CABARET VOLTAIRE Red Mecca - UK LP on Mute - Post Punk Industrial Richard H Kirk

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CABARET VOLTAIRE

Red Mecca

UK LP released on Mute Records in 2013.
Includes printed innersleeve.
Includes bonus CD version in card sleeve + insert.

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Though they're one of the most important groups in the history of post punk industrial and electronic music, Cabaret Voltaire are sometimes forgotten in the style's timeline — perhaps because they continued recording long after other luminaries (Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Chrome) called it quits. Also related to the fact is that CV rarely stayed in one place for long, instead moving quickly from free-form experimentalism through arty white-boy funk and on to house music in the late '80s and electronica the following decade.

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It isn't without reason that Red Mecca is often referred to as one of Cabaret Voltaire's most cohesive and brilliant records. Taken as a whole, the record contains all the characteristics that have made the Sheffield group such an influential entity when it comes to electronic music of the un-tethered, experimental variety that isn't afraid to shake its tail a little.

It's a taught, dense, horrific slab lacking a lull. Dashes of Richard H. Kirk's synthesizer are welded to Chris Watson's tape effects for singed lashes of white noise, best heard on the lurching "Sly Doubt" and the jolting "Spread the Virus." Throughout, Mallinder's sinister jibber jabbering punctuates the high-pitched menace. What he's ranting about is rarely obvious, as the clarity of his voice is often obstructed by the tape effects, synth work, and other random whip-cracks (Watson's periodic surges of organ are another treat). Judging from his irritated tone, the lyrics have little to do with bunnies jumping over dandelions or anything nearing pleasant — it's that lack of definition that makes things all the more unsettling. Several tunes have a thick rhythmic drive. The instrumental "Landslide" is painfully short at two minutes, with a bopping machine beat and barely perceptible vocal samples that dart between the left and right channels. A grainy programmed rhythm and Kirk's sickly guitar manglings dominate the sleazy "Split Second Feeling." Sick, searing, engrossing. Along with 2X45 and The Living Legends, this is their best offering.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

A Touch Of Evil
Sly Doubt
Landslide
A Thousand Ways

Side Two

Red Mask
Split Second Feeling
Black Mask
Spread The Virus
A Touch Of Evil (reprise)

Released on 'Mute Records' in 2013

Catalogue No. CABS3LP (5099901970012)

Disc is in EX condition

Sleeve is in EX condition

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