The Minimal Wave label sprang from her weekly radio show of the same name.
In January, she opened a storefront in Greenpoint to serve as the retail arm and headquarters of Minimal Wave.
The Up Close column last Thursday, about Veronica Vasicka, the founder of the Brooklyn music label Minimal Wave, misspelled the first name of a musician whom she photographed.
VERONICA VASICKA, the founder of the indie Brooklyn music label Minimal Wave, has been called a "vinyl archaeologist" for her obsession with excavating old records.
Meanwhile, Ms. Vasicka sampled a few tracks from "Minimal Wave Tapes: Volume Two," including the extremely lo-fi "Animals from Outer Space" by a Dutch act called Ende Shneafliet.
STYLE The Up Close column last Thursday, about Veronica Vasicka, the founder of the Brooklyn music label Minimal Wave, misspelled the first name of a musician whom she photographed.
Key track Rustie – Ultra Thizz See also Aquacrunk, wonky house, glitch-hop, post-Dilla Originally made in the 1980s by choleric Europeans with budget analogue synths and a Joy Division fetish, minimal wave has since been exhumed by a new generation of music nerds entranced by its dour momentum.
For his first outing he's gone to the harsher, more industrial end of his spectrum, bringing raw analogue live sets from Factory Floor and techno boffins Dopplereffekt alongside DJ sets from Helena Hauff and Volte-Face, who walk through the walls of minimal wave, acid techno and post-punk.
Since founding Minimal Wave, a seven-year-old label dedicated to re-releasing obscure electronic music from the 1970s and '80s, Ms. Vasicka has become an unwitting ambassador for the current synth revival, typified by so-called chillwave acts like Ariel Pink and Neon Indian.
In February, Stones Throw Records, a label founded by Chris Manak (otherwise known as Peanut Butter Wolf, a hip-hop D.J ., released the highly anticipated follow-up to "Minimal Wave Tapes: Volume One," a best-of compilation that the music Web site Pitchfork hailed as the Best Reissue of 2010.
But maybe I should do something about that.' " In response, she put out Minimal Wave's first release in 2005, an EP by Oppenheimer Analysis, a little-known band.
