Red Mecca
by Cabaret Voltaire
- Type: Album
- Released: 17 August 1981
- Label: Rough Trade
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 40:08
- Community rating: 3.72/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Nik Allday, Chris Watson, Richard H. Kirk, Stephen Mallinder
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Anticipating the sleek electro-industrial sound they would soon pioneer, Cabaret Voltaire鈥檚 'Red Mecca' heavily features drum machines alongside abrasive post-punk guitars and chilling tape loops. The album is incredibly dense, building a deeply surreal, nocturnal, and highly atmospheric soundscape that feels profoundly cold and mechanically ominous.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, repetitive, electronic, industrial, rhythmic, dissonant, experimental
Tracklist
- A Touch of Evil (3:11)
- Sly Doubt (4:59)
- Landslide (2:08)
- A Thousand Ways (10:35)
- Red Mask (6:54)
- Split Second Feeling (3:47)
- Black Mask (3:19)
- Spread the Virus (3:40)
- A Touch of Evil - Reprise (1:33)
Credits
- Cabaret Voltaire - primary artist, recorded by, producer, sleeve, graphic design
- Chris Watson - composed by, organ [vox continental], tape [tape recorder]
- Richard H. Kirk - composed by, synthesizer, guitar, clarinet, horns, strings
- Stephen Mallinder - composed by, vocals, bass guitar, bongos
- Nik Allday - drums
- Porky - lacquer cut by
- PAG - plated by
- Neville Brody - sleeve, graphic design