With the re-release of Duck Rock and success at a Swiss art fair, the old creative entrepreneur is back, and sex is on the menu... Malcolm and Peter talk art over tea I ran into Malcolm McLaren in Basel over the last month. He was raving about a couple of things - his burgeoning art career (see below) and the fact that his seminal 1983 album Duck Rock is being re-released on 1 September. It will appear with missing tracks and a brilliant, never-before-seen film made at the time. It features early hip hop, scenes from Soweto and an extended video to Taxi Val Mentek, purveyors of arty electro-surf, the missing link between the Pet Shop Boys and Kurt Weill. They did a highly entertaining multimedia show that included videos of spaced-out Japanese girls and gym instructors. For a few numbers they even wore rather disconcerting...
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