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5ive Ximes of Dust

The Dadacomputer

Recommended by: Ernestas Sadau

A classic, highly sought-after and influencial experimental electronic and acoustic tape from 1981, finally released as a deluxe vinyl LP in extended... more...

• 01 automation
• 02 computer bank
• 03 computer violence

Experimental Products

Oxide

After 2 marvelous releases on VOD-Records this band actually needs no introduction anymore and its great music stands for itself. This is another ecle... more...

• 01 bagdad sortie
• 02 burning flame
• 03 work that beat

Peter Becker

Ambivalent Scale - Tape Recordings 1979-1981

Peter Becker is one half of famous Eyeless in Gaza. In 1979/80 Peter Becker and Martyn Bates formed their own label called „Ambivalent Scale Recording... more...

• 01 by train to coast
• 02 drum avant
• 03 faces in the dark

Los Paranos

Living On A Red Line 83-86

Recommended by: Legowelt

Los Paranos (also called LOSP) is a french group created in the late 70’s by Christophe Petchanaz (one half of the still very active french Duo Klimpe... more...

• 01 black is the best
• 02 evidence
• 03 redline

Kevin Lazar

Mutant Generation

Recommended by: Lake Haze | Gustav Goodstuff

Kevin Lazar is a minimal-synth, electro-acid-techno-pioneer from Chicago who is still active nowadays in the DJ and Electro-culture today as Vekzar.... more...

• 01 living on another planet
• 02 dark heart cabaret
• 03 insane outsane

Paul Nagle

The Soft Room 1980-85

Recommended by: Poperttelli | Clone

Paul Nagle is an electronic artist and synthesist from UK who started to produce wonderful fascinating electronic sounds since the late 70's when his... more...

• 03 the mesomeric effect
• 04 jacurutu
• 06 universalindicator

Mystery Plane

Curse of the Bodysnatchers - Tape Recordings 1983-86

Gerald O'Connell and Mark Harvey began recording as Mystery Plane in 1980, although they had worked together since 1978 in two other more conventional... more...

• 01 all these cities
• 02 curse of the bodysnatcher
• 03 fractured

Plus Instruments

Exile in Paradise

Recommended by: Still Serious Nic

14-track LP! Plus Instruments' existence spans over the last 3 decades. Established in 1978 by Truus de Groot in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, she tinke... more...

• 01 obsessed
• 02 paradise
• 03 sailors

Innergaze

Mutual Dreaming

Recommended by: VC-118A | Paul du Lac

Minimal Wave sublabel Cititrax presents 'Mutual Dreaming' by the musical project of Aurora Halal and Jason Letkiewicz (Steve Summers, Rhythm Based Lov... more...

• 1 mutual dreaming
• 2 relax
• 3 is this your love
• 4 autumn

TSTI

Evaluations

Isolated in an upstate, NY bedroom studio exists TSTI, a solo project by artist S. Smith described as ‘dark, hazy synthetic pop.’ Constructing musical... more...

• 1 In Loving Memory
• 2 Queen Of Swoons
• 3 Pull The Animals's Teeth Out
• 4 Love & Truth

o13

Time Wave Zero

o13 creates an evolving texture of music, a piercing electronic post-punk, a future that never manifested itself, spectral, uncompromising portals of... more...

• 01 Lost Pavillions
• 02 Ocean
• 03 Remote Purity Control
• 04 Vaporize

Collateral

Black EP

Collateral is a mixed Parisian trio, polarised between synthetic hints and electric inspirations. Qualified experts in melancholic dance music (majori... more...

• 1 ctrl 4
• 2 ctrl 12
• 3 ctrl 10

Andreas Dorau

Aerger Mit Der Unsterblichkeit

Originally released 1992 on Ata Tak (WR53). Andreas Dorau, born 1964, is a marvellous pop musician, equipped with the choicest humour and the gift of... more...

• 01 warten
• 02 es dreht sich die welt
• 03 getraumt von dir
• 04 einsam

D.A.F.

