‘Veronica Vasicka (DJ set)’

Veronica Vasicka is a photographer, musician, DJ and founder of Minimal Wave, the epic record label and on-line music resource. 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 how to classify these bands, she coined the genre Minimal Wave and set up the website minimalwave.com as an online resource to share her finds with the rest of the world.

The response to the website was huge. Shortly after its launch, Veronica began tracking down these artists 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, DIY synth-pop to pioneering industrial electronics.

In addition to running Minimal Wave, Veronica launched the Cititrax label as way to expose newer synth-based acts. 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 synthesising her influences into an unforgettable night of dancing.