I wonder if anyone could have a guess as to how to create the strange echoey slappy percussion sound in Cabaret Voltaire's "This Is Entertainment"? I first heard this track nearly 40 years ago, but I've never got tired of the extraordinary sound world that it builds. I have a vague idea that a flanger with very high resonance and a wide sweep might have something to do with it, but beyond that, I really don't know how the effect might have been created, or what sound they started with before putting it through the effects (or specifically, what sound band member Chris Watson started with — this is the Chris Watson who, incidentally, went on to become a highly respected wildlife sound recordist).
Here is the song on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyYDv-eF6M8
and here it is on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rGZ4...TLuU4bm8LhKfhA