Category: Mute & Sublabels

Artist:
Cabaret Voltaire

Title:
Code (2026 Remaster)

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
CABS27

Release Date:
09th October 2026
11th December 2026 (some digital services for the deluxe version)

Format:
vinyl, CD boxset, download & streaming

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Don’t Argue

A2.
Sex, Money, Freaks

A3.
Thank You America

A4.
Here To Go

B1.
Trouble (Won’t Stop)

B2.
White Car

B3.
No One Here

B4.
Life Slips By

B5.
Code

Tracklist CD & Deluxe Digital:
CD1-01.
Don’t Argue

CD1-02.
Sex, Money, Freaks

CD1-03.
Thank You America

CD1-04.
Here To Go

CD1-05.
Trouble (Won’t Stop)

CD1-06.
White Car

CD1-07.
No One Here

CD1-08.
Life Slips By

CD1-09.
Code

CD2-01.
Hey Heye

CD2-02.
Thank You America
(John Robie Dub Mix)

CD2-03.
Don’t Argue
(Hate And Destroy Mix)

CD2-04.
Here To Go
(Eleven Eleven Mix)

CD2-05.
Sex, Money, Freaks
(Kevorkian 12″ Mix)

CD2-06.
Code
(12″ Mix)

CD2-07.
Thank You America
(Dub Single Mix)

CD2-08.
Don’t Argue
Who’s Arguing

CD2-09.
Here To Go
(Extended Mix)

CD2-10.
Thank You America
(Short Single Mix)

CD2-11.
Don’t Argue
(7″ Version)

CD2-12.
Here To Go
(Single Version)

CD3-01.
Don’t Argue
(John Robie Extended Version)

CD3-02.
Here To Go
(Kevorkian Extended Mix)

CD3-03.
Thank You, America
(Kevorkian Bonus Beats)

CD3-04.
Sex, Money, Freaks
(Kevorkian Dub)

CD3-05.
Thank You, America
(Alternate Mix)

CD3-06.
Don’t Argue
(Dance Dub)

CD3-07.
Here To Go
(Adrian Sherwood Live Drum Jacknife Remix)

CD3-08.
Thank You America
(Alternate Mix 2)

CD3-09.
Don’t Argue
(Dance)

CD3-10.
Here To Go
(Space Dub)

CD3-11.
Don’t Argue
(Single Mix)

CD3-12.
Here To Go
(Little Dub)

Press Info:
Mute have announced the long-awaited remastered reissue of CODE, Cabaret Voltaire’s eighth studio album: out of print for many years, it remains a fan favourite. The 1987 album will feature new in-depth sleeve notes, focussed on the production and legacy of the album, and be available on limited edition “CODIFIED” marble vinyl and as a deluxe triple CD set featuring two bonus discs of remastered remixes from the time, plus unreleased remixes discovered in the archive.

CODE launches today with influential producer, writer and musician John Robie’s dub remix of ‘Thank You, America’, originally earmarked as the third single from the original release. Listen HERE

CODE captures the band at the height of their commercial and creative powers, marking the point that Richard H Kirk and Stephen ‘Mal’ Mallinder signed to EMI exposing them to a world of bigger budgets, but no compromise on their unique vision. The album became their most commercially successful with two singles – ‘Don’t Argue’ and ‘Here To Go’ – breaking the UK Official Singles Chart, and, explains Mal in the new sleevenotes, “This album captures a very interesting moment in time where we were moving into a technological world. Probably more than anything else Richard and I made together, CODE was a political record that we didn’t have to directly articulate as political, mostly because of what was going on in the background at that time.”

Ever prescient, CODE tapped into an increasingly uneasy relationship with technology, computers and programming that was creeping into all aspects of life, unpicking the codes of control to expose them – a preoccupation that would continue in Cabaret Voltaire’s work.

Featuring guest musicians – the saxophonist Simeon Lister, bassist Mark Brydon (Chakk) and Bill Nelson (Be-Bop Deluxe), the album was recorded at The Cabs’ Western Works studio in Sheffield, with Adrian Sherwood joining for pre-production before the sessions moved to Red Bus in London for mixing. The album was remastered by Denis Blackman (who has mastered or remastered every Cabaret Voltaire album for over 20 years), and work on the CODE reissue began 2019 with Richard H. Kirk – before his untimely death – and was completed using his notes in consultation with Stephen Mallinder and Kirk’s estate.

