Minimal Wave / Minimal Synth

Band: In Trance 95

Original demo version

In Trance 95 - Desire To Desire ( demo - Greece - 1988 )

Soma Holiday - Shake Your Molecules

Xeno & Oaklander "Par Avion" out June 24, 2014.

Purchase in The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/xeno-oaklander-par-avion

Xeno & Oaklander - Sheen

Pre order your copy: bit.ly/1v9GKkV

Official release date 11/11/2014

Void Vision is a Philadelphia-based electronic project helmed by Shari Vari. It began around 2009 at a time when a wave of synth-revivalists were materializing, but the quality of the songwriting and intense vocals set the band apart from the pack. In a rare instance, Void Vision has managed to combine vintage dance elements with melodic structures, haunting melancholy, and lyrics that have a palpable soul. The songs themselves are dynamic, referencing a cross-section of the last 30 years of electronic music, while simultaneously retaining a uniqueness all their own.

Wierd Records weekly club night in New York, which showcased a variety of talented electronic and coldwave artists, served as an incubator for Void Vision in it’s early stages. After a standout debut performance at the club, they immediately caught the attention of Blind Prophet Records, who consequently released their first 7″ single, ‘In 20 Years’, which received excellent reviews.

Vari has continued performing and recording steadily over the last few years, releasing songs on compilations for various labels, including Rough Trade, and in 2012 the song ‘Everything is Fine’ was selected for Artforum magazine’s ‘Best of 2012′ issue. In 2013, Void Vision toured the West Coast and later that year released a split 12″ with Portland-based band, Vice Device. The first official full-length album, entitled ‘Sub Rosa’ is set to debut on Berlin-based Mannequin Records, followed by a European tour in 2015.

Shari Vari formed Void Vision in 2009 originally as a duo, during the explosion of the new minimal synth and cold wave scene in United States. Sharing the same scene of the Wierd Records associates like Led Er Est, Martial Canterel, Xeno & Oaklander, Automelodi, in 2010 VV released ‘In Twenty Years’ on Blind Prophet (Sean Ragon’s Cult Of Youth record label), receiving also the attention of the Rough Trade dudes, who asked to put out a track for one of their synth wave compilations.
After other split vinyls, tapes and compilations, Mannequin approached Shari with the intention to continue what Wierd Records started, giving a proper shape to her beautiful and youthful dark electronic sound. The result is 10 hypnotic cold analog tracks dominated by the warm and fragile Shari’s voice, some more “pop orientated” some others belonging to the original “cold wave” atmosphere.

“Sub Rosa” is an edition of 400 copies on 160 gram black vinyl and 100 copies on 160 gram white vinyl.

Limited silskcreen hand numbered art edition for the first 50 copies, 160 gram white vinyl.

Void Vision - Everything Is Fine

Void Vision - Sour

Crash Course In Science performs a Key Studio Session at WXPN in Philadelphia on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012.

The Key Studio Sessions July 25, 2012

"Flying Turns" by Crash Course In Science recorded live at WXPN

OUT 4/14/15 - Grab "Un Autre Voyage" on LP / CS at our STORE at:
http://holodeckrecords.com/store/

Please call 1-855-SWT-BOIZ (798-2649) for Marie Davidson customer service.

From the prolific cultural epicenter of Montréal, Marie has emerged as one of the foremost electronic artists in contemporary underground pop today. As a long-time member of Les Momies de Palerme, Hotel Monochrome, DKMD, and Essaie Pas, Marie has continued to hone her many talents in Montréal’s fervent experimental communities for much of her adult life. Davidson’s intimate solo work is embodied through a host of synthesizers and drum machines that coalesce in synchronized harmony, punctuated by Marie’s hypnotic vocal delivery, sung and spoken in both French and English. Her third album Un Autre Voyage demonstrates her heightened compositional skill behind a sequencer as well as her singular ability to anesthetize the senses through the documentation of her own serial pattern of experiential growth. 

