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Early Demos

Memories on a screen

Hédoniste is a bonus track from "Capsule 2013" compilation by Stellar Kinematics & Mamama
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Hédoniste

This May, Minimal Wave will take an old sound in a new direction entirely, giving Futurisk’s classic ‘Lonely Streets’ a modern shake-up through a remix package from current artists – to be released on MW’s sublabel reserved for new music and old favorites, Cititrax.

Futurisk, an electro-punk group made legendary by their anarchistic records and explosive live shows, mysteriously disappeared from a thriving scene in 1984. With an electric and dynamically layered sound (created with pre-midi instrumentation), the South Florida group left an indelible mark in the crates of disco and minimalist collectors dotted around corners of the world, including LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy (who gave a complimentary wink to Futurisk in 2003 by using ‘Push Me Pull You (Pt. 2)’ on the delightful Colette # 5 DFA Comp CD). Minimal Wave’s own history with Futurisk runs a few years back, starting first by including an unreleased 1982 version of the track ‘Meteoright’ on the label’s ‘Found Tapes’ vinyl LP in 2007. Subsequently, Minimal Wave released the retrospective full-length vinyl ‘Player Piano’ LP to celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary last year, culling material recorded between the years 1980 to 1982, with all of the tracks on their two 7-inch releases mixed in with rare studio recordings and early 4-track tapes.

The Futurisk ‘Lonely Streets Remixes’ includes remixes by four of the band’s biggest fans, each of whom have a sound as iconic as the band themselves: Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey), Tom Furse (The Horrors), Prince Language (DFA, Editions Disco) and Complexxion from the UK.

CITI004 A1 Futurisk-Lonely Streets (Prince Language's Fantasy Mix) Sample

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Velvet Glove

Watching Trees - bedroom demo (1985)

Corps brillants

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Miss Kittin & The Hacker are the Electro duo of Caroline Hervé and Michel Amato from Grenoble, France. The pair met during the early 90s at a rave and soon after bought turntables and began DJing. In 1996, their collaboration began, writing music heavily influenced by the 80s post punk bands Fad Gadget, DAF, Liaisons Dangeuresues, Yazoo as well as Italo Disco. Bored by the techno scene at the time, the pair set out to lighten the seriousness and add a camp sexiness. Upon hearing their demos DJ Hell signed them to his Munich-based International DJ Gigolo label and released their first 2 EPs in 1998 and 1999. Their debut album ”First Album" is released in 2001 and pioneers the electroclash movement of the early 2000’s. 

“Lost Tracks Vol. 1” contains 4 previously unreleased demos recorded between 1997 and 1999.  Distancing themselves from the hard techno produced in Europe at the time, the duo fused 80’s European New Wave/Italo Disco with 90’s Detroit Electro acts like Le Car and Dopplereffekt. Somewhat unorthodox, their sound has a song-like format, based on the verse-chorus pop schema of the 80s music they grew up listening to. Song arrangements are direct, spontaneous, seemingly unplanned, and mainly generated with some synths, a beat box and a microphone. Their studio set up at the time was a Korg MS-20, Roland SH-101, TR-606, TR-808, Siel DK80, and Boss DR-660 drum machine. Distinguished by Miss Kittin's French accented voice, full of derision, she sings about falling in love with an alien, sexy nightlife in Berlin and explicit S&M leather play.

All songs have been transferred from the original DAT tapes by the band and mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The vinyl comes housed in glossy jacket featuring a never seen before black and white photo of the duo taken in 1996. Each LP includes a postcard with liner notes from Miss Kittin and The Hacker designed by Eloise Leigh. As Miss Kittin says of these demos, “We were naive, innocent, adventurous and we didn’t expect anything in return”. 

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Leather Forever

Position Parallèle - Mon Juge Allassin

Track was released for Belgian "Daft Records" on compilation called "Deep".
Music and lyrics written by YusYus, produced in How Convinient studio, Zagreb.
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YusYus - Just A Dream

LINEAR MOVEMENT : the game

This week's On Rotation podcast features an intimate interview with legendary producer Giorgio Moroder, who reveals insight into his iconic track with Donna Summer titled 'I Feel Love' as well as his early beginnings in music.

Also found in the episode is a discussion between co-hosts Valerie and Harrison touching on various topics in the music industry, including the controversy regarding Inga Mauer and Flow Festival, Ricardo Villalobos' recent comments and dabbing in Saudi Aradia.

Stay locked for a collection of Mixmag's top premieres from the likes of Seth Troxler and Bas Ibellini, Mat.Joe and Sonny Fodera, Josh Butler remixing Carl Cox and a fresh cut from rising talent Chevals.

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On Rotation 020: Giorgio Moroder

This week's episode of On Rotation features a rare interview with Awesome Tapes From Africa, a label owner and DJ who has travelled throughout Africa to discover and highlight music of the nation that has previously only been available on cassette tapes. Here he shares his unique story.  

