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Fact #109711

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Record company boss, producer and electronic musician Daniel Miller is born in London, UK. He will found Mute Records and help establish the careers of Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Silicon Teens, Fad Gadget and others.

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The Meaning Of Mute

by Johnny Black, Masterbag, September 1982

(1) Not emitting articulate sound:
NOT THAT YOU could blame him if his utterances were totally inarticulate, because Daniel Miller has been having a hard and exhausting time. The amiable, deliberately shambling Miller is the head of Mute Records and he's staring into the muzzle of a double-barrelled shotgun where both cartridges are inscribed with his name.

To Daniel, one cartridge is financial success, fame, security, and ulcers for life. The other is integrity, fun in music, much less success and a simple life. He's uncertain which trigger will be pulled first but, either way, he's the target.

The success of Depeche Mode and Yazoo has lifted Mute Records onto a plane of operations where Daniel claims to feel a little uncomfortable, but it is tempting to think that behind the fa