Die Minimalisten

Ooooosh! Primest new beat obscurity from Austria, 1989 resurfaces thanks to Heap’s Wiener Brut sublabel of Neubau, replete with keyboard monk chants, cod-tropical pipes and sleazy mittel Euro-pop vibes for days

Reeking of sex shops and suds, Die Minimalisten’s sole, self-titled single is manna for anyone with a kink for the early days of motherboard-spawned club music. Echoing shades of Teknokrat’s porno soundtracks, Austria King’s ‘Mammy’ and V/Vm’s obsessions with new beat and Falco, it’s a return ticket to a mucky weekend in your imagination, soundtracked by the plastic horiness of ‘Lentia’ with its plucky bassline and get-lucky vibes, and the flasher mac variant of the title tune, peppered with daft sampler chat and new age choral riffs, which come together in age/era-appropriate fashion on Heap’s megamix.

Drippin’!