Blast First

Blast First is a sublabel of one-time indie label Mute Records, founded in approximately 1985. It was named after the first edition of the radical Vorticist journal Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis. The label was founded by Paul Smith to give U.K. release to albums by Sonic Youth, a U.S. band with which he was then working closely. It went on to specialise in music at the more extreme end of the spectrum, and featured more hardcore rock bands th... more
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