Miller is best known as the founder of the record label, Mute Records. He recorded his own solo projects (The Normal and Silicon Teens) and released them as early titles of Mute Records.
Although he founded Mute with the intention of releasing his own music when he was working as a film editor in 1978, he eventually shifted his focus to producing other Mute records acts (Fad Gadget, Yazoo, and Depeche Mode).
Mute Records is a record label formed in 1978 by Daniel Miller primarily to release his own single, T.V.O.D./Warm Leatherette, under the moniker The Normal.