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The authoritative, sumptuously illustrated history of Mute Records, a one-man label which helped launch Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Goldfrapp, and many moreMute 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.
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Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at UCL, author/editor of 37 books including Tales from Facebook, Digital Anthropology (Ed. with H. Horst) , The Internet: an Ethnographic Approach (with D. Slater) , Webcam (with J. Sinanan) , The Comfort of Things, A Theory of Shopping, and Stuff.
