Veronica Vasicka

New York native Veronica Vasicka has unearthed countless analog synth wave gems and single-handedly revived a forgotten musical subgenre with Minimal Wave Records, the label she founded in 2005. With Minimal Wave subsidiary Cititrax, a new generation of like-minded composers has found a home for their DIY releases. Vasicka’s influential sound was partly cultivated via East Village Radio as the station’s first program director. Her reputation was cemented with the release of the compilations The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume One and Two on Stones Throw in 2010. Ever since she’s spread the word of this incredible sound to audiences worldwide via releases on her vaunted labels and through her DJ sets. She currently hosts a monthly show on NTS and DJs internationally.

All playlists and tracks by Veronica Vasicka

WAX TRAX! SPECIAL

Body To Body — Front 242
I'm Falling — Ministry
Ladder Jack (Wax Trax Remix) — A Popular History of Signs
Next One Is Real — Minimal Compact
No Devotion — Revolting Cocks
I Wanted To Tell Her — Ministry
Everyday Is Halloween — Ministry
Aqua Regis — Coil
Take One (Live in Chicago) — Front 242
Silent Cry — Chris & Cosey
The Fear In My Heart — Luc Van Acker
Masterhit — Front 242
Rubber Glove Seduction — PTP
No Name No Slogan — Acid Horse
Stainless Steel Providers — Revolting Cocks
Drinking Sand — A Split -Second
The Devil Does Drugs — My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Headhunter (Version 1.0) — Front 242
Machine Gun — TGT
Suck — Pigface
Do You Fear For Your Child — My LIfe With The Thrill Kill Kult
Idiot Strength — Fini Tribe
Cop Out — Peter Hope & Richard H. Kirk
The Snow — Coil

Spanish Synth

Impresionistas I — Mecanica Popular
Nuclear Si — Aviador Dro
Esplendor Geometrico — Moscu esta Helado
Arco Iris — Los Iniciados
Aflita — Interaccion
La Marca de Anubis — Los Iniciados
Datos — Metal y Ca
Teoría De Contacto — Logotipo
Telepatia — Aviador Dro
¿Que Sucede Ahora? — Vocoder
Ninette En N.Y. — Arte Moderno
El Vinilo — Betty Troupe
Oriente — Metal y Ca
La Ultima Jugada — Fanzine
Una Nota De Bianco — Oviformia SCI
La Modelo — Aviador Dro
A Gods Valley (New Dance Mix) — Vam Cyborg
Actos de Maldad — Vam Cyborg
Lamento Testamento — Diseno Corbusier
Golpe De Amistad — Diseno Corbusier
Teatro Sucio — Orfeon Gagarin
Accion Automatica — Esplendor Geometrico
C. T. L. — Metro Pakt
Capataz — Velodrome
Glasfabrik — Velodrome
Claroscuro — Interaccion
Insomnio — Interaccion
Humano — Metal y Ca
Landschaften — Lineas Aereas
Mar De La Tranquilidad — Azul Y Negro

German Electronic Pioneers

Ruckzuck — Kraftwerk
Mother Sky — Can
Meadow Meal — Faust
Negativland — Neu!
Oh Yeah — Can
Phaedra — Tangerine Dream
Blau — Conrad Schnitzler
Watussi — Harmonia
Caramel — Cluster
Antenna (Single Edit) — Kraftwerk
Trans-Europe Express (Single version) — Kraftwerk
VEB Heimat — Weltklang
49 Second Romance — P1/E
Commerce Extérieur Mondial Sentimentale — Der Plan
Der Rauber Und Der Prinz — D.A.F.
Ich War Da, Leergebrannt — Im Namen Des Volkes
Wir Bauen — Palais Schaumburg
Wahre Arbeit, Wahrer Lohn (1981) — Die Krupps
Die Gesunden Kommen — Die Gesunden
Die Liebe Ist Ein Abenteuer — Ti-Tho
Die Russen Kommen — Berlin Express
Zuerst Ich — Silvia
Kaltes Klares Wasser — Malaria
The Shark Eats Ice — Conrad & Sohn
Herzschlag — Keine Ahnung
Z.N.S — Einsturzende Neubauten
Die Wespendomina — Die Dominas

