press release from Mute Records:
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// Mute Audio Documents Box Set Out on 26th March 2007
128 tracks over 10 CDs, Mute Audio Documents is a unique insight into the musical development of the label and its artists, highlighting the influence, the success and, most importantly, the great music produced since its inception in 1978.
Mute Audio Documents is a collection of Mute’s single releases from 1978 to 1984 and includes the first 4 double CD volumes of an ongoing series plus a 2 CD rarities album exclusive to the box set. The series will feature all the A-side and B-side single tracks released by Mute in addition to album tracks by the artists for whom there were only album releases.
Volume 1 1978 - 1981
Featuring: The Normal, Fad Gadget, Silicon Teens, D.A.F., Non, Robert Rental, Depeche Mode, Boyd Rice and Smegma.
Volume 2 1982
Featuring: Non, Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget, Die Doraus Und Die Marinas, Yazoo and Liaisons Dangereuses.
Volume 3 1983
Featuring: Depeche Mode, Duet Emmo, Robert Görl, Yazoo, Fad Gadget, The Assembly and The Birthday Party.
Volume 4 1984
Featuring: Einstürzende Neubauten, Fad Gadget, Robert Görl, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, I Start Counting, Bruce Gilbert, Boyd Rice and Frank Tovey.
2 CD Set Rarities
CD 1 Featuring: The Normal & Robert Rental, Boyd Rice and Fad Gadget
CD 2 Featuring: Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Full track listings are available at the Mute web site.
web: http://www.mute.com/allNews.jsp?newsParentId=11&topItemId=8374943
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I strongly suspect that all the Depeche Mode “rarities” have been remastered and reissued before, I don’t remember exactly which live tracks are available, but the Yazoo stuff includes some BBC sessions and live tracks that look promising…
-And of course, the early Mute singles are great for a CD comp, as most of the stuff is brilliant!