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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Snippets:
Spinning The Vinyl:
“Ten Commandments”
Special:
Steve Bicknell – “Spacebase Mix Fabric London 25/05/2011”
Recommendations:
“A Day In The Life” by The Evader | Steve Bicknell on KR3 Records
Steve Bicknell’s “27” on KR3 Records
Steve Bicknell’s “Story Character EP” on 6dimensions
Steve Bicknell’s “Constant Movement” on Granulart
Steve Bicknell’s “Mind Patterns” on 6dimensions
Steve Bicknell’s “Modes Of Thought” on 6dimensions
LSD’s “Third Process” on LSD
LSD’s “Second Process” on LSD
LSD’s “Process” on Ostgut Ton
all stuff on NovaMute we featured
Buy Vinyl:
released in 1992
Websites:
Steve Bicknell
Steve Bicknell @ Instagram
NovaMute
NovaMute Germany
