muza muza is a small noise and experimental-electronics label out of Newcastle upon Tyne, run from the mid-1990s onward around the catalogue of one practitioner, Big Road Breaker. The Bureau files it at Tier ∅, the held tier, on the same reasoning it applies to a living artist whose work is not finished: this is a real, ongoing concern whose final standing cannot honestly be fixed while the catalogue is still being made. The empty set is an open rank, not a low one.
The label's own self-description is characteristically low-key: it releases things from time to time, by artists such as brb>voicecoil, Grozny Penthouse, BigRoadBreaker, DIODAAR and Purefinder. In practice the roster is closely held around its principal, and the bulk of the catalogue is Big Road Breaker's work under one name or another. The documented numbering opens at muza01 with the 1995 cassette A Sum of Destructions and runs through CD releases such as Don't Fuck With the Angels (muza05) and a steady later accumulation, the holdings now gathered and extended on Bandcamp.
The catalogue's single most distinct record is muza06CD, the 1996 self-titled album by The Daughters of Conceptual Sex Death, a one-off Big Road Breaker side project: thirteen tracks of noise, electronics and lo-fi experimentation set against real classical arrangement, hand-numbered, with artwork by K. Wilkinson. The Bureau documents that record on the Big Road Breaker page, where the alias belongs. The Bureau's reading of the label itself: a living UK noise concern of genuine interest, self-run and low-volume, its standing held open while the work continues.