The Joint - 15 July 2023

Jul 18, 2023

Starting today with one of our favourite Cabaret Voltaire songs "Yashar", the first of their tunes to use the “70 billion people of Earth, where are they hiding?” Outer Limits sample.

It was later re-purposed for a 90's electronica compilation, "Happy Land" culminating, this week, in bewilderment for one or two unsuspecting Taylor Swift fans...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/style/taylor-swift-speak-now-vinyl-cabaret-voltaire.html

https://twitter.com/_folklorians/status/1678475594294501393

The online world needs little excuse for a mash-up, so the Cabaret Voltaylor's have already begun.

And on with the show...

Notebooks out completists, here's the playlist in full...

• CABARET VOLTAIRE - Yashar *
• DEPECHE MODE - Wagging Tongue (Wet Leg Remix)
• WATER FROM YOUR EYES - Something Changed
• JACKIE EXTREME - throat, heart, eyeballs
• YARD ACT - The Trench Coat Museum
• THE JAYNETTS - Sally, Go Round The Roses
• CHERYL JOHNSON - Crock
• JAY ROCK - Eastside (featuring Kal Banx)
• THE BUG - Hunted(On the run)
• MAY RIO - Aspartame
• JULIE BYRNE - The Greater Wings
• FLY ANAKIN - Intrepid
• REVIVAL SEASON - Outernational - Side A
• J.P. RAGS - Bells of Saint Barbara
• LUCIA TACCHETTI, SANTIAGO BARRIONUEVO - El Magnetismo
• SHENSEEA - Talk Truth
• DOJA CAT - Attention
• TEFLON - Contraband
• STEVE REICH, PAT METHENY - Electric Counterpoint: III. Fast
• THE BUG - Sickness(Slowly dying)
• NORMAL NADA THE KRAKMAXTER - Dedicado ao sem abrigo esperanca ou quando a esperanca morre
• BLACK MARKET KARMA & TESS PARKS - The Sky Was All Diseased
• BLACK BONES - All In Good Time
• RUBBER BLANKET - Gandy Dancer
• PINKY ANN RIHAL - Tu Aaja
• MANDY, INDIANA - Drag [Crashed]
• OVERMONO - So U Kno
• OLIVIA RODRIGO - vampire

* The inspiration for this week's lyrical heading.