Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, degada saf, mannequin label, new wave, synth pop, synthwave
Degada Saf was a transgressive-dada-ist musical combo coming from Veneto, Italy. Degada Saf played a synth-electronic music, a kind of involved no-disco with no-sense lyrics in esperanto. Their music suggests a peculiar mixture of post-modernism synthesized electro assaults, new wave’s imaginative minimalism and pop art aesthetic vision. “No Inzro” makes constant interferences between rigorous avant-gardism, alternative music styles and colorfully plastic electro pop. The spectrum of musical imagination reveals a lot of good surprises, notably with the opening theme “La Rhumba de Shang Hai” which directly gives the tonality of the entire album: kitschy retro-popish ambiences based on dancing minimal hypno pulses and efficiently cold melodies. A groovy and captivating electro experience and a pretty decent introduction to the band’s very own musical universe.
Filed under: 100.Sessions | Tags: featureless ghost, minimal wave, new wave, no conclusion, podcast, synth pop
This Newave mix was spun by me some time in 2005, and has always been one of my favorites. Pass this one on!
Tevo Howard
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, clan destine records, dark wave, klaus von barrel, new wave, the kvb
“Always Then” is the second album from UK post punk band The KVB aka Karl von Barrel. The album will be released on Clan Destine Records and is featuring 10 dark wave, new wave tracks.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, black widow records, doris norton, electro, new wave
Doris Norton, pioneer in the early electronic/computer music, began her musical career playing avant-garde and progressive music using synthesizers such as Roland System 700, Roland system 100M and Minimoog (Jacula, Antonius Rex). This is the 30th Anniversary edition, the Cd version contains a TV appearance of Doris Norton in 1981 playing Psychoraptus.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: central unit, mannequin label, new wave, synth pop
Mannequin is really happy to present the 30th Anniversary Edition of the 12’’ EP ‘Loving Machinery” from Central Unit, the cult New Wave mitteleuropean band based in Bologna. Formed in 1981, they were among the first in Italy to manipulate synths, drum machines and other electronic devices to create atmospheric soundscapes. Central Unit published in March 1982, the 12’’ EP “Loving Machinery” with 4 tracks, including a cover of “What Use?” from Tuxedomoon.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: downwards records, klaus von barrel, new wave, the kvb
Downwards continue to split the crowd with their riveting 10″ series, presenting this astonishing slab of motorik depression from The KVB. Klaus Von Barrel show here something darker, sexily narcotic and thrusting to their sound. ‘Into The Night’ is a case in point, with couldn’t-give-a-fu*k, glazed-eye vocals heard from behind a wall of Joy Division synths and a bruisingly muscular, meth-fuelled bassline. ‘Lost’ is perhaps more spacious, mixing everything tantalisingly out-of-reach, but with just enough abrasive guitar to gnash on. Again on ‘Hide & Wait’ the flanging, fire-and-ice-breathing guitar is upfront, while vocals are half-heard in the murk next to unrelenting drums Stephen Morris would be proud of. Includes 10″ x 10″ insert.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: downwards records, industrial, karl o’connor, new wave, regis
Karl O’Connor digs into his sizeable archives for White Savage Dance, collating several key moments of his early experiments with industrially charged post-punk which surfaced during the early years of Downwards existence but were actually recorded long before. Sandwell District fans will find much to appreciate in the corrosive, metallic sounds that permeate throughout, not least the Anglo- Germanic versions of “Here & Now” that open and close the A Side. The jerking, spasmodic cold wave nature of the latter is a personal favourite here at Juno HQ. The B Side provides further intrigue as both tracks here see O’Connor step behind the mic, delivering some Robert Smith style vocals in his typical Brummie brogue atop sinewy guitars and drums that sound as if they’ve been carved from the hollow battering of caustic tin pans.
Filed under: 001.Features, 100.Sessions | Tags: electronica, FACT, minimal synth, minimal wave, new wave, sandwell district, synthwave
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, electro, minimal wave, momentform, new wave, synth pop, wt records
Wt Records takes another expected turn by releasing a mini LP of new wave tracks from Momentform. The first track, ‘Momentform is Fake,’ spans the gap between new wave and house with 707 rhythmic patterns and raw, unedited bass lines. ‘Selected Works’ with its melancholic vocals and juno arpeggio has a way of finding its way into your brain and staying there. 6 tracks of excellent melodies and melancholy angst make this a great record for listening from start to finish.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, new wave, precurseur grand bois, zusammen records
After closing their first series (Zusammen 1-5 was a more electro(nix) based series), a new project emerges. Precurseur Grand Bois is a concept of total art, a great project where the ”60′s meets the 80′s into the Zero Age”. A mixture of elements made of analog electronics, acoustic percussion and spoken word.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: compilation, hiruko records, minimal synth, new wave
Collection of no-wave and minimal synth acts from the Japanese post-punk scene. Most of the tracks presented here are reissued for the first time.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: edmund xavier, electro, horrid red, minimal wave, new wave, soft abuse records
Edmund Xavier’s dark minimal wave project Horrid Red new EP on Soft Abuse. “Silent Party” features the group’s signature style of combining gloomy creepiness with an overall very danceable rhythm pattern, adding up to strangely irresistible party tunes, new wave & post-punk.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, electro, neud photo, new wave, nico nightingale, pylon records
Pylon Records presents an essential 6 track LP from New York via Detroit minimal wave producer Neud Photo, who takes the kraut of Kraftwerk, the sublime groove of early New Order, and the funk of Liquid Liquid to create vintage electronic masterpieces.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: mannequin label, martial canterel, minimal wave, new wave, tobias bernstrup
New single on Mannequin Label featuring a real collaboration between Tobias Bernstrup and Martial Canterel, in a sense that Tobias sings on the Martial Canterel-tracks and vice versa.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, dark entries records, new wave, parade ground, synth pop
Parade Ground has always been the duo of brothers Jean-Marc and Pierre Pauly from Brussels, Belgium formed in 1981. Taking cues from Post-Punk, Cold Wave, Dada and Surrealism, Parade Ground channeled suffering, tension and rage through pulsing synthesizers, skeletal guitar, severe bass and Jean-Marc’s expressive vocals as the most melodic and emotional instrument. “The Golden Years” is an 11-song, career-spanning collection of Parade Ground’s long out-of-print 7” and 12” singles as well as rare compilation tracks from the pioneers of emotional body music created during 1982-1988.
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: album, john maus, new wave, synth pop, upset! the rithm
Upset The Rhythm released John Maus’ third album ‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves’. Questing synthesisers, tensely strung bass lines and chasing drum machines providing the perfect backdrop for John’s deeply resonant reverb-drenched vocal.
Filed under: 010.Interviews, 100.Sessions | Tags: hardrock striker, interview, magic waves, minimal wave, new wave, synth pop
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: compilation, minimal wave, new wave, synth pop
Filed under: 001.Features | Tags: ata, disco, grauzone, live at robert johnson, new wave, zwischenfall
Ata’s Volume of the “Life At Robert Johnson” vinyl extract with two of the most extraordinary songs and mysterious corkers of his outstanding compilation. Ramonaäs main man picked Grauzone with “Raum” and Zwischenfall’s “Flucht” for this special plate. As this wouldn’t be a treat in itself already, Ata extended the pop arrangement of “Raum” into an almost 8 minute long powerful ballroom blitz edit for all you new wavers and old romantics.
