The year is 1981. The Kiel-based PostPunk / Wave underground outfit NO MORE releases their second ever single Suicide Commando and their world changes forever. Well, not only their world THE world. What began as an independently published 7 single became a cult classic, a genre defining and defying song,...

Two minimal synth-pop pearls first released on the compilation Walkin After Midnight in 1982. They're in the same vein as early 80 s singles by Carol " Breakdown " and Rive Gauche " Friends Are Friends ". Both tracks on the 7 are a delightful proof of the lively and creative music scene in Brussels during...

Oppenheimer Mk II is Andy Oppenheimer and Mahk Rumbae . Andy Oppenheimer Singer, songwriter and formerly one-half of 1980's synth-pop duo Oppenheimer Analysis , one of the leading bands of the minimal synth scene, and inspiration behind the Minimal Wave label. Mahk Rumbae Electronic musician and producer...

Noisy and cavernous post-punk, drawing on the likes of Rudimentary Peni, Amebix, Rikk Agnew's guitar work in Christian Death, and Killing Joke. It's dark and distorted, gothy but aggressive, and the opening salvo in a slew of music we hope to be hearing from these folks.

Coco Gallo and Stéphane Argillet are the French duo Peine Perdue, a project dedicated to minimal synth music, where the French touch and cold patterns have a fertile common ground: a mesmerizing atmosphere in which delicate sounds and very minimal , old school obsessive rhythms are totally embraced by...

The Second of these last PY 45s sees a lovely 5 track 7 EP from Irish minimal synth musician ph Pete Hamilton , with 5 tracks from his finally acclaimed rich body of work in electronic music. From Dublin, Ireland, in 1982, ph emerged from the demise of the peridots lower case p that previously had arisen...

POEME ELECTRONIQUE oh didnt we all dream of finding their only original 80's vinyl release, The Echoes Fade / VOICE 7 single (Carrere Records, 1982) some day? Well, most of us didnt and probably wont, and finding the members was equally hard, but thanks to J. Langes investigative nature (hey, youre great!),...

Montréal synth pop Police des moeurs are one of the finest and rawest bands in the minimal synth/wave and cold wave scene. 'Dédales', their third full lenght, is keeping the pure energy of their previous efforts while leaving greater room for atmospheric and textural considerations. The album will lead...

Pure Ground is a minimal industrial/wave duo formed in Los Angeles in the Spring of 2012. Making use of a great assortment of analog and digital hardware, Pure Ground creates hard electronics teaming with rhythmic white noise and unsettling melody as the backdrop over which the group explores lyrical...

"Here is the debut release by Italian duo R A D K O their music is a blending of post/cold wave and shoegaze elements both the songs and the production have a typical nostalgic feeling but are rather modern at the same time instead of being overtly dark the sound and overall mood is much more melancholy...

The classic French cold wave tune revised with Italian artist Mushy on vocals and extended for the dancefloor. B-side comes with two more tracks of the Französich-Italienische-Freundschaft. Limited edition of 600 copies on white vinyl. Comes with download code, 2014 release. Polaroïd/Roman/Photo/Remix...

SDH (Semiotics Department of Heteronyms) is the new project of two key figures of the synth-wave/industrial scene of Barcelona. Andrea P. Latorre and Sergi Algiz, founders of the Cønjuntø Vacíø label and also in the post-punk band Wind Atlas, unveil a new act more oriented towards pop music. SDH is change,...