Time Out resident djs and bloggers extraordinaire ‘The Beat’ present an evening of forward thinking electronic music split into two parts.

The early part of the evening sees the djs exploring early electronic music including progressive and kraut rock, post-punk, minimal and cold wave. Followed by a more dancefloor friendly mix of chicago and acid house, dark pop and new beat, italo disco and proto house to accompany the latter half of the night.

We also welcome special guest djs OffsetCirlces. An amalgamation of the best things to come out of Southend in the last few years - Offset Festival, Experimental Circle Club and the legendary Junk Club - they will be providing their unique mix of dark disco, minimal techno and brooding electronics.

The Russian
267 Kingsland Road
Shoreditch E2 8AS
07809 425 905‎

Friday 29th January 2010
Open 8pm-5am, Djs from 10pm

Free before midnight, £5 after
Bottles, wine, spirit & mixer £2.50 till 11pm
Shots £2 till 11pm

www.wearethebeat.co.uk

Legendary US label Stones Throw have just released The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume 1 - a collection of underground DIY electronic music from North America and Europe in the late 1970s and 80s. The founder of the Minimal Wave record label Veronica Vasicka has put together this 40-minute mix which includes a couple tracks by artists who are on the anthology, several who are not, and some tracks she’s just really into right now. Get it here.

Angular Records are lovingly putting together a compilation of Cold Wave tracks in early 2010.

Compiled by Pieter Schoolwerth (Wierd) and Joe Daniel (Angular), “Wierd presents… Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol.1″ aims to be is a definitive artefact of the lost genres of Coldwave, Synthwave and Minimal Wave.

To support this they’ve done a rather desolate mix for Vice which you can download here.

Angular vs. Coldwave mix Pt 1

Check the Coldwave blog for more info.

http://coldwaves.tumblr.com/

A blog about a compilation that is being released on Angular Records in early 2010. It is called ‘Wierd presents… Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol.1′.

Two years in the making, this compilation is a definitive artefact of the lost genres of Coldwave, Synthwave and Minimal Wave. It has been compiled by Pieter Schoolwerth (Wierd) and Joe Daniel (Angular).