Recent Articles with Mute Records
Tech Talk: Pole (Slices DVD Feature)
“You have to imagine mastering as the necessary second pair of ears. If I make a piece of music by myself, and then try to master it myself as well, it’s a bottomless pit. (…) It’s really important that you take your material to someone else and tell them to listen to it.” — watch our Pole Tech Talk video feature, taken from Slices Issue 1-08. – more
EB Exclusive: VCMG – Aftermaths (Gesaffelstein Remix)
We’ve been talking about this grande techno release since long. And today we’re serving the next portion, aka the exclusive pre-listening of Monsieur Gesaffelstein’s re-edit of VCMG’s instant classic, entitled ‘Aftermaths’ – more
Justus Köhncke recommends Can’s The Lost Tapes
I’m not much of a career person. In fact, I would say I’ve stumbled into almost everything I’ve done in life—not entirely by accident, but certainly without very much planning. And that’s more or less how I became involved in making film music together with Can founder Irmin Schmidt.
EB Video Premiere: CAN – Dead Pigeon Suite
CAN is a group who need no introduction. The experimental rockers have been consistently making some of our favorite avant-garde music for more years than we care to count. It’s always interesting to see something new from them, so we’re pleased to premiere their latest video. Set to a kaleidoscopic montage of vintage windup toys – more
Regis: From Birmingham to Bratislava
In the late ’90s, Subclub (then called U.Club) became one of the most vibrant and important nightspots in the heart of Europe, which had just recently emerged from behind the Iron Curtain. The former underground nuclear bunker was built by the Communists to prepare Western Slovakia for Cold War armageddon. Before reaching the concrete gut – more
EB Listening: Carter Tutti Void’s ‘Transverse’ live album
This is when musical legends and talents collide: Carter Tutti Void, the collaboration from Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti (both of Throbbing Gristle-fame) and Factory Floor‘s Nik Void, was initiated exclusively for an appearance at Mute Records‘ 2011 ‘Short Circuit presents Mute’ festival at London’s Roundhouse. This special set was already great news for – more
Read an email Re: the new Liars album
The other day we received an email. Well, in fact we received it but – oh, the modern technology – interesting things tend to end up in the spam folder, which is why we overlooked it. Here’s that email: Turns out it was being sent by experimental rock / noise band LIARS, who disappeared a – more
VCMG – First Listen: The new album ‘Ssss’ by Vince Clarke & Martin L. Gore streaming in full
They’ve seen it all, they’ve heard it all, and they’ve been part of nearly everything musicwise during the last three decades. When Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore recently announced their comeback as VCMG, it was obvious that they wouldn’t be reinventing the wheel of techno music, but focussing on their own respective roots as – more
