Browse by Label: MUTE USA

Artist:	T.RAUMSCHMIERE
Title:	Sick Like Me
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$4.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 3085CD

"'Sick Like Me' is the first single from T.Raumschmiere's forthcoming album Blitzkrieg Pop. Containing more apparent punk rock influences as well as his own vocals, T.Raumschmiere also enlisted the help of his friends Ellen Allien (Bpitch Control), Sandra Nasic (from Guano Apes), Quasimodo Jones and Judith Juillerat (both from T.Raumschmiere's own Shitkatapult label) and more to build Blitzkrieg Pop into an alternate universe's punk rock anthem. 'Sick Like Me' features alternate versions and remixes by Motor."

Artist:	T.RAUMSCHMIERE
Title:	Blitzkrieg Pop
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 3086CD

"T.Raumschmiere returns in 2005 with a brand new album, his second for Novamute, Blitzkrieg Pop. Recorded in late 2004 and early 2005 in Berlin, Blitzkrieg Pop sees T.Raumschmiere build upon his hybrid of punk rock and electronic music unleashed on the masses in the form of his 2003 album Radio Blackout. Containing more apparent punk rock, twisted rock and ambient influences as well as his own vocals, T.Raumschmiere also enlisted the help of his friends Ellen Allien (from Berlin's Bpitch label) on 'Diving In Whiskey,' Quasimodo Jones on 'A Mess,' Sandra Nasic (from European rockers Gauno Apes) on 'A Very Loud Lullaby' plus French newcomer Judith Juillerat on '3 Minutes Happiness'."

Artist:	LIEBING/SPEEDY J, CHRIS
Title:	Collabs 3000: Metalism
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 3089CD

"Collabs 3000 is a full length album release from two of techno's most revered artists and DJs -- Speedy J and Chris Liebing. From brutal tough drums and more obvious dancefloor bound techno to more experimental and quirky meanderings, Collabs 3000 showcases two of the world's most recognized forces in techno hitting the top of their game. The Collabs series was established by longtime novamute artist Speedy J (aka Jochem Paap) in order to release a series of 12"s as collaborations with other artists. The first two saw a joining of forces with Adam Beyer and then Literon whilst the third and fourth 12"s witnessed Speedy hooking up with German DJ and producer, Chris Liebing."

Artist:	MOTOR
Title:	Klunk
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 3091CD

Worth mentioning again that these are not the Russian dudes who made Hexen. "Motor is totally uncompromised electronic music practicing a punk ethic, deliberately breaking any musical restrictions or sound barriers. After releasing a string of raw, bold and innovative singles, Klunk is Motor's debut full-length album. Packed with dark menacing grooves, corrosive industrial drumming and the lost, tripped out cranial bending atmosphere of a party that just didn't quite stop, Klunk joins the dots between Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Final Cut, Plastikman, acid house and minimal techno creating a glorious dancefloor killing sound that is uniquely Motor."

Artist:	CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, NICK
Title:	Let Love In
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 5720CD

Series 3 of the 5.1 remastered collector's editions of these Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds albums, each featuring a newly remastered CD of the album, a new DVD surround mix, B-sides of the singles featured on the DVD audio, specially commissioned short films by UK artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, videos and exclusive sleeve notes.
DVD audio content: Let Love In in 5.1 surround sound; "Cassiel's Song," "Sail Away," "(I'll Love You) Till The End Of The World," "That's What Jazz Is To Me" and "Where The Action Is." Video: "Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 8: Let Love In)," "Do You Love Me?/Loverman/Red Right Hand."

Artist:	CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, NICK
Title:	No More Shall We Part
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 5734CD

2011 collectors edition. DVD audio content: No More Shall We Part in 5.1 and stereo; "Good Good Day/Little Janey's Gone," "Grief Came Riding," "Bless His Ever Loving Heart," and four Westside sessions tracks ("Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow," "We Came Along This Road," "God Is In The House" and "And No More Shall We Part"). Video content: "Do You Love Me Like I Love You (Part 11: No More Shall We Part)" and "As I Sat Sadly By Her Side/Love Letter/Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow."

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Strategies Against Architecture IV
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 6949CD

"Strategies Against Architecture IV is a double disc release that collates the band's output from 2002-2010, a period which saw Einst�rzende Neubauten release Perpetuum Mobile, embark on the Musterhaus series (a collection of very limited edition experimental albums that were available exclusively via the band's website), the release of Grundst�ck (2005), Palast der Republik (2006: material from the band's deeply symbolic appearance at Berlin's Palast der Republik -- the former seat of power of the German Democratic Republik, featuring The Social Choir of 100 supporter voices), Alles Wieder Offen (2007) and The Jewels (2008)."

Artist:	SUICIDE
Title:	Suicide
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9104CD

2000 double CD reissue of the astounding debut Suicide album (originally released by Red Star in 1978). Suicide were Alan Vega (voice) and Martin Rev (electronics). First disc features the original album; 2nd disc features the legendary 23 Minutes Over Brussels session (live at CBGB's, 5/25/78), which was originally issued as a flexi-disc. Packaged with a 1996 interview in the booklet between Rev, Vega & Red Star's Marty Thau. Classic punk-electronic trance that sounds as intense and vivid as ever and unlike some of their peers from the era, still as dangerously futuristic.

Artist:	SUICIDE
Title:	The Second Album + The First Rehearsals
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9105CD

2000 re-release (previously on Blast First UK). "The re-release of Suicide's second 1980 'pop' album, produced by Rick Ocasek. CD1 features the full album + extra tracks in the form of the A ("Dream Baby Dream" -- their biggest 'hit') & B ("Radiation") sides of the single of the time. CD2 is 45 minutes of previously unreleased tracks from their first rehearsals in 1975. The fourteen tracks show a surprisingly commercial bent, being mostly songs rather than being nascent versions of the material that appears on the first album. Suicide fans will have their first chance to see how the band evolved. Booklet features a lengthy interview and sports a wild new cover showing the boys in their 1972 street clothes."

