I never quite got round to picking up the the first volume of this compilation, which I believe is supposed to document the minimal synth scene in NY. Is there a particular Minimal Wave club night or something? I could google it, blah blah.
http://www.wierdrecords.com/newreleases/
― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:40 (seventeen years ago)
Anyway, several places (WFMU, Scott Soriano, teh internets, etc) reckoned that the first one (still available, I think) was excellent, but it was virtually all unknowns to me. Hence the hesitancy. Now there's this new one out, and suddenly it's all Aaron Dilloway and Hive Mind and Charlie Draheim etc, which makes sense, really, given the direction that all those dudes have taken.
― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)
Anyway, I've got some older minimal synth/cold-wave etc what-have-you, but I haven't really plunged into the newer minimal synth scene. I checked out that Kernkrach Doppelhertz sampler, which I guess represents the Euro contingent, but that was kinda hit and miss for me. I was hoping more for the primitive twitchy/loner side, but much of it strayed into a dancier electro kinda feel than I was looking for. Anyway, point being, I was worried this might follow suit.
― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)
Anyway... Anyway... yadda yadda.
― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)
Weird night, wednesdays at Home Sweet Home on the Lower East Side. I think it was somewhere else for a while before that. Been going for around 3 years, though I've never been. I know some of the people involved. Veronica, who runs the Minimal Wave website and record label is a regular.
I'm a fan of some of those old records, and some of the people working in that vein now are pretty good, but for the most part a lot of it leaves me "cold" (pun intended.)
This wed my friends the Mazing Vids are playing, and they def. represent a more lo-fi punky early Cabs side of things, rather then the low-budget dark Visage side of things.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)
2nd comp is better, and a lot more diverse, than the first one. coldwave night at home sweet home is really... weird. too goth for me.
― ian, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)
I have the first one. Actually someone at work has it and we play it all the time. Some of the songs are genuinely good some are hilariously bad. especially western ego. great photos of the dudes that made the stuff too
― filthy dylan, Thursday, 26 June 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)
All these discs are now available on eMusic. Worth downloading? (n.1)
___________________________ (n.1) Interestingly, these are really under-the-radar discs. Aside from a Dusted Review of Vol. II this morning, and a few blog-like reviews, I've seen virtually nothing about these discs online. Somehow that increases the allure for me, a little bit.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 14 July 2008 12:29 (seventeen years ago)
This label is amazing, kind of 4AD ish with the amazing artwork and tasty band names. Easy on the ears without sounding indulgent.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Colored on TV! (Mount Cleaners), Sunday, 18 March 2012 13:44 (fourteen years ago)