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Veronica Vasicka

20 listings in 8 named rooms, over the last three years · 1,841 following on RA

also plays Berlin — 2 nights

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.

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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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYkHPNs1d0 Boiler Room (Santiago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p9kOO-xS4w 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, Elle, 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

Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.

SoundCloud ↗Bandcamp ↗Discogs ↗

Records out on Downwards and Minimal Wave. — their own list on Resident Advisor

The nights

2026

2025 — 4 nights
2024 — 6 nights
2023 — 6 nights

Their rooms

One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.

Aug 2023Jan 2027

Once each: BASEMENT, 314 Scholes, Musica Club NYC, Paragon and MoMA PS1. Three of the 20 listings never named a room, and are not counted as one.

Who they play with

Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.

  • Arvin TGood Room ×2, Paragon ×1 · Aug 2023 – Jul 20263 nights
  • AndiGood Room ×2 · Jan 2025 – Jul 20262 nights
  • S4M23314 Scholes ×1, Good Room ×1 · May 2026 – Jul 20262 nights
  • Bergsonist314 Scholes ×1, MoMA PS1 ×1 · Aug 2023 – May 20262 nights
  • SharleseGood Room ×1, public records ×1 · Sep 2023 – May 20252 nights
  • JekGood Room ×1, Nowadays ×1 · Apr 2024 – Oct 20242 nights
  • KYRUHNowadays ×1, Paragon ×1 · Aug 2023 – Oct 20242 nights
  • adobeprincessan unnamed room ×1, Good Room ×1 · Feb 2024 – Apr 20242 nights
1 more, 2 nights each
  • Amelia Holtan unnamed room ×1, Good Room ×1 · Feb 2024 – Apr 20242 nights

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