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Mute reissue 1981's Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits on colored vinyl LP with an 8 page 12" booklet plus accompanying download with 9 bonus tracks. Throbbing Gristle's working methods and innovation are so deeply ingrained in the collective consciousness

Mute present a vinyl repress of 20 Jazz Funk Greats, the landmark 1979 album from industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. The impetus for the record apparently came about from Genesis P-Orridge's mother's request that the band record something "nice.

Mute reissue Throbbing Gristle's D.O.A.: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle on colored vinyl LP with an 8 page 12" booklet plus accompanying download with 11 bonus tracks. Throbbing Gristle's second full-length, originally released in 1978, c

Mute / BMG present the next installment in their Goldfrapp vinyl reissue series, the long out of print Supernature! Featuring the compelling singles "Ooh La La," "Number 1," "Ride A White Horse" and "Fly Me Away," the 2005 album stands as Goldfrapp's most

"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 turm

Toward the end of Bad Seed (Ian Johnston's autobiography of Nick Cave), a fleeting clue is dropped about a new song Cave was in the process of writing at the time. With the working title of "Red Right Hand II," it relates the tale of a father of three tha

Throbbing Gristle's Part Two: The Endless Not was originally released in 2007, and was the band's first full length studio record in 25 years. Pitchfork wrote, "The Endless Not features some of the subtlest songwriting of TG's career, playing that knot of

Mission Of Dead Souls documents Throbbing Gristle's last live performance in San Francisco in 1981. It's a given that the band's studio work was noisy and abstract, but more was left to chance during gigs like this, with primitive synthesizers and other e

Widely referred to as Throbbing Gristle's most haunting work, Journey Through a Body (1982) was recorded as a piece of radio art for Italian National Radio RAI, Rome in March 1981. Following Robert Wyatt's recommendation, RAI originally commissioned Cosey

The dramatic procession of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds entered a new phase in 2003. The supremely crafted albums which came out towards the close of the century, Murder Ballads and The Boatman's Call, affirmed what many have known since the band formed ou

Mute releases a remastered vinyl LP reissue of The Pop Group's seminal Y cut using half speed mastering at Abbey Road. Y is the band's highly influential and innovative 1979 debut released in the same year as their "She is Beyond Good & Evil" / "3:38" sin

1986's Kicking Against the Pricks was actually a holding device. Following 1984’s From Her to Eternity, the Bad Seeds recorded The Firstborn is Dead in the final two months of that same year; but because Bob Dylan’s lawyers made them wait months for clear

Heathen Earth is a crucial 1980 live document of industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. In member Chris Carter's own words: "You had to have been there. Which is what we always say about TG. TG on record and TG live are two completely different things." T

With Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds sprawling 17-track behemoth Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (2004) we have something that few could have expected - two albums that can both be regarded as self-contained masterpieces; two storming, driving, relentless, d

Continuing the creative roll of Tender Prey and The Good Son, Henry's Dream showed the band in fierce and fine fettle once more. The biggest change was with the choice of producer -- David Briggs, famed for his work on some of Neil Young's strongest album

The fact that Nick Cave opened his new outfit’s first album with a cover of a Leonard Cohen song, the delusional visionary brooding of "Avalanche," was a sign that he had moved in for good to what Cohen would later call ‘the tower of song’. Cohen’s origin

Names of North End Women is a collaborative record from Lee Ranaldo and Raül Refree. "If you live long enough, you see a lot of people drift in and out of your life," says Ranaldo, explaining one of the loose themes linking the adventurous pieces that com

Long-awaited vinyl edition of Ben Frost’s impendingly gloomy soundtrack to Fortitude. The Icelandic-based Australian composer is clearly the right man for this job, offering up a swell of emotive string arrangements shrouded in cold, wide electronic tones

Mute present the the debut full-length collaboration between UK techno specialist Daniel Avery and acclaimed experimental musician Alessandro Cortini. Illusion Of Time is a beguiling and unexpected collusion of two sounds. Beginning as a collaborative exp

This colored vinyl 2LP release documents Throbbing Gristle's infamous live show recorded at their 2004 performance as part of Jake and Dinos Chapman's All Tomorrow's Parties festival. The performance was dedicated to their dear friend and co-conspirator,