Tag: minimal-wave

Xeno & Oaklander - VIA NEGATIVA (in the doorway light)

Xeno & Oaklander – VIA NEGATIVA (in the doorway light)

The eighth and latest slate of refined retro-futuristic synth-pop by Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride aka Xeno & Oaklander is named after and inspired by “the study of what not to do, a negative image of a positive, the other side, the other:” Via Negativa (in the doorway light). Recorded in the fall of 2023 at their modernist Connecticut home… Read more →

Echoberyl - Through the Chaos

Echoberyl – Through the Chaos

Three years after Mother Solitude and Other Dark Tales, Echoberyl return with Through the Chaos – a full-length album that is a tribute to “parallel worlds”, to mystery literature (and a certain type of B-series movies and TV shows). A twilight zone populated with bewitching and evil, mysterious and troubled female characters. Through the Chaos is a journey into the… Read more →

Echoberyl - Fading Away (Special Edition)

Echoberyl – Fading Away (Special Edition)

Echoberyl has released a new single, inspired by the Sci-Fi TV show “The Twilight Zone”, Fading Away is about meeting someone you lost a long time ago. A song about dealing with absence and death. One night, a woman wanders alone in a city. She stops on a bridge, the border between life and death. A ghostly figure approaches, recognizing… Read more →

The Red Dots - Collapse EP

The Red Dots – Collapse 5-track EP

The Red Dots announce their new EP Collapse consisting of four original tracks plus a remixed version of the title-track that comes in at over 8 minutes. The Red Dots, the project of Leandro Gámez and Núria Estúñiga from Madrid, show in this new work after 5 years, their love for synthpop sounds as in “Nothing Stays” or the aspiring… Read more →

Plague Pits - Transnecropolitan

Plague Pits – Transnecropolitan

Transnecropolitan is now out by Plague Pits, an electronic / synthwave collective from Bern, Switzerland. The new 5-track album comes from the group that is inspired by the D.I.Y. electronic tape underground of yore. Plague Pits play disco dirges for the Anthropocene – cold wave for a heating planet. This band creates a sound inspired from an early 80s template… Read more →

The Red Dots - Collapse EP

The Red Dots – Collapse EP

Spanish dark-synthpop / electronic duo from Madrid The Red Dots have a new 2-track EP and music video for the elegant dance track “Collapse” that is now available via Bandcamp. The empire is coming down There’s no one left in town The lies have not worked If you stay here you’ll drown The new order will reign It wasn’t all… Read more →

Stridulum - Soothing Tales of Escapism

Stridulum – Soothing Tales of Escapism

Stridulum, the darkwave / electronic duo of Marita Volodina and Arkadiy Berg will soon have their first full-length album Soothing Tales of Escapism released by Manic Depression Records — the music project formed in 2019 in Upper Silesia, Southern Poland displays a dark and mysterious aesthetic that complements their minimal yet emotional music. The album Soothing Tales of Escapism is… Read more →

Xeno & Oaklander - Vi/deo

Xeno & Oaklander – Vi/deo

Minimal electonics synth duo from Brooklyn, NY Xeno & Oaklander are set to release their seventh full-length album Vi/deo October 22nd on CD/LP & Digital via Dais Records. The third single from the album “Afar” is an infectious French Disco song, mixed with minimal synth arrangements and bitter sweet French lyrics. Xeno & Oaklander team up with visual artist Egan… Read more →

Fluid Ghost - Homeclubbing

Fluid Ghost – Homeclubbing

Paris-based Mother Solitude Records has released Homeclubbing, a new mini-album—the first EP by Fluid Ghost, a dark-dance side project and new musical adventure from Italian producer and multi-instrumentalist Adriano Iacoangeli of the electronic/darkwave duo Echoberyl. Homeclubbing is now available via Bandcamp. Homeclubbing (Mini-Album) by Fluid Ghost Read more →

Pylon Records

L.A.’s Pylon Records Reissues Classics

Founded in 2005, Los Angeles-based Pylon Records offers classic alternative reissues in vinyl and CD for Nitzer Ebb, Red Flag, Xymox, Death In June, Iron Curtain, Ride, Stark, Visage, Abecedarians, and Peter Hook & The Light. Recent releases include celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Red Flag’s 1989 debut album Naïve Art in a limited edition double-vinyl LP that includes 4… Read more →