Fairlight Synth Special

The Slipping Beauty — Vangelis Katsoulis
Here To Go (Space Dub) — Cabaret Voltaire
Very Popular — David Garland
I.O.U. — Freeez
Frozen Faces — Propaganda
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) — Kate Bush
Rhythmatic Stereo — IQ
No More Words (Extended Dance Version) — Yello
Everything Counts — Depeche Mode
Lena — 2 Belgen
The Anal Staircase — Coil
Spies In The Wires — Cabaret Voltaire
Fireworks PT 5 — Polar Praxis
Moments In Love — Art Of Noise
She Blinded Me With Science — Thomas Dolby
Linger Ficken' Good — Revolting Cocks
The Land Of Rape And Honey — Ministry
Nine Dimensions — White Noise
Me And My Rhythm Box — Slava Tsukerman, Brenda I. Hutchinson, Clive Smith
Lust for Loneliness — Thomas Leer
This Big Hush — Shriekback
Surrender — Klaus Schulze
Crockett's Theme (Miami Vice) — Jan Hammer
Sowing The Seed (Merry Xmas Mr Lawrence) — Ryuichi Sakamoto
Shout — Tears for Fears

Belgian Synth

Radio Stations (demo) — SIc
A Million Miles — Pas De Deux
The Linear Way — Linear Movement
So Low — Carol
Factory Walk — The Neon Judgement
A.G.N.E.S. — 1000 Ohm
Pope No Hope — Tipical Me
I Might As Well Be There — Linear Movement
Every Ill Man — Human Flesh
Come On Dance — Snowy Red
L'Ultima Storia — Subject
The New Ones — A Blaze Colour
Aller Simple — Victor Hublot
Cardiocleptomanie — Pas De Deux
Microphone Connection — Unovidual & Tara Cross
Euroshima (Wardance) — Snowy Red
Russia — Elisa Waut
No Conversation (Between People) — Nausea
Beats Of Love — Nacht Und Nebel
A La Recherche de B.L. — The Misz
Achilles — Antena
Night Is Coming On — Polyphonic Size
Crocodile Tears — Kuruki
Tout Petit La Planete — Plastic Bertrand
I Wish I Could Speak Your Language — The Names
My Suitor — Bernthøler
Five Faces — Linear Movement
I Think She Understood — 1000 Ohm
Frantz — Antena

Australian Synth & Post-Punk

Elevator — Severed Heads
Product — The Systematics
Cold Cafe — Karen Marks
The Dumbwaiters — Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast
Die For My House — The Systematics
The Park — Aural Indifference
Slapping Flesh — Fattish Fetishists
Sex 2 — The Metronomes
Average Inadequecy — Machinations
Girl From Ipanema — Height / Dismay
By The Author Of Psycho — The Couch
Theme — Aural Indifference
Am I Surrounded By Imcompetence — Foetus
Nick The Stripper — The Birthday Party
I Can't Stop It — Primitive Calculators
Hold My Cold Hand — Scattered Order
Bland A — Patrick Gibson
CD-CA — Ria & The Normal
Eat Roland — Severed Heads
Love by Number — Ash Wednesday
A Circuit Like Me — The Metronomes
Dead Eyes Opened — Severed Heads
No Threat — Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast
Vanessa Teratology — The Systematics
Heat — Scattered Order
California Dreaming — Denial
The Children Of Sombre Town — Dorian Gray
Bayer — Severed Heads
Call Me Dynamic — Customer Service
Wetsuits — Thealonian Music
Proximity Switch — Informatics
Concorde Affair — Informatics
I Needle the Oven — Patrick Gibson
Factory Nightlife — Informatics

