Mute RecordsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781501340635.0012
R. Cole
{"title":"‘Join That Troubled Chorus’: Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds and the Blues","authors":"R. Cole","doi":"10.5040/9781501340635.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501340635.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188464,"journal":{"name":"Mute Records","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114650240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mute RecordsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781501340635.0016
Aténé Mendelyté
{"title":"The Mash-Up of Aesthetics, Theory and Politics in Laibach’s Meta-Sound","authors":"Aténé Mendelyté","doi":"10.5040/9781501340635.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501340635.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188464,"journal":{"name":"Mute Records","volume":"76 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120819600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mute RecordsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781501340635.0022
Lourdes Nicole Crosby García
{"title":"Composing in Circuitry: Sonic Artist Dirty Electronics","authors":"Lourdes Nicole Crosby García","doi":"10.5040/9781501340635.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501340635.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":188464,"journal":{"name":"Mute Records","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115460767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mute RecordsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781501340635.0018
Richard Osborne
{"title":"Moby, Minstrelsy and Melville","authors":"Richard Osborne","doi":"10.5040/9781501340635.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501340635.0018","url":null,"abstract":"In 1999 Mute Records released Play by Moby. Daniel Miller has admitted that the label was not in ‘great shape’ at this point and nor was Moby’s career. The performer had had chart success in the UK with his 1991 single ‘Go’, which was released by the Mute sub-label Rhythm King. His left-turn turn from electronica to hardcore punk with Animal Rights (1996) was poorly received, however, confusing fans and record company alike. Play was therefore an unexpected triumph. By 2016, it had sold more than 12 million copies, making it the world’s highest-selling electronica album. For Miller, this turnaround was ‘like the cavalry coming over the hill’, safeguarding Mute for the twenty-first century. This chapter explores the phenomenon of Play but in a tangential manner. It traces three overlapping stories. It explores ‘Blackface’ minstrelsy, the most popular form of entertainment in the US from the mid-1840s until the end of the nineteenth century. It addresses the work of the author Herman Melville, whose quest was ‘the absolute amidst its relative manifestations [...] the delicate and shifting relationship between its truth and its illusion’. And it examines Moby and the music he recorded and sampled for Play. This album, through its use of sampling, bears hallmarks of minstrelsy. It also raises questions about truth and illusion.","PeriodicalId":188464,"journal":{"name":"Mute Records","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130072454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mute RecordsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781501340635.0015
Ieuan Franklin
{"title":"Outside Mute? Ut, No Wave and Blast First","authors":"Ieuan Franklin","doi":"10.5040/9781501340635.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501340635.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the all-female no wave band Ut – founded in New York in 1978 by Jacqui Ham, Nina Canal and Sally Young and relocated to London in 1980 – and the similarly uncompromising British independent label Blast First (a sub-label of Mute), to which Ut were signed between 1986 and 1989. Firstly, a proviso – it does not promise to be a comprehensive biography or profile of either the band or label, although I hope to offer some new insights about both. I will not have much scope to discuss the band’s recorded output – here I defer to those fanzine writers and music critics, such as Elizabeth Johnson, who have brilliantly articulated the unusual nature of the band’s sound, both in concert and on record:","PeriodicalId":188464,"journal":{"name":"Mute Records","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124122328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}