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| Red Mecca | 
 enlarge | Artist: Cabaret Voltaire
Label: Mute U.S.
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 161509
Format: Original Recording Reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 724596917428
EAN: 0724596917428
ASIN: B00005YWKI
Release Date: February 19, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | A Touch of Evil - Cabaret Voltaire, Mancini, Henry | | • | Sly Doubt | | • | Landslide | | • | A Thousand Ways | | • | Red Mask | | • | Split Second Feeling | | • | Black Mask | | • | Spread the Virus | | • | A Touch of Evil (Reprise) - Cabaret Voltaire, Mancini, Henry |
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Album Description
U.S. reissue on Mute Records.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 their best album. REAL industrial music. IGNORE david m. September 7, 2002
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
there is nothing wrong with the sound quality. it was recorded in 1981 using a lot of analogue equipment, so what? it still sounds like it could have been made yesterday while 90% of the so-called "industrial music" that came after sounds unbelievably dated. so what does it sound like? very dense, lots of reel to reel tape loops, processed guitar noise, smooth basslines, analogue synths, and primitive drum machines. the vocals are a sinister sort of barking (also run through a myriad of effects) which were subsequently copied by every single "industrial" band that came after them. there ARE melodies in there, if you can't hear them you need to clean your ears out! yes, the song structures are unconventional, and it isn't exactly "catchy", but THAT IS THE POINT! they were trying to create a nightmarish, hallucinogenic experience for the listener. there is nothing cheesy about this album. if you want cheesy catchy melodies and standard pop song structures go listen to tripe like velvet acid christ, vnv nation, or pretty much any ebm/electro industrial album released in the last 8 years. if you want REAL industrial music get this. also, be sure to check out their previous album "the voice of america".
Like, Mantras, Man February 11, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I haven't tried dancing to this - - I'll leave that to bigger feet than mine - - but it pretty much beats the hot pants off most 'industrial' music even after all these years. Cabaret Voltaire were still ahead of their time at this point, prolifically releasing disturbing albums of rhythm and noise (this was their fifth in three years, and that doesn't include several EPs, singles and compilation tracks) that are as haunting today as in yesteryear. Henry Mancini's 'A Touch Of Evil' opens and closes the album with appropriately oblique audio-verite, with just enough deference to the original to render it recognizable. In between are several examples of near-melodic, atmospheric excursions into CV's iconoclastic anti-NeverNeverLand. Bongos. Violin. Guitar. Dirty, lo-fi, analogue waspish synths. Strangulated vocals, inarticulate verbiage. Primitive production. My only complaint is that 'Landslide' is too brief. It certainly isn't a cover of the Fleetwood Mac song, and with a title like that it should go on forever.
 interesting but sorry, I can't enjoy it at all August 31, 2002
5 out of 21 found this review helpful
Sometimes happens that some work of art is important but you don't enjoy it. This happens to me with this album by Cabaret Voltaire. Everyone who likes electronic music admits that this band is one of the bands which pre-defined the concept of industrial music. Alright. But when I listen to this album I don't enjoy it at all, sorry. The concept is interesting, that blending of electronic music (dark, very dark, a sort of precursor of early Skinny Puppy material) with instruments such as bongos, etc. But once the copncept is established, the music don't get the standard.The songs are much too repetitive, the sound quality is quite poor, and the melodies are simply either inexistent or cheesy. I haven't listened to any other entire album by this band, and Red Mcca is to be blame for that. Anywy, as I always say, listen to it and judge for yourself.
subVERSIVE January 16, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I like putting this on because it disengages me from the world and plugs me into a cold, alien place that temporarily removes me from my problems. This CD can turn something even as mundane as housecleaning into an otherworldly experience. This is strange music to be sure, full of strange sounds, electronic manipulations and mind-numbing repetition with meandering, quasi-psychedelic guitar and synth passages. RED MECCA gives me a feeling of disconnectedness, but the group is actually quite integrated and the beat is paramount. This album never could nor will be accepted by the mainstream and that's the point. It's anti-mainstream. CV came about during the Sex Pistols punk era in England. In true punk spirit, they set out to do their own thing and succeeded. 4 stars because, after all, it's not the greatest music in the world, either. But it's very good for what it is. An aside: look at the cover closely for a while and you'll see faces and bodies!
Mecca August 17, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While it ranks high overall in what they have done, this is maybe not the place to start if you want to get in Cabaret Voltaire. It was still in their real avant-garde electronic phase and remains difficult and challenging today.
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