[GLA] Oni Ayhun (live) // Veronica Vasicka (Minimal Wave)

Really looking forward to this. Heres the blurb. Anybots going? I'm mega skint & you all owe me a few  Oh & it would be nice to see you of course 

ONI AYHUN live
ALEX SMOKE
VERONICA VASICKA (Minimal Wave)
...THE VILLAGE ORCHESTRA (Highpoint Lowlife)

Contrary to the current media hype surrounding his peers, Oni Ayhun doesn't do press releases, doesn't have his picture sprawled across Resident Advisor to accompany his punctually drab monthly chart and doesn't do whiny interviews. Instead, shrouded in mystery, each release appears with little fanfare: causing maximum impact. Threading techno from its Detroit roots via bleepy minimal Berlin raves - with material this solid, the rest is irrelevant.

After his recent departure, we welcome back Glasgow son done good, Alex Smoke. Alex has set up shop in London where he's busy working on new material, running his Hum+Haw imprint - where he released his 3rd album Lux earlier this year to much acclaim. Both his live and DJ sets are dancefloor destroyers and he's been on our wishlist since H&P's infancy. Excited is an understatement.

We've been big fans of Veronica Vasicka's Minimal Wave label which is responsible for discovering forgotten nuggets from the cold wave / minimal synth era and sprucing them up with a deserving reissue. The label counts fans across the globe - recently cemented with Stones Throw releasing a compilation.

2010 has been a good year for The Village Orchestra with his debut EP being lauded by everyone of note, from The Wire to FACT. He's set to release an East London inspired album on Highpoint Lowlife and his DJ sets are unmissable - taking in anything from Coil and La Dusseldorf to Ramadanman and Lil Wayne.

Space Dimension Controller is nails.

@dumbbot good selection by veronica, not a hint of italo last night very synthy. her fading in & out just made me appreciate yous that can mix even more. for me, worse than the lack of a mix was the disgraceful juvenile behaviour by the men, kinda made me lose heart a little. 
programming poss meant a fragmented crowd, coupled with halloweeners - who would prob have gone to the venue regardless? - id say there was very few there really into the music. was actually really interesting to hear Alex's minimal-techno-acidy-housey-live set. dunno how but i missed oni ayhun, got caught talking to someone a pal at the bar 

Cheers for the downlow guys.... srry i couldn't be there...think im coming down wi smth really nasty .Halloween is only good to get yer perv on about the city, guess the lads were all sex-pesting Ms Vasicka..i hope you behaved yourself robbie

@ karamanga
"...the lack of a mix..."
-> i would say fading in and out is quite normal if you play minimal synth (actually back in the days they didn't even fade in and fade out. but used to play every track from the beginning until the end with little breaks in between).
that kind of music is not really made for mixing. a lot of that stuff is unmixable. of course you can always try it, but in most cases it'll sound awful and will ruin the tracks. so it's better to play track by track.

Thanks for the info people i take every word back in that case, and yes i love this forum for that. the few synth tracks i have i always try to mix, but usually into other styles. its no secret im learning to mix so all tips i get are lapped up around here 
i still find it strange to hear lulls in the music when im out, but then perhaps thats testament to the rarity of pure minimal nights on here. however like i said veronicas music itself was choice, even better now i know she shouldnt have been mixing.
shame none of my 'geeky' mates could tell me that on the night, but i guess they too busy playing the school boys 

True. and for minimal wave, funk, wave and other problaby a lot of otther kinds of music this is fine imo.

yes timing needs to be precise; the right moment, the fading not too short and definately not too long.

mix is online at vulcanoid.fr/stories called: the liminoid subjunctive. Hope you like it.
Tracklisting is wrong btw from 13 - 17 not sure what happened there. Should be after Dark Day: Dave Ball - In Strict Tempo, Lee Negin - Nothing Goes right, Inertia - injury Time, Les Visiteurs Du Soir - Je t'ecris and Ian North - Romance.
Abrupt ending of Auschwitz was how the song ended...no fading out. Nice example how it can be tricky to fade out cause there's so much happening in the final part of the song.
Hval Mus was one of the most difficult songs i ever tried to beatmatch :-)