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.Soft Cell was initiated during 1978 after Almond and Ball met at Leeds Polytechnic. Their initial efforts at recording resulted that year in an EP titled Mutant Moments which was funded by a loan of £2000 from Dave Ball's mother and made with a simple 2-track recorder. 2,000 vinyl copies of the release were issued independently and the small number of copies have since become a highly valued collectors item. The group's live shows and EP caught the interest of certain record labels such as Mute Records and Some Bizzare Records. Mutant Moments is a short EP, independently financed and produced by Soft Cell, a synthpop/new wave duo who would later achieve fame with their groundbreaking hit cover of the Gloria Jones song 'Tainted Love'.
Only 2000 copies were pressed, originally by Soft Cell, on Big Frock Records, then later by a Japanese fan club, making the record extremely rare and prized by collectors and fans alike. The duo, who attended Leeds Metropolitan University, originally developed a cult following with their performances which routinely included bizarre sexual imagery and visuals representing sexual themes.
Other Visuals–Steven Griffith. Synthesizer, Tape Tapes, Electronics–David Ball. Vocals, Performer Synthetic Scratch–Marc Almond.
Written-by All Titles–Soft CellOnly 2000 copies were pressed and all were issued with a postcard.Theunofficial reissue has plain red and green labels without titles, comesin black and coloured vinyl and has a wraparound sleeve.© 1980Dist. By Red Rhino RecordsRunout:Side A: D1 / 6 I / (Digit scratced out) ABF - 1ASide B: D1 / ABF - 1BTrack times not on release.Let's go back to 1980sLeeds. Compiling and running cuda programs for windows 7. Marc Almond and David Ball were both art students and gottogether to write music for theatrical productions. It was actually aself-financed EP called Mutant Moments that kickstarted their chartcareer.
Funded by a loan of £2,000 from David Ball's mother (a very wiseinvestment) the boys, under the name Soft Cell had 2000 vinyl copiespressed. Copies of this EP are now highly prized collector items.The EP brought Soft Cell to the attention of the head of Some BizzareRecords who had bands such as Depeche Mode and The The signed to them.He then enlisted Daniel Miller (founder of Mute Records) to producetheir first singles - 'A Man Can Get Lost' and 'Memorabilia'.lou16. Frank Sinatra's 'Macthe knife' set the scene for an evening of camp posturing.The light show was really professional. They had aneon sign at the front of the stage that had beenmade by Nottingham stage-set designer, Huw Feather.This bore the legend 'Soft Cell' and was flanked bytwo large projection screens. The screens hosted Griffith's8mm movies of Marc prancing outside the Merrion ShoppingCentre in women's clothes and make-up. The colourwas really garish and in stark contrast to the group'sblack attire.