Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, electro, in aeternam vale, minimal wave
Minimal Wave return to their self-professed “First French love” In Aeternam Vale with a second LP-shaped trawl through the band’s sizeable archive of cassette only releases. The Brooklyn imprint first introduced us to the work of the hugely prolific Lyon band with an eponymous LP of remastered material in 2009, and Dub Under Brightness proves to be just as important a release. The label points to an article on the band originally published by the Douche Froide magazine in 2002, where the journalist nails their appeal in the opening gambit – “There are bands that have been acting ruthlessly in the shadow for years, in a completely confidential manner, then one day chance (but does chance exist?) makes you find one of their recordings, listen to it, and at that moment you could kick yourself for not having discovered these soundscapes earlier and you try to find all of them”. If you haven’t indulged in the sounds of In Aeternam Vale yet, this eight track selection makes for a perfect introductory primer.
The Minimal Wave label present this 12″ accompaniment to Dub Under Brightness, the freshly released trawl through the cassette-only archives of their favourite French act of the 1980s, In Aeternam Vale. The full unedited 12-minute version of the title track is presented here, pressed on a thick slab of vinyl at 45rpm for the DJs and is complemented by “Highway Dark Veins”, a brilliant example of proto industrial techno. If you are not familiar with the A Side, it presents the Lyon group led by Laurent Prot at their lolloping finest, a hypnotic sideways Minimal Wave throbber replete with cavernous and near indecipherable vocals and industrially charged synth waves. It’s the B Side that makes this release all the more special, sounding every bit like the paranoid martian techno opus that inspired the Mills series Something In The Sky and was a definite highlight of Ron Morelli’s descent into Industrial Nihilism on a recent Beats In Space show.
Filed under: 100.Sessions | Tags: alchemy, chicago house, disco, jak beat, mick wills, minimal wave, vicius club
Filed under: 100.Sessions | Tags: chicago house, jak beat, minimal synth, minimal wave, nation, naughty wood, podcast
For his first solely produced Nation Podcast we would like to celebrate Naughty Woods comeback to his vocal elegance.
On Mutant Beat Dances latest sonic installment on Rush Hour, he delivered stunning tonal artistry, and it is been said they have produced arguably ‘the best 80′s Chicago house record not made in the 80′s.
It is what we call Jakbeat, inspired by the early days of house music.
‘Let Me Go’ is as intense and rhythmically inclined as they come. Naughty Wood’s sparse vocals cry desperation, almost nearing insanity, which makes up for a pressure cooker like warehouse anthem.
His decknician-skills are equally impeccable, touching base in various borrows of electronic music, performed with diversity, integrity and sound condition.
Please enjoy this moment in time!
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, alessandro adriani, dark wave, desire records, mannequin label, minimal synth, minimal wave, newclear waves, oksana xiu
Hailing from Rome – Italy, Newclear Waves is essentially the solo project of Alessandro Adriani, mind and boss of Mannequin Records, one of the most important synth wave / cold wave labels around, with contributions from Oksana Xiu, an academic russian musician devoted to analog synths. Deeply influenced by the works of the early minimal electronics sounds on Mute Records and 4AD, Newclear Waves is exploring droned out electro pop territories with an interest for a refreshing hyperactive 80s New Wave. Having turned out releases on Mannequin Records, the duo is now presenting a full‐lenght ten tracks collection of caliginous pure analog minimal synth on the way on Desire Records, french Cold Wave and Electro Wave label, focused both in new artists and stunning reissues from 4AD like Mass, In Camera and Dance Chapter.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, ambient, minimal wave, pye corner audio, pye corner audio transcription services, synth pop, the head technician
Right then, our Head Technician has sworn that he will have the next instalment of Black Mills Tapes ready for us by the end of January. Volume 3: All Pathways Open comprises a further twelve tracks lovingly transferred from those now fabled 1/4″ and cassette tapes. The Advisory Circle kindly lent a hand and retransferred ‘Electronic Rhythm Number Eighteen’ for which we are very grateful. Our Head Technician tells us this particular segment had been giving him a fair bit of trouble, so the help was appreciated.
Filed under: 100.Sessions | Tags: featureless ghost, minimal wave, new wave, no conclusion, podcast, synth pop
Filed under: 100.Sessions | Tags: dark entries records, dark wave, hartzine, josh cheon, minimal wave, synth pop
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, aurora halal, cititrax, cold wave, electro, innergaze, jason letkiewicz, minimal wave, synthwave
Minimal Wave sublabel Cititrax, presents new music from Brooklyn based synth duo Innergaze, the musical project of Aurora Halal and Jason Letkiewicz. Their music, crushed and static, obscured by sound. EBM, coldwave, early techno fight it out for dominance of the drum machine. Casually brutal vocals force their way through from the Death Factory. Celestial synths coexisting with the industrial landscape bellow.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, electro, hard corps, minimal wave, synth pop
Minimal Wave is proud to present our 35th release, a full length LP release entitled “Clean Tables Have To Be Burnt” by UK legends Hard Corps. Hard Corps gained some notoriety for their unique and uncompromising live shows throughout the 1980s. It was the juxtaposition between their hard edged industrial sound and the fragile and enigmatic vocals of French frontwoman Regine Fetet that created an unusual dichotomy, lending to their strength of character as a band and thus allowing them to stand out from the rest. Now for the first time ever, rare unreleased versions of Hard Corps tracks from the 1980s have been remastered and are being made available.
