ES7108 Reader Offer | Soft Cell

This month's Electronic Sound cover stars are Soft Cell, with Marc Almond and Dave Ball talking to us about 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret', the pair's glorious 1981 debut album. The record set the tone of the times and it has just been reissued as a double LP and a six-CD boxset, with both editions loaded up with tons of fantastic extras.

To accompany the magazine, we have a superb seven-inch featuring early demo versions of 'Tainted Love' and 'Bedsitter', Soft Cell's first two hit singles. The demos were recorded shortly after the group had signed with Some Bizarre Records and they were produced by Mute boss Daniel Miller. “Marc and I had been fans of Daniel for a while," explains Dave Ball. "We were friends with Frank Tovey – we went to the same college as him – and we’d seen that Frank’s first record had come out on Mute and was produced by Daniel. We also loved The Normal’s ‘TVOD’, so we thought, ‘This guy seems to be the man to talk to’, and started desperately hunting him down”.

As with all our music releases, this record is strictly limited and only available to readers of Electronic Sound, so be sure to order your copy right away.