Post Punk

In the early 80’s, avant-garde radio moguls Peter Moser and Alex Douglas (of Co-Op Radio’s famed Alien Soundtracks program) published a semi-regular zine titled CLEM: Canadian List of Electronic Music. The list operated as a catalog of recent electronic, synth, experimental, and “music of intelligence and feeling” from around the world. For many it was the go-to guide for left-field music at a time when information was not widely available.
 

Minimal Synth is a genre of music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument.

Minimal Synth releases were mostly put out from late '70s to middle '80s and is characterised by dark and moody tones. It has a bleak stripped down sound, with instrumentation consisting generally of raw analog synths, a pulsating drum beat, and cold vocals. This same sort of music without the vocals is also referred to as Minimal Electronics.

No Wave was a short-lived but influential underground music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City. The term No Wave is in part satirical wordplay rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre—a term imported into the New York contemporary artworld by Diego Cortez in a show he curated called "New York/New Wave" held at the Institute for Art and Urban Resources (1981).