Skylarking (2016 Steve Wilson Mix): Heavyweight Vinyl LP Dead Nature Stephen ‘Mal’ Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire)

Stephen ‘Mal’ Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire) and Phil ‘Phil’ Winter (Tuung) would get together with a very select kit list of careworn analog synthesizers and vintage digital sequencers

helping to hone sounds and build scenes through his production work for artists such as The Big Moon

Plaid – Yamemm

they were getting a grasp on adding colors to the chaos with tempered

Skylarking (2016 Steve Wilson Mix): Heavyweight Vinyl LP Dead Nature Stephen ‘Mal’ Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire)Skylarking: XTCs most commercially successful album was, for many years, also its most mythical with tales of lost multi track tapes (sadly true of other XTC albums but not this one), a song originally dropped from the album only to be replaced when it inadvertently became a hit single in the USA, a perfect match, on paper, between the ideal Britpop band a decade before the term was invented & an Anglophile super producer that turned rather imperfect