Um Dada | Clear Vinyl

Stephen Mallinder, co-founder and frontman of the iconic Cabaret Voltaire, has returned with his first solo album in over 35 years: Um Dada. Laced with leftfield house and cut-up sound collages, Um Dada 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. While steering Cabaret Voltaire through the 1980's, Mallinder was already busy piecing together his first solo album entitled 'Pow Wow', 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. Since the release of 'Pow Wow' in 1982, Mallinder continued his pioneering work with Cabaret Voltaire, as well as recording and touring with his electro projects Wrangler, Creep Show, Hey Rube, Kula, and Cobby & Mallinder. In addition to his non-stop schedule in electronic music, his professional life as a journalist, broadcaster, producer and now a professor of Digital Music & Sound Art at the University of Brighton, has lead Mallinder to a unique point in his career. Most in his position would be caught up in rosy retrospection, but Mallinder himself says, 'There's too much digital finger-licking right now; every thought and desire at the tur

Tracks

1~1~Working (You Are)
1~2~Prefix Repeat Rewind
1~3~It&Acute;S Not Me
1~4~Um Dada
1~5~Colour
1~6~Flashback

Details

Catalogue Number: DAIS141LPC2
Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Stephen Mallinder
Release Date: 14 March 2023
Genre: Dance & Electronic
Label: DAIS
Distributor: Rocket Group