Cabaret Voltaire - Code

Sheffield electronic pioneers Cabaret Voltaire’s most commercially successful album, ‘Code’, is back and long overdue after years out of print. Released in 1987, the eighth studio album from the band has been remastered from the original tapes by Denis Blackham, who has mastered or remastered every Cabaret Voltaire album for over 20 years, and is released on Mute, restoring the original artwork. 

Co-produced with dub mastermind Adrian Sherwood, ‘Code’ marked a bold shift toward synth-pop and mechanistic funk and was the last Cabaret Voltaire album made with a major budget while remaining defiantly credible, featuring charting singles ‘Don’t Argue’ and ‘Here to Go’. Recorded at the band’s own Western Works studio in Sheffield, with Sherwood joining for pre-production before the sessions moved to Red Bus in London to mix, the album captures a band at the height of their commercial and creative powers.

This reissue was begun in 2019 with Richard H. Kirk, before his untimely death, and completed using his notes, in consultation with Stephen Malinder and Richard’s estate, a fitting tribute to his legacy. Includes two-page insert with new sleevenotes.