minimal synth
Sacha Mambo – TRAX.140
Twilight Ritual – The Ritual [OS027]
The re-release of the first ever recordings by Belgian minimal synth masters Twilight Ritual. Released in 1982 in a tiny cassette edition this album has not been heard by many people. ”The Ritual” includes some of their best work, from mysterious dark synthpopsongs like ”Elegy” to club music and the epic 14-minute track ”Up To Now”.
Ssleeping Desiress – Ssleeping Desiress LP [OS026]
Coldwave / darkwave debut album by San Francisco based producer Gabriel Ramos. While the band has gone through some lineup changes Ssleeping Desiress has essentially remained the sole recorded output of Gabriel Ramos, who has been the only constant member. The album runs the boundaries between minimal synth, coldwave, and electro with lyrical themes spanning gentrification to coping with loss.
Thomas Leer – Private Plane EP [DE088]
Thomas Leer is an innovative electronic musician who was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland. In 1978, Thomas released his first single, “Private Plane”/“International”, on his own Oblique Records. Both songs were recorded in his small Finsbury Park flat over three days, using a TEAC A3440 4-track recorder and an ALICE mixing board. The only effects used were a Watkins Copicat tape echo unit, Electo Harmonix DrQ filter, an old Roland drum machine, and a Stylophone. So as to not wake his sleeping girlfriend, Leer’s vocals were nearly whispered, which lends them a textural, psychedelic quality. NME named “Private Plane” Single of the Week, and the hand-stamped first edition of 650 promptly sold out. For this expanded reissue, we’ve added 2 bonus tracks. “Kings of Sham”, from the 1981 Cherry Red Records sampler “Business As Usual”, is perfect motorik trance, echoing Conny Plank’s 1970′s productions. “Saving Grace” is the extended instrumental version of Leer’s second single “All About You” from 1982, a slow-burning cosmic work-out chock-full of anthemic synth riffs.
Simona Buja – Passing Masks / Still Close [DISORDINE02.5]
Actually a Kirian Camera record released under the name of Simona Buja because the band was still contracted with Italian Records.
Josh Cheon – Death Metal Disco Club #075
Oppenheimer Analysis – New Mexico: The Complete Collection [MW059]
Remastered deluxe double album of archival material by pioneering 80s minimal electronic duo Oppenheimer Analysis, formed in London, England in 1982 by Andy Oppenheimer and Martin Lloyd.
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Silent Em & Ortrotasce – Common Loss [FLEXI014]
Flexi Wave reviels the collaboration between Silent Em aka Jean Lorenzo and Ortrotasce aka Nic Hamersly. The LP is a 11 tracker with 5 solo-tracks and one collaboration track all carefully put together by the artists together.
Nina Belief – Feel The Feast [FLEXI015]
FlexiWave presents a new release from no less then legendary Miami based synth genius, Nina Belief. It has been very quite around Nina but here she is back with two magic synth-punk tunes that will get any lace moving.
Mick Wills @ Astron Bar (Athens) 28.02.2015 – Digital Tsunami 070
Daniele Ciullini – Domestic Exile: Collected Works 82-86 [ELP009]
Hailing from Florence, Daniele Ciullini was part of the forward-thinking TRAX collective, whose pan european art/music collaboration network acted as a proto-social network decades in advance of the internet. This compilation collects Ciullini’s self released ‘Domestic Exile’ cassette (1983) as well as selections from a series of other compilations(1982 to 1986).
Interstellar Funk – Melbourne Deepcast 132
Mick Wills @ Bordello A Parigi Night, EKKO (Utrecht) 19.12.2014
Silent Servant & Kerri LeBon – Digital Tsunami 067
No More – Suicide Commando [MNQ065]
Mannequin Records present the 12” reissue of No More – Suicide Commando, one of the most influential singles that ever reach the underground surface in the past 35 years. Originally released in 1981 as a 7” single, and subsequently reprinted in 1984 as a 12” Single with a different tracklist on the B-Side, the single was in the following years spreading internationally regardless of genres and scenes.
The Hipodrome Of Music 