Mute was founded by Daniel Miller in 1978, and since then has signed and developed some of the world’s most influential recording artists – including Goldfrapp, Liars, Moby, M83, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Laibach and Richard Hawley – and become home to a crop of further talent such as New Order, Yann Tiersen, Josh T. Pearson, Lee Ranaldo, Apparat, HAAi, Desire Marea, KÁRYYN, Maps and more. Whilst maintaining a firmly eclectic roster, from the earliest days of The Normal, Fad Gadget and DAF through to the techno era with artists such as Plastikman / Richie Hawtin and Speedy J, and to the present day with electronic artists such as Chris Liebing, Nicolas Bougaïeff, Terence Fixmer, the label has always been a champion of electronic music. Mute is also home to the catalogue of a host of seminal artists such as Can, A Certain Ratio, Telex and Cabaret Voltaire.