Minimal Wave Records

Lots of great stuff…

FIRST: I have fixed ALL broken links. Everything works fine now!
SECOND: I have uploaded a LOT of stuff since I last posted in this thread. I uploaded a month’s worth of records yesterday since I’ll be on vacation in March. Records recently uploaded in the past few weeks include:

Ego Loop: Nothingness LP (dark minimal wave/industrial)
Steve Miro: Trilemna LP (synthpop/art punk/new wave solo LP on the same label as League of Nations!)
Intimate Obsessions: Erubus to hades mLP (a darkwave/industrial gem)
Loveland: That Neplusultra (Depeche Mode clones)
Þeyr: As Above LP & Fourth Reich EP (classic Icelandic post punk in the Killing Joke vein)
Noh Mask: Oriented LP & Gaijin 7” (Belgian electro-pop/minimal synth classic)
Wombat Suicide EP (1984 CA goth/darkwave/minimal synth obscurity)
Moev: Rotting Geraniums & Cracked Mirror EPs (their first two releases… pure minimal electro-pop bliss)
Perfect Vision: Tongues Out mLP (excellent dark electro/post punk)
Stills: Chorus of Blows EP (Joy Division-esque post-punk)
President Reagan is Clever: From This to That EP (good synthpop/new wave/post punk from the UK)
Frederick M: Following Directions mLP (1984 electropop/minimal synth classic… slowly becoming a very desired record)
Various Artists: Second Strike LP (excellent darkwave/industrial/synthpop comp)
The Pop on Trial: Timemachine EP (classic SF fuzzed-out shoegaze)

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New stuff up now, mainly things that I got on vacation in Benelux:

Hi-i: Mind Your Head EP (Dutch dark post punk from 1986 with dual female singers)
V/A: Nuit Blanche LP (A classic comp featuring Design, Diseno Corbusier, and loads more)
To Heaven a Jet/Revox Cadet split 7” (excellent synthpop 7” on Cocteau Records)
Cloud Nine: Waterland mLP (Dutch synthpop with an electropop classic, the song “Fraction of a Second”)
V/A: Der Produzentenklub Empfeihlt Lebensmittelsex LP (unknown comp of NDW, minimal synth, new wave, electropop, and more… a true gem!)

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Cloud Nine, I have that one! It’s not bad, but certainly not a classic. Very poppy actually.

Yeah, the only song that I think is “classic” is Fraction of a Second… I really love that track. The rest… eh, they’re OK.

In any event, I’ve uploaded some great new stuff in the past few weeks:
THE LOCH NESS MONSTER: Industrial Poppies LP (1985 DIY UK minimal synth/industrial dance/electro/experimental)
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Look What’s Coming to the Surface (1986 Swindon-area UK comp with some good synthpop and post punk songs, especially the tracks by The Company and Riyadh.
THE LOCAL MOON: An Experience 7” (Extremely obscure private German darkwave 7” with lyrics taken from poems by the beat poet Bob Kaufman)
B.TROOP: Europeans LP (very underrated 1981 UK electro pop LP)
SOUL ON ICE: Underwater 12” (UK post punk/new wave 12” with one great track in the vein of early Shriekback)
RIP SCHREDDER’S TECHNO PRIMITIVISM 7” (US private-press amateur minimal synth punk record… emphasis on the “amateur”. Very endearing, though!)
HA HA MONO: Run for Miles 7” (This one is a true classic - darkwave, goth, minimal wave, whatever, it’s gloomy and perfect!)

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Well, I have updated my blog after a little hiaitus. You can find some great things since my last update:

Knightklub: Mixed Emotions LP (1984 US synthpop)
Bluenose B: Forever Passing Trains 12” (great UK dark post punk/indie)
Global Infantilists: Selftitled LP (dark, gloomy synth-heavy post punk from Sweden)
Perfect Vision: Discography (the entire discography of this great band, provided by the singer/synth player. Killer UK electro/minimal synth/new wave).

