Ian Boddy & Chris Carter Announce 25th Anniversary Remastered & Expanded Edition Of 'Caged' || Out 11/28 On The Gray Area Of Mute

IAN BODDY & CHRIS CARTER
CAGED

 

25TH ANNIVERSARY RELEASE OF THEIR COLLABORATION
REMASTERED AND EXPANDED

 

OUT NOVEMBER 28 ON THE GREY AREA OF MUTE

LISTEN TO “UNCAGED”

 

Ian Boddy and Chris Carter have announced details of the 25th anniversary edition of their underground classic Caged that is out on November 28, 2025 on The Grey Area of Mute. The album has been remastered and is expanded with two new compositions reimagined from the original audio files: “Claustrophobia,” reworked by Chris Carter and “Uncaged,” reworked by Ian Boddy. Together these new versions revisit Caged’s DNA from opposite ends of the spectrum, one tightening its grip, the other breaking free.

Listen to “Uncaged” HERE.

Chris Carter says: “I can’t believe it’s been 25 years since we got together in each other’s studios and recorded Caged. It was such a laid-back process - no stresses or dramas, just a good time making some cool music with some classic gear. It’s been great revisiting that old material to come up with something new yet still ‘Caged’ for this Mute anniversary release. The new vinyl edition sounds even better than our original incarnation.”

Talking about the collaboration, Ian Boddy explains: “They say opposites attract and although Chris & I come from different ends of the electronic music spectrum Caged just gelled, and I think we created an album with a timeless quality to it.”

First released in 2000, Caged united two giants of experimental electronic music - Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter, a pioneering force in industrial and electronic music for over five decades, and Ian Boddy, composer, sound designer, analogue synth aficionado, and founder of the ambient/electronic label DiN. Having known each other casually for years, Boddy invited Carter to collaborate for his then-new label. Carter immediately agreed and together they produced a work of startling power and textural depth. Across its shifting soundscapes, Caged plays with chance and paradox, where a whisper swells into a crescendo, a beat dissolves into a tone, and nothing remains still for long.

Ian Boddy first got into composing music in the late ‘70s in Newcastle-upon-Tyne whilst studying for a degree in Biochemistry. Having fallen in love with the sound-worlds of German electronic bands such as Tangerine Dream, he came across an arts centre that housed a studio filled with reel-to-reel tape machines and analogue synthesizers and taught himself how to use this equipment through a process of experimentation, thus began a long and successful music career. 

Specializing in ambient and electronic music, Boddy has three main strands to his musical activities which are run under the umbrella of his own company, Something Else Music Limited.

Chris Carter is one of the founding members of Throbbing Gristle and has played a significant role in the development of electronic music - a journey which continues through his releases as one half of Chris & Cosey and Carter Tutti and a third of Carter Tutti Void - as well as with his own solo and collaborative releases. 

Credited with the invention and production of groundbreaking electronics that include the Gristleizer self-built effects unit, the Dirty Carter Experimental Sound Generating Instrument, the TG One Eurorack module (designed with Tiptop Audio) and the updated Future Sound Systems Gristleizer modules, Carter has created the means to make sounds as well as making the sounds themselves.

Caged (25th Anniversary Edition) is out on The Grey Area of Mute on November 28th on limited edition double red vinyl, CD and digitally. Pre-order it HERE.

Credits:

Ian Boddy - Synthesizer [Modular Synths], Samples [Sample Manipulation]
Chris Carter - Electronics [Analogue & Digital Instruments, Devices], Software Instrument [Software]
Cosey Fanni Tutti - Vocals [Vocal Samples]

 

 

Track listing
1. Concussed (2025 Remaster)
2. Coriolis (2025 Remaster)
3 . Slab (2025 Remaster)
4.. Sub-Aura (2025 Remaster)
5. Disembodied (2025 Remaster)
6. Caged (2025 Remaster)
7. Under-Dub (2025 Remaster)
8. Claustrophobia
9. Uncaged

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