Mute: a visual document: from 1978 - tomorrow, hardcover/daniel miller

Mute is one of the most revered and influential indie labels of all time.

Through the music of its tight-knit community of artists--ranging from Cabaret Voltaire, Nick Caves The Birthday Party and Moby to Depeche Mode, Erasure, and Goldfrapp--it has had an incalculable impact on popular music for forty years.

Daniel Miller created Mute to release his debut single (``Warm Leatherette``/ ``T.

``), a pioneering electronic sound with a defiantly DIY punk attitude.

Mute quickly established a reputation for cultivating the experimental, releasing cutting-edge industrial sounds, and chart-topping electronic music by the likes of Depeche Mode and Yazoo.

The label was equally at home with the savage punk of Nick Caves The Birthday Party and--to critical acclaim--his next outfit, The Bad Seeds.

It also proved to be an Internet pioneer, launching the online site Mute Liberation Technologies in 1994.

Mute features stunning artwork and photography--much of it previously unseen--and revelatory behind-the-scenes insights from the vibrant cast who have worked with the label.