Artist:	CABARET VOLTAIRE
Title:	Mix-Up
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9172CD

2002 edition of 1st Cabaret Voltaire album, originally released by Rough Trade in 1979. Cabaret Voltaire were Chris Watson, Stephen Mallinder & Richard H. Kirk. Classic proto-industrial/rock. "Impressively harnesses noise, primitive rhythm box percolations, tape loops, garbled vocals, and blasts of Farfisa. 'Kirlian Photograph' is an ugly slab of dub with frizzling snaps of white-heat buzz, clunky percussion, and a plodding bass line forming its skanking, roiling rhythm. Both the bass and incidental vocals are relegated to the back of the mix as the piercing detritus takes center stage. A cover of the Seeds' 'No Escape' evidences Cabaret Voltaire's paradox as a seemingly anti-rockist band who -- at their heart (for the first several years, at least) -- was a garage band." -- AMG.

Artist:	CABARET VOLTAIRE
Title:	Red Mecca
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9174CD

2002 edition of the 6th CV album, originally released in 1980. "It's a taught, dense, horrific slab lacking a lull. Dashes of Richard H. Kirk's synthesizer are welded to Chris Watson's tape effects for singed lashes of white noise, best heard on the lurching 'Sly Doubt' and the jolting 'Spread the Virus.' Throughout, Mallinder's sinister jibber jabbering punctuates the high-pitched menace. The record contains all the characteristics that have made the Sheffield group such an influential entity when it comes to electronic music." -- AMG.

Artist:	ADAMSON, BARRY
Title:	The King Of Nothing Hill
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9176CD

"Born and raised in Moss Side, Manchester, a love of cinematic scores and the punk explosion of The 1970s inexorably led Barry Adamson headlong into a career in music. He was bass player in the innovatory post punk band, Magazine between 1978 and1982, then went on to become a founding member of Nick Cave's illustrious Bad Seeds in 1984. The anguished songs and poignant instrumentals, all comprised of a miscellany of musical styles, are deftly blended together in Barry Adamson's hands on his new album, The King Of Nothing Hill, and the result is his own assiduously distinctive and deeply personal cinematic sound and his singular narrative gift."

Artist:	NON
Title:	Children Of The Black Sun
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9183CD

"Special edition CD/DVD two disc set. The CD disc offers the album in stereo, and the DVD is recorded in 5.1 surround sound. First new Non album in over two years. Boyd Rice, a.k.a. Non, the most extreme artist in Mute's left-field canon, has been amazing and annoying his audiences in equal measures since he first began recording music in 1975. Along with former contemporaries Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, Non is synonymous with the genesis of extreme music. One thing is certain: until things gets darker, Non will be the man in black."

Artist:	KOMPUTER
Title:	Market Led
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9186CD

"Market Led not only represents Komputer's first new album in nearly five years, it also marks a radical change in musical scope for the band. Where their debut album from 1997, The World of Tomorrow, quite obviously referenced Kraftwerk, Market Led sees Komputer leave their vocoders and drum machines by the road side, instead exploring a new, cerebral sonic territory. Although synthesizers are still prominent, Komputer have abandoned their synth-pop stylings, and on Market Led, they experiment with minimalist textures, clicks and whirs, and subdued, dub-like beats, which overall leads to a more discerning feel. Market Led is recommended for fans of To Roccoco Rot, Mouse On Mars, and Pan American."

Artist:	SFT
Title:	Swift
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9189CD

"Composer, film sound-tracker and partially reformed noise freak SFT (Simon Fisher Turner) is set to release a new CD and DVD, Swift. The release of Swift will be the first of its kind, as the CD comes packaged together with a DVD: a film by Adam Shepherd. Shepherd has collaged footage from six film makers, including SFT, to make a short film to accompany from the album. Featuring 20 tracks, produced by Kevin Paul and Simon Fisher Turner, Swift was recorded with London based Israeli jazz musician Gilad Atzmon and a array of diverse musicians and players: The Action Jackson Orchestra Perhaps, Asaf Sikris, occasional Medieval Babe Dorothy Carter and French electronic dance artiste Norsque. The sound palette was further enhanced by Spring Heel Jack's Ashley Wales, Japanese producer Aki Onda, video artist Doug Aitken (who appears in The Action Jackson Orchestra Perhaps), Australian electronic wizz Andie GK Reynolds and with spoken and sung passages from Karen Thiele and Tali Atzmon."

Artist:	CABARET VOLTAIRE
Title:	Best Of '78/'82 (The Original Sound of Sheffield)
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9190CD

"Cabaret Voltaire (along with Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Chrome, and the like) were responsible for pioneering the acceptability and use of many sounds that were instrumental in defining a strand of popular music which became known as experimental or 'industrial'. Initially a three piece, Cabaret Voltaire began by playing around with recorded sounds manipulated by basic reel-to-reel recorders in Sheffield in 1973. Filtering influences as diverse as Stockhausen, Can, early Roxy Music, Velvet Underground and James Brown through various tape and electronic devices, their great blasts of noise were instrumental in freeing popular music from its narrow, restrictive definitions."

Artist:	SUICIDE
Title:	American Supreme
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9196CD

"Suicide are: Alan Vega, Martin Rev. In early 2001 they made a concentrated effort to record the new self-produced album American Supreme at New York's 6/8 Studios with engineer Perkin Barnes. The album, then almost complete, was then seriously delayed by 9/11, with Alan Vega living only a couple of blocks from the World Trade Center in the financial district of New York. The album carries the distinctive Suicide sound into the new millennium, driven by Marty Rev's alluring mix of digital electronic funk noise and skittish latin over-rhythms, intercut with haunting electro dance tracks, Vega's voice reaches new heights in expressing his paranoid, sci-fi visions of contemporary street life."

Artist:	ERASURE
Title:	Other People's Songs
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9198CD

"Erasure's new album features a selection of the duo's favorite covers, from artists as varied as Peter Gabriel, The Righteous Brothers, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, & more. Erasure are not newcomers to the art of the cover version. They've included non-original material on several albums and famously released an entire EP of Abba songs, Abba-esque, in 1992. Other People's Songs is, however, a more weighty project, combining a bit of cheek with some iconoclasm, a sincere fascination with the mechanics of songwriting and a pure, fan-based love of pop."

Artist:	POLE
Title:	45/45
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD EP
Price:	$4.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9203CD

4 track EP. "Structurally, the music of Pole is based on abstract, irregular rhythms created by a defective analogue sound filter Betke uses, namely the 'Walderf 4-Pole' filter. These rhythms principally are defect frequencies lull of interference (in audio terms commonly referred to as 'noise' ), not unlike the crackling sounds of vintage vinyl, except for a harder, purely digital quality. Poles signature sound is also based on the production methods of Jamaican dub, and the foundations of modern composers like Steve Reich, Arnold Schoenberg, John Zorn, and Auto Lindsay."

