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Minimal Wave is a contentiously named[1] genre of electronic music which focuses on electronic, pre-MIDI instrumentation and themes of sincere, rather than ironic, detachment.[1] It comprises obscure, atypical examples of genres such as New Wave, Minimal Electronic, Minimal Synth, Synthpunk, Synthpop, Post-punk, Coldwave, Electroclash and Electropop.[1][2] Although much Minimal Wave music was created in the late 1970s and early 1980s and subsequently appeared on bootleg and one-off compilations, the genre didn't have a name until a record label of the same name began releasing compilations and reissues in the mid-2000s from wikipedia