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Mute: A Visual Document From 1978 - Tomorrow

Mute is one of the most revered and influential indie labels of all time. Through the music of its tight-knit community of artists — ranging from Cabaret Voltaire, Nick Cave’s The Birthday Party and Moby to Depeche Mode, Erasure, and Goldfrapp — it has had an incalculable impact on popular music for forty years.

Daniel Miller created Mute to release his debut single (“Warm Leatherette”/ “T.V.O.D.”), a pioneering electronic sound with a defiantly DIY punk attitude. Mute quickly established a reputation for cultivating the experimental, releasing cutting-edge industrial sounds, and chart-topping electronic music by the likes of Depeche Mode and Yazoo. The label was equally at home with the savage punk of Nick Cave’s The Birthday Party and — to critical acclaim — his next outfit, The Bad Seeds. It also proved to be an Internet pioneer, launching the online site Mute Liberation Technologies in 1994.

Mute features stunning artwork and photography — much of it previously unseen — and revelatory behind-the-scenes insights from the vibrant cast who have worked with the label.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 320
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780500519721
  • Genres
  • music, art
  • Release date
  • 2017