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Last Active 08-07-22 1:24 am
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08.31.21 fuck the fucking drugs07.28.21 remember the dexter's lab rap album
05.01.21 Minimal Wave May - Reviews and Recs04.18.21 my vocal inspirations for my vocal jour
04.17.21 why hanobody said anything abt the dr k03.02.21 petra's official to-do review list
02.27.21 game grumps/nsp memories01.30.21 cybersleaze and industrial (+ebm) as a
01.11.21 charles barkley / space jam appreciatio10.22.20 pls check these postpunk electronic bas
10.11.17 All-time Favorite Albums ((OUTDATED))

pls check these postpunk electronic bastards out

nobody knows these got damn experimental electronic bastards check them out and then interact and tell me how cool they were bc i want to meet more shitheads that like electronic ass garbage like this. i guess this is also aka a minimal wave crash course
1Richenel
La Diferencia

christ, what do i even call this. it's like discofunk hell music. there's something so strangely and acutely dark about this album I can't place. almost like dm's violator, it's slick, perverse, vaguely perverted and it revels in it. but unlike violator, it's much much more stripped down
2Autumn (NLD)
Synthesize

I still dont think this is the right band listing lmao. but it's fine.
this is some really fucking abstract dadaist cubist ass minimal coldwave postpunk
3Saada Bonaire
Saâda Bonaire

ill just paste my soundoff
"It's a compilation album, but it all sort of falls under a central theme of sapphic lust and freedom in female sexuality. Good stuff."
4Martin Dupont
Just Because

abstract, flowy, dreamlike.... also has some extremely innovative stuff going on sonically, with "take a look" having a lot of similarities with trap music despite being made in fucking 1984. real amazing stuff. just like its beautifully painted album cover, this album lets us in on a painting with its electronic brush strokes and all
5Oppenheimer Analysis
New Mexico

one of my favorite albums of all time but it does feel like it should come a bit later on this list. it's less outright accessible (andie's vocals are so high pitched and whiny) and the synth-hooks are trying outright way more to impress. it's a little out-there and spacey, but it's also insanely immersive. coldness, melancholy.... martyr and devils dancers are absolutely brilliant
6Notchnoi Prospekt
Democracy and Discipline

it's russian but i think i've seen native english speakers enjoy kino, for instance. so if you don't mind the totally foreign language, it's some good dark, dark coldwave/postpunk music. i think in my (now kinda outdated) favorite albums list i talked about how this is the kind of album you put on at 4am and let seep into your soul. yeah, id say its like that
7Linear Movement
On the Screen

this is one of the most flawed of the bunch. it's really trite and cliche but it's also extremely well done minimal wave. kind of like abc's lexicon of love it plays on a lot of that very typical 80s romance, but it's much more adolescent. feels like an early teen's first love but in like, electronic form
8John Maus
Songs

this man makes some fuck let me tell ya
he sounds like he's singing from like 8 rooms away and the synths sound like theyve been covered in 18 year old basement dust but that also makes it like the best thing ever
9Rational Youth
Cold War Night Life

how the fuck this isn't regarded as one of the best synthpop albums from the 80s is beyond me. absolutely amazing musical work. some of the best melodies and usages of synths ive ever heard, really. feels like a fucking icefest, like a fucking cold sodapop on a hot ass day (the hot ass day is "Saturdays in Silesia")
10Solid Space
Space Museum

gotta get this fucker in here. so it was recently uncovered from being like completely unknown since 1982 and it's actually pretty great! some amazing weird banal absurdist whimsy-esque electronic bops. the cover is from a screencap from an old dr who episode and that fits the album perfect. i always think of the game space funeral when i listen to it
11Tones on Tail
Everything!

very hinging on almost being a straight up goth album but not quite. mostly just extremely gothic and extremely post punk. listening to it is the quintessential experience of being in seedy, dimly-lit goth club in the 80s. nothing's ever given me that vibe more, and i love it for this
12Plastics
Welcome Plastics

also recommending Origato Plastico for the track "Good"
fun! kind of like devo if they were minimal wave. trying to remember why this struck such a nice chord for me. just really nice escapist music, I guess! like you're whisked off to this bubbly and buoyant and colorful realm where a guitar strum can bounce u up and the quirky vocals get u back down
13Tuxedomoon
Desire

I want to say I'm long overdue for a review on this but the one up right now does a very good job. One of the deeply-affecting and heart-wrenching records I've ever heard. So much honesty and desperation -- an extremely personal record by Tuxedomoon (which deserve SO much more love, its insane) in which they ask God and the world what their place is on Earth. a deeply spiritual album but in a subtle way -- it fully uses the music to explore and process its own traumas. Wow, yeah. a masterpiece. why didnt i put it higher on this list, wtf
14Yellow Magic Orchestra
Solid State Survivor

everyone knows these funky dudes. everyone likes rydeen and behind the mask but what about INSOMNIA? one of the most insane and provocative electronic ballads I've ever heard. post-punk and dark to its fucking core, there's nothing else like it
15Suicide
Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev

I've already said there will never be music like this again. The grittiness of urban decay on flawless display -- the filth and scum of life have never sounded so bonafide until they arrived here on this record. Oh shit you know what? This would go great with Bakshi films. "Heavy Traffic" set to this would be insanely good. AMV in 2021? Yeah maybe if i actually have time
16Turquoise Days
Grey Skies 7"

technically outside of this list since its a song but i would like to end on a somewhat lighter note: this is a very happy sounding tune with very unhappy lyrics. it's very innocent. it feels very sonically dadaist. reminds me of DM's "Broken Frame". anyway, this song defines minimal wave for me. there's this coldness and isolation to it that nobody understands, and its so quiet, and masked in apathetic contentment.... it's like a faint hum, just waiting for somebody to come along and give it a blanket and a hot chocolate. that's what minimal wave means to me. i can relate.
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