Voltaire's best earlier albums, THE CRACKDOWN and MICROPHONIES.
Industry Reviews
...With this two-CD set, the godfathers of modern electronic pop may have come up with the best LP of their career...
Option (10/01/1994)
...[Cabaret Voltaire] define[d] the softer side of trance. Their trance trilogy, commencing with PLASTICITY and brilliantly concluding with THE CONVERSATION, sounded like it was beamed to us from some higher (and decidedly alien) intelligence...
Alternative Press (07/01/1995)
...[Cabaret Voltaire] define[d] the softer side of trance. Their trance trilogy, commencing with PLASTICITY and brilliantly concluding with THE CONVERSATION, sounded like it was beamed to us from some higher (and decidedly alien) intelligence...
Alternative Press (07/01/1995)
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