Bleak times call for bleak tunes. I’ve been promising some minimal wave for a while, so I’ll turn this over to an acquaintance of mine who loves to post these lovely mixes — sometimes on Soundcloud, and at other times on Mixcloud (as is the case here):
Another Cold World January 2017 (Mix 3)
List of artists/tracks in this mix:
Enzo Kreft – Posthuman Dream
My Mystical Creature – The Curse
Black Spider Clan – Keiner Kommt Hier Lebend Raus
Vanessa Saturn – Kleines Madchen
Dominik Nicolas – Underground ( Adan & Ilse Remix )
Pelotone – Fear
Xarah Dion – Derive
Various Reasons – Stilts
Pelotone – Memories
Adam Berces – Death Automatic
Adam Berces – De Vagyunk Programozva II
Deathcvlt – Mask
Black Spider Clan – Far Behind
Octuvre – Ataque Nuclear
VDM – The Rope
Dionigi – Descend To Level One
There are facets of this era that remind me of the early 1980s, and some of the technopop of the time really spoke to me (there was a time when I could not get enough Soft Cell). Contemporary minimal wave is not merely a homage to that early era, but rather an update and refinement of the style, adapted to our own times and without the technological limitations of the old analog synthesizers. Enjoy.