Filed under: 010.Interviews | Tags: dangerous minds, interview, minimal wave, veronica vasicka
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, dark wave, electro, mannequin label, minimal wave, sacred bones, uv pop
Mannequin and Sacred Bones are honoured to join their forces to offer you one of the best UK New Wave reissues from the 80′s. UV PØP were an early post-punk group from the South Yorkshire region of England. Their sound was regionally bleak and they used staccato, angular guitars lines, with vocals ranged from spoken repeated mantras to whispered and shouted political poetics. ‘In the 1980s there was nothing to smile about. The person whom some called wrongly the iron lady brought vengeful spiteful selfishness and a narrow-minded out- look into all our lives. The sound of UV PØP has always been a sophisticated blend of sadness; with morose North Country sense and a humorous confrontational sensibility. UV PØP were as certain as anybody there was a strong possibility there might not be anything left with which to make a tomorrow…
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, electro, geert coppens, minimal synth, minimal wave, peter bone, synth pop, twilight ritual
Twilight Ritual was/is the main project by Geert Coppens and Peter Bonne. During the early eighties they were involved in many other bands including Autumn and The Linear Movement, but Twilight Ritual is by far the most inspired project. The spirit of the band lingers on beneath the work of Autumn through A Split Second. The work of Twilight Ritual is diverse, yet consise. Their pioneering album Rituals inspired other musicians and became an underground cult classic in the minimal synth genre. “The Factory Scream” is a compilation of varied works recorded during 1984 and 1986.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, electro, hippos in tanks, minimal wave, synthwave, white car
Hippos In Tanks’ carefully assembled roster, White Car are the label’s darkest, sexiest operators. Hailing from the Pilsen neighbourhood in Chicago, their debut album ‘Everyday Grace’ channels that Eurotic undercurrent of Techno/Wave/drug music which has fuelled the city’s subterranean scene since the earliest days. Like an hallucinatory audio version of the scramble suits in A Scanner Darkly, their chimeric, cyberdelic fantasia assimilates elements of 30 years + of debonaire, thrusting automatik funk, from DAF to NIN to CTI, to ’80s Bowie, Prince and way beyond, refracting each glint until it becomes an amorphous nebula of digital info masking an ice-cool, thermo-controlled interior. The stuttered vocal of central figure Elon Katz expounds ideas of bodiless cybernetic sex and binary sensuality, melding his urging physicality into a virtual matrix of jagged, shoulder-jerking rhythms and writhing synthlines saturated in bacchanalian dissonance.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: electro, kinder aus asbest, minimal wave, synth pop
Old school minimalsynth, nostalgic but with a glimpse of the future from Swedish band Kinder Aus Asbest.
Filed under: 100.Sessions | Tags: chicago house, golden pudel, italo-disco, jakbeat, mick wills, minimal wave
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: cabaret voltaire, compilation, daf, hard corps, minimal wave, nitzer ebb, post punk, strut records, synth pop, trevor jackson, yello
The latest Strut Records release shines more light on the clanking, far-sighted world of the 1980s’ most revolutionary genres – namely industrial, post-punk and EBM. This time Trevor Jackson is at the helm. His two-disc selection touches on many different strands, from bleak synthesizer jams and crunchy punk-funk to twisted industrial disco, mutant electrofunk and almighty percussive workouts.
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Filed under: 100.Sessions | Tags: boom bar, chicago house, golden pudel, italo-disco, mick wills, minimal wave, podcast
Session Recorded live at Golden Pudel (Hamburg) 21.01.2012
Filed under: 001.Features, 010.Interviews | Tags: antonym, class info, compilation, das ding, felix kubin, hard corps, in trance 95, minimal wave, ohama, peanut butter wolf, philippe laurent, ruins, stone throw, synthwave, veronica vasicka
This is the second volume of The Minimal Wave Tapes series, a collection of rare electronic music compiled from bands around the world. Most of the songs were recorded in the 1980s and originally released on limited edition cassettes or vinyl by the artists themselves, and only a handful of people knew about them. Now they’ve been remastered from their analog source tapes, brought to you by Veronica Vasicka and Peanut Butter Wolf.
