Stephen Mallinder is a founder member of pioneering electronic act Cabaret Voltaire, who are regarded as one of the key influences on contemporary electronic and popular music culture. Stephen has recorded and toured extensively in Europe, USA, Japan and Australia. He continues to record and tour as part of Wrangler, alongside other recent releases under other names Creep Show, Hey Rube, Kula, and Cobby & Mallinder. He has collaborated with a host of artists and musicians including Afrika Bambaataa, Marshall Jefferson, Adrian Sherwood and worked with poet John Giorno and with William Burroughs at the Final Academy in the 1980s.

As an academic he has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and holds a PhD in popular culture. He is currently at the University of Brighton teaching on various arts and humanities courses and managing projects in the arts. In addition he does key notes, panels and guest lectures at a number of universities in the UK and conferences around the world.