Minimal Wave Records

Yeah, it is easier to do the Norwegian list - if you have about 30 bands, not counting cassettes, it’s a near-complete collection, so I just took the best half of those and it was enough even Sweden have hundreds of good releases…

Iceland?

Q4U - 12ep, Q4U II CD
Sonus Futurae - Their sletta skyrinu sem eiga thad MLP
Stanya - Lif
va - Geyser,
va - Rokk i Reykjavik

A strange feeling I’ve forgotten something…

[quote author=“reactorlgtn”]What? Nothing from Norway??

ho no you don’t:

3rd Man - Oral Pleasure, Blå Natt on va flexi “Son of a Kitsch”
Bel Canto - White-Out Conditions LP, Birds of Passage LP
Beranek - Sound of Danger LP
Bern Balders - The Alter-Ego Effect 7
Blue Mathue - Perfect Pictures 12
Boxbury Beat - Never Along With You 7
Clockwork Orange - Sensation Boys 7
Downers - December Rain 7
El - Et Hvilested 7
Fra Lippo Lippi - Now and Forever 7”, anything on Uniton
Thorbjørn Grønning - Europa 7
Det Gylne Triangel - Maskindans 7
Holy Toy - Perfect Day 12, Meeting II 12, Fjøse 12 (some say Fjøse is a band, but they are wrong, it’s Holy Toy, although it doesn’t say on the cover)
Svart Klovn - Knust Knekt 7
Thanasis Zlatanos - Nekropolis (although he’s Greek, the LP was released and recorded in Norway so that counts as a Norwegian release, dunnit?)

:D

A fine list, I know ‘most’ of it.
but isn’t Svart Klovn, Holy Toy both from Sweden?

I really think Russisk Disko should be on that list! terribly good single imho

Lister, Johnny Yen…great Nords as well!!!

Perhaps Famlende Forsok for more non-dance moments…

Remyl—“Remyl” or “Disruptor” if we are going norwegian.

It’s dark, danceable, minimal( but also EBM)

Wahey - suddenly the thread changed into Great Norwegian Music instead? I like!...  8)

Svart Klovn and Holy Toy were Oslo-based projects, made by Norwegians (if we count a Polish refugee in the case of HT), issued on a Norwegian label. I can’t think what either of them would have had to do with Sweden.

Russisk Disko, a single by the band Sequence although again it doesn’t say so on the cover… well, he asked for dark danceable synth, I don’t really thikn of that single as “dark”... I know it’s a Norwegian favourite among collectors though so maybe it should have been mentioned.

Lister/ Johnny Yen - major oops. Their split LP (‘Pop Cycles’) has some excellent tracks and should def have been on the list.
Incidentally, they have both made less electronic music in other projects, maybe Lister’s first LP and Det Elektriske Kjøkken would interest the more dark wave-oriented among us (drum machine and bass guitar, sort of thing). Johnny Yen Bang was one of the first (post-)punk bands to make a vinyl record in Norway.

Famlende Forsøk’s best stuff is cassette, at least until Hommage Records gets arsed to release it on vinyl

And who, indeed WHO is Remyl??  8O Never heard of. D’you have an mp3?

Re: MY WORLD LIST

[quote author=“JoakTree”] Belgium
Shoc Corridor - Travelling By Hand

Are not from Belgium.  Their best off appeared on Antler (Belgian label), but that was the only Belgian thing of it. :wink:

[quote author=“reactorlgtn”]Wahey - suddenly the thread changed into Great Norwegian Music instead? I like!...  8)

Svart Klovn and Holy Toy were Oslo-based projects, made by Norwegians (if we count a Polish refugee in the case of HT), issued on a Norwegian label. I can’t think what either of them would have had to do with Sweden.
quote]

Holy Toy AND Svart Klovn, both featured on NEW WAVE COMPLEX…
both was written as “SWE.” That’s only reason, I figured they were of Sweden, didn’t think NWC compilations had errors.

But, there’ is a big error,
like “Walter Christian Rothe” being from Germany? I doubt that’s correct. Nor is Robots plural, it is called Robot’ and its from Belgium ‘82 not 1980.
but most of the time NWC is correct.

Re: MY WORLD LIST

[quote author=“minicold”][quote author=“JoakTree”] Belgium
Shoc Corridor - Travelling By Hand

Are not from Belgium.  Their best off appeared on Antler (Belgian label), but that was the only Belgian thing of it. :wink:

oops, that will go in UK. My mistake,
I don’t know much about Shoc Corridor.  :oops:

New Wave Complex… Well, they do have a point; the distinction is hardly vital to anyone outside Scandinavia… But both that series and the flexipop ones have a tendency toward the inaccurate…

Fleshing out the Danish list a little:

Avantgarde de luxe - Jorden Under Mig LP
Body Electric - Magic Electronic 7
Daily Fauli - Fauli Til Dauli LP

Scatterbrains? Dee-Izer? Decode?

And Hjörtur Blöndal’s “Digital” 7 - although I heard he’s actually from the Faroes…

Double post

Thanks for all the great artists to research.  Like reactorlgtn mentioned I’m not sure if all of these relate to my original post but I’m enjoying it nonetheless.  I’m discovering some good music even if some of it isn’t of the danceable variety. 

I think me adding the word “dark” to the way I described what I’m looking for kinda opened it up a little more than I’d hoped.  I used dark but meant it as a description for a song made primarily with synths/drum machines, nice analog basslines, weird bleeps/bloops, and spacey 80’s strings. A touch of that 80’s cheese is cool too.  It’s so hard to describe music isn’t it. I’m still checking out all the artists mentioned and appreciate the help. 

Feel free to continue the post in the direction it’s heading but if it’s not too much trouble maybe you could put an asteriks next to songs/artists that might be similar to what I’m looking for.  Thanks again everyone.

I like this single too…
is this an unusual sound for Norway like a russian theme?,
is it, Norge lyrics?  :?:

You should start with the essential minimal synth stuff:
- Jeff & Jane Hudson (Flesh lp)
- Dark Day (Window lp)
- Ceramic Hello (The Absence of a Canary lp)
- Twilight Ritual (Rituals lp)
- Transparent Illusion (Still Human lp)
- Radio Nome Sampler (with 9 Circles, etc.)
...