Red Mecca [Original recording reissued]

Cabaret Voltaire | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 19, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Mute U.S.
• ASIN: B00005YWKI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,625 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Touch of Evil

2. Sly Doubt

3. Landslide

4. A Thousand Ways

5. Red Mask

6. Split Second Feeling

7. Black Mask

8. Spread the Virus

9. A Touch of Evil (Reprise)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars their best album. REAL industrial music. IGNORE david m., September 7, 2002

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"leviticus85" (kalamazoo,MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Mecca (Audio CD)

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".

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like, Mantras, Man, February 10, 2005

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Mark Champion "autumnfair" (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Mecca (Audio CD)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Meltdown, October 29, 2007

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Chromefreak - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Red Mecca (Audio CD)

This is the music you'll screw to as the fires of the nuclear winter cleanse the flotsam and jetsam of this toilet earth. When you're dying in the fallout of the radioactive rain, the malevolent rhythms of songs like "Touch of Evil" and "Spread the Virus" will remind you that the human race is, after all, just a footnote in the long, long story of the universe. Red Mecca isn't art; rather, it's the absence of any pretension to artistry. Red Mecca isn't culturally significant; rather, it's the abnegation of culture itself. Like Orwell's 1984, Red Mecca says it plainly and succinctly: if you want an image of the future, think of a boot stamping on a human face forever. Essential listening for the new dark age that is already upon us...and passed.