Female Voices of the French Electronic Underground

Mots — Ruth
Pretty Day — Mary Moor
Felicita — Deux
Position — Martin Dupont
Suicidez-Moi Pas! — No Unauthorized
A Letter from Yellowland — Mal
Alcool — X-Ray Pop
Qu'elle Me Caresse — Moderne
Mind — Kas Product
Je T'aime Tant — Elli & Jacno
Suis De Normale — Nini Raviolette
Non Non Non — Cha Cha Guitri
Pouppee De Cire, Pouppee De Son — Bal Paré
Frantz — Antena
Dance With Me — Deux
Annie — In Aeternam Vale
Your Passion — Martin Dupont
Can An Actor Bleed — Tanit
Torso Corso — Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Anne Cherchait L'Amour — Elli Et Jacno
Je Tu Nous — Nini Raviolette
Man of Time — Kas Product
Mind — Kas Product
Amazone — X-Ray Pop
Sans Issue — Analoid
Au Paradis — Chagrin D'Amour
To Have And Have Not — Ronny
Paris-Tokyo — Mathematiques Modernes
Je Suis Venue te Dire Que je M'en Vais 1981 — Jo Lemaire & Flouze
La Fin De L'innocence — L'Aventure Imaginaire
Message De Noel — Mikado
Anita — Mikado
Tchiki Boum — Niagara
Jungle Hurt — Mathematics Modernes
Treat Your Lady Right (Bim Bam Boom) — Don Cherry featuring Elli Medeiros
Hardboiled Babe — Lizzy Mercier Descloux

Isreali Wave & Post-Punk

No 1 — Intensive Care Unit
To Get Inside — Minimal Compact
Exercise — Jean Conflict
Agenda — Rhetorical Band
Statik Dancing — Minimal Compact
Ego — HaClique
Makhtub — Chromosome
Dia De Indio — Judith Ravitz
Deadly Weapons — Minimal Compact
Special Guest — Jean Conflict
Show Of Terrorism — Chromosome
Garden of Plastic — Intensive Care Unit
In The Realm Of — Siam
Not Knowing (Remix) — Minimal Compact
Code Of Silence — Arik Rudich
Down Town Tel Aviv — Siam
Education — Rhetorical Band
Gazolina — Chromosome
He Won’t Sleep — Leah Lupatin
The Intensive Care Unit — Intensive Care Unit
Dervish Slow Rise — Minimal Compact
Next One Is Real — Minimal Compact
One Day I Smile — Jean Conflict
Crowded world — HaClique
Golem — HaClique
Come On — Shalva Berti
Last Night — Rhetorical Band
Vertigo — Chromosome

Japanese Synth : Part 1

Quick Starttype — Sympathy Nervous
Shonen — Mariah
D'Ameja — Popsong's Factory
Dark-Disco-Da-Da-Da-Da-Run — Perfect Mother
Denki Noise Dance 4 — Kiiro Radical
Polaroid — Sympathy Nervous
Shinzo No Tobira — Mariah
Dream's Dream — C Memi + Neo Matisse
Submarine — Morio Agata
Weimar 22 — R.N.A. Organism
Invivo — Isolation
Kan — mikanmuku
Dark — Tomo Akikawabaya
Last Japan Dream — Stigma
Yes, Every Africa Must Be Free — R.N.A. Organism
Walts (For Lautreament) — Dendö Marionette
Good-Night Age — Variètè
Elaborate Dummy — Portray Heads
Alchemists — Situations
Denki Noise Dance 5 — Kiiro Radical
A Worm — Sympathy Nervous
Anatawa Suguni — Sympathy Nervous
You Are Busy, I Am Easy — Normal Brain
Green Brain — Plazma Music
Mars — Tomo Akikawabaya
M-U-S-I-C — Normal Brain
Aishu No Tokyo Tower — Kenji Endo
Sameta Kajiba De — Aunt Sally
JUIN-Irénée — Tolerance
Chin Dan — Mikan Mukku
はつねつのみやこ — Duppi