Name: tick tick tick
Brand: Stephen Mallinder

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DAIS200LPC2

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Green

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Glow in the Dark

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-07-14

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11586672871

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DAIS200LP

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2022-07-15

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Artist

Stephen Mallinder

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New Wave / Post Punk

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Dais

Dais Records is an independent American record label founded by Gibby Miller and Ryan Martin in 2007. Based in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York, Dais Records operates as a genre-agnostic label with a focus on experimental and avant-garde music. The label represents both emerging and established active artists while also curating rare and out of print material for reissue projects. Dais Records exclusively distributes its releases through Secretly Distribution.

Stephen 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.
Stephen 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.
In 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.

Cabaret 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: tick tick tick. 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.”

From 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.

Lyrically 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.”

tick tick tick

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