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out for a while: Komputer – The World Of Tomorrow [Mute]

Artist:
Komputer

Title:
The World Of Tomorrow

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM162 | MUTE9047-2

Release Date:
1997 / 1998

Format:
CD, download & streaming

Tracklist EU:
01.
The World Of Tomorrow

02.
More Automation

03.
Bill Gates

04.
Valentina

05.
Looking Down On London

06.
Terminus Interminus

07.
Singapore

08.
The Perfect Pop Band

09.
Komputer Pop

10.
Motopia

11.
We Are Komputer
(Version)

Tracklist US:
01.
The World Of Tomorrow

02.
More Automation

03.
Bill Gates

04.
Valentina

05.
Looking Down On London

06.
Terminus Interminus

07.
Singapore

08.
The Perfect Pop Band

09.
Komputer Pop

10.
Motopia

11.
Valentina
(Phobos)

12.
Valentina
(Probe)

13.
Looking Down On London
(Metroland)

Press Info:
SUBJECT – Biography

Komputer Components : >>>SIMON LEONARD<<//Lyricist. Keyboards. Sound archivist.>>
>><<DAVID BAKER..<<//Vocals.Keyboards>>
..<<<..JANE BRERETON<<Percussion.<<

<<influences..//Conlon Nancarrow. Yellow Magic Orchestra.
Can. Stockhausen. Yello. Telex.>>

>>Profile<<..

<<“Nostalgia for the Future” is how Simon describes the sound of Komputer. It’s a breath of electronic fresh air in a musical world polluted by guitars.>>

<<Simon and David first met at a new music seminar in Prague about two and half years ago. The two of them share an avid interest in electronics and technology, hence the sound of Komputer. Simon has studied sound production at Morley College, which qualifies him as the technical assistant. David is a skilled musician, he has graduated in Harmony, counterpoint and performance, he is the voice of Komputer.>>

<<Jane is a new addition. Originally from Saddlesworth in Yorkshire, she moved to London several years ago to become the drummer of Andromeda Strain who were signed at the time to Trident Records (Home of Captain Sensible!!) Jane met Simon and David through a mutual friend, and became the third member of Komputer back in November 1996. She is currently studying a Masters in Musicology at the University Of London.>>

<<In addition to their music, Komputer are in the process of creating a “virtual City” of the future to accompany the debut album release.>>

<<Three people, three minds that exist in a parallel universe away from the sounds of the contemporary dance scene. Komputer are striving to become The World Of Tomorrow.>>

<<Released on Mute Records 1st June 1998 in the UK (already available on Mute in the US)>>

<<end tran>>

…Thank You.

Snippets:

Full Track Streaming:
“Looking Down On London”

“Bill Gates”

“Komputer Pop”

“Valentina”

Videos:
“Valentina”

“Terminus”

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out now: JakoJako – Tết 41 (Remixes) [Mute]

Artist:
JakoJako

Title:
Tết 41 (Remixes)

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
IRSTUMM513

Release Date:
17th February 2026 (Part 1)
18th March 2026 (Part 2)
18th March 2026 (4 track EP – Bandcamp only)

Format:
download

Tracklist:
01.
Kumquat
(Rolando Remix)

02.
Ghi-Ta
(Elin Piel Remix)

03.
Hoa Đào
(Colin Benders Remix)

04.
Ðà Nāng
(DJ Hi-C Remix)

Press Info:
JakoJako, Berlin-based modular synthesist Sibel Koçer, marks todays Lunar New Year with Tết 41 (Remixes, Pt.1), remixes by Rolando and Elin Piel of tracks from her latest album, Tết 41, out now limited-edition vinyl and digitally via Mute. Pt. 2 will follow next month, alongside an ambient live set at Hackney Church on 21 March, with fellow Mute artist Alessandro Cortini.

Taking its name from Tết (Vietnamese Lunar New Year), Tết 41 – which catalogues her journey to Vietnam with her mother connecting with their heritage – uses a minimal modular set up and field recordings to create a unique and very personal work. Detroit’s Rolando, former Underground Resistance member also known as The Aztec Mystic, takes on ‘Kumquat’’s bright searching melodies and polyrhythmic beats for the perfect introduction to Vietnam’s Lunar New Year, Kumquats being ubiquitous as a key symbol of the Tết celebration, said to bring prosperity and abundance. [DJ

Gothenburg’s Elin Piel, who also appeared on last year’s JakoJako curated collection ‘Hardwired’, remixes ‘Ghi-Ta’. Named after a type of Vietnamese guitar that Sibel encountered on her trip, Piel explains, “What drew me to Ghi-Ta was the harmonies and the small changes in the repetitiveness. It was really fun to play around with the stems trying to find a pulse and create new patterns but still match the original vibe.”

Tết 41 is, in many ways, a distillation of ideas Koçer has been exploring for many years. Tapping into a deep understanding of machine-based music and illuminated by references to her heritage, the album reflects on notions of rebirth, and the pursuit of a sonic core. The album was created with a minimal hardware set up, and from this simplicity emerges some of her most expansive, unworldly compositions to date.