Later, co-hosts Harrison and Valerie discuss news of the week including album announcements from DJ Pierre and The Prodigy as well as the results from the very first Electronic Music Awards. Plus, you'll hear premieres from Artwork, DJ Stew, Marlon Hoffstadt and a collaboration from Pan-Pot and Michael Klien.

On Rotation 026: Awesome Tapes From Africa

We are proud to present two classic Minimal Wave tracks which have been on heavy rotation for years now, “Computer Bank” and “Like I Am, Comme Je Suis” remixed by The Floor (Veronica Vasicka & Karl O’Connor).

Five Times Of Dust was formed in Bristol, U.K. in 1981 by Mark Phillips and Rob Lawrence. Mark had answered an advert that Rob had placed in a local record shop and later that year they went on to record and release their first tape, The Dadacomputer. A standout track from that tape, “Computer Bank” is a seminal, “proto-techno banger”. The Floor remixed it a while ago to DJ it out and since then have been receiving many requests about where it could be purchased.
The flip side features Unovidual & Tara Cross’ “Like I Am Comme Je Suis”. It appeared on our first compilation entitled V/A The Lost Tapes LP, in 2006. Unovidual was a Belgian producer involved with the Micrart Group (Autumn, Linear Movement, Twilight Ritual) and Tara Cross, a “long lost girl from Brooklyn” who used to play in small NYC downlown clubs alongside Madonna during the early 1980s when she was still an unknown. Unovidual and Tara collaborated on several tracks through the mail during this time as well as in the studio. “Like I Am Comme Je Suis” was recorded in a studio in Ghent, Belgium in 1985.

We find both of these tracks prime examples of innovative and pioneering synth wave tracks that work on and off the dance floor. And through these mixes, The Floor aim to stay true to the artists’ original intentions whilst making the songs more dance floor oriented.

Featured alongside these remixes, are two unreleased tracks. Rob Lawrence’s “Armoured Car” which at one point was released on a compilation CD as Robert (not to be confused with Rob Doran from Hard Corps) and Unovidual’s “Imponative”, a beautiful minimal synth track which has remained unreleased to this day.

The Five Times of Dust / Unovidual & Tara Cross EP is pressed on standard weight royal blue clear vinyl and housed in a hand stamped disco sleeve. Limited to 600 numbered copies. Out now.

Computer Bank (The Floor Mix)

Five Times OF Dust - Computer Bank (The Floor Mix)

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The release represents a complete rethink about what it means to compile and commission music in the streaming era – and the tracks and seductively dark atmospheres conjured as a result are exploring all kinds of new sonic territory, too. In short, the cream of leftfield electronic talent have been given a brief: to take the phrase “in Death's dream kingdom”, or the whole of T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men from which it comes, as inspiration.

The resulting 25 tracks will be released, day by day, together with further artist information, to build into the full work. Not an album in the traditional sense, certainly more than just a playlist, it brings together a seriously diverse array of talents into a coherent whole with a vivid aesthetic reverberating through it. It occupies a similar space to the great home listening electronica acts of the 90s – Future Sound Of London, Global Communication, the Artificial Intelligence axis – but there are no throwbacks here: this is radical in sound and thought. Dark music for dark times.

"" ~ ASC

01 - Otto Lindholm - Cain
02 - Pan Daijing - The Island Within
03 - Lanark Artefax - Styx
04 - Petit Singe - Komm Wieder Mit
05 - Peder Mannerfelt - Post Sense Perspective
06 - Tomoko Sauvage - In Some Brighter Sphere
07 - Pye Corner Audio - Box In A Box
08 - Sophia Loizou - Shadows of Futurity
09 - Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness
10 - Pär Grindvik - Speaking Their Minds
11 - Koenraad Ecker - Rat's Coat
12 - Roly Porter - Without Form
13 - Hodge - Sunlight On A Broken Column 
14 - Gazelle Twin - The Dream Ends 
15 - Shapednoise - Ghostly Metafiction
16 - ASC - Tessellate
17 - Batu - Zoo Hypothesis
18 - We Will Fail - Carbon Trail
19 - Peter Van Hoesen - 98 Lines
20 - Spatial - Haunted Dance Hall
21 - Yves De Mey - Solemn But Fading
22 - Mindspan - Accept Things As They Are
23 - Kangding Ray - Glacier
24 - ZOV ZOV - Post Six
25 - Ian William Craig - An End Of Rooms

25 TRACK COMP

ASC - Tessellate (Clip)

*Appears on the "Smart Control" EP 12" by Die Blinden Records, release: 20th April 2019

Du Bist Meine

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The Minimal Wave label was founded by Veronica Vasicka in 2005 to create a network for synth wave enthusiasts and promote 80s electronic music via an online archive and vinyl releases. The label specializes in high-quality vinyl pressings of electronic artists from all over the world. Our sub-label Cititrax focuses on modern and experimental electronic dance music. Aside from limited edition vinyl releases, both labels' catalogs are available digitally as well.

CITI004 A1 Futurisk-Lonely Streets (Prince Language's Fantasy Mix) Sample

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