Cabaret Voltaire Versions - Kora! Kora! Kora!

Repetition! Repetition! Repetition!

Kora! Kora! Kora! is the first new work by Cabaret Voltaire (now fundamentally Stephen H Kirk) since 1994, a re-working of key tracks from the debut album by the New Zealand platinum-selling dub warriors, Kora. Not a million miles removed from his Sandoz project, it’s robust cut-up techno, rammed full of found voices and, at times, beats so big you think you’re back at London’s Heavenly Social in 1996.

Using soul voices and song structures from traditional R&B, we have huge, building song sketches. When the bass drops on Burning or the exhilaration of the restless, relentless forward motion of Flow, you realise just how skilful and overlooked a producer Kirk has always been. Only Crazy Things wrongfoots in this seven-track extravaganza; for once the bottomless well of repetition gets, um, a bit dull.

3 stars 3 stars 3 stars

Shiva | 16 CD

Reviewed by Daryl Easlea
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