Minimal Wave Records

Minim­al Wave takes an old sound in a new di­rec­tion en­tire­ly, giv­ing Futurisk’s clas­sic ‘Lone­ly Streets’ a modern shake-up through a remix pac­kage from cur­rent art­ists – out now on MW’s sub­label re­ser­ved for new music and old favorites, Citit­rax.
Futurisk, an electro-punk group made legen­da­ry by their an­archis­tic re­cords and ex­plosive live shows, mys­terious­ly dis­ap­peared from a thriv­ing scene in 1984. With an electric and dynamical­ly layered sound (created with pre-midi in­strumen­ta­tion), the South Florida group left an in­delib­le mark in the crates of disco and minimal­ist col­lec­tors dot­ted around cor­n­ers of the world, in­clud­ing LCD Soundsys­tem’s James Mur­phy (who gave a com­plimen­ta­ry wink to Futurisk in 2003 by using ‘Push Me Pull You (Pt. 2)’ on the de­light­ful Col­et­te # 5 DFA Comp CD). Minim­al Wave’s own his­to­ry with Futurisk runs a few years back, start­ing first by in­clud­ing an un­released 1982 vers­ion of the track ‘Meteoright’ on the label’s ‘Found Tapes’ vinyl LP in 2007. Sub­sequent­ly, Minim­al Wave re­leased the retro­spec­tive full-length vinyl ‘Play­er Piano’ LP to celeb­rate the band’s 30th an­niver­sa­ry last year, cull­ing materi­al re­cor­ded bet­ween the years 1980 to 1982, with all of the tracks on their two 7-inch re­leases mixed in with rare studio re­cord­ings and early 4-track tapes.
The Futurisk ‘Lone­ly Streets Re­mixes’ in­cludes re­mixes by four of the band’s bi­ggest fans, each of whom have a sound as iconic as the band them­selves: Chris Cart­er (Throbb­ing Gristle, Chris & Cosey), Tom Furse (The Hor­rors), Prin­ce Lan­guage (DFA, Edi­tions Disco) and Com­plexx­ion from the UK.
“For the re­mixes, we wan­ted to make sure that they werent ‘moder­nized’ or ‘tech­no’ vers­ions of the tracks, but re­mixes with the same an­alogue and dance/rock sen­sibilit­ies of the time when the origin­al tracks were created, utiliz­ing those very same stem tracks. I be­lieve we have ac­complis­hed this with the forthcom­ing ‘Lone­ly Streets’ Remix 12inch vinyl.
The first remix 12inch will be de­dicated to the track ‘Lone­ly Streets,’ with a remix by synth legend Chris Cart­er, whose vers­ion is one that I would have dreamed of doing back in 1982, had we the time and funds and equip­ment. Prin­ce Lan­guage’s vers­ion cap­tures the feel of the song be­autiful­ly with the utiliza­tion of all the stems, es­pecial­ly the real drum tracks that were part of Futurisk’s sig­na­ture sound, stirr­ing up the No Wave styles that also in­fluen­ced us at the time. It was also a pleasure to hear Tom Furse’s Moroder-esque electropunk take, sound­ing like a mis­s­ing track from a late 1970′s sci-fi flick and fin­al­ly Com­plex­xion’s track with the feel and approach of Arthur Baker, Mar­tin Rus­hent, Daniel Mill­er and Kraftwerk of co­ur­se, all of which were big in­flu­ences on the mem­b­ers of Futurisk.”
- Jeremy Kolosine (found­ing mem­b­er of Futurisk)