Artist:	GOLDFRAPP
Title:	Black Cherry
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9206CD

"Goldfrapp return with their new album Black Cherry, following the worldwide success of their debut, Felt Mountain. Black Cherry was written and recorded over the last 12 months by the British duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory. The magic of Goldfrapp's appeal is still potent and suggestive with the mystery, the sense of something below the surface, being just tantalizingly out of reach. With Black Cherry, they entwine classic songwriting with the most abstract of modern music, making a bold statement in an increasingly fractured world."

Artist:	POLE
Title:	90/90 EP
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD EP
Price:	$4.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9213CD

"With the 90/90 EP, part two in a new series of Pole releases, Stefan Betke has -- for the very first time -- allowed vocals to enter his minimal dub environment. On the title track 'Slow Motion', Ohio-based rapper Fat John precisely dissects the fabric of time, disregarding the familiar rules of hip hop showmanship. To an equally inescapable beat, aptly striking every second he turns time into a matter of politics and measurement into a question of definition. By thus laying open the backbone of his creative process. Betke forsakes the anonymity of most electronic musicians and chooses to collaborate with other artists instead. Besides double bass genius August Engkilde (already featured on 45/45). 'I Can't Hear's' minimal beat environment features saxophone passages by Copenhagen resident Thomas Haas."

Artist:	POLE
Title:	Pole
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9216CD

"With his new album and two EPs, Pole has gone back to the future, back to his own roots -- from hip hop to techno and back again. Similar to the blue-red-yellow albums, which only revealed its overall idea in the combination of all separate recordings, Betke has managed to create a series which continues to evolve with every installment. And this almost architectural approach is accompanied by a fundamental musical change of direction. Also, for the first time, a voice has been allowed to enter the mix, that of Ohio-based rapper Fat Jon. Direct, subtle, unforced and forceful Pole gains more and more transparency, with or without its vocal support -- no clicks, no scratches, no scrapes... nothing dilutes the strict clarity of his new output. Goodbye 'Walldorf 4-Pole', welcome Stefan Betke."

Artist:	PINK GREASE
Title:	All Over You
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9221CD

"Pink Grease was born out of a mutual appreciation of filthy parties, the necessity of rock, and the need for a massive injection of sex into the pop mainstream. Like a giant freak magnet Pink Grease came together out of frustration at a dead scene and the despicable inertia of bland live music. Their mission: to create super-powered, disco-driven punk (f) rock. All Over You was recorded at Russell 'Blues Explosion' Simins studio, Empire View, with Jason Buckle at the helm. New York affects the music, tightens it up so it flows with danger."

Artist:	CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, NICK
Title:	God Is In The House
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9224DVD

"The DVD contains live footage from Le Transbordeur in Lyon, France, plus the John Hillcoat directed documentary No More Shall We Part - The Recording Sessions. Recorded at Abbey Road, containing exclusive footage of the band recording No More Shall We Part. Also featured on the DVD are the videos Hillcoat directed for the singles 'As I Sat Sadly By Her Side' and 'Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow', the latter featuring cameos from the likes of Jarvis Cocker and Jason Donovan. The video for the Australian released single, 'Love Letter' is also included on the DVD. The Lyon concert from 2001's No More Shall We Part tour features the Bad Seeds lineup of Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos, and Warren Ellis playing tracks from eight of their twelve studio albums." NTSC all-region, Letterbox, 140 min., stereo.

Artist:	CAN
Title:	DVD
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2DVD/1CD
Price:	$43.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9231DVD

"The Can saga continues with the 35th anniversary of the founding of the group, which will be marked by the release of the Can DVD. Containing access to everything you could ever want to know about Can with rare insights into the personalities and methodology of the groundbreaking and legendary German band, the 2 x DVD and 1 x CD set features: Can Documentary, Can Free Concert, Can Notes, Can solo recordings, New 5.1 mixes of classic Can tracks and many extra features. The classic Can Documentary by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher of Austrian program-maker DoRo Productions, covers the entire history of the band including classic and rarely seen TV performances. The film, Can Free Concert, filmed by Robbie Muller and directed by Peter Przygodda is the film of a show which took place in front of 10,000 spectators in Cologne in 1972. Can Notes is a new film compiled by Peter Przygodda. The audio CD contains 13 tracks of Can solo recordings -- some previously released, some exclusive live recordings." NTSC, English and French subtitles.

Artist:	LIARS
Title:	They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9235CD

"The last band to so expertly execute the cocktail of menace and artful, brilliant chaos that Liars achieve for their second album, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, were fellow New Yorkers Sonic Youth, when they cut their epochal Bad Moon Rising album. It's a record from a band in transition, severing their ties with the scene they kinda inaugurated and have now, decidedly, outgrown. A band defining themselves only in terms of what they wish to achieve, the limits of their imagination. A band withdrawing to a basement deep in the wilds somewhere and letting their every little wrinkle of rampant creativity and twisted genius seep deep into the shadows of this most poignant and chilling ghost story."

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Perpetuum Mobile
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9237CD

"Following Silence Is Sexy and the Strategies Against Architecture III anthology, Einsturzende Neubauten's long-awaited new studio album has arrived at last, Perpetuum Mobile. Time brings about changes, and since their foundation, Einsturzende Neubauten have, like no other band, reflected these major and minor, public and private vicissitudes. Perpetuum Mobile expands the range of their music, enriching it with new facets: like in the radicalism with which melancholia, wafted through with farewells, is portrayed here. Or the long, almost epic narratives that rigorously take all the time they need to develop their perfect dramaturgy. Alongside these, we find subtle sonic images, whose intensity develops out of reduction, or songs that breathe a fragile beauty ('Paradiesseits') and deeply felt mourning ('Dead Friends (around the corner}'). But Einsturzende Neubauten also immediately continue their search for that unexpected new sound, with new installations (see 'Boreas') or surprising instrumentations consisting of wind players, tubes, pedal steel guitars, the clavichord, bird calls, and air compressors."

Artist:	LIARS
Title:	There's Always Room on the Broom
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$4.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9238CD

"'There's Always Room On The Broom' is the first single from Liars' forthcoming sophomore album, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned. It's a record from a band in transition, severing their ties with the scene they kinda inaugurated and have now, decidedly, outgrown. A band defining themselves only in terms of what they wish to achieve, the limits of their imagination. A band withdrawing to a basement deep in the wilds somewhere and letting their every little wrinkle of rampant creativity and twisted genius seep deep into the shadows of this most poignant and chilling ghost story."

