Minimal Wave Records

WIERD Records will be taking over the airwaves at WNYU FM this coming Tuesday 2/13 from 5-6:30 pm EST for the WIERD Records Radio Show. I’ll be playing plenty of new and unreleased tracks by WIERD Compilation artists including Blacklist, Martial Canterel, Xeno and Staccato, Sleep Museum, Opus Finis, and A Vague Disquiet and will be interviewing Josh Strawn, Glenn Maryansky, and Ryan Rayhill from Blacklist as well as Sean McBride from Martial Canterel and Miss Liz Wendelbo from Xeno and Oaklander. These groups will in addition be spinning a few classic track’s they’ve long been inspired by so expect a few frozen cold rarities from the likes of Opera de Nuit, Asylum Party, Nagamatzu and Peche Mortel, and rumors have it Glenn is going to play a few of his very rare early Ratt demos, how could you possibly resist!!!

Listeners around the New York tri-state area can tune in at 89.1FM… also online, they can stream the show in real, windows media and mp3 formats at http://www.wnyu.org or WNYU has an itunes stream…in the radio tool, WNYU is listed under “eclectic”.

Thanks very much in advance to program director Robby Morris from WNYU for this very rare invitation and hope everyone can tune it.

Stay Cold and Very Rare as always, Pieter.

 
http://www.wnyu.org

Just tuned in.

I missed the show! When i tuned in I heard a girl talk about WIERD and that was it, closing words I think.

PS Pieter did you get my PM?

hey Spartak simply follow this link to listen to the archive.

go to “play now”

http://wnyu.org/archives/newafternoonshow/2007-02-13_newafternoonshow

let it download and fast forward about 30 minutes into it..

regards, Ramiro

That was a very enjoyable show! But the NY cold department seems to be romanticising the European ‘scene’ a bit. Really. 

I think, part of the possibility to organise such events as NEON-Welt, ROP, is the very dense urban area of the Rhineland (NR-WF, Netherlands, Belgium, north of France). In a radius of about 200 km from the very epicentre of this area -  the luminous and ever so vibrant metropolis of Svetlovgrad - live about 40 million people. And accessable to an even larger group from paris to hannover and beyond.

Hey Kris, WIERD Pieter here… as I was saying in my email the other day I think the ‘overromanticizing’ you are referring to that Sean(Martial Canterel) and I were talking about on the radio show was in reference to the originary FIRST wave of minimal bands being largely from small towns outside of metropolitan areas in Germany, France, Holland etc. - and if you look at where the great groups were from(unlike today, and by the way it is also very much true of the first wave of coldwave guitar groups in France, unlike the 2nd wave - the lively art bands etc. which were centered around Paris) it really is true.  The point we were trying to make I think is that in the early 80s this cold, melancholic, minimal music sound of the European bands really was in part a result of a certain degree of isolation geographically.  Today, with a few exceptions like our friend Dirk/Echo West in Dortmund, DE it is very much the exact opposite as nearly all the records I sell are to people in London, Berlin, Amsterdam etc. and is largely due to the fact that this music is very much underground and difficult to find out about, so usually, despite the internet, people only discover it from hearing it played in clubs and by music fans and collectors in big cities - but at the time circa ‘81-84 the sound that was being formulated by amazing bands like Nine Circles, ADN Ckrystall, The Actor etc. it was happening in the truly most ‘Very Rare’ small towns and villages on the planet…We have a lot more records coming, hope everyones ‘Cold as Ever’ and enjoyed the WIERD Record Radio Show, wish we could do these shows a bit more often, Very Rare, P.

Not sure about that first wave though…cant speak for France, but in Holland most bands were from the larger cities: Nine Circles/  Genetic factor / Xymox / Legendary Pink Dots / Minny Pops / Neutronics and many others from Amsterdam…Nasmak / Plus Instruments from Svetlovgrad…Van Kaye & Ignit from Arnhem…Mekanik Kommando from Nijmegen…Ensemble Pittoresque from The Hague…The Actor from Tilburg (not a small town!)...Trumpett from Alkmaar…we just dont have any large cities in the Netherlands, only a LOT of medium sized cities (perhaps towns from an american perspective) that form a large dispersed metropolitan network (randstad - brabantstad).

Oh Kris darling you cant fool us here at the WIERD World headquarters, we know that beneath that stoic Dutch facade of yours lies a wild seething Romantic just WAITING to burst out in all its frozen Coldwave glory!!! Very Rare ))

hi ton,

plus instruments/  nasmak werent from Eindhoven either but from a little town close to Eindhoven, probably because it was cheaper / the room was there. I guess my main point was that most groups come from anywhere closely connected to the metropolitan network.
Don’t tell me you never left Wassenaar in your teens? :o

Havent heard of any interesting groups from the bible belt, achterhoek or other remote / isolated areas though…they had their own idea of original music there (Normaal)!

We only met once but you already now me this good 8O 8O 8O