out for a while: Lost - Ten Commandments / Peace [NovaMute]

Artist:
Lost

Title:
Ten Commandments / Peace

Label:
NovaMute

Cat#:
12NOMU1

Release Date:
26th May 1992

Format:
vinyl

Tracklist:
A.
Ten Commandments

AA.
Peace

Info:
The first release on Mute’s sublabel NovaMute…

Lost were Nigel Fairman and Steve Bicknell.

Excerpt from early an NovaMute Bio
Prone to the flights of fashion, the music industry goes through more changes than a pantomime dame. From punk to easy listening it seems major corporations have tried to embrace the latest youth phenomena with a blinkered greed and slavering pursuit of the easy buck. The explosion of dance music in the late 1980’s caused a mass A&R; exodus out of dank gig venues and into the pulsating heat of smoky clubland. In the eyes of many labels dance music equalled mucho money, yet few labels possessed the history and capability to handle and understand this new musical form which survived outside the traditional confines of the music industry.

With hindsight it seemed inevitable that Mute Records would be one of the first labels to truly expand its focus and successfully embrace the burgeoning dance culture. A true maverick that had over the years built up a strong reputation for unleashing a barrage of idiosyncratic, electronically based experimental bands, Mute provided an ideal nest from which they could develop an interest in the dance scene. After all, it was their forward thinking attitude that led to the development of a relationship with Detroit’s techno renegades Underground Resistance, resulting in the X101 project; the UK’s first exposure to UR. So in 1992 NovaMute was born with a view to capturing the spirit and sound of the harder end of the fractured electronic dance sound. A true relative of Mute Records in all senses.

With a limited budget and a new born’s caution, the initial agenda differed considerably from its current purpose of artist development. The first batch of releases, including Unity 3’s ‘Age Of Love Suite’ and an offering from Steve Bicknell’s Lost, were licensing deals aiming to provide a wider UK audience base for white label and the more obscure European acts. Constantly scouring the globe for pioneering sounds, label founders Seth Hodder and Pepe Jansz secured such deals through their love of club culture, and, in doing so, strengthened NovaMute’s reputation.

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