Artist:	GOLDFRAPP
Title:	Black Cherry
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$4.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9253CD

"'Black Cherry' is the 4th single -- and title track -- from Goldfrapp's critically acclaimed sophomore album Black Cherry. The 'Black Cherry' single contains exclusive material, not found on any import, including: 'Gone To Earth' b-side, 'Black Cherry' remixes from fellow Mute artist M83 and Lawrence, 'Black Cherry' live video, 'Forever' remix from fellow Mute artist Mountaineers, a live video version of the fan favorite 'Sartorius' (a track that was never previously released), and the 'Strict Machine' and 'Twist' videos."

Artist:	CABARET VOLTAIRE
Title:	Double Vision Presents Cabaret Voltaire
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9261DVD

"On its original release in 1982, Double Vision Presents Cabaret Voltaire was one of the first independent long form videos ever made and features fourteen visual representations of Cabaret Voltaire tracks including 'Nag Nag Nag', 'Obsession' and 'Diskono'. The communications company Double Vision was founded by Cabaret Voltaire and Paul Smith in 1982, initially as a vehicle for this particular release but also with a view to releasing affordable music based video for a fraction of the price. This DVD release is purposely true to the quality and sound reproduction of the original release." NTSC All-region; 85 minutes.

Artist:	RESIDENTS, THE
Title:	Commercial Album
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	DVD
Price:	$17.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9275DVD

"The DVD will both complement and complete the project with an amazing collection of 56 one-minute films based on the original 40 Commercial Album songs. In order to produce this large number of films, in addition to themselves, The Residents have assembled an outstanding group of 42 visual artists from around the world. Working in various forms ranging from animation, live action, and puppetry to drawing, photography and sculpture, the DVD is a virtual mini-film festival. In addition, the DVD has an innovative game-like interface that allows viewers to explore a maze in the process of viewing the videos."

Artist:	SUICIDE
Title:	A Way of Life
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9278CD

"Mute will reissue two seminal Suicide albums: A Way Of Life and Why Be Blue?. Both titles are remastered and repackaged as double CDs, each with its own live concert CD. Martin Rev explains, 'A Way Of Life and Why Be Blue? each sound better than ever I think. They've been remastered and you can really hear the difference especially on Why Be Blue?, which is almost like a remix. They each will be coupled as a second CD with a European live date from the same time period." A Way Of Live was originally released in 1988; studio recordings produced by Ric Ocasek. 2nd CD features a live show from Town & Country, 12/13/87.

Artist:	M83
Title:	Don't Save Us From the Flames
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$4.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9283CD

"Don't Save Us From The Flames single features remixes from Superpitcher and Boom Bip. Superpitcher records for the acclaimed German label Kompakt, and is at the forefront of the newly burgeoned Schaffel scene. Boom Bip records for Warp Records' hip hop-oriented sub label Lex, and has completed remixes for the likes of Mogwai, Super Furry Animals and fellow Mute artist Mountaineers. 'Until The Night Is Over' is a piano / voice version of the track 'Night' from M83's eponymous debut album."

Artist:	RESIDENTS, THE
Title:	Animal Lover
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9284CD

"Animal Lover is The Residents' new album. When Charles Darwin first proposed in the late 1800s that homo-sapiens had evolved from and were in fact a species of animal, many humans were horrified; humans had an unusual need to feel superior. Taking a step beyond Darwin, Sigmund Freud believed that the human was an animal in conflict, and informing the human of that very simple concept seemed to only increase the conflict. In The Residents' Animal Lover, the creatures who don't really mind if they are animals take an existential look at the upright animal whose normality is sliding toward the wrong end of the spectrum. The human beasts live in a world of primal darkness, their heads forever stuck in the ground like frightened ostriches living in a constant murky dream state. In creating this picture book of animal tales, The Residents wanted to include a soundtrack that related directly to 'animal love'. The result is an imaginative CD whose rhythm tracks are based entirely on animal noise mating patterns generated primarily by cicadas and frogs. Also the actual sounds of mating whales and humans were used for longer tonal passages. (They weren't mating with each other, by the way.)"

Artist:	BALANESCU QUARTET
Title:	Maria T
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9286CD

"Maria T is the Balanescu Quartet's new album, and is a re-connection with Alexander Balanescu's Romanian roots evoking the spirit of one of his earliest musical influences, the glamorous and iconic folk-singer and actress Maria Tanase (1913-63). Hailed as Romania's Edith Piaf, Maria Tanase led a life of contradiction which mirrored her country's troubled history, and also connected with something timeless. Alexander Balanescu explains the concept: 'Following on from my work on the album Luminitza, for which I took elements of Eastern European folk music as sources of inspiration for new musical material, on this particular project I took the songs of Maria Tanase as a basis for new compositions. My intention was not to make transcriptions or arrangements of the ethnic material, but through my own particular musical perspective (with its classical, jazz, electronic, and generally very eclectic influences), to develop a new personal language, but always remaining true to the spirit of the original source material.'"

Artist:	LIARS
Title:	Drum's Not Dead
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9301CD

"Drum's Not Dead was partly inspired by the Liars' relocation to Berlin from NYC after their 2004 album They Were Wrong, So We Drowned. From clanging guitars, martial beats, dense drones and pulverizing rhythms to high dreamy harmonies, off-kilter guitar lines and soothing samples of waves lapping, this is Liars' finest, fullest and most unexpected album to date. Shredding all past reference points, Drum's Not Dead sees Liars taking another seismic step forward, switching continents, seizing new musical territory and expanding their audio-visual ambitions. Drum's Not Dead come with its own cinematic sister project -- a DVD, with three film versions of the album, directed by the band members Angus Andrew, Julian Gross & filmmaker Markus Wambsganss. Each film is comprised of videos for every track on the album: 36 videos total. From backstage travelogues to surreal animation and mini sci-fi epics, Liars document the process of recording, touring, then visually reinventing each track."

Artist:	HARVEY, MICK
Title:	One Man's Treasure
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9303CD

"Mick Harvey -- celebrated arranger, multi instrumentalist, producer, film soundtrack composer and co-founder of the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party --moves with total ease to the centre stage for the superlative One Man's Treasure. One Man's Treasure is an inspired and moving collection of classic songs. The basic album tracks were all recorded by Mick Harvey at his home studio. Some are original compositions, some of these songs once belonged to songwriters such as Lee Hazlewood, Tim Buckley and the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce of The Gun Club. What links this enduring material is a spirit reminiscent of the best urban Australian alternative country music and the fact that Mick Harvey felt a passionate, personal connection with every song."

