Kim Gordon:Not Today№ NMU 260114 A · filed January 14, 2026Frederick W. Glasier, Loie Fuller, 1902. Library of Congress.
ink edition
Flea feat. Thom Yorke:Traffic Lights№ NMU 260114 B · filed January 14, 2026Chatham Square, New York, 1853–55. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ink edition
Buffy Sainte-Marie:Universal Soldier№ NMU 260122 · filed January 22, 2026Union soldier, tintype, 1860s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
oxblood edition
Soft Cell:Danceteria№ NMU 260204 · filed February 4, 2026Samuel H. Gottscho, Times Square, 1953. Library of Congress.
violet edition
Flea:Thinkin Bout You№ NMU 260211 · filed February 11, 2026Cornet in B-flat, Köhler, ca. 1849. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
jade edition
Soft Cell:The Rainbow Room№ NMU 260908 · filed September 8, 2026Samuel H. Gottscho, RCA Building at night, 1933. Library of Congress.
violet edition
Erasure:Wings Of Love№ NMU 260928 A · filed September 28, 2026Eadweard Muybridge, Cockatoo flying, 1887.
oxblood edition
Placebo:Helen Keller№ NMU 260928 B · filed September 28, 2026Charles Whitman, Helen Adams Keller, 1904. National Portrait Gallery.
ink edition
Paul McCartney:Chelsea Boots№ NMU 261010 · filed October 10, 2026Boots, 1860s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
oxblood edition
James McCartney:Justice№ NMU 261011 · filed October 11, 2026London. The Law Courts, photochrom, c. 1890. Library of Congress.
ink edition
Since 2011 New Music United has filed one song at a time: a blog single is the track, a few lines, and the film. Five thousand and some are in the catalogue above, from 2011 to this morning, and every one of them still plays.
From 2026 each new single is cut as a sleeve: a photograph from the song’s own world, taken from the public collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress; a catalogue number drawn from the date it was filed; and a fold-out PLAY tab that loads the film only when you pull it. The sleeves are numbered № NMU, year–month–day, with A and B when two are filed on one day.
Four tints so far — ink, oxblood, jade and violet — each a ground, an accent and a single colour laid over a photograph. Nothing is colourised by hand; the picture is turned grey and the edition is laid over it, the way a one-colour print is pulled.
New Music United is one of ten music blogs published from Berlin-Charlottenburg: ballet20, chambermusic20, classical20, electronic20, newjazzunited, newmusicunited, opera20, realdj, realvj and soundtrack20. The archive stays as it was filed; only the front and the new singles wear the sleeve.
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