Produkt Der Deutsche-Amerikanischen Freundschaft

Originally released in 1979 on Warning Records (later Ata Tak). Reissue in with liner notes, rare photos and memorabilia. Produkt der Deutsch-Amerikan... more...

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• 2 clip 2
• 3 clip 3
• 4 clip 4

Twilight Ritual

Rituals

Recommended by: Gustav Goodstuff | Clone

The Rituals album is one of the best kept secrets of the synthpop/coldwave movement. Sinister, Dark and a bunch of touching melodies. Peter Bonne and... more...

• 01 amorphous materials
• 02 i never called you a dream
• 03 message
• 04 what are rooms for

M.Brandlmayr /W.Dafeldecker/ C.Fennesz

Blown Up And A...

''The rebirth of cool'' m=minimal is pleased to release a masterpiece of the early 21st century on vinyl. ''Till the old world?s blown up and a new on... more...

• 1 track 1
• 2 track 2

Somnambulist

Withered Land

Recommended by: Solvent | Alessandro Adriani

Somnambulist along with M.Bryo are the product of the same person, one Mark Burghgraeve. A Belgian artist active in a scene that included Klinik and A... more...

Various Artists

The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume 2

Recommended by: Ulf Eriksson | klen | Clone

V/A The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volume 2, a collaborative release with Stones Throw Records and follow up to V/A The Minimal Wave Tapes; Volume 1. A coll... more...

• 01 hard corps - dirty
• 02 in trance 95 - presidente
• 03 phillipe laurent - distortion
• 04 das ding - hsta

BeNe GeSSeRiT

Half Unreleased Madness

Cool compilation of unreleased BeNe GeSSeRiT tracks. The husband & wife duo of Alain Neffe & Nadine Bal counted as one of the most frivolous & impress... more...

• 1 track 1
• 2 track 2
• 3 track 3

Various artists

The Hidden Tapes

Recommended by: Steffi | klen

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... more...

• 01 SS-Say - Care
• 02 Oskarova Fobija - Beli Dekolte
• 03 Dantons Voice - I Hear The Bells
• 04 Sympathy Nervous - Polaroid

Tolouse Low Trax

Asimiad

Recommended by: Ernestas Sadau | Gustav Goodstuff | Clone | klen

Hypnotizing acid-EBM-electro-wave masterpiece from Dusseldorf.

• 1 Noblesse Oblige - The Great Electrifier (Tolouse Low Trax Remix)
• 2 Prokery
• 3 Asimiad
• 4 Local Vers

Neud Photo

Synthetics

Recommended by: Silent Servant

Very obscure release this is, 8 tracks of hypnotizing post-modern decadance. All analog production, comes highly limited as a 100 copies edition with... more...

• 1 automat
• 2 internal landscapes
• 3 sulphur 'n cylinder
• 4 isolated incident

Various Artists

The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume 1

Recommended by: Nukubus

This is the first official volume of minimal wave music from Europe and North America recorded in the 1980s. Most of the songs were originally release... more...

• 01 linear movement -Way Out Of Living
• 02 crash course in science
• 03 oppenheimer analysis - Radiance
• 04 mark lane - Whos Really Listening

Das Ding

H.S.T.A.

Recommended by: Afra | Gustav Goodstuff | Kyle Hall | Clone

Minimal Wave presents a full length album by Dutch electro pioneer, Das Ding. Das Ding is Danny Bosten, who was active in the early 1980s releasing hi... more...

• 1 reassurance ritual
• 2 h.s.t.a.
• 3 inter caetera
• 4 take me away

Linear Movement

On The Screen

Recommended by: Ofra | Wrong Sal

Linear Movement's 'On The Screen' LP, a collection of songs originally slated for release in 1983. Linear Movement is Belgian mastermind Peter Bonne... more...

• 01 way out of living
• 02 cytogenetic movement
• 03 in my head
• 04 five faces