Minimal Synth / Minimal Wave / Synth Pop

http://www.last.fm/music/John+Maus wrote:John Maus (born February 23, 1980) is an American composer and a lecturer in political philosophy and theory at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. He has released three studio albums and numerous demos. He has performed with Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Holy Shit and other bands such as Panda Bear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_DVA wrote:Clock DVA are an industrial music, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978 by Adolphus "Adi" Newton and Steven "Judd" Turner. Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange;[1][dead link] Dva is the Russian word for "two".

http://www.last.fm/music/Little+Girls wrote:Little Girls is a post-punk solo project of Josh McIntyre from Toronto, Canada, who previously played in the post-punk duo Pirate/Rock. Little Girls has been in existence since January 2009.

free wrote:Sixth June - Fade
Electro dark pop band from Belgrade

http://www.last.fm/music/Molly+Nilsson wrote:Molly Nilsson is a Swedish singer and producer, currently based in Berlin, Germany.
Her magical melodies and touchingly clever lyrics grow on you as you find yourself listening to them over and over again. With her one-woman-show, this escaped Swede brings her nostalgic pop, on a journey through life and death, with love and trouble, to a No Mans Land, on the border between reality and dream.

http://www.last.fm/music/Alesia+Cosmos wrote:Alesia Cosmos is a Band from Strasbourg (France), founded in the early 80’s.
Members are Bruno De Chenerilles & Pascal Holtzer (Guitars, Tapes, Electronics & Voices) and Marie-Berthe Servier (Voice). The band creates hectic, and cosmic sounding electronic music typical of most electronic French artists from that time. Off time tempos and strange sounding synth accompanies all their tracks. Some tracks sound like something out of a horror movie encompassing off putting screams and moans the likes of which only weird French artists could produce. And yet again, at the same time they are terrifying and odd, they are groovy and up beat. The band’s kick is that they go all directions and leave you wondering where you are and questioning whether you even like the music. All in all Alesia Cosmos is one group that is worth checking out simply because you have no idea whats in store for you.

http://www.last.fm/music/Lives+Of+Angels wrote:Lives of Angels was formed in the 1980s and released one album (Elevator To Eden) on an indie label (Fire) that has subsequently become a minor cult classic in certain circles.
Members Gerald and Catherine O’Connell had previously been members of Mystery Plane.
Musically inactive throughout the 90s, Gerald started recording again in 2001. In 2009, after a 25-year hiatus, Gerald renewed his connection with Mark Harvey of Mystery Plane, resuscitating the extensive Mystery Plane archive and working on new projects

http://www.last.fm/music/Martial+Canterel wrote:Martial Canterel (previously called Moravagine) is a minimal wave/synth project by Sean McBride from New York. The project has been renamed for his first officially released album “Confusing Outsides” (2005), because there are already two other bands using the name Moravagine. Martial Canterel records and performs using only vintage analogue synthesizers and sequencers, producing a highly-crafted, complex, and idiosyncratic form of electronic music that is simultaneously romantically melancholic and affirmatively aggressive. Inspired both by the first wave of relatively unknown minimal electronic bands in Northern Europe(a musical genre also often referred to as ‘minimal synth‘) and the seminal industrial noise bands such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK and Cabaret Voltaire, Martial Canterel presents a new optimistic paradigm for electronic music in which the analogue synthesizer functions anew as a folk instrument of humanist resistance to a virtual ‘soft synth‘, iPod, and iTunes saturated world of ‘click and drag‘ dematerialized abstraction.
Sean is also a member of the following projects: Xeno and Oaklander (with Miss Liz Wendelbo), Three to Forgotten (together with Miss Liz Wendelbo & Cheyney Thompson)

http://www.last.fm/music/Blablarism wrote:Blablarism is a minimal synth solo project from Kiev, Ukraine, formed by Oksana Zmorovytch.

Drawn from a darkened kaleidoscope of influences that recall elements of goth, post-punk, shoegaze and drone, her music is a dense composition of plangent guitars, hypnotic bass lines, mournful synth tones and amorphous vocals that create a suitably bleak register.

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Actor wrote:It all started in 1980 with five musicians having a jam session playing only one chord (D minor). Singer and songwriter Marcel Reimer thought up the lyrics as he was singing. Thus unintentionally giving birth to “The Actor”, which was the main character in the song “Unreal Personality” that resulted from this jam session. Later, Marcel teamed up with Sander Horsthuis, whom he knew very well from Art School. The Actor had become a duo.

http://minimalwave.com/artists/artist/bal-pare/ wrote:Matthias Schuster, Kirsten Klemm and Jan T. Krahn initially started started their collaboration under the name Jeanette und das Land Z in the spring of 1981 publishing a first 7“ („Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son“/“Raumpatrouille“) on Konkurrenz, a sub-label of Phonogram at that time.
One year later the band was joined by drummer Jürgen Weiss and recorded their first LP at Phonogram studios in their hometown Hamburg. Struggling with the with label about the album release, the band decided to take over the Konkurrenz sub-label and to release the finished material on their own. Pointing out their now independent status and the new line-up, the band changed their name to Bal Paré as an hommage to German chansonette and actress Hildegard Knef and her song Es war beim Bal Paré.
Bal Paré published their first album Hamburg Paris Catania in 1982, followed by Metamorphose which was released on Krautrock Records in 1985. After that the band changed line-up and name again, giving birth to Ting Voice of which a self-titled 12“ was published in 1989.

http://www.last.fm/music/Seppuku wrote:Spring, 1984, and as the snow melts in the northern country of Sweden, Seppuku is formed by friends Rasmus, Ronny and Fredric. Out of the frustration of teenage boredom the trio starts to experiment with music, which is the result of their common interest in spy flicks, electronic music, Asian culture and space-age futurism.