Stephen William Mallinder (born 1 January 1955, Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

, England

England

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) was a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire

Cabaret Voltaire (band)

Cabaret Voltaire were a British music group from Sheffield, England.Initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson, the group was named after the Cabaret Voltaire, a nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland that was a centre for the early Dada movement.Their earliest performances...

, Sassi and Loco and the Ku-Ling Bros. While in Cabaret Voltaire he contributed lead vocals, bass and occasional keyboards.

Biography

Mallinder founded Cabaret Voltaire in 1973. He also recorded as a solo artist in the 1980s, including the Pow-Wow album, released in 1983. In 1988 he recorded with members of Soft Cell

Soft Cell

Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The duo is most widely known for their 1981 worldwide hit version of "Tainted Love" and platinum debut Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret...

 in the band Love Street, and in 1989 he was a member of Acid Horse

Acid Horse

Acid Horse was a one-off collaborative side project between two industrial music pioneers, Ministry and Cabaret Voltaire. Only one single, "No Name, No Slogan", was released in 1989 on Wax Trax! records...

, a band which also featured Al Jourgensen

Al Jourgensen

Alain David Jourgensen , is a Cuban-American musician best known as the founder and frontman of the industrial metal band Ministry. He is sometimes credited as Alain Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Hypo Luxa , Dog, Alien Dog Star and Buck Satan...

 of Ministry

Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

. Mallinder is also the founder of the Off World Sounds label, releasing material under the names Ku-Ling Bros. and Sassi & Loco. He now lives in Brighton

Brighton

Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...

 where he has completed his PhD in music and popular culture entitled Movement: Journey of the Beat and has been researching at the Art Design Medias Centre and teaching at the University of Brighton

University of Brighton

The University of Brighton is an English university of the United Kingdom, with a community of over 23,000 students and 2,600 staff based on campuses in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings. It has one of the best teaching quality ratings in the UK and a strong research record, factors which...

. He is former journalist, radio presenter and radio producer for RTRFM

RTRFM

RTRFM is a not-for-profit, community radio station based in Perth, Western Australia. It is self-funded, largely through listener subscription and fund-raising events, however it does carry some "advertising material" at a maximum of 5 mins per hour. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, on 92.1 in the...

.

At present he is recording with Steve Cobby

Steve Cobby

Steve Cobby is a British electronic musician, composer, DJ and producer, based in Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire.Cobby co-founded Fila Brazillia with David McSherry in 1990. From 1990 to 1998 Fila Brazillia releases were on the Kingston-upon-Hull based Pork Recordings established by David 'Porky'...

 - one half of Fila Brazillia

Fila Brazillia

Fila Brazillia was an electronica collaboration from Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire in North-East England. Formed in 1990 by Steve Cobby and David McSherry...

 - under the name the Hey, Rube!. A series of recordings are currently being made ready for release and is recording with Phil Winter and Benge of Tunng under the name Wrangler. The debut Ku-Ling Bros. album Creach is reissued in the USA through dPulse.

Solo discography

• "Temperature Drop" 12-inch single (1981), Fetish
• Pow-Wow album (1983), Fetish - reissued with extra tracks as Pow-Wow Plus (1985), Mute
  Mute Records
  Mute is an independent record label based in the UK. It was founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller and featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Fad Gadget.-Beginnings:...
  
  

External links

• Profile at ABC.
• Staff page at ADM-HEA.
• Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder: music + art, music + art room, artdesigncafe.com.
• Kim Min Su, Stephen Mallinder and PR specialist. Tracey Emin media coverage vs. Cabaret Voltaire’s Kino, Art Design Publicity.
• The Crackdown: A music-journalism intervention by Stephen Mallinder, Art Design Publicity.
• Ku-Ling Bros official web site