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V/A

Stalingrad Vol.1 - Das Beste Stahl

Recommended by: MinimalRome | Elena Sizova

Extreme dark electronic compilation about the human suffering at the battle of stalingrad in '43 with a.o. Duracel, Syncom Data, Franck Sarrio, Orgue... more...

• 1 Franck Sarrio - Prelude Des Boses
• 2 Subliminal Criminal - Frischer, Frohliger Krieg
• 3 AU - Hinter Den Elbe Fangt Asien An
• 4 Duracel - Sieg Oder Bolschewismus

V/A

Stalingrad Vol.2 - Bis Am Ende Dieser Welt

Recommended by: L.F.T.

Even darker and more extreme than #1, with a.o. Legowelt, Kassen, Schmerzlabor, Nimoy, Technician, etc. more...

• 1 Orgue Electronique - Die Liebe Ist Die Groste Kraft
• 2 Kassen - ...Und Der Schnee Geduldig
• 3 Mr. Clavio - Keine Gnade Fur Die Sechste
• 4 DJ Technician vs. Kneves - Schleichen Heist Uberleben

Dottores Kranky Disco Band

Street Beat 79

Over the top & ubercool covers, originals and edits of tracks from the post-punk / new wave era, taking in disco, electro-pop and off the wall weirdne... more...

• 1 dodin
• 2 you are woebot
• 3 kitchen refurbishing
• 4 luci goes electric

Experimental Products

Prototype... plus Garage Tracks

A synth duo from Philadelphia/Northern Delaware USA, members Mark Wilde and Michael Gross produced 8-track gear recordings, then had their music press... more...

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

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

Transparent Illusion

Still Human

The holy grail for minimal synth nuts. Roy Young recorded this album in 1981 and released it on his own VEX label. Finally it's getting the official r... more...

• 01 sections
• 02 incubus
• 03 nuclear release
• 04 killing time

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

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 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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Symboter

Tape Works 80-82

Olaf Schirm alias Symboter is a berlin-born electronic artist and musician. In the late 70s he lived in Munich. At that time he got inspired by early... more...

• 01 electronic city
• 02 kraftkern stop
• 03 step by step

Emily Faryna

Tape Works 1984-1990

Emily Faryna is a Canadian artist and singer known so far only by real fans of Minimal/Synth-related Wave-music and cassette-culture collectors. By 19... more...

• 01 doomed to fail
• 02 walls are pages
• 03 who cares

Various Artists

VOD presents 80`s Minimal.Synth.Wave

Recommended by: Clone

FOR SOUNDCLIPS, CHECK EACH INDIVIDUAL RELEASE ON THE SITE! This fine selection of 12 Lp's (10 releases) should give an insight to the world of the 80'... more...

Vice Versa

The Neutron Years 1978-1980

Recommended by: Solvent | Kris Baha

Peter Frohmader

Nekropolis 81 Vol.1-4

Peter Frohmader alias Nekropolis is a german artist known for his distinct and very dark athmospheric electronic compositions as well as his extreme v... more...

• 04
• 06
• 07
• 11

Lustmord

Things That Were

Recommended by: MinimalRome

This 3LP Box-Set presented by the godfather of the genre of Dark Ambient/Industrial, B. Lustmord, includes early works recorded between 1980-83 includ... more...

• 4 murderwrecker
• 5 slabstone
• 6 arise

Hafler Trio

A Cure For Kenophobia - An Empowerment In 4 Easy Stages At Very Reasonable Rates Recordings 87-99

Recommended by: Esker

This very special Box-Release containing almost 4 hours of Hafler Trio Archive Recordings recorded between 1987 and 1999 gives a great opportunity to... more...

• 1 sample 1
• 2 sample 2

Various Artists

Rising From The Red Sand Vol.1-5

Recommended by: Clone

''Rising From The Red Sand'' was one the most comprehensive compilations of early 80’s industrial, wave and underground music, spanning a total of fi... more...

• 01 Chris & Cosey - Yes Know
• 05 Pseudo Code - Missing Persons
• 10 Metamorphosis - Fire Gates
• 15 Tone Death - Song Of The Flame

Featureless Ghost

Sugarcoated

Vocal electro-fied techno tracks with a wave feel by the hotly- tipped Atlanta-via-Brooklyn duo Featureless Ghost return with this white label (limite... more...

• 1 sugarcoated
• 2 sugarcoated (scott fraser baudot code rewire)
• 3 cybosapien
• 4 flash (beau wanzer adjustment)

Xeerox

1979 - 1981 Recuerdo Espectral De Un Viejo Decorado Electrico

Edition of 300 copies. Black vinyl. Booklet with photographs, artwork and liner notes by Javier Hernando and Xeerox. Recorded in Barcelona between 197... more...

• 01 Track 1
• 02 Track 2
• 03 Track 3
• 04 Track 4

Various Artists

Dark Acid III

Recommended by: Odopt

The third in a series of electronic / acid / techno 12''s from the mighty Clan Destine.

• 1 ibm - sexually broken
• 2 tzu sing - teeth
• 3 twins - mind out of reach
• 4 tract - light in extension

Various Artists

Electroconvulsive Therapy Volume 1

Recommended by: Intergalactic Gary

Medical Records is proud to release it's first compilation LP. Medical has carefully curated a collection of extremely rare and sought after singles... more...

