List of Plates List of Figures Permissions List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Mute Records Richard Osborne and Zuleika Beaven 1. 'Let’s Make Love Before You Die': 'Warm Leatherette', Boredom, and the Invention of the 1980s S. Alexander Reed, Ithaca College, USA 2. 'One Man’s Meat': Fad Gadget’s Social Commentary and Post-Punk Giuseppe Zevolli, King’s College, UK 3. Fans of Faith and Devotion: Obsession, Nostalgia and Depeche Mode Andy Pope, Independent Researcher 4. "Depeche Mode and Soft Cell": Redefining the Prologue of the Mute and Some Bizzare Record Labels Leon Clowes, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 5. Throbbing Gristle’s Early Records: Post-Hippie/Pre-Punk/Post-Punk John Encarnacao, Western Sydney University, Australia 6. 'Join That Troubled Chorus': Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds, and the Blues Ross Cole, University of Cambridge, UK 7. Mark Stewart: 'Somewhere' Eddie George, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 8. 'Sometimes, Always': Erasure, Mute and the Value of Independence Brenda Kelly, Independent Researcher 9. Outside Mute? Ut, No Wave and Blast First Ieuan Franklin, Bournemouth University, UK 10. The Mash-up of Aesthetics, Theory and Politics in Laibach's Meta-sound Aténé Mendelyté, Lund University, Sweden 11. 'The Blessed Glow of Labour': Independence, Style and Process in the Music of Swans Dean Lockwood, University of Lincoln, UK 12. Moby, Minstrelsy and Melville Richard Osborne, Middlesex University, UK 13. 'Country Girl': Rural Feminism in the Performance of Alison Goldfrapp Lucy O’Brien, University of the Creative Arts, UK 14. Twist: Goldfrapp’s Genre Perversion Glyn Davis, University of Edinburgh, UK 15. Arca: Mute’s Mutant Mark Waugh, Anglia University, UK 16. Composing in Circuitry: Sonic Artist Dirty Electronics Lourdes N. Crosby García, Full Sail University, USA Index