Artist:
Ben Frost
Title:
Nolan (Regis Self Medicating Edit)
Label:
Mute
Related Release:
EP “V A R I A N T”
original version of “Nolan” is featured on the album “A U R O R A”
Websites:
Ben Frost
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Germany @ Facebook
Video:
Artist (Music):
Einstürzende Neubauten
Introduction:
This is a special about Einstürzende Neubauten … a German industrial band which was originally formed in West Berlin, 1980.
Famous members and former members are Blixa Bargeld, Alexander Hacke, N.U. Unruh, Gudrun Gut, F.M. Einheit etc.
The band is well-known for the “use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments” (wikipedia).
In 2014 they released the new album “Lament”, which deals with stories about the World War I one hundred years after its outbreak.
Here is a selection of some videos …
Videos:
“Sabrina”
“Interim Lovers”
“Blume (English)”
“Autobahn”
“Die Interimsliebenden”
“Blume (French)”
“Alles (Live at Der Palast der Republik, 4th November 2004)”
“I Kissed Glen Gould”
“Nagorny Karabach”
“Blume (Japanese)”
“The Garden”
Websites:
Einstürzende Neubauten
Artist:
Front 242
Title:
Headhunter
Label:
Red Rhino Europe
Related Release:
album “Front by Front”
Websites:
Front 242
Video:
Introduction:
This special is about a song… one with an important impact on the electronic music you know nowadays.
It’s about “Warm Leatherette” by The Normal. The Normal was a project by Daniel Miller used to release his single “T.V.O.D / Warm Leatherette”.
The lyrics of “Warm Leatherette” reference J.G. Ballard’s novel “Crash” (1973), the music can described as electronic Post-punk with industrial sounds.
The front cover shows a crash test dummys sitting behind the steering wheel of car, on the back side of the 7 inch he put his own address and the sentence “this is a mute record”.
Impressed by the do-it-yourself attitude of the Punk scene, he wanted to release it by himself and without a label. So Daniel Miller offered it to a few independent music shops, including Rough Trade in London, where it would be played to customers.
So the legendary label Mute Records was founded….
The track became a small underground hit and has been covered by numerous artists. So we show you some of these cover version … right after a fan video of the original track.
Videos / Audio:
The Normal – “Warm Leatherette”
Laibach – “Warme Lederhaut”
Velocity Star feat. Rose McDowall – “Warm Leatherette”
Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy – “Warm Leatherette”
Chicks On speed – “Warm Leatherette”
Lost Children – “Warm Leatherette”
Ditto – “Warm Leatherette”
Prayer Tower – “Warm Leatherette”
Die Tödliche Doris – “Warm Leatherette”
Grace Jones – “Warm Leatherette”
Grace Jones – “Warm Leatherette (Long Version)”
MDS51 – “Warm Leatherette”
Suzi Quatro – “Warm Leatherette”
DJ Hell – “Warm Leatherette”
Terence Fixmer – “Warm Leatherette”
Otto Von Schirach – “Warm Leatherette”
Cole Black – “Warm Leatherette”
Club 69 – “Warm Leatherette”
Recommendations:
Club 69’s “Warm Leatherette” on Star 69 Records
The Normal’s “Warm Leatherette / T.V.O.D.” on Mute
sampler “Warm Leatherette Re-Covered” on Mute
Websites:
Daniel Miller @ novamute.co
Mute
Info:
As you surely know our absolute favourite label is Mute, founded in 1978 by the legendary Daniel Miller.
The roster include(d) influential and important musical acts such as Depeche Mode, Erasure, Fad Gadget, Goldfrapp, Grinderman, Nitzer Ebb, Renegade Soundwave and Yazoo.
It was formed initially to release the Daniel Miller’s single “T.V.O.D.”/”Warm Leatherette” which became a underground hit.
One of Mute’s most famous act were Depeche Mode, which Daniel signed for a single after seeing them as support of Fad Gadget.
The label was always one of the pioneering labels developing and supporting new music styles. So they had a several sublabels with different genres and styles like novamute for techno and electronica, Future Groove for house music, Blast First for guitar and electronic experiments, The Fine Line for soundtracks, The Grey Area for re-issues.
Most of them are now defunct but they have a new sublabel, Liberation Technologies.
More recent acts are so different artists like Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton, Laibach, Erasure, VCMG, Big Deal, Zola Jesus, Liars and … just announced a few months ago New Order …. and many more
To show our love for the label we created a sampler of over 16 tracks and 90mins of newer stuff (from Mute, Mute US, sublabels). So enjoy!
Listen:
Recommendation:
check out our first Mute sampler with over 6 hours of great stuff
Websites:
Mute
Mute @ Facebook
Mute Germany @ Facebook
Documentary Evidence (fanpage with a lot of stuff about Mute)