Minimal Wave (2025)

08/07/2025

Join me for the 55th show on today, Tuesday, July 8th from 12-2 PT, 3-5 ET, 19-21 GMT. Featuring many gems…

Clara Mondshine - Die Drachentrommler
Grauzone - Film 2
Zwischenfall - Sandy Eyes
Persons Unknown - Addiction
Beak> - Wulfstan
Autumn - Aparell I Ma
Die Dominas - Die Wespendomina
Variètè - Good-Night Age
Instant Music - Do Not
Vicious Pink - Promises
Ian North - S*x, Lust, You
Dark Day - Laughing Up Your Sleeve
Trek with Quintronic - Crusher
Jim Whiting - I Fall Around
Cardboards - On the R to TZ
Aunt Sally - Sameta Kajiba De
Sympathy Nervous - Anatawa Suguni
Ende Shneafliet - Corps Diplomatique
Red Zebra - Graveyard Shuffle
Furniture - Why Are We In Love
Ohama and Dania - Gaslit Squares (demo)
Aural Indifference - Park
Louise Freeman - Mirage
Sisters of Mercy - Emma
Linear Movement - Inside Outside
Fall of Saigon - At the Beach at Fontana

12/06/2025

Rest in Peace absolute legend 🖤

10/06/2025

The 54th Minimal Wave show will be streaming on today from 12-2 PM PT, 3-5 PM ET, 19-21 GMT. Featuring tracks from .trance.95, , , , , , , ++

Cabaret Voltaire – Just Fascination
In Trance 95 – Le Poète Maudit
Eurythmics – Monkey Monkey
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express (Demo)
Paranoid London – Start To Fade
Vam Cyborg – Actos de Maldad
Ministry – I Wanted To Tell Her
Ruins – Fire
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Hard Boiled Babe
Weekend – Vergessen
Nine Circles – Twinkling Stars
Alphaville – A Victory Of Love (Demo Remix)
Guyer’s Connection – Dallas
Su***de – Dream Baby Dream (2022 Remaster)
Bill Nelson – When Your Dream of Perfect Beauty Comes True
Severed Heads – Lamborghini (Petrol)
No More – Hypnotized
Sandra Electronics – It Slipped Her Mind (Demo)
Pas De Deux – Cardiocleptomanie
A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray
Pigface – Suck
Deo Toy – Love Me Or Leave Me
Q. Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses
Ruth – She Brings the Rain
Throbbing Gristle – Still Walking
Vex Ruffin – Ano Bang Gusto Mo

23/05/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate 20 Years of at on May 17th. Your energy, presence, and love made it a night we’ll never forget 🖤

Endless gratitude to the artists who brought their magic:trance.95 (making history with their first-ever US live set), (delivering a powerful live performance despite equipment issues!), and and DJing in the main room — with (Layne) and Liz Wendelbo (of ) keeping the rare synth gems spinning in the Bad Room all night long.

Huge thanks as well to for the stunning visual documentation and for capturing it all on video.

29/04/2025

Minimal Wave is proud to announce the forthcoming release from legendary Greek electronic pioneers In Trance 95 . This special EP features six vintage tracks recorded between the late 80s and early 90s at Airdawn Studio in Athens. A vital piece of the Greek electronic music story, these songs showcase In Trance 95’s visionary approach to analog synth and early EBM sounds.

Formed in Athens in 1988 by Alex Machairas and Nik Veliotis, In Trance 95 quickly became known for their stark, minimal synth sound, distinguished by hypnotic melodies, analog textures, and a futuristic edge. At a time when electronic music was still emerging in Greece, they were true innovators, blending the raw spirit of early EBM with a distinctly Mediterranean sense of space and atmosphere. Over the decades, their work has earned cult status among fans of underground electronic music worldwide.

Carefully pressed at 45rpm for optimal sound quality, the EP is designed to move dance floors and offer a rich listening experience at home. It comes on heavyweight 180-gram black vinyl, limited to 543 hand-numbered copies in a matte reverse board sleeve.

Pre-orders start tomorrow, April 30th—secure your copy in time for In Trance 95’s first-ever U.S. performance at Minimal Wave’s 20th Anniversary event at Good Room in New York City on May 17th, and have your record signed by the duo.

Official release date: May 27, 2025. Pre-order:

https://minimalwave.com/releases/release/the-move/

https://mw-intrance95.bandcamp.com/album/the-move

15/04/2025

Minimal Wave celebrates its 20th anniversary on May 17th at in Brooklyn. Founded in 2005, the label has spent two decades unearthing and releasing over 80 albums of under-recognized electronic music from the 1970s–1990s. This event marks the first in a series of parties honoring that legacy.

For this special occasion, the legendary Greek duo .trance.95 will perform their first-ever live set in the U.S., celebrating the release of their The Move EP, out May 27th on Minimal Wave. Advance copies will be available at the event. Also performing live is , the Berlin-based Cititrax artist known for his analog-driven, earth-shaking sets, pulling from his fierce trilogy of Cititrax EPs: Kino-i, Gutz, and Rabble.

Minimal Wave founder will open the night with a vinyl DJ set showcasing early Minimal Wave releases, tracing the label’s origins and influences. She’ll then go b2b with the brilliant , digging deep into obscure cuts and dancefloor gems from both the Minimal Wave and Cititrax catalogs, along with other hidden treasures.

In the Bad Room, we’re thrilled to have Liz Wendelbo (of ) and Layne () DJing all night long—expect dancey coldwave, synth-pop, industrial, and more.

Come join us in celebrating 20 years of timeless electronics. Dance with us!

https://ra.co/events/2143091

18/02/2025

Join me for the 50th show on today, Tuesday, February 18th from 12-2 PT, 3-5 ET, 20-22 GMT. Playing a debut cover by ABF (), a debut demo from .trance.95, , , , , , , ++
📷:

Anne Clark - Swimming
Silent Servant- Invocation of Lust
Satellite & Atom Cristal - Boulevard Circulaire
Another Body Found - Scooterboys from the Pool
In Trance 95 - The Move (demo)
Human League- You Remind Me of Gold 12”
Jeff and Jane Hudson - Los Alamos
Conrad & Sohn - Hate
Richard Bone - Mambopolis
Arthur Harrison and Rupert Chappelle - Real World
Joachim Witt - Ich Fahr Nach Afrika
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling
Operating Theatre - Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth
New Order - Hurt (live on December 13, 1985, at Salle du Baron in Orléans, France)
OS OVNI - A Lil in the Moon
Moral - Frosty Nights
Kym Amps - You Don’t Know My Name
Deux - Decadence
Ruins - S*xual Desire
Blomma - Brasmatten
In Aeternam Vale - Strawberry Flower
Makers of the Dead Travel Fast - The Dumbwaiters
Janitor’s Animated - Track 8 demo
Peter Baumann - Bicentennial Presentation
Art Fact - Rain In the South
Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique

11/02/2025

Cititrax is proud to present Scooterboys from the Pool, the debut LP from Another Body Found, the latest project from A//, best known for his pioneering work as Le Syndicat Électronique. Emerging from the depths of the French underground, ABF fuses dark electro, industrial, minimal synth, and wave into a sound that is both stark and visceral. With a focus on raw energy and haunting atmospheres, the project strips electronic music down to its essence—mechanical, hypnotic, and unrelentingly evocative.

Blending commanding rhythms with melancholic undertones, Scooterboys from the Pool is a descent into shadowy textures and dystopian landscapes, where driving basslines meet icy, mechanical beats in a pulsing haze of underground spirit.

At the heart of the album is the title track, Scooterboys from the Pool—a haunting rework of Bronski Beat’s iconic Smalltown Boy. Reimagined through ABF’s signature lens, this version strips the original to its essence, replacing its shimmering synths with something colder, heavier, and more urgent while preserving the emotional weight of its narrative. This track has been played at numerous DJ sets, and each time, it cuts through the room like a ghost from the past—achingly familiar yet transformed, stirring something deeply personal with its raw intensity.

This release is pressed on 160-gram black-in-milky-clear vinyl, housed in a 350gsm sleeve, and strictly limited to 500 copies.

A massive thank you to Heathen Electronics and X.S.S. Recordings for making this release possible.

https://minimalwave.com/releases/release/scooterboys-from-the-pool/

https://ct-anotherbodyfound.bandcamp.com/track/scooterboys-from-the-pool

Release date: April 23rd, 2025.

29/10/2024

Join me today, Tuesday, October 29th for the 47th episode of Minimal Wave on NTS Radio. Tune in from 12-2 PM PT, 3-5 PM ET, or 21-23 GMT. Featuring forthcoming In Trance 95, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Klaus Schulze, Cabaret Voltaire, 52nd Street, Coil and Blancmange ++ Link in bio.
Video still:

Delia Derbyshire - Antarctic White-Out
In Trance 95 - Love Among the Mannequins
Bal Paré - Tokio-Oklahoma
Marc Dixon - Cocktails
Dendo Marionette - Celebration of Night
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Firecracker Special DJ copy 1978
Klaus Schulze - Tango Saty
White House White - Ouverture
Steve Summers - Nethermead Arches
Art of Noise - Moments in Love (7” version)
Ofra Haza - Im Nin’Alu (Played in Full mix)
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria (Razormaid Mix)
This Fish Needs a Bike - The Drone
Gudrun - Slaget
Zoom Lens - Waxworks
Unovidual - Dit is Pas Het Begin
Oskarova Fobija - Kucna Muva (1984 demo)
Schmaalhans Weltraum - Montagne Du Boeuf
Blue Mathue - In Our Dream
52nd Street - Cool As Ice
Annette - Nightmare On Dream Street
Coil - Windowpane (Razoramaid Remix)
Blancmange - The Game Above My Head
Soundforce - American Lover

01/10/2024

OP-ART's debut LP, The Final Act, is out today on Cititrax. The project is a collaboration between Andrew Clinco (Drab Majesty) and Tyler Green. You can order the limited edition yellow-in-clear 12” vinyl on Bandcamp or through the Minimal Wave website.

According to Andrew, the album “serves as a sonic counterpart to the 1960s visual Op-art movement,” blending dense, psychedelic layers with minimalist traditions and conceptual depth. The sound is heavily influenced by New Wave, with inspiration from artists like John Foxx, Martin Dupont (with whom Andrew has collaborated), Experimental Products, and early OMD.

The album was recorded between 2020-2022 in Pasadena, California. All tracks were written by Andrew Clinco and co-produced by Tyler Green, with mixing by Matia Simovich at Infinite Power Studios in Van Nuys, California. Tape mastering was handled by Ico Spacia. Brigitte Balian and Alain Seghir contributed vocals and lyrics to "11 Stars," while Brandon Buckhardt provided additional background vocals on “Lemon in the Limelight.” The design was crafted by Veronica Vasicka.

https://op-art.bandcamp.com/album/the-final-act
https://minimalwave.com/releases/release/the-final-act/

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