Minimal electro

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Minimal Electro (minimal electronics) , occasionally also called Flexipop or Minimal Wave , is a collective term that primarily summarizes compositions from the 1980s, whose peculiarities are based on economical, yet lively electronic arrangements. These are mostly music groups and artists from the fields of post-punk ( electropunk ), new wave ( electro wave , cold wave ), electro-pop , industrial , EBM , avant-garde , chiptune and the new German wave .

Danceability, angular, sloping vocal lines and playful, but also experimental sounds are often in the foreground. The genre left its mark on styles such as Electronic Body Music , Electro Funk and Electroclash . The German group Kraftwerk played a major role in the development of minimal electronics .

Origin of name

The earliest mention probably goes back to 1981. In the January issue of Sounds magazine , journalist Hans Keller describes the single signs of vice of the band Volkstanz as minimal electronics .

Paragraphs such as “minimalist wave” can be found repeatedly in reviews of various independent magazines as early as the early 1980s. At the beginning of 1982 the music by Pseudo Code from Brussels was called "electronic minimalist music " . In February 1982 the Spex used the designation "electro minimal music" to categorize the music of the Berlin duo Die Gesunden (as support for the group DAF). “Minimal electronics” can also be traced back to 1984 as a style designation. Karsten Rodemann (alias Graf Haufen) used it in the fanzine Die Katastrophe in connection with the Belgian band Bene Gesserit .

scene

There is a small minimal electro scene in which - in addition to collecting the seldom possible releases from the 1980s - there are also corresponding party events, recourse to New Wave fashion and newer groups with music based on the 1980s sound produce, play a role.

Significant groups

Classic minimal electronics from the 1980s

Modern retro electro

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.minimal-elektronik.de/deutsch/black1.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.minimal-elektronik.de/deutsch/black1.htm
  3. ↑ Hans Keller: Folk dance - Signs of Vice. In: Sounds , issue 1/81, January 1981, p. 16.
  4. ↑ Peter Pimm: The Critiques , Independance Magazin, Edition 2/85, p. 19, 1985
  5. ↑ Dilett fanzine, issue 2/82, p 19, 1982
  6. ↑ Peter Bömmels: For Gabi I do everything ... , concert report, Spex Musikmagazin, issue 2/82, p. 9, February / March 1982
  7. ^ The catastrophe, Das Zentralorgan der Cassettenscene, Edition 12/84, p. 6, 1984
  8. ↑ http://www.minimal-elektronik.de/deutsch/veranst.htm

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