Minimal Wave Records

Why we have xmal deutschland in artists list and dont have psyche in it for example? Im confused ...

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[quote author=“hanoi”]Why we have xmal deutschland in artists list and dont have psyche in it for example? Im confused ...

xmal deutschland = good
psyche = not so good

Tut tut, Carlo, you’re becoming more and more an old snob… (Remember the days when you were a young snob?  :wink: )

Psyche made the super hit “Unveiling the Secret” and as such they certainly have earned a place on the artist listing of this site. Early works should be of interest to most minimal wave fans.

A better explanation would be to say, this is AN artist listing, not THE artist listing; pretty much still a work-in-progress, I’m sure most collectors would be able to add a hundred bands to the list.

Maybe if someone went to NYC and took off with all Veronica’s synths?  :twisted:

heh ...see…
for me its just the opposite

xmal = not really good
psyche = not damn good, but still Good

I think there should be a forum thread where users can propose new adds to the list and discuss them.

“Early works should be of interest to most minimal wave fans.”

everyone have to agree with that

[quote author=“hanoi”]

everyone have to agree with that

I’m always right.  8)

-the thread you suggest is a good idea, do you want to start one?  (I’d do it, but I’ve already nicked good ideas from others in this forum so maybe I should stand back for now… :D )

This is all in the spirit of a nice laugh no?
8)

I’m down for discussing…let’s do it.

and for your info Mr. Oyst, I’m a middle aged snob :D :D

[quote author=“reactorlgtn”]
I’m always right.  8)

Well Oyst, and now please tell us something that makes you stand out as an individual, as after all, who on this forum isn’t?  :D

I think it really looks like a bit of a Hercules task, compiling not “a” but “THE” list of all minimal synth bands. You might think you finally managed and along comes another Belgium tape from ‘82, 5 copies made. 

BTW, X-Mal Deutschland are minimal synth? Thought I heard a guitar or two on the albums I got. But as I don’t know their very early stuff, I guess it’s like No More where the style changed big time over the years.

“BTW, X-Mal Deutschland are minimal synth?”

for me its more goth/dark wave than synth, but Im not always right

maybe make this thread “new adds discussion thread” to avoid mess on forum?

and ..hmmm .. so was Psyche discussed enough to be added? ;p

[quote author=“hanoi”]“BTW, X-Mal Deutschland are minimal synth?”

for me its more goth/dark wave than synth, but Im not always right

Similar problem with Iron Curtain. In my opinion they are not minimal synth at all.

I think disussions about who’s minimal synth and who’s not will be endless ones.

On the other hand the site is called MINIMAL WAVE and I think both bands are definitely WAVE at least :D

neural circus , john bender, ob minimax, early severed heads…little to no high-profile production…just some folks with peculiar relationships to synthesizers and their home studio…psyche, iron curtain, Xmal, league of nations are pop groups…mind you quite nice and at times a bit wave and melancholic, but the ethic remains resolutely pop..

Whoops! I leave you guys to yourselves for ten minutes…

@ falck: I didn’t say anyone else was not right, right? Right! :?

@ cr-78: You’re right as always.

@ Iron Curtain: I like the music of IrC better than I like the term “Minimal Wave”. The weakness of this genre description has been discussed elsewhere on the forum. Ralf Hütter at one point tried launching the term Robot Pop, to no avail as I can see.

@ nuit-e: Neural Circus is perfect POP to my ears! :wink:

Ahh, frisdrankje! Bedankt, Spartak.

As a matter of fact, I wasn’t really trying to respawn an evil pretentious pop band vs. honest hard working underground artist type of discussion.

Personally, I like my pop music for as long as it’s quality pop music.

I just wondered if what started being called “minimal synth” some time ago, and has been called Minimalelektronik for much longer in Germany, allows for the use of guitars these days?

Now I don’t think so, and thus for me e.g. Guerre Froide are not a minimal synth band either. I really only wanted to ask if X-Mal Deutschland DID produce minimal synth at the beginning of their career?

And anyways, as this site is being called Minimal Wave, artists using guitars do fit the bill provided that these rather dodgy instruments are being used in a rather minimal way (=sparsely)  8)

ok, you dont want Psyche here, thats ok (is not! ;p)
what about Metal Urbain :?

or

Legendary Pink Dots

Email some scans and I will add them!

8)

haha .. watch out .. its the beginning of avalanche ...  :wink: