In March 2019, Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller were heading to a György Ligeti concert at the Barbican. Friends and collaborators for almost 40 years, the pair - as they often do when together in the same city - spent a couple of hours beforehand improvising with modular systems. Unusually, this time they decided to record the session and then, over a pre-concert meal before heading into the Barbican, Gareth asked a question that seems logical after years of working together on recording sessions or remixing other artists: “Are we actually going to make a record together before we die?” The following day Daniel phoned him and suggested they do just that. The result is Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 1, a collection of eight improvised modular pieces recorded as live in various studio spaces across London in the spring and summer of 2019. London-based artist, music producer and engineer Gareth Jones is best known for his pioneering production work with artists such as Depeche Mode, Einstürzende Neubauten, Erasure, These New Puritans, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Interpol, and Yann Tiersen. Daniel Miller founded Mute in 1978 with the release of his own 7” single, and since then has gone on to nurture and work with artists as diverse as Depeche Mode, Laibach, New Order, Liars, Goldfrapp, Erasure, Telex, Apparat, and CAN.