{"title":"Stephen Mallinder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Mallinder is a British singer and musician, born on 1 January 1955 in Sheffield, England. He is best known as a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire. In 1995, he relocated to Australia for a decade and co-founded Wrangler with Pete Carrol in 1996. Mallinder holds a PhD as Doctor of Philosophy and his thesis 'Movement - Journey Of The Beat' was promoted at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Since returning to England, he has given lectures at the University of Brighton and joined the band Wrangler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephen Mallinder is a pioneering artist who has made significant contributions to the music industry throughout his career. As one of the founding members of Cabaret Voltaire, he helped shape the sound of electronic music in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His innovative approach to music production and performance continues to inspire artists today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his work with Cabaret Voltaire, Mallinder's time in Australia allowed him to explore new musical horizons. Co-founding Wrangler with Pete Carrol showcased his ability to adapt and evolve within different musical contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"um-dada","title":"Um Dada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eStephen Mallinder, co founder and frontman of the iconic Cabaret Voltaire, has returned with his first solo album in over 35 years: \u003ci\u003eUm Dada\u003c\/i\u003e. Laced with leftfield house and cut up sound collages, \u003ci\u003eUm Dada\u003c\/i\u003e is a melding of energies that are an exercise in simplicity and motion. Sincere, playful realism that beckons your body to move, always reminding you to never take yourself too seriously without forfeiting your agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile steering Cabaret Voltaire through the 1980’s, Mallinder was already busy piecing together his first solo album entitled \u003ci\u003ePow Wow\u003c\/i\u003e, which would help define Mallinder’s interest in the more leftfield electro sounds shaping England at the time. It was this diverse and abstract hybrid that helped inspire generations of artists and musicians through steeping raw machine funk within the whimsical and absurdist ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUm Dada is mischievously idealist, however never loses touch with reality. Offering structure while simultaneously dismantling any and all preconceptions. The spirit of sincerity that sustained Cabaret Voltaire’s lengthy career is abundantly present within founder Stephen Mallinder’s journey through his own whimsical utopian consciousness and staking claim to an identity that is solely his own. For fans of Matthew Dear, Tiga, Daphni, Jimpster, Gabe Gurnsey, Green Velvet, Marc Houle, Cabaret Voltaire, Adult etc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dais","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50452700889419,"sku":"1072382","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b29ea06b-abff-4690-9315-4bb1893dba77_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727161112"},{"product_id":"tick-tick-tick","title":"tick tick tick","description":"\u003cp\u003eCabaret Voltaire co-founder Stephen Mallinder’s second solo outing for Dais further distills his signature fusion of minimal synth, oblique wordplay, and “wonky disco” into a riveting rhythm suite ripe for our age of escalation: \u003ci\u003etick tick tick\u003c\/i\u003e. Channeling the temporal malaise of lockdown through a lusher palette of modular electronics and stereo strings, the songs embrace ambiguity and plasticity, loose systems of percolating circuitry and airless funk. Recorded across a handful of sessions at MemeTune Studios in Cornwall with frequent collaborator Benge (aka Ben Edwards), Mallinder cites no guiding aesthetic premise for the collection beyond “cowbell on every track, and entirely no reverb.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the first coiled cybernetic groove of opener “Contact,” the album’s spatial dynamics are disorienting and asymmetrical, alternately cold and sensual, opiated and claustrophobic. But, throughout, “rhythm is the default, the bedrock, the building block – even the melodies are rhythmic.” Across 40-plus years of electronic musicianship, Mallinder’s sense of timing and tempo has honed into a rare tier of mastery, limber and fluid but knotted with strange frictions. Shades of Detroit technoid industrial (“ringdropp,” “Shock to the Body”) crossfade into no wavy punkfunk (“Guernica Gallery,” “Galaxy,” “The Trial”), bad trip IDM (“Wasteland”), and jittery vapor house (“Hush”), at the threshold of modes both familiar and foreign.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLyrically the record is equally evasive, rich with allusions and associative linguistics, surveying liquid notions of societal noise, ecological ruin, art world pretension, and the trials of daily life. But the lack of fixed meaning remains Mallinder’s main muse: “Music should draw you in; lyrics should make you think. Most interpretation is misinterpretation.” This is music of countdowns and comedowns, fleeting pleasures and opaque futures, observing the great decline while dancing on its ashes. Flux is deathless and forever; the rest, illusion: “I will be a constant figure \/ Flickering a moving picture \/ Turning in your head forever \/ Split apart but held together.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dais","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50502691062091,"sku":"1153422","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red | LP","offer_id":50502691553611,"sku":"1153423","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Green LP","offer_id":50502696075595,"sku":"2028096","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50502690472267,"sku":"1153421","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/92f86ea2-cb36-4cc8-b002-acec565e036e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727791822"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_914c4c8f_thumbnail_4096_ad1365c4-7a71-44dd-aedb-b760d3f53ab8.jpg?v=1727161088","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/stephen-mallinder.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}