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The Normal is the recording artist name used by English music producer Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller (music producer)

Daniel Miller is a United Kingdom music producer and founder of Mute Records....
, a film editor at the time, who is best known as the founder of the record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 Mute Records
Mute Records

Mute Records was an independent record label based in the UK. In 2002 the label was sold to EMI....
.

Although Miller founded Mute with the intention of releasing his own music, he only released one 7" vinyl single under the name The Normal: 1978's "T.V.O.D."/"Warm Leatherette
Warm Leatherette

"Warm Leatherette" is a song by Daniel Miller , released on the only single by his musical project The Normal as B-side to "T.V.O.D.". It is the first release on his Mute Records label....
".

Both tracks were minimalist electronic
Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology....
 songs using a Korg
Korg

is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronics musical instruments and electronic tuners. The company is one of the most widely used and respected names in professional music worldwide....
 700s analog synthesizer
Analog synthesizer

An analog or analogue synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog electronics and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically....
 and a Revox
Revox

ReVox is a brand name of Switzerland audio equipment created by Studer in the 1950s.The ReVox brand name was spun off into Studer Revox AG in 1990....
 B-77 tape machine.






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The Normal is the recording artist name used by English music producer Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller (music producer)

Daniel Miller is a United Kingdom music producer and founder of Mute Records....
, a film editor at the time, who is best known as the founder of the record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 Mute Records
Mute Records

Mute Records was an independent record label based in the UK. In 2002 the label was sold to EMI....
.

Although Miller founded Mute with the intention of releasing his own music, he only released one 7" vinyl single under the name The Normal: 1978's "T.V.O.D."/"Warm Leatherette
Warm Leatherette

"Warm Leatherette" is a song by Daniel Miller , released on the only single by his musical project The Normal as B-side to "T.V.O.D.". It is the first release on his Mute Records label....
".

Both tracks were minimalist electronic
Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology....
 songs using a Korg
Korg

is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronics musical instruments and electronic tuners. The company is one of the most widely used and respected names in professional music worldwide....
 700s analog synthesizer
Analog synthesizer

An analog or analogue synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog electronics and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically....
 and a Revox
Revox

ReVox is a brand name of Switzerland audio equipment created by Studer in the 1950s.The ReVox brand name was spun off into Studer Revox AG in 1990....
 B-77 tape machine. This single was recorded in Daniel Miller's living room. Although it did not enter the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
, the single was influential on the post-punk/electronic music scene in the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 at the time.

The lyrics for "Warm Leatherette" referenced J.G. Ballard's novel Crash. The song has since been covered
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
 by artists Blok 57
Dirk Ivens

Dirk Ivens is a Belgian musician and performer in the industrial music genre. In 1978 he started as singer and guitar player in the punk band Slaughterhouse but left the group after one year to form the new band The Few ....
, Pankow
Pankow (Italian band)

Pankow is an Italian/German electronic band, formed in 1982 and headed by Maurizio Fasolo. In its early days, the songs were in German language , with singer Alex Spalck....
, Grace Jones
Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican?United States singer, Model , and actor....
, Die Tödliche Doris
Die Tödliche Doris

Die T?dliche Doris was a Germany performance art and music group based in Berlin. The group was active from 1981-1987. The band members, Wolfgang M?ller , K?the Kruse , and Nikolaus Uterm?hlen ....
, Sleep Chamber, Vitalic
Vitalic

Vitalic is an electronic music artist. He was born in France and is of Italian people descent....
, Chicks on Speed
Chicks on Speed

Chicks on Speed is an electropop group which started in Munich in 1997, after its members had met through the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich there....
/Hell
DJ Hell

DJ Hell is a Germany House music/Techno music Disc jockey. He is the label boss of International DeeJay Gigolo Records and has been responsible for many of the big records to come out of the Electroclash or German Squelch scene that emerged in Berlin in the mid-nineties....
 on a split-7", Giddle and Boyd, Dive
Dive (band)

Dive is a Belgium industrial music band formed in 1990 in music by Dirk Ivens . Dive's "audio trademark" is the experimental sound of abused drum machines, pulsating through crackling distortion on almost every song....
, and in 2006 by Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor

Trent Reznor is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He operates under the studio name Nine Inch Nails, and was previously associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds, and Tapeworm , among others....
 with Jeordie White
Jeordie White

Jeordie Osbourne White , also known by his pseudonym Twiggy Ramirez is a musician and currently a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist for Goon Moon....
 and Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy (musician)

Peter John Murphy , is the vocalist of the rock group bauhaus who later went on to release a number of solo albums, such as Deep and Love Hysteria....
. A recent cover was performed live by Duran Duran
Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
 at their run of ten concerts in New York City in November 2007, and as part of an electro medley portion of their set list
Set list

A set list, or setlist, is a document that lists the songs that a band or musical artist intends to play during a specific concert performance....
 on their subsequent 2008 tour, in support of their album Red Carpet Massacre
Red Carpet Massacre

Red Carpet Massacre is the 12th studio album by United Kingdom band Duran Duran. It was released on November 19, 2007 in Europe, and on the 13th in the United States....
.

A second release as The Normal with other Mute Records act Robert Rental
Robert Rental

Robert Rental was the stage name of Robert Donnachie , a pioneer of the post punk DIY ethic industrial music electronic music scene in the United Kingdom....
, Live at West Runton Pavilion, wasn't well received. A strange release, it was a one sided album (side two was left blank) of improvised electronic noises, in a plain purple dust jacket. Marat Records published the same record in Germany as Daniel Miller Robert Rental Live with a black and white picture sleeve, catalogue no. Marat Rough 017.

Miller also recorded the album Music for Parties under the name Silicon Teens
Silicon Teens

Silicon Teens was a fictional United Kingdom based Pop music group in a similar vein to The Archies, and Gorillaz. The project was the creation of Mute Records founder Daniel Miller ....
, mostly featuring sparse electronic new-wave covers of '50's and '60's pop classics such as "Sweet Little Sixteen
Sweet Little Sixteen

"Sweet Little Sixteen" is a Rock and Roll song written and originally performed by Chuck Berry, who released it as a single in January 1958. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the song #272 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004....
" and "Let's Dance
Chris Montez

Chris Montez , is a Mexican American singer....
".

Daniel Miller is also a prolific engineer and producer, producing such acts as Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
, Erasure
Erasure

Erasure are an England synthpop Duet formed by songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell in 1985. It was the third successful pop group co-formed by Clarke ....
, Wire
Wire (band)

Wire are an English rock music band formed in London in October 1976, by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed .c) Despite little attention in the beginning, Wire's first three albums are among the most influential on the postpunk era, cited by Michael Stipe of R.E.M....
, and DAF.

Discography

  • 1978 "T.V.O.D." / "Warm Leatherette
    Warm Leatherette

    "Warm Leatherette" is a song by Daniel Miller , released on the only single by his musical project The Normal as B-side to "T.V.O.D.". It is the first release on his Mute Records label....
    " (7" /12" single)
  • 1980 Robert Rental
    Robert Rental

    Robert Rental was the stage name of Robert Donnachie , a pioneer of the post punk DIY ethic industrial music electronic music scene in the United Kingdom....
     & The Normal - Live At West Runton Pavilion, 6-3-79 (Rough Trade
    Rough Trade

    Rough Trade may refer to:*Rough Trade Records, a record label*Rough Trade Shop, a linked but independent London record store*Rough Trade Publishing, a separate music publishing company with the same musical ethos...
    )


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