Buy LP / CS

Marie Davidson -  Un Autre Voyage (HD033) 02. Excès De Vitesse

Daily Fauli - Speed (Alessandro Adriani Edit)

Linear Movement - Way Out Of Living

Black Light Smoke Remix of Eleven Pond's "Watching Trees"

Watching Trees Black Light Smoke Remix

Radiance (Oppenheimer Analysis cover)

It's not the original version, this one is slightly faster (1.09).

Das Ding - Reassurance Ritual

HARD CORPS || DIRTY

Diseño Corbusier - Golpe De Amistad

Retrouvez les titres diffusés dans la salle d'écoute de l'exposition Lyon capitale du rock 1978-1983 (15 mai-21 septembre 2019)

Deux - Felicita

Minimal Wave proudly presents a full length double album entitled “Further Strategies” by synthpop band Turquoise Days. Hailing from Jersey, Channel Islands, Turquoise Days was formed in 1981 by Luciano Brambilla and David Le Breton shortly after meeting at a nightclub in St Ouens called Waves. They used Roland synthesizers and drum machines, as well Yamaha synthesizers and Fender guitars along with tape effects and vocals. Throughout the 1980s, they self-released many cassettes, as well as the renowned masterpiece Grey Skies / Blurred 7” single. They were selected for the Radio Luxembourg song contest in 1985 and received press for their releases and appearance there. Their music can be described as melodic, emotive new wave. The music featured here includes the songs from the long sold out Alternative Strategies release from 2009, remastered, along with a a collection of previously unreleased material. The release is limited to 999 hand-numbered copies. The records are pressed on 160 gram white vinyl and come in a matte heavyweight gatefold jacket designed by Phil Yamada, featuring unpublished photographs of the the band inside the gatefold. Further Strategies will be available for pre-order soon, with a release date in early November.
https://minimalwave.com/articles/article/turquoise-days-further-strategies-2lp

Further Strategies

Turquoise Days - Grey Skies

These are all the Screw Wave remixes I've done for the tracks on the New Waves and Minimal Electronics compilation.

Mixtape with some bonus material coming soon. Feedback always appreciated.

Linear Movement-Night in June 01

Oppenheimer Analysis - The Devil's Dancers

While remaining predominantly unknown except amongst die-hard collectors, Portray Heads has proven to be one of the best kept secrets of the Japanese electronic underground. Tohru Tomita (冨田徹) formed Portray Heads in 1984 in Matsuyama City, the capital of Shikoku Island, with fellow band members Ayumi Tokunaga (徳永あゆみ) and Mikiharu Doi (土居幹治), just after dissolving his solo bedroom project Onanie Bazooka. The trio entered the studio in August that same year and recorded several songs. Two songs from the recorded sessions were released as the band's debut 7" single, a flexi entitled Elaborate Dummy — a lost classic — on Kobe's now defunct Kageroh Records.

Soon after the Elaborate Dummy release, Ayumi, the band's vocalist, departed and Portray Heads worked on recruiting a replacement. They tried several vocalists until, finally, they found Yumi Ochi (越智由美) - who was a perfect fit. She joined the band and the trio went back into the studio between February and April 1986 and recorded Oratorio, their second and final release. They self-released it on cassette in October and as a 7" in December that same year.

As the band was based in a conservative and isolated city, Portray Heads rarely had the opportunity to perform live and eventually disbanded with their two releases quietly becoming collector's items. Upon making contact, band leader Tohru Tomita revealed to us two unheard demo recordings, one from each vocalist featured on their records. These recordings are not merely disposable studio experiments, but actually rival or surpass in quality the group’s released music. With this double LP, Minimal Wave Records and Bitter Lake Recordings present to you the recorded discography of one of the most overlooked and underrated minimal synth projects coming out of Japan in the 1980s.

https://minimalwave.com/releases/release/portray-heads/

https://portrayheads.bandcamp.com/album/portray-heads

Portray Heads

Portray Heads - Elaborate Dummy

Ausgang Verboten
https://www.discogs.com/artist/169617-Ausgang-Verboten

Minimal Wave / Minimal Synth

Filimonas Triantafyllou