• 01 Electronic Circus - Direct Lines
• 02 Psychic Youth - The Future Now
• 03 Aaah...! - Slip Away
• 04 Shazam - Let's Get Together

Asmus Tietchens

4K7

Recommended by: Phuong-Dan | Solvent | Clone

This 4lp-Box includes his first 4 tape-works from the late 70's. Released between 1981 and 1983 on the british YHR-Tapes-label (Yorkhouserecords) as w... more...

• 01 Resonanz 1
• 02 Resonanz 2
• 03 Nach Unten
• 04 Sysiphos Gliim

Muslimgauze

Chasing the Shadow Of Bryn Jones

Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones is an Anthology of his early musical output and a biography on the late Bryn Jones, a Manchester, Engla... more...

• 01 Milena Jesenska
• 05 Afrikaner
• 10 Muslin Gauze Muslim Prayer
• 15 Ex

Robert Rich

Premonitions

Recommended by: Clone

Robert Rich's solo and collaborative recordings have proven extremely influential on a range of new school ambient and experimental artists. Although... more...

• 01 selene & ether
• 02 collage for low tones
• 03 ghosts
• 04 clouds 8-15

Alien Brains

It's All History Now

Tape-Works 1979-85 4LP with booklet. more...

• 01 theres going to be a riot soon
• 05 menial disorder a10
• 10 menial disorder b7
• 15 menial disorder b2

Pascal Comelade

Degeneration Electronics

1974-1983 Recrdings & Bel Canto Orquestra live in 1983. 5LP box set!

• 1 lp3 7
• 2 lp2 7
• 3 lp2 1

Ghost Culture

Giudecca / Half Open

Recommended by: Erol Alkan

Ghost Culture returns with a second single for Phantasy, opening the door a little further into his musical world. 'Giudecca' is an aching love song f... more...

• 1 Guidecca
• 2 Half Open
• 3 Guidecca (dub)

Broken English Club

Jealous God 04

Recommended by: Intergalactic Gary | MinimalRome

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• 1 A Square Shaped Room
• 2 Boxes
• 3 Birth Control
• 4 Casual Sex

Ngly

Russian Torrent Versions 07

Four tracks of gritty club ammo straight outta the East side torrents... from bleep era warehouse vibes to sweaty dub to all out jak madness.

• 1 5674
• 2 76675
• 3 Misterious Jazz From Hell
• 4 H592S

Rational Youth

Cold War Night Life 1981-84

Recommended by: Solvent

One of Canada’s first synth-pop groups, Rational Youth was formed in the summer of 1981 by Tracy Howe (The Normals, Men Without Hats, Heaven Seventee... more...

• 01 close to nature
• 05 les meilleurs des mondes
• 10 coboloid race
• 15 city of the night (1982 original mix)

LeLu/Lus

Operating on Specific Cues - Early Works 1982-86

LeLu/Lu's were an early to late 80's electronic/synth-based project based around Deni (in the early 80's known as Yo-Yo and nowadays known as Timekod... more...

• 01 look dont touch
• 05 animal passion
• 10 muscles
• 15 love attack

V2 Schneider

Tape Works 1981-85

Recommended by: Elena Sizova

The finest German Minimal / Synth from early 80's NDW Underground by V2 Schneider! For this release Jürgen Schweighart, alias V2 Schneider, sat... more...

• 01 wilde gier
• 05 munchen
• 10 fag rag
• 15 schizzo

Various Artists

Official Guide to Scottish Minimal/Synth 1979-1983

Recommended by: Morah

This is the ultimate Anthology of Scottish Minimal Synth based around electronic mastermind Alistair Robertson and all his early 80's solo or band-pr... more...

• 01 temptation
• 05 mitosis
• 10 ram
• 15 debutante

Red Wedding

Anthology 1981​-​1985

Red Wedding debuted at the Brave Dog on Saturday, June 13, 1981. Fans expecting a revamped Hey Taxi (the original punk incarnation of the band) were i... more...

• 01 All Dressed Up
• 02 Fiction Theater
• 03 Goddess No More
• 04 Twisted

Diffuse Arc

E.P. Messiah

Recommended by: Legowelt | Jennifer Cardini | MinimalRome

Brilliant analogue space synth music on this small label from Spain. Including nicely crafted and designed covers. Wont be available for a long time t... more...

• 1 Ufo
• 2 Zygnus
• 3 Caladan

Maoupa Mazzocchetti

A-Morality

Given the positive reception that led Maoupa Mazzocchetti's debut EP for Unknown Precept, we have decided to put on tape some of the tracks that were... more...

Various Artists

Electroconvulsive Therapy Volume 3 - Obscure Singles Circa 83-86

Medical Records continues it's unearthing of extremely rare singles in it's Electroconvulsive Therapy series. Once again, teaming up with Crispy Nugg... more...

• A1 Tipical Me - Claustrofobian
• A2 Secession - Betrayal
• A3 Leidenschaft - Who Cares
• A4 Black Fantasy - Evil Places

Unknown Artist

Relax

Relax... Don't do it! Don't sleep on this limited repress. One sided with silkscreen printed sticker on the flip.

• 1 Relax