Dalek I was an English electro/art-pop combo from Liverpool that released two albums and a clutch of singles between 1979 and 1983. Originally called Dalek I Love You — a space-age play on the phrase “darling I love you” — the band distilled from a late-’70s Liverpudlian conglomerate that would also yield future members of […]
KaS Product was a French post-punk/minimal wave duo that released two 1980 EPs on self-press Punk Records, followed by the 1982/83 RCA albums Try Out and By Pass and their 1986 swan song Ego Eye. Members: Mona Soyoc (vocals, guitar, piano), Spatsz (electronics, electronic drums, synthesizer) Background KaS Product assembled in January 1980 in Nancy […]
Jacqui Brookes is an English vocalist who cut a 1980 single with the minimal-wave trio Shox, followed by three 1981 singles with Siam. In 1983, she formed Intro with Fingerprintz mastermind Jimme O’Neill, who co-wrote her 1984 solo album Sob Stories, a demure art-pop set on MCA. Shox Jacqui Brookes formed Shox in 1979 as […]
Starter was a Swiss minimal-wave synth trio from Bern that released a 1981 self-titled album on Repertoire Records. A change in lineup yielded three 1985–87 singles on Bariton Records and a final 12″ on Atina Records in 1989. Members: Francis Foss (keyboards, vocals), Claudine Chirac (saxophone, keyboards, 1981-84), Jet Harbour (keyboards, 1981-84), Pauchard (1985-89), Reto […]
Silvia Nemanic is a German minimal-wave singer who cut a 1982 album under her forename, written and produced by Der KFC synthesist Tommi Stumpff. Credits: Rainer Assmann (backing vocals), Ferdinand Mackenthun [aka Käpt’n Nuss] (guitar), Sylvia Nemanic [aka Silvia Senff] (vocals), Tommi Stumpff (guitar, producer, synthesizer, vocals) Background Stumpff (b. Thomas Peters; February 1, 1958) […]
Ensemble Pittoresque was a Dutch coldwave band that made the 1983 album For This Is Past on Clogsontronics, followed by the 1984 Vip release Frequenz. In 2007, their 1982 forty-minute demo surfaced on the U.S. specialty label Minimal Wave. Members: Richard Neumöller (vocals, guitar, tapes), Paulus Wieland (synthesizer, piano), Marion Prinz (vocals, synthesizer, 1983-84), Le […]
Jeff & Jane Hudson are an American husband/wife minimal wave duo from Boston that cut two 1979 singles as The Rentals on self-press Rent/Rental. Under their own names, they issued two 1981 shortplayers on Manhattan small-press Infidelity. One further single and the 1983 album Flesh appeared on eponymous-press J & J Records. Members: Jane Hudson […]
Mekanik Kommando was a Dutch minimal wave band that released six albums between 1981 and 1988, starting with the Torso Records title It Would Be Quiet in the Woods If Only a Few Birds Sing. Members: Peter van Vliet (bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals), Simon van Vliet (drum machine, sampler, synthesizer, violin), Laszlo Panyigay (bass, vocals, […]
Iko was a Québécois coldwave trio that released the album ’83 on Manhattan-Formula in 1982. Members: Dax (synthesizer, vocals), U-Gen (synthesizer, vocals), Zao (rhythm programming, bass, vocals) Background Iko formed in Montreal by 1982 from the four-piece Androids, a 1981 stage group with Daniel “Dax” Laberge, Eugène “U-Gen” Delage, Jean “Zao” Décarie, and a fourth […]