Also, in case you missed it, I also have posted these records since I last updated this thread:
Holy Toy: Panzer & Rabbits and Why Not in Choir? LPs (the excellent second and third albums from this highly underrated industrial darkwave band)
Mode/IQ: Mind/Soul mLP (great 1984 NYC new wave/synthpop)
You: Neek EP (the extremely rare third and final release from this early-80s NJ electropop band)
Primary Colors: Fact and Fiction EP (1982 US minimal synth/post punk. If you haven’t head this, GET IT!)
MC^2: Selftitled LP (Awesome NDW/electropop in the Malaria!, Zero Zero, and Palais Schaumburg vein)
Echo Art: Leitmotiv LP (awesome Italian darkwave from 1986 - the song Hershel is particularly amazing)
The Hail Mary: What’s That Fire EP (mid-80s Belgian post punk/deathrock. Apparently the first record to be censured in Belgium, if the sticker on the front is to be believed)
Thrill of the Pull: Green to Red 12” (excellent 1986 SF deathrock/post punk VERY similar to Killing Joke)
Paul Nova: Discography (The entire discography of Paul Nova. I actually had downloaded this from MW a while back, and decided to share it with a wider audience).

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In the past few weeks, I have uploaded some more rarities, including:

(ELEVEN) POND: Bullets 12” (the rare and unknown follow up to the Eleven Pond LP!!!!)
The Shriek: Sex Sells EP (1980 electropunk. Some great dark addressive post punk and lots of amateurish electronics)
GT Modell: GT Modell mLP (1983 Dutch minimal synth)
Fred A & Le Travo: Works 1 mLP (excellent cold minimal synth from Fred A, also known as Fred Angst from Aroma Di Amore, and incredible coldwave from Le Travo)
Pinkie Maclure: Unman LP & Bite the Hand that Feeds 12” (great agressive female-fronted post punk, darkwave, and electro)
Q - Cine De Miedo EP (very sought-after Spanish minimal synth/electropop)
Justine - Amor Acuatico EP (rather unknown female-fronted Spanish electropop from the songwriter of Q)
The Coupe de Villes: Waiting Out the Eighties LP (John Carpenter’s new wave band. Yes, THAT John Carpenter!)

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MOre stuff has been posted in the past month or two. Lots of lost and obscure gems, from minimal electronic to post punk to NDW to goth and more… Check them out!

Recent updates include:
Nullset: Unisphere 12” EP & Forget You First 7” (great early-mid 80s synthpop/minimal electronic)
Leben Und Arbeiten: Selftitled EP (jerky, abstract German new wave on ZickZack)
The Popular Sex: Powers of Suggestion LP (1984 minimal synth/new wave/post punk)
Factual: Psychotic Romance 12 & Your Way 7” (Great US electropop, almost their entire discography!)
Cipher: Selftitled EP (1981 dark arty post punk/goth. Pre-Freshly Wrapped Candies)
Die Hausfrauen: Discography (early 80s downtown NYC synthy no wave/arty post punk)
Persons Unknown: Addiction 7” (rare self-released UK minimal wave/electropop)
Club De Rome: Selftitled mLP (1989 Frech darkwave/synthpop/industrial killer!)
Barbi & the Kens: MiniLP (1980 US new wave/minimal electro)
Martin Human: Upside Down and Backwards 7” (1984 SF minimal synth)

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Has it really been a YEAR since I posted a reply to this thread? Holy hell!
Well, there’s a bunch of stuff I’ve uploaded in the past year. Minimal synth from Android: A 21st century Band, a a couple weeks of SF new wave and minimal electro, and more. Recently I uploaded a homemade compilation of odds-and-ends. Some good, some kinda not-so-good. And I just uploaded the Hit the Floor compilation with two amazing minimal synth-punk songs by Doppler Effect. So, check it out if you haven’t for a while!

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