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Minimal Compact

Index Minimal Compact

Minimal Compact was an Israeli rock band associated with the post-punk and indie rock movement of the 1980s. [1]

52 relations: Alternative dance, Alternative rock, Amsterdam, Bel Canto (band), Belgium, Berry Sakharof, Bob Kaufman, Brian Eno, Brussels, Cocteau Twins, Colin Newman, Crammed Discs, David Sylvian, Depeche Mode, Disc jockey, Experimental rock, Gilles Martin, Githead, Indie rock, Israel, Jerusalem, John Fryer (producer), John Peel, Kyoto, Led Zeppelin, Malka Spigel, Marc Hollander, MARRS, Max Franken, Minimal Compact, Neville Brody, New wave music, NMC Music, NME, Palermo, Peter principle, Pierre Droulers, Post-punk, Rami Fortis, Rock music, Russell Mills (artist), Sounds (magazine), Swim ~, Tel Aviv, The Creatures, The World of Skin, Tuxedomoon, Wax Trax! Records, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, ..., Wire (band), World music. Expand index (2 more) »

Alternative dance

Alternative dance is a genre that mixes alternative or indie rock with post-disco dance music.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Bel Canto (band)

Bel Canto is a Norwegian music duo, originally a trio, fronted by vocalist Anneli Drecker, and signed originally to Crammed Discs.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Berry Sakharof

Berry Sakharof (ברי סחרוף,; born 7 July 1957) is an Israeli rock guitarist, songwriter and singer.

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Bob Kaufman

prevent transclusion of non-free image at Portal:Nautical--> Robert Garnell Kaufman (April 18, 1925 – January 12, 1986) was an American Beat poet and surrealist inspired by jazz music.

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Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI (born Brian Peter George Eno; 15 May 1948) is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins were a Scottish rock band active from 1979 to 1997.

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Colin Newman

Colin Newman (born 16 September 1954) is an English musician, record producer and record label owner.

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Crammed Discs

Crammed Discs is an independent record label whose output blends world music, rock, pop, and electronica.

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David Sylvian

David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958) is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Gilles Martin

Gilles Martin, born May 14, 1956.

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Githead

Githead is a musical collaboration that includes Wire's Colin Newman as well as electronic musician Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) alongside ex-Minimal Compact members Malka Spigel and Max Franken.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; القُدس) is a city in the Middle East, located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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John Fryer (producer)

John Fryer (born 1958) is an English record producer.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Malka Spigel

Malka Spigel is a London-based Israeli musician and artist.

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Marc Hollander

Marc Hollander is a Belgian musician, producer and creator of the independent record label, Crammed Discs.

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MARRS

MARRS (stylised M|A|R|R|S) was a 1987 recording collective formed by the groups A.R. Kane and Colourbox, which only released one commercial disc.

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Max Franken

Max Franken is the drummer of Minimal Compact, a rock band that achieved success in Europe in the 1980s.

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Minimal Compact

Minimal Compact was an Israeli rock band associated with the post-punk and indie rock movement of the 1980s.

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Neville Brody

Neville Brody (born 23 April 1957) is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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NMC Music

NMC Music (אן אם סי) is an Israeli record label.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Palermo

Palermo (Sicilian: Palermu, Panormus, from Πάνορμος, Panormos) is a city of Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo.

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Peter principle

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence".

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Pierre Droulers

Pierre Droulers (born 5 July 1951 in La Madeleine, France) is a French and Belgian choreographer and dancer.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Rami Fortis

Ram Ephraim "Rami" Fortis (רם אפרים (רמי) פורטיס,, born July 7, 1954), or simply Fortis, is an Israeli rock singer.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Russell Mills (artist)

Russell Mills is a British artist who was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, United Kingdom in 1952.

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Sounds (magazine)

Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991.

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Swim ~

swim~ (the tilde "~" is part of the written name, but is not pronounced) is a record label founded in 1993, and jointly run, by Wire guitarist and singer Colin Newman, and Minimal Compact bass player and singer Malka Spigel.

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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv (תֵּל אָבִיב,, تل أَبيب) is the second most populous city in Israel – after Jerusalem – and the most populous city in the conurbation of Gush Dan, Israel's largest metropolitan area.

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The Creatures

The Creatures were a band formed in 1981 by Siouxsie and the Banshees members Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie.

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The World of Skin

The World of Skin was a project springing out of the American group Swans, which was a collaboration between the core Swans members Michael Gira and Jarboe.

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Tuxedomoon

Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States.

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Wax Trax! Records

Wax Trax! Records is an American independent record label in Chicago.

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Wim Wenders

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, photographer, and a major figure in New German Cinema.

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Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire is a 1987 romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders.

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Wire (band)

Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar) and Robert Gotobed (drums).

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_Compact

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