Nearly 40 years on, and Mute Records is still a reliable stamp of quality. Having launched the careers of Depeche Mode, Erasure, Fad Gadget and Yazoo and having worked with D.A.F., Boyd Rice, Liaisons Dangereuses, Nick Cave, Diamanda Galás and many others, Mute continues to champion independent music such as Swans, who won the Hardest Working Band prize at the AIM Awards. Label founder Daniel Miller tells Classic Pop of his pride in Swans and about the future of Mute…
How healthy would you say the state of independent music is at the moment?