List | C | Cultivated Bimbo | 'Tunes From A High Wire' CD 1991

Track:	Name:	Time:
1.	Wake Up Neighbour	1:11
2.	Sleeping Beauty '91	3:14
3.	One Kiss, Then Goodbye	0:56
4.	Hooker In Head	2:48
5.	Shortwave Disturbance	1:23
6.	Ice Blender	3:40
7.	Van Der Heyden	1:07
8.	Slashsetting	2:02
9.	Wendy Takes The Fall	3:26
10.	Sitting On Dynamite	0:59
11.	Mind At Countdown	3:36
12.	Tucker	5:23
13.	Bomb Being Dropped	1:34
14.	Iron Freak	3:30
15.	Not In Tune	0:39
16.	In Brief	2:53
17.	Dead Aim & Attack	3:26
18.	Visiting The South	0:30
19.	Qui Est Quoi?	4:45
20.	Erleben Nicht Aus	3:07
21.	Closing Time	2:52
22.	Exit...	1:45
23.	Something To Do	3:46
24.	Corruption Mix 3	3:46
	Total	62:18

Comments:

This is quite different from Configuration 1 + 2; the EBM is still present in some tracks, but only a handful. Instead, this album is one big mosaic of samples, carefully engineered to induce a sense of somewhat ordered chaos (perhaps not too unlike Skinny Puppy in places). Occasionally, the use of samples is quite ingenious; the contrast of a short Charleston excerpt (from 'A Clockwork Orange') that then explodes into a sort of EBM/industrial aggro track is quite outstanding. It's actually sort of difficult to put a label on this music; 'industrial' doesn't seem to fit very well. Complex structures are made up (almost?) entrirely of samples in themes or complete contrasts. I don't know if the two "Bimbos" Wallin and Österdahl planned this album very carefully or if it just happened while they were playing around in the studio, but the result is excellent. It's one of those albums where it's so well done it's hard to say what could be better if you changed it.

'Something To Do' is of course not their own song, but a Depeche Mode cover. It's more of a pure EBM track in this version, but the female vocals are a bit weak. I supppose it's been added as an extra track along with 'Corruption' (in a very different mix compared to that on Configuration 1 + 2), since they sort of break the sample-craze pattern a bit. Cultivated Bimbo also contributed with another Depeche Mode cover (New Life) on the tribute album I Sometimes Wish I Was Famous, which is where I discovered this band in the first place.

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