Artist:	CAVE & WARREN ELLIS, NICK
Title:	The Proposition (OST)
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9305CD

"A powerful western drama set in the savage Eden of 1880s Australia, The Proposition is an elemental story of family conflict and primal violence, destructive love and divided loyalties. Featuring an international superstar cast including Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson and Danny Huston, it is directed by John Hillcoat from a specially commissioned script by the globally acclaimed singer-songwriter Nick Cave. Cave has also composed the film's soundtrack in conjunction with Warren Ellis, his longtime Bad Seeds collaborator and multi-instrumentalist frontman of The Dirty Three. Incorporating soft chamber pieces, ghostly moodscapes and whispered laments, these 16 tracks are as starkly beautiful as the landscape of the film. Story and music are closely intertwined."

Artist:	RESIDENTS, THE
Title:	Mark of the Mole/Intermission
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9306CD

The Residents classic Mole Trilogy reissued over 2 double CDs, presently beautifully in mini-hardcover book packages. This first disc includes the first album in the series, Mark Of The Mole (originally released 1981), plus the Intermission release from 1983 (the "extraneous music from the Mole Show -- studio version"). "The Mole Trilogy is an older masterpiece from The Residents, a metaphor about civilization. The Mole Trilogy was designed to tell an epic story, connecting several generations of two fictitious races, and to serve as musical 'illustrations' for this story. More than any of their previous albums, with the possible exception of Eskimo, Mark Of The Mole is pure electronic music...based on rhythm and noise, and often industrial in sound, Mark Of The Mole veers heavily to the abstract side of The Residents musical ledger. The importance of these albums is huge as it presents new visions on electronic music and live performance."

Artist:	RESIDENTS, THE
Title:	The Tunes of Two Cities/The Big Bubble
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9307CD

2nd volume, which completes the Mole Trilogy with The Tunes Of Two Cities (originally released 1982) and The Big Bubble (originally released 1985). "Two Cities is essentially a prequel to Mark Of The Mole. Consisting of a dozen instrumental tracks...comparable to the earlier Eskimo, with The Residents once again inventing the ritualistic music of a 'primitive' society...quintessential Residents, opening new cavities into their humor, symbolism, ambiguity, and pure random weirdness."

Artist:	CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, NICK
Title:	Road To God Knows Where/Live at the Paradiso
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2DVD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9310DVD

"Previously available on VHS, now released on DVD for the first time. The Road to God Knows Where is a film by Uli M. Schueppel featuring a cast of Nick Cave, members of the Bad Seeds as well as Anita Lane, Lydia Lunch, Jim Thirwell, & more. Live at the Paradiso is a full-length live concert from the famed Paradiso club in Amsterdam from 1992 featuring Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds performing 'The Mercy Seat,' 'The Ship Song,' 'Tupelo,' amongst others." NTSC format, 168 minutes.

Artist:	CAN
Title:	DVD
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2DVD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9311DVD

Conventional DVD package (minus the audio CD, previously released as MUTE 9231). "Containing access to everything you could ever want to know about CAN with rare insights into the personalities and methodology of the groundbreaking and legendary German band, this 2xDVD includes: DVD 1: Can free concert, Can notes, photo gallery, 5.1 mixes of classic CAN tracks, PLUS: Footage & Interviews on the making of 5.1 mixes. DVD 2: Can documentary, Short Tribute Film to Can by Brian Eno, Echo Awards Presentation Footage, Biographies...and many additional features." NTSC format.

Artist:	LIARS
Title:	The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$4.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9315CD

"Is the second single from Drum's Not Dead, Liars' third album.The CD release features a brand new song, 'Do As The Birds, Digest The Remains' alongside two versions of the title track and a Liars remix of 'Drum And The Uncomfortable Can.' Each track is accompanied by a video, directed by a member of the band. Drum's Not Dead was partly inspired by a relocation from New York to Berlin. It finds the band taking another seismic step forward, switching continents, seizing new musical territory and shredding all past reference points."

Artist:	GONZALEZ, JOSE
Title:	Veneer
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9324CD

"Mute is proud to re-release Veneer, which received its initial U.S. pressing on Hidden Agenda Records. Jose Gonzalez relies simply on his own eloquent classical guitar and a voice that marries assuredness with delicacy. His songs (sung in perfect English) are timeless, yet there's a freshness to Jose's music that makes repeated listening an endless delight. From Sweden, Argentinian descent and only in his 20s, Jose is a heartening case of the artist resisting the vicissitudes of musical fashion to carve out a unique, intimate style that is all his own."

Artist:	KNIFE, THE
Title:	Silent Shout (Single)
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$6.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9325CD

CD single w/ remixes by Troy Pierce, Shindoe. Plus original version, radio edit, and video track. "Hot on the heels of Jos� Gonz�lez's hit cover version of their brilliant and unique 'Heartbeats,' genius electro-pop duo The Knife will release their new album Silent Shout this summer 2006, their first album to receive a domestic release. 'Silent Shout,' the album's first single & title track, is an infectious groove with dark, distorted vocals and steel drum beats -- described by the band as very sad, but hard, beautiful, cold and warm at the same time."

Artist:	KNIFE, THE
Title:	Silent Shout
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9326CD

"Already championed by buzz-talkers and tastemakers, Mute announces the release of Silent Shout, The Knife's third album and first domestic release. The world of The Knife is precise, particular, dark, occult, peculiar. The mysterious duo work mostly on their own in splendid isolation. Silent Shout features The Knife's lurking, textured vocals steeped in a tangled, dark surrealist underbrush. It's is an astounding achievement, intriguing & bewildering, enigmatic and engaging, and never less than compelling. Its jaw-dropping fusion of technology and emotion, circuitry and the soul, melodrama and melody, will leave you gasping."

