new wave
Futurisk – Lonely Streets Remixes [CITI004]
Minimal Wave takes an old sound in a new direction entirely, giving Futurisk’s classic ‘Lonely Streets’ a modern shake-up through a remix package from current artists – out now on MW’s sublabel reserved for new music and old favorites, Cititrax. Remixes by Prince Language, Chris Carter, Complexxion and Tom Furse.
VA – The Hidden Tapes LP [MW030]
A Compilation of Minimal Wave from Around the World ‘79-‘85. The Hidden Tapes features rare, unreleased, and licensed tracks from as far as Japan and the former Yugoslavia. Most of the bands on this compilation recorded on 4-track tape in their bedroom studios while two of them went further to collaborate by sending tapes through the mail. The sounds on this record range from raw proto-industrial to naive danceable Belgradian new wave, to filmic synthesizer music to more complex, vocal-driven melodic synthpop.
VA – Vinyl Extraction: Live At Robert Johnson Vol. 7 [PLAYRJC011]
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.
Tropic Of Cancer – The Sorrow Of Two Blooms [BLACKEST003]
A new release by Tropic of Cancer, the LA-based duo of Camella Lobo and Juan Mendez (aka Silent Servant). They make make raw, visceral music in the loose tradition of minimal synth, post-punk, industrial and goth, produced with authority and a supremely evolved grasp of spatial arrangement. Superb experimental edged & punk drone-rock infected cuts.
Tropic of Cancer – Be Brave [DO08]
Stark and beautiful.. an amazing new title from John Mendez (Silent Servant / Sandwell) alongside his partner Camella Lobbo with the one and only Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire, Sweet Exorcist etc.) on remix duties.
Dave Siska – Rocket Deep Mix
The Soft Moon – The Soft Moon [CT085]
From the Bauhaus-influenced record cover, to the dead thuds that pound every corner of “The Soft Moon”, there is something imposing and stark about Luis Vasquez’s debut record. It casts a bleak shadow, like a graying tower block. The record heavily recalls the industrial and goth 1980s, eras of music bathed in blackness, yet beneath the squall and the otherwise monolithic sound poke out some impressive moments of clarity.
Mick Wills @ Efir Club, St.Petersburg, Russia 01.01.2011
Intergalactic FM TOP100 26.12.2010
Peter van Hoesen – The Bunker Podcast 71
Hyboid – Aliens Ate My Synthesizer! [AC002]
A huge flying interstellar mental asylum collecting the most hopeless cases of our galaxy. Meet Dr. Dabic and his hideous device, listen to Klaus Nomi’s desperate tale and watch the beauty of NGC891 from your padded cell!
The Hipodrome Of Music 