Koçer explains, “I wanted to collect the atmospheres of Vietnam, and strip it back to my language – electronic music. I don’t have huge ties to the traditions of my Vietnamese family, so being able to experience them with my mother, and then bring the Lunar Celebration – the colourful flowers, food and customs – back to Europe through music has helped me realise how important this side of my heritage is.”

A big part of her production process lies in searching for spontaneity, which was heightened during the creation of this album – on just a Eurorack and a Waldorf Iridium Core. Whilst normally she would have a computer to mix and arrange the record, the effects and sequencers of the gear became her tools. She expands; “The more you play with a single machine the more you get to know it. You’ll get muscle memory and play it more like an actual instrument, instead of treating it as a tool.”

Opening and closing with field recordings taken during the Lunar New Year celebrations, she uses the space in between to cast new frameworks, allowing melodic cycles to flow autonomously. Rhythmic fragments weave between analogue processing and harmonic distillations, swirling in organic cycles of warehouse maximalism and sonic minutiae that speak to the somatic and spectral in equal measure.

Engaged in a constant dialogue around the use of hardware in music, JakoJako’s artistic output is informed by the tension and release of techno, but ultimately propelled by ever-expanding forms and structures that play with the contours of the genre. A producer, live artist and DJ who has held a residency at Berghain whilst touring some of the world’s most respected electronic music institutions, she delves into the mathematical patterns of arpeggios and loops, locating kinetic energies that convert into moments of dancefloor catharsis.

Infinitely curious about the threads that connect different genres, as opposed to the rigidity of genre itself, Tết 41 is driven by a desire to document the potentials of analogue and modular synthesis, and to consider new contexts within which these could exist. It’s also a bold and generous vision of new sonic worlds.

Full Track Streaming:

Special:
“PURE Guest.047”

Recommendations:
JakoJako’s “Segmente EP” on NovaMute
JakoJako’s “Verve EP” on Mute
“In Vere EP” by JakoJako & Rødhåd on WSNWG
compilation “We Are Not Alone (Part 2)” w/ JakoJako on BPitch
compilation “Second Nature” w/ JakoJako on Life In Patterns
“Atlas Der Gedanken” by Mareena & JakoJako on Edition Dur
JakoJako’s “Metamorphose” on Bigamo
“The Third Chimpanzee (Rmxd)” by Martin Gore w/ JakoJako rmx on Mute
New Order’s “Be A Rebel (Remixed)” w/ JakoJako remix on Mute
compilation “Hardwired” curated by JakoJako on Air Texture
all stuff on Mute & sublabels we featured

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JakoJako
Mute
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out soon: Laibach – Musick [Mute]

Artist:
Laibach

Title:
Musick

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM525

Release Date:
01st May 2026

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Musick
[feat. Wiyaala]

02.
Fluid Emancipation

03.
Singularity
[feat. Donna Marina Mårtensson]

04.
Resistencia
[feat. Gregor Strasbergar]

05.
Love Machine
[feat. Senidah]

06.
Luigi Mangione

07.
Keep It Reel
[feat. Manca Trampuš]

08.
Yes Maybe No
[feat. Donna Marina Mårtensson]

09.
Allgorhythm
[feat. Wiyaala]

16.
Das Göttliche Kind

Press Info:
Slovenian collective Laibach have announced details of a new album, MUSICK, their first studio album of original material since 2014’s Spectre. MUSICK – released on vinyl, CD and digitally on 1 May 2026 on Mute – finds Laibach simultaneously celebrating and playfully critiquing our present era of warped reality and gaudy AI copycatting with a collection ofundeniably catchy pop that revels in hyper-driven post-modernity.

The album’s title, MUSICK, holds the key to this duality. It speaks of oversaturation, being sick of music at a time where there is so much of it that we can barely engage. Over 100,000 new tracks are uploaded online each day, and an increasing number of songs are AI creations, digital waste. Like so much of contemporary life, the simple act of listening to music now makes us question reality. MUSICK speaks to this sickness through its constantly warping sounds and reference points, but it also speaks to another kind of sickness: apathological devotion to music – “an obsession, a kind of drug” – which continues to drive Laibach in this era of oversaturation.

The album launches today with ‘Allgorhythm’, featuring Ghanaian singer Wiyaala. Co-produced by pop powerhouse Richard X (best known for his work with Sugababes, Goldfrapp, New Order and Kelis), the track is accompanied by a joyous video featuring Laibach’s eminent frontman and Wiyaala, designed to skew your algorithm in the best possible direction. This taste of what to expect from the album is an audacious mash-up of electronic pop tropes, hooks and beats. In both content and form, it deftly equates the manipulative nature of algorithms with that of music itself – both spells that we find ourselves under the control of. Laibach’s pop direction recently caught the attention of Slovenian state broadcaster RTV who earmarked ‘Allgorhythm’ a potential official entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, before RTV withdrew from the competition late last year.

The group took a maximalist approach while making the album in their Ljubljana studio. Surrounding themselves with every music-making artefact they could find- from analogue synths to toys to computers stuffed full with sound apps – they invited collaborators from Slovenia and beyond, including long-time collaborator Donna Marina Mårtensson and electropop producer Richard X. They immersed themselves in a broad spectrum of contemporary music production, from K‑pop and J‑pop to ’90s Eurodance. “However our primary influence and reference point remained Laibach itself,” say Laibach, “in all our shades, variations, and historical transformations.” MUSICK is intensely pop, but it’s also intensely Laibach.