Artist:	NITZER EBB
Title:	Body of Work
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9328CD

2CD compilation of works from 1984-1997. "Formed in Chelmsford (Essex, UK) when main protagonists Douglas McCarthy (vocals) & Bon Harris (drums, programming) were just 15, Nitzer Ebb cut a dynamic swathe through the industrial music and balaeric beat scenes of the 1980s and '90s. Militaristic, intimidating yet always accessible, Nitzer Ebb enjoyed a string of ferocious club hits and released five critically-acclaimed albums on Mute, working with producers such as Phil Harding, Flood, & Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode). They were a band whose honed aggression, originality and precision were impeccable. Nitzer Ebb went on to sell over 400,000 records in the U.S. alone, influencing such pioneering DJs & producers as Richie Hawtin, Darren Emerson, Sven V�th, DJ Hell, Tom Stephan, Danny Tenaglia, and rock-gods Smashing Pumpkins & Nine Inch Nails."

Artist:	KNIFE, THE
Title:	We Share Our Mothers' Health
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9329CD

"'We Share Our Mothers' Health' is the second single from Silent Shout, The Knife's third album (and first domestic release). Hot on the heels of Jos� Gonz�lez' hit cover version of their brilliant and unique 'Heartbeats,' the word about this genius electro-pop duo has spread far & wide -- including the cover of XLR8R. 'We Share Our Mothers' Health' is a burbling electro groove, like Chicks On Speed managed by Malcolm McLaren. Features remixes by Trentem�ller, Radio Slave and Ratatat. Amazingly cool animated video directed by Motomichi Nakamura."

Artist:	RESIDENTS, THE
Title:	Freak Show
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9342CD

"After their 1990 Cub-E tour, The Residents needed to recharge their creative batteries, and the Freak Show project was born. Freak Show created a marvelous cast of quirky freaks, each with their own all-too human failings & haunting theme songs worming their way into the listener's brain. Feeling their ideas had more life, The Residents met with comic artists Brian Bolland (visual creator of Judge Dread and the 'Dark Knight' Batman) & Edwin 'Savage Pencil' Pouncey and crafted the idea of a Freak Show graphic novel, which was released by Dark Horse comics a year later. The Freak Show project also spawned a CD-ROM in 1994, and a theatrical stage show complete with orchestra a few years later. Originally released in 1991 with a bonus CD-ROM, Mute's Freak Show reissue contains a special 32-page book in hardbook packaging." The DVD video disc is NTSC format, approx running time: 55 minutes.

Artist:	SCATTERGOOD, POLLY
Title:	Polly Scattergood
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9412CD

"Polly Scattergood -- and what a name that is -- is that rare talent, a musician and songwriter who can make the disturbing sound delightful. She might sing on her eagerly anticipated debut album about suicidal tendencies, sadness in the air, spitting on her French knickers and being called a whore, but she does so in such an idiosyncratically alluring, soft little-girl voice, one of ravaged innocence, and she places her startling images in such pretty pop contexts, that you can't help being seduced."

Artist:	DAF
Title:	Das Beste Von DAF
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9414CD

"DAF's 1980 album, Die Kleinen Und Die B�sen, Mute's first ever album release, featured Robert G�rl, Gabi Delgado-Lopez, Chrislo Haas and Wolfgang Spelmans. Following the departure of Haas and Spelmans, the core members of drummer, composer and programmer Robert G�rl, and vocalist, lyricist and strategist Gabi Delgado-Lopez continued as a duo and signed to Virgin. It was at this time that DAF released their 3 most commercially successful albums within an 18 month period, Alles Ist Gut, Gold Und Liebe and F�r Immer. Though operative for only a short time, the DAF sex machine was extraordinarily productive and its impact on electronic music is deep and lasting. In a whirlwind 18 months they released this trilogy of best selling albums whilst pushing the boundaries of experimental and dance music. Robert G�rl and Gabi Delgado-Lopez briefly got back together in 1985 for 1st Step to Heaven and again in 2003 for F�nfzehn neue D.A.F-Lieder. While British electronic pop pioneers were still mired in alienation or camp futurism, DAF presciently combined disco and electronics in a new, distinctive variant of the electro scene which was then current in groundbreaking New York clubs. Either leathered up or stripped to the waist and glistening with sweat, DAF looked as they sounded, all pumping muscle and sinew, the very physicality of their music upturning the then current clich� that equated electronics and alienation. DAF were the precursors of the electronic body musics of Die Krupps and Nitzer Ebb, while their musical reductionism gave techno minimalists the courage to pare music back to beats and atmospheres."

Artist:	CAVE & WARREN ELLIS, NICK
Title:	White Lunar
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9419CD

"Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been playing together for more than 15 years, with The Bad Seeds, Grinderman and The Dirty Three. More recently, they've been collaborating on soundtracks for films such as The Proposition (2005) and The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007) as well as Gisli orn Gardarsson's acrobatic theatrical productions of Woyzeck (2005) and Metamorphosis (2006). White Lunar is a selection of pieces taken from some of the motion pictures and documentaries for which Cave and Ellis have composed and recorded music. Includes music from the motion picture The Road based on the book by Cormac MacCarthy (No Country For Old Men) and starring Viggo Mortensen."

Artist:	FEVER RAY
Title:	Fever Ray
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD/DVD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9426CD

"The debut self-titled album from The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson. Now available as a 3 disc deluxe glossy digipack! Fever Ray is the title, of both project and album, an evocation of the music's sound, intense and anxious, yet luminous. It's the culmination of work that began in 2007 when Karin and Olof, the brother-sister duo who are The Knife, decided to take time out following a handful of incredible live shows. The result is Fever Ray, an album that, while recognizably the work of the same artist, is dramatically different from The Knife. It's still constructed on electronic foundations and embellished with traditional instrumentation (guitar here, congas there)." Includes two bonus tracks, an extra CD of live recordings and a DVD with five videos.

Artist:	LIARS
Title:	Sisterworld
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9429CD

"Liars return in 2010 with their fifth studio album; their boldest and most exhilarating record to date. Sisterworld was written and recorded in Los Angeles by Liars and Tom Biller and is an invigorating summation of their career so far. Building on the back-to-basics approach employed by previous album, Liars (2007), Sisterworld is a dense art-pop thrill from start to finish. Sisterworld is Liars' own space, completely devoid of influence, somewhere remote from the false promises and discarded dreams amassed in LA. In it Liars explore the underground support systems created to deal with loss of self to society. According to Liars - Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross - 'We're interested in the alternate spaces people create in order to maintain identity in a city like LA. Environments where outcasts and loners celebrate a skewered relationship to society.'"

