Various - Mute Audio Documents

A fabulously entertaining history lesson.

Posted Sunday, 3 June 2007 in

When Daniel Miller stumbled upon the creation of Mute Records as a means to release his own seminal 'Warm Leatherette' single (and becoming a label boss almost by default), he could never had comprehended the extraordinary journey it would take him on. Now almost 30 years later, '...Documents...' begins a mammoth excavation of Mute's past, compiling the complete A and B sides from the label's singles catalogue. But while Depeche Mode and Yazoo will be instantly recognisable to pop fans, it's the more obscure nuggets that really delight: the charmingly eccentric electropop of Silicon Teens, DAF's highly influential proto-techno, Non's grimly humorous industrialism, or the primitive genesis of Berlin metal bashers EinstÃ¼rzende Neubauten. A fabulously entertaining history lesson.

Neil Gardner

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