Minimal Wave: The Romance Of The Future
Minimal Wave
The romance of the future, replaced by the romance of the past
Minimal wave is a genre that is used to describe electronic and minimal forms of New Wave, Coldwave, Synthpop and Post-punk. It is a new phenomenon as the word minimal wave was not used until only 10 years ago, when a woman named Veronika Wasika founded the label Minimal Wave. Minimal wave was mostly made in the 1980s when synthesizers and drum-machines became accessible to the general public. The tracks recorded are usually in lower quality because it was mostly recorded and self released on cassettes in someone's garage, bedroom or living room, but it gives the sounds a special feeling as you can hear the tape rolling with the tracks. The underground factor …show more content…
The artists, nowadays, look back at minimal wave artists from the 1980s, that looked ahead into the future. Will we ever be able to be influenced by the future again, or has the past, which is constantly in our face; on our computers, phones and etc., completely taken over?
In minimal wave the drums are mostly snappy and basicly sequenced into easy patterns with less lower frequencies than drums usually obtain in other genres. Minimal wave artists tend to use a lot of high-frequency hihats that drive the tracks ahead and reverbed claps or snares to increase the will of listeners, who often tend to adhere to a goth- or punk scene, to reluctantly dance and mumble the thin, fragile synth melodies. Most of the bass synthesizer sounds are sequenced into very basic …show more content…
In the early 21st century, new artists begun to seek influences through the internet and social media and were finally able to dig up the hidden treasures from the 1980s that never made it to the radio or to the mainstream record shops. Because of this element it became a forgotten treasure for 20 years before Veronika founded the label and released those forgotten treasures, usually on vinyl format, and built up this beautiful scene again. Now we have new artists like Lebanon Hanover, Doric, Selofan, Martial Cantarel and more that have rejuvenated the genre and more labels have stepped up and released minimal wave records, not only Minimal Wave records but also labels like Fabrika Records, Anna logue records and Dark
The romance of the future, replaced by the romance of the past
Minimal wave is a genre that is used to describe electronic and minimal forms of New Wave, Coldwave, Synthpop and Post-punk. It is a new phenomenon as the word minimal wave was not used until only 10 years ago, when a woman named Veronika Wasika founded the label Minimal Wave. Minimal wave was mostly made in the 1980s when synthesizers and drum-machines became accessible to the general public. The tracks recorded are usually in lower quality because it was mostly recorded and self released on cassettes in someone's garage, bedroom or living room, but it gives the sounds a special feeling as you can hear the tape rolling with the tracks. The underground factor …show more content…
The artists, nowadays, look back at minimal wave artists from the 1980s, that looked ahead into the future. Will we ever be able to be influenced by the future again, or has the past, which is constantly in our face; on our computers, phones and etc., completely taken over?
In minimal wave the drums are mostly snappy and basicly sequenced into easy patterns with less lower frequencies than drums usually obtain in other genres. Minimal wave artists tend to use a lot of high-frequency hihats that drive the tracks ahead and reverbed claps or snares to increase the will of listeners, who often tend to adhere to a goth- or punk scene, to reluctantly dance and mumble the thin, fragile synth melodies. Most of the bass synthesizer sounds are sequenced into very basic …show more content…
In the early 21st century, new artists begun to seek influences through the internet and social media and were finally able to dig up the hidden treasures from the 1980s that never made it to the radio or to the mainstream record shops. Because of this element it became a forgotten treasure for 20 years before Veronika founded the label and released those forgotten treasures, usually on vinyl format, and built up this beautiful scene again. Now we have new artists like Lebanon Hanover, Doric, Selofan, Martial Cantarel and more that have rejuvenated the genre and more labels have stepped up and released minimal wave records, not only Minimal Wave records but also labels like Fabrika Records, Anna logue records and Dark