Artist:	BUZZCOCKS
Title:	A Different Kind Of Tension
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9433CD

"A Different Kind Of Tension pulls together all the associated singles -- five of them, including Parts 1-3 recorded with Martin Hannet and later collected on an American mini-album -- as well as the last track the group recorded in their first incarnation: 'I Look Alone.' As an added bonus, there is a whole disc of demos from the period, including several hard to find songs like 'The Drive System,' 'Jesus Made Me Feel Guilty,' and Paddy Garvey's heart-rending 'Run Away From Home.' The set is rounded off with four BBC Recordings from the period, including an early outing for 'Everybody's Happy Nowadays.' This key song set the tone for this much misunderstood period in Buzzcocks' history."

Artist:	BUZZCOCKS
Title:	Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9434CD

"Buzzcocks' first album, Another Music In A Different Kitchen -- a major punk landmark and a great record to boot. It's full of fire, wit, speed, philosophical lyrics and gender explorations, as well the sly psychedelia that always made Buzzcocks stand out from the pack. This disc contains the full Another Music In A Different Kitchen album with the relevant John Peel session and another disc of various out-takes and the full live show recorded at the Electric Circus in October 1977: the venue's last night and the moment when Buzzcocks began to go national in the UK."

Artist:	BUZZCOCKS
Title:	Love Bites
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9435CD

"Love Bites is the second disc covering the associated singles: 'Love You More' and 'Promises', and two Peel sessions as well as thirteen demos from summer 1978. As an added bonus, there is the full concert from the Lesser Free Trade Hall in June 1978, an exercise in instant nostalgia filmed by Granada TV under the guidance of Tony Wilson. It contains the pop classic 'Ever Fallen In Love,' one of the 142 45s kept in John Peel's box of boxes and was chosen as the song to represent the DJ in the tribute record released after his death in November 2005."

Artist:	CAVE & WARREN ELLIS, NICK
Title:	The Road
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9436CD

"Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been creating music together for more than fifteen years with The Bad Seeds, Grinderman and The Dirty Three. More recently, the duo have collaborated on soundtracks for The Proposition (2005) and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), and released White Lunar, a two CD set (2009) featuring music from the aforementioned films along with rare and previously unavailable material. Adding to this impressive catalogue, the pair release their soundtrack to The Road, directed by John Hillcoat. This big screen adaptation of the beloved, bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy (author of No Country For Old Men and Blood Meridian) sees Academy Award-nominee Viggo Mortensen leading an all-star cast featuring Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and young newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee. An epic post-apocalyptic tale of survival of a father and his young son journeying across a barren America destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm, The Road boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of -- a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have created an evocative score featuring violin and piano with beautiful fleeting melodies and eerie sound loops filled with terror and suspense. The threat of all-too-real cannibal gangs is heightened by disturbing loops and frenetic percussion. A small ensemble of wind instruments adds further scope. At key moments in the movie, scenes between the father and son are set to musical passages that are light, lyrical and elegiac."

Artist:	CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, NICK
Title:	The Good Son
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9439CD

"In the aftermath of the prolonged enterprise cum transnational three-ring circus that comprised the creation and completion of Tender Prey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, both collectively and individually, desperately required a sabbatical - Cave in particular. When it was released, The Good Son brought to light another facet of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds artistry and Nick's songwriting set the course for a wholly different phase of the band. The Good Son contains some of the most enduring and beloved works in their repertoire. This new edition, gloriously re-mastered in 5.1, only enhances the radiance of the original."

Artist:	CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, NICK
Title:	Tender Prey
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9440CD

"Mute continue the series that will see the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' entire album catalogue digitally remastered and remixed in 5.1 surround sound. Each deluxe double-disc collector's edition contains the remastered stereo album, the new surround mix, a specially commissioned short film made by acclaimed UK artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard plus the b-sides from the singles and exclusive sleeve notes. The period leading up to and culminating in the making of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' fifth studio album, Tender Prey, was a profusely fertile time for all the individual band members, overloaded with so much peripheral creative activity and personal turmoil that the entire long process of recording and mixing the album was encompassed by tumult. Here then, for your consummate listening pleasure, Mute presents Tender Prey, with all its risks, beautiful failures and realized aspirations faithfully and entirely re-mastered in 5.1 surround sound."

Artist:	CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, NICK
Title:	Henry's Dream
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9441CD

"It may surprise fans of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to learn that some works in the band's canon - at least from the point-of-view of their creators - are tainted with misgivings. Henry's Dream, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' seventh studio album, contains songs critics and fans alike have come to regard as indisputable classics from the band's oeuvre: 'Papa Won't Leave You, Henry', 'Christina the Astonishing', and 'Jack the Ripper', to name just a few. Yet, for the band, Henry's Dream undeniably epitomises - much more so than any of their other albums - the loss of control that ensues when one has exerted but a slippery grip on some very vertiginous circumstances. Ironically, Henry's Dream became one of the Bad Seeds most loved records."

Artist:	KNIFE, THE
Title:	Tomorrow, In A Year
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9444CD

"An opera based on Darwin's On the Origin of the Species. In 2008, Danish theater experimentalists Hotel Pro Forma invited The Knife to write music and libretto for their modern opera, Tomorrow, In a Year . The Knife, Swedish siblings Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer-Andersson (aka Fever Ray), created a studio version of this opera in collaboration with the English musician/singer Planningtorock and the American musician/singer Mt.Sims as creative family members. They engaged with the Danish mezzo soprano Kristina Wahlin Momme, the Danish actress Laerke Winther and the Swedish pop singer Jonathan Johanson for the vocal parts. These 90 minutes of music by The Knife and their collaborators Mt.Sims and Planningtorock are sparked by the pioneer of natural selection Charles Darwin and his revolutionary evolutionary findings and writings in his book On The Origin of The Species. First published in 1859 and based on the discoveries he made on his journey to Galapagos Islands from 1831-1836, aboard the good ship HMS Beagle." "In November 2009, it was precisely 150 years since Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, a work that describes the biological and geological world, as it has come into existence and continues to do so every single day. Our view of the world has been changed forever as a result of the theory of evolution. Tomorrow, In A Year uses Darwin's way of observing and describing the world. Change as a process and the interrelationship of all things is the basic material of the performance." -- Hotel Pro Forma

Artist:	PEARSON, JOSH T.
Title:	Last Of The Country Gentlemen
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9497CD

"Originally from Texas, Josh T. Pearson formed the short-lived phenomenon that was Lift to Experience, who released one sprawling masterpiece, 2001's The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, before splitting up soon after. Lift to Experience were so beloved by John Peel that he had them record three sessions in five months and were included in the Best 125 Peel Sessions of all time. Since then, Josh T. Pearson has spent many years in the wilderness, only releasing one studio recording, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, a split 7" single with the Dirty Three and appearing on the Mercury Prize nominated Bat for Lashes album Fur and Gold. An unparalleled live performer, his return is highly anticipated."

