Live Here Now

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Live Here Now is a London- based music company that offers professionally created concert recordings and sells them over the Internet . It was founded in 2004 and operates under the label of Mute Records . The first recording took place at a concert by Throbbing Gristle in December 2004.

Live Here Now records the concerts of its partners digitally and sells these recordings of the live concerts as CDs including a booklet , which are also available in limited editions. Live Here Now also offers concert recordings as MP3 recordings for download . Payment is made via the website by credit card . If a download is available, the customer receives an email with the link to the respective recording, which is available as a ZIP file. The files are in digital form in a very high quality compressed MP3 format with 320 kilobit . The recordings are available six to eight weeks after a concert. The recordings are legal soundboard recordings that are not referred to as unauthorized bootlegs .

Live Here Now has worked with the artists and groups Mylo , Heaven 17 , Ocean Color Scene , Goldfrapp , Underworld , The Damned , Laibach , The Tiger Lillies , Butthole Surfers , Graham Coxon , Status Quo and Client , among others . Erasure offered The Erasure Show Tour through Live Here Now in 2005 . CDs were sold during the concerts. In addition, Erasure and Live Here Now released Acoustic Live, a concert recording from April 2006, which was officially marketed and sold.

Depeche Mode and Live Here Now have been working together since Touring the Angel in 2006. The project was called Recording the Angel , based on the album Playing the Angel . The Tour of the Universe , which ran from May 2009 to February 2010, is available under the name Recording the Universe , based on the album Sounds of the Universe .

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