Laibach embark on the first leg of their MUSICK tour on 18 May in Graz, before travelling through Europe in the summer.

Snippets:
soon

Videos:
“Musick” [feat. Wiyaala]

“Allgorhythm” [feat. Wiyaala]

Video Special:
“Exit Festival 2021 | Main Stage”

Recommendations:
all stuff by Laibach we featured
all stuff on Mute & sublabels we featured

Buy CD:
Mute Bank
Laibach @ Bandcamp
Juno
Rough Trade
more soon

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Mute Bank
Laibach @ Bandcamp
Juno
Rough Trade
HHV
more soon

Buy Download:
Laibach @ Bandcamp
more soon

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soon

Websites:
Laibach
Mute
Mute Germany

out for a while: Laibach – NATO [Mute]

Artist:
Laibach

Title:
NATO

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
STUMM121

Release Date:
11th October 1994 (original release date)

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
NATO

A2.
Final Countdown

A3.
In The Army Now

A4.
Dogs Of War

B1.
Alle Gegen Alle

B2.
War

B3.
National Reservation

B4.
2525

B5.
Mars On River Drina

Press Info:
NATO is the seventh in a sequence of official Laibach LP releases that have artistically redefined the political map of Europe. The LP’s themes are flagged by the single release of Europe’s Final Countdown. The NATO title is taken from the initials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the mutual military support group founded in 1949 by the USA, Canada and various European countries. Following the break-up of the Soviet bloc, NATO has recently signed friendship treaties with Russia and other former Warsaw Pakt countries with the aim of promoting peace and prosperity in the upper Northern hemisphere. Meanwhile, in the Balkans, the war goes on.Now Laibach take NATO where NATO itself has refused to go. The selections on NATO: the album have been determined by the group’s response to changing Europe and changing world orders.

Before NATO, these songs had a different life, carried different meanings. Choosing to re-work pre-existing materials is a Laibach tradition extending as far back as “Panorama” – their second single release – a superbly drilled disco record also based on Mars, from Holst’s Planet suite.

As with their later takes of Queen, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, these NATO appropriations operate on a number of levels. First and foremost they can be enjoyed at a purely musical level, for this is possibly Laibach’s most musically considered album. Its combination of characteristic Laibach – big choruses, martial sound and beats – and contemporary electronic dance technology makes it their most accessible release since Let It Be. Once seduced by its surface attractiveness, you find yourself entering the Laibach labyrinth of meanings and motivations. In context of NATO and the new political-cultural map in which they’re placed, these sons are now weighted with different significance’s. Yet traces of their original meanings resonate through Laibach’s re-models- and understanding Laibach’s original versions.

For the Laibach method is based on the premise that traumas from the past affecting the present and future can only be healed by returning to the initial conflict. Tracking the traces of these original songs brings you to the source of present traumas.

Snippets:

Videos:
“Final Countdown”

“Alle Gegen Alle”

“In The Army Now”

“War”

Video Special:
“Exit Festival 2021 | Main Stage”

Recommendations:
all stuff by Laibach we featured
all stuff on Mute & sublabels we featured

Buy CD:
originally released in 1994

Buy Vinyl:
originally released in 1994

Buy Download:
Laibach @ Bandcamp
Qobuz
Beatport
Boomkat
Bleep
iTunes
more soon

Commercial Streaming Services:
Tidal
Qobuz
Deezer
Apple Music
Anghami
Spotify
Youtube Music

Websites:
Laibach
Mute
Mute Germany

out soon: Clock DVA – Thirst [Mute]

Artist:
Clock DVA

Title:
Thirst

Label:
Mute

Cat#:
DVA2

Release Date:
05th June 2026

Format:
vinyl, CD, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Uncertain

02.
Sensorium

03.
White Cell

04.
Piano Pain

05.
Blue Tone

06.
North Loop

07.
4 Hours

08.
Moments

09.
Impressions Of African Winter

10.
The Opening
(Live At The Lyceum)

11.
Remain Remain
(Live At The Lyceum)

12.
4 Hours
(Single Mix)

13.
Sensorium
(Single Mix)

14.
4 Hours
(DVATION 2026 Version)

15.
Sensorium
(DVATION 2026 Version)

Press Info:
The second release in Mute’s extensive reissue campaign of the full Clock DVA catalog, Thirst has been expanded and remastered from the original tapes with input from all surviving members. Available on limited edition double thirst-red vinyl and CD via the The Grey Area of Mute.

Following on from the experimental jazz infused debut album White Souls in Black Suits, 1981’s Thirst is when Clock DVA explored the more commercial song based avenue of what would become the darkwave industrial scene. The album includes fan favorite and Industrial Goth dancefloor classics “4 Hours” and “Sensorium,” including a brand new version of each as bonus tracks, recorded by Clock DVA as they are in 2026.

Snippets:
soon

Full Track Streaming:
“4 Hours”