CABARET VOLTAIRE — Red Mecca

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Mute CABS 3CD

Release Year: 1990

Note: the CD version / re-issue of album from 1981, their third LP which got No. 1 on the UK Independent Albums chart! - *In 2019, Pitchfork ranked Red Mecca as the fourth best industrial album of all time, deeming it a "paranoid, claustrophobic masterpiece".* - special priced now !

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €10.00

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"While touring the United States in November 1979, Cabaret Voltaire became strongly interested in the rise of the Christian right and its use of television, especially the fund-raising broadcasts of TV evangelist Eugene Scott.[1] They compared this to the rise of Islamism, devoting a side to each strand of religious politics on their 1980 mini-album Three Mantras. Red Mecca was a culmination of this interest. According to Richard H. Kirk: "The whole Afghanistan situation was kicking off, Iran had the American hostages [...] we were taking notice [...] it's not called [Red Mecca] by coincidence. We weren't referencing the fucking Mecca Ballroom in Nottingham!"[2]

Red Mecca was recorded at Western Works in Sheffield in May 1981." [Wikipedia]