Originally active between 1973-1994, Cabaret Voltaire were formed by Richard H. Kirk, Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson. After Watson’s departure in 1981, Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder continued until 1994 until – with Kirk as the sole remaining member – Cabaret Voltaire’s 2014 performance at Berlin’s Atonal festival. An interconnected series of releases – Shadow of Fear, BN9Drone and Dekadrone – followed in 2020 and 2021 before Kirk’s untimely passing in autumn 2021.

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Artist:
Peach

Title:
Made In Vain EP

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
MUTE205

Release Date:
1997 (original release date)
06th May 2022 (digital re-issue)

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist CD & Digital:
01.
Made In Vain
(Single Version)

02.
Made In Vain
(Beatmasters 12″ Mix)

03.
Made In Vain
(TM Mix)

04.
Made In Vain
(Bassbins Belgian Breaks Mix)

05.
Made In Vain
(Spinning Into Space)

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1.
Made In Vain
(Beatmasters 12″ Mix)

A2.
Made In Vain
(Spinning Into Space)

B1.
Made In Vain
(Love Junkies Summer Vibe)

B2.
Made In Vain
(Beatmasters Instrumental)

Info:
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Snippets:

Related Release:
Peach’s album “Audiopeach” on Mute

Recommendations:
Peach’s “On My Own EP” on Mute
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originally released in 1997

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Websites:
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Artist:
Peach

Title:
Audiopeach

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM153

Release Date:
29th June 1998

Format:
CD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
On My Own

02.
From This Moment On

03.
Made In Vain

04.
Perfect World

05.
Sorrow Town

06.
Deep Down Together

07.
Tell Me

08.
Give Me Tomorrow

09.
Higher Ground

10.
Hush

Press Info:
OK, lets get this straight. Peach are one of the best pop groups of the 1990’s – you just don’t know it yet.

It’s a simple story too. There are three of them, Pascal, Paul and Lisa. They write, play and, produce their own songs and write lyrics that make a mockery of the colourwashed competition. They make beautiful, timelessly simple, records that touch you when you hear them (remember what that feels like?) – and will still sound fantastic in twenty years time, because they will remind you so specifically of a moment that you will be able to taste it.

Some Peach facts:

Pascal Gabriel is from Belgium. You may not know his name, yet, but you’ll know his music. As co-producer with Tim Simenon and Mark Moore, he has already made some of the most memorable and influential dance music of the last ten years with Bomb the Bass and S’Express.

Paul Statham is from the North of England. He cut his musical teeth writing and recording with Bauhaus vocalist Pete Murphy, which led to a top 40 hit in the USA, ‘Deep’. After five albums, however, he got bored of the world of bats and crypts and decided he wanted to be true to his secret pop heart.

Lisa Lamb grew up in London and Washington DC. She graduated from the Chelsea School of Art and moved back to the USA where she fronted a jazz band and made a jungle record. She published poetry and moved back to London again where, to cut a long story short, she met Pascal and Paul and formed Peach.

And so Peach began to write music that could straddle the disparate influences of each band member – Pascal’s penchant for the singing and songwriting skills of Serge Gainsbourg and Cole Porter along with the modern electronica of Kraftwerk, Stereolab and Jimi Tenor; Paul’s love of 70’s sounds rooted in Bowie and T-Rex and Lisa’s desire to emulate the musicianship of the likes of Roxy Music or Bacharach & David, those greats who reach out and grab you in the guts with their emotion and sheer individuality.

The result? An album ‘AudioPeach’, a debut of love and joy, death and loneliness that creates, in a series of three and a half minute songs, a mix of Dusty, Petula, Spector, Human League and Soft Cell (think lush orchestral sweeps and sweet vocal hooks set to a Europop backbeat) but with a twist of the millenium – ‘AudioPeach’ creates its own niche of timeless music that can be grasped and cherished as much in today’s euro pop world as in the sweet soul world of yesterday.

Peach intend to put pop music back on the agenda, the real life enhancing stuff that makes us turn up the radio, laugh and cry – the future is bright, the future is Peach.

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Videos:
“On My Own”

“Made In Vain”

“From This Moment On”

Related Release:
Peach’s “On My Own EP” on Mute

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originally released in 1998

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