COCADISCO AND ANGULAR RECORDS PRESENT…

LUKE EARGOGGLE (Stilleben, Bunker/Sweden)
ELLIOT (Live/Sweden)
CHRIS FLATLINE
ALALAL
COCADISCO DJs

FREE ENTRY
9-3am

This is a launch party for a compilation that is being released on Angular Records on March 22nd. It is called ‘Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol.1’.
Two years in the making, this compilation is a dancefloor artefact of the lost genres of Coldwave, Synthwave and Minimal Wave. It has been compiled by Pieter Schoolwerth (Wierd) and Joe Daniel (Angular).

The night is to be held in conjunction with the peerless Cocadisco at a brand new Dalston nitespot, Alibi, and features the debut performance from Swedish synthwave duo ‘Jocke and Elliot’. More about them here > http://coldwaves.tumblr.com/post/258187134/regnbagen-jocke-elliot
Also playing are legend of the bangers, Alalal; and Future’s Brain’s Chris Flatline, along with the Cocadisco DJs.

Come and celebrate by matching your heartbeat to the pulse of an analogue synthesizer!

http://www.myspace.com/lukeeargoggle
http://www.myspace.com/xflmusix
http://www.myspace.com/alalaldb
http://coldwaves.tumblr.com
http://www.arc018.com

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Dan Nixon of renowned blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats has written an incredible ‘Guide To Coldwave’ for Dummy Magazine. This handy 14 point guide will provide you with all the knowledge you’ll need to get started. From auspicious beginnings with newly portable and affordable equipment, via Kraftwerk, Industrial and Synthpop, right through to the current purveyors of Coldwave - Wierd Records, Minimal Wave Records, Born Bad and indeed Angular’s very own ‘Cold Waves And Minimal Electronics Vol.1’ compilation due for release on the 8th March 2010.

Happy reading/learning/listening…

This was announced today on our website. A pre order link will be available soon.

Angular are proud to announce the forthcoming release of ‘Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics Volume 1’ - a new 17 track compilation put together by New York’s Wierd Records founder Pieter Schoolwerth and Angular’s Joe Daniel.

The album chronicles the secret underground cult genres of cold wave and minimal wave, which mostly originated from continental Europe between the years 1981-1985.

Joe Daniel: “About two years ago my good friend Al O’Connell (aka Alalal) played me some minimal synth tracks that had an immediate and considerable effect on me. They contained analogue synths that sounded sharp and icy instead of the warm squelchy noises that a lot of people use them for; Junos instead of MS20s, backed by the most primitive drum machines and oblique otherworldly vocals.
Most of this music came from early-80s Europe, and most of the groups only recorded a few songs, released a 7″ and then split up before anyone noticed what they were doing. I like the impossible romance you can have with a band when all you’ve got is a tape with three songs on it (all in French) and a single black and white photograph.

Ever since I heard this music I’ve been trawling high and low to unearth the greatest gems of this synth sound in order to make a retrospective artefact of the lost genre of music known as coldwave. With the considerable collaborative help of Pieter Schoolwerth from New York’s Wierd Records, I think we may have done it.”

This release will be available as a double LP gatefold, CD, and digital download on February 22nd.