- Techno surrealism with the Cabaret Voltaire cofounder.
- Alongside Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson, Stephen Mallinder was a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire. Like the pioneering Sheffield group themselves, Mallinder witnessed the dawn of and participated in multiple important threads of British music culture, especially post-punk, rave and industrial. But as much as he interacted with and contributed to these subcultures, Mallinder was never beholden to their strictures, thanks especially to an outlook animated by avant-garde interests that's allergic to the pretentiousness that often comes with it.
Mallinder's last solo record, Pow-Wow, was released in 1982. When he spoke to Joe Muggs for this podcast last year, he'd just put out the follow-up, Um Dada, a surrealist's take on early UK techno. In conversation, we hear of the cultural inputs that shaped Mallinder's outlook and the germ cells of the musical movements in which he took part.
TracklistStephen Mallinder - Satellite
Stephen Mallinder - Working You Are