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Endpoint: Daniel Miller (Music Producer)



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created on: 29/07/2025
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Daniel Otto Joachim Miller (born 14 February 1951 in Marylebone, London, England) is a British music producer and founder of Mute Records.

Miller is the son of two Austrian-Jewish refugees from Nazism, Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller, born into a family of actors.

Miller studied film and television at the Guildford School of Art (now University for the Creative Arts) from 1969–1972, where he became interested in synthesizer music.
By the end of the 1960s, he became frustrated with rock music's lack of experimentation and became interested in the sound of German bands like Can, Faust, Neu! and Kraftwerk. Miller worked as a DJ in Switzerland before returning to England at the height of punk, which he enjoyed due to the energy and do-it-yourself attitude of the music.
He later became interested in the electronic music scene, with bands such as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, which inspired Miller to create his own music. Using money from film editing and working long hours, he gathered enough money to buy a cheap miniKORG 700S synthesizer and a TEAC four-track reel-to-reel tape recorder leading to the creation of the band, The Normal.

After returning from a live tour, Miller found a pile of demo tapes on his doorstep. Because he had included an address on the 'Warm Leatherette' single cover, people had wanted to do a similar small-scale deal with Mute. The turning point for Mute Records came when Miller listened to a tape by an artist called Fad Gadget and liked what he heard.
In 1979, Mute Records began releasing singles by Fad Gadget including 'Back to Nature', the follow-up to 'Warm Leatherette'.
In 1980 Miller started working with the synth-pop band Depeche Mode who would soon have commercial success.
By 1982, with the success of Depeche Mode and their former member Vince Clarke's new synth-pop duo Yazoo, Mute had grown from an underground label run by Miller from his North-West London flat to a label releasing international hits.
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Founder of : Mute Records
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Founder of : Mute
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on : 29/07/2025
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Last updated on: 29/07/2025