Artist:	HARVEY, MICK
Title:	Sketches From The Book Of The Dead
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9503CD

"Internationally renowned for his career with The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Mick Harvey returns with his first fully self-penned album, Sketches From The Book Of The Dead. In 2007, Harvey started writing songs about the stories and memories he had of some people close to him that he had lost. Throughout 2009, more of Harvey's old friends and comrades checked out prematurely, and Harvey found himself thinking even more about what it all meant -- about the relationships one still has with people after they're gone and how different experiences bring back different memories and emotions. These thoughts translated into songs for what is now a fully-focused project."

Artist:	M83
Title:	Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9510CD

"Three years in the making, this sixth album from M83 (aka Anthony Gonzalez) is one of Autumn 2011's most highly anticipated releases. Grandiose in scale, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is inspired by Smashing Pumpkin's revered double disc Melancholy & The Infinite Sadness. Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, NIN, The Mars Volta, Goldfrapp) and including contributions from Brad Laner (from '90s band Medicine) on guitar, Saturdays=Youth vocalist Morgan Kibby, and guest vocalist Zola Jesus, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (featuring first single 'Midnight City'), is a double-album journey that takes us to the horizon and introduces us to new landscapes. About awakening, craving, and conquering, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming pushes into new vocal territory for M83. Here we see Anthony Gonzalez test out different ways of singing, ranging from a spectral breathy whisper to a howling scream. Soaring and scraping up against the sky while sharing each uncharted frontier with new collaborators is what M83 does best."

Artist:	CABARET VOLTAIRE
Title:	Johnny YesNo Redux
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2DVD/2CD
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9513CD

"Peter Care's controversial short film, Johnny YesNo, was made in 1979. Its original soundtrack, recorded and produced by Cabaret Voltaire, was released as an album two years later. This release is a box set of music and film, comprising the original Johnny Yesno film, a new re-imagining of the film alongside 140 minutes of bonus material and 2CDs including new mixes by Richard H. Kirk plus exclusive tracks. Cabaret Voltaire, alongside Human League, Throbbing Gristle, Fad Gadget and the Normal, were at the forefront of the UK electronic movement of the late '70s and were, without a doubt, one of the most influential acts of the last thirty years. Way ahead of their time, Cabaret Voltaire were prolific with blending dance music, techno, dub, house and experimental." Contents: 2 NTSC All-Region DVDs (180 minute running time), plus 2 CDs (135 minutes of music).

Artist:	MOTOR
Title:	Black Powder
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	12"
Price:	$6.50
Catalog #:	NOMU 168EP

Anyone who has paid attention to electronic music over the past decade knows that Motor is an artist from Moskow, responsible for one of deepest albums of the millennium, Hexen (which might be o/p at the moment, unfortunately). Except the clowns at Novamute, evidently. This is a different Motor, no connection to the original. "Motor is Mr. No (from Paris) and Bryan Black (from Minneapolis), also known under the alias XLover. Electronic music practicing a punk ethic, Motor is unlike anything else: abrasive, strangely melodic, pulsing like a machine. A sound, which by no mistake, has put them in a class of their own."

Artist:	GALAS, DIAMANDA
Title:	Defixiones Will and Testament
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	STUMM 205CD

"Diamanda Gal�s releases two double albums on the same day, her first releases since 1998's Malediction and Prayer. For both of these albums, Gal�s continues her forensic acts of identifying long buried hurts. "On Defixiones, Will And Testament she investigates the little known Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides carried out by Turkey between 1914 and 1923, with the singer articulating the anger and sorrow of the dispossessed through the words of exiled poets and writers alongside her own texts. Gal�s covers a whole lotta dying ground in a babel of languages with adaptations of poems by Belgian writer Henri Michaux, Romanian-Jewish Paul Celan, Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, French symbolist G�rard Nerval, Peruvian Cesar Vallejo, Armenian Siamanto, Syrian Adonis, Assyrian poet-martyr Dr Freidoun Bet-Oraham and more. The set is sung by Gal�s accompanying herself on piano, tape and a minimum of electronics, though you'd be forgiven for thinking that there are more of her out there coming at you from all sides, as her formidable voice rises to its full power and rattles the walls with its reverberating echoes. 'My voice,' she said in 1988, 'was given to me as an instrument of inspiration for my friends, and a tool of torture and destruction to my enemies. An instrument of truth.' With its much-touted three-and-a-half octave range, Gal�s's voice is the most powerful weapon in her self-designed musical armory." 48 pages hard back book presentation."

Artist:	GALAS, DIAMANDA
Title:	La Serpenta Canta
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	STUMM 206CD

"La Serpenta Canta aka 'The Serpent Sings', is a song recital recruiting blues, R&B, Motown, southern soul, Country & Western and her own 'Baby's Insane' (from This Sporting Life, her duo album with John Paul Jones) in Gal�s's ongoing campaign against forgetting. The songs are render in her own inimitable style spanning Eastern Orthodox liturgy, American roots and the rembetika songs of Greece and Asia Minor. This set is sung by Gal�s accompanying herself on piano and is a collection of live recording from around the world between May 1999 and November 2002 ."

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Artist:	ECHOBOY
Title:	Giraffe
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9191CD

Artist:	APPLIANCE
Title:	Are You Earthed?
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9192CD

Artist:	SLATER'S 7TH PLAIN, LUKE
Title:	I Can Complete You
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	12"
Price:	$6.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9193EP

Artist:	ADD N TO (X)
Title:	Loud Like Nature
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9194CD

Artist:	WARLOCKS
Title:	Phoenix
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9227CD

Artist:	M83
Title:	Run Into Flowers
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$4.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9247CD

Artist:	M83
Title:	Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9251CD

Artist:	M83
Title:	Before the Dawn Heals Us
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9281CD

Artist:	M83
Title:	Teen Angst
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$4.50
Catalog #:	MUTE 9287CD

Artist:	HAWLEY, RICHARD
Title:	Coles Corner
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9297CD