Cabaret Voltaire - Code (2026 Remaster) (Mute)

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’.

The album’s title speaks to a preoccupation that felt urgent at the time and has only grown more resonant since: the creeping integration of technology, computers and programming into every corner of human life. For Cabaret Voltaire, ‘Code’ meant control - not just music making but also in terms of social and economic control against a backdrop of excess.

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.

Codified Marble vinyl includes two-page insert with new sleevenotes.

Tracklist

Don't Argue

Sex, Money, Freaks

Thank You America

Here to Go

Trouble (Won't Stop)

White Car

No One Here

Life Slips By

Code

Version: Codified Marble Vinyl LP

Released: 9^th October 2026

Catalogue Number: 5400863195052

Condition: New Sealed