PANIC presents Veronica Vasicka (Minimal Wave / NYC)

Founder of Minimal Wave Records, NYC.

Veronica Vasicka is a NYC native: a photographer, musician, DJ and founder of the epic record label and on-line music resource Minimal Wave. As one of the founding members of East Village Radio, she managed the station during its pirate days and began collecting obscure and long forgotten gems that fell somewhere between the Cold Wave, Post-Punk, Industrial and Synth-pop genres. Not knowing what to classify these bands as, she coined the genre Minimal Wave and set up the website www.minimalwave.com as an online resource to share her finds with the rest of the world.

The response to the website was huge and shortly after its launch, Veronica began tracking these artists down and re-issuing their work on the Minimal Wave label. Most of these bands recorded extremely limited copies of their work in their basements and shared their work with the world via John Peel's radio show and a handful of underground music mailings. The music released on the label ranges stripped down, D.I.Y. synth-pop to pioneering industrial electronics.

In addition to running Minimal Wave, Veronica launched the Cititrax in 2008 (www.minimalwave.com/releases/cititrax) label as way to expose newer synth-based acts. She DJs monthly in her hometown, New York City, and around the world, as well as having hosted a weekly radio show from 6-8pm ET on East Village Radio for 10 years. She now hosts a monthly show on Red Bull Radio called This Side of Nowhere.

She has curated and released over 100 albums now, amongst them were two highly lauded compilations: The Minimal Wave Tapes: Volumes 1 and 2 which were picked up, released and distributed by Stones Throw Records.

Veronica's DJ sets range from raw, danceable industrial electronic to cold wave fused with mutant house and underground techno. She likes to tell a story when spinning and to teach the crowd about the roots of electronic music. She has a fantastic talent for synthesizing her influences into an unforgettable night of dancing.

Select mixes can be heard here:

Resident Advisor #663 https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=663

Boiler Room (Dekmantel)

Boiler Room (Santiago)

Beats in Space 923 https://beatsinspace.net/playlists/923/

Beats in Space 519 https://beatsinspace.net/playlists/519/

Mixmag in Session https://soundcloud.com/mixmag-1/in-session-veronica-vasicka

Dekmantel 072 https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/dekmantel-podcast-072-veronica-vasicka

XLR8R, http://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/2015/07/xlr8r-podcast-396-veronica-vasicka-dekmantel-festival-2015-edition/

LN-CC Boutique, https://soundcloud.com/ln-cc/ln-cc-store-mix-033-veronica

Dazed And Confused, http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/13016/1/exclusive-veronica-vasicka-mix

I.D. Magazine http://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1/id-mix-final-veronica-vasicka,

Noise In My Head http://www.noiseinmyhead.com.au/2013/02/170213-w-veronica-vasicka

New York Times feature:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/fashion/talking-with-veronica-vasicka-founder-of-minimal-wave.html

Veronica has DJ'd events for Art Basel, MoMA, MoMA P.S. 1, Miu Miu, Calvin Klein, Surface To Air, Agnes B, and 22/4 Hommes Femmes. She also played these festivals: Sonar, Primavera, Atonal, Simple Things, Dekmantel (Amsterdam and Sao Paolo), Cynetart, Mutek, Movement, Sustain Release, as well as numerous club nights in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Miami, Tokyo, Kobe, Tbilisi, London, Paris, Lyon, Amsterdam, Rome, Milan, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, Malmö, Helsinki, Bucharest, Athens, Moscow, Mexico City, Santiago, Medellin, Bogota, Manchester, Bristol, Belfast and Glasgow.

Veronica has been featured in various notable publications such as The New York Times, Interview Magazine, Dazed & Confused, I.D. Magazine, Vice, Electronic, Revel In New York, New York Magazine, and Time Out New York.

http://www.minimalwave.com

https://www.facebook.com/minimalwaverecords

http://www.twitter.com/minimal_wave

http://www.instagram.com/minimalwave

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