ImiAFan – Te Is Tudod (Album – Senkrecht Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Wave, Experimental.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Slovakian artist and label owner (4mg Records) Imi Vegh is back with a new full length album featuring ten songs. Miki Bernath contributed to the work, which is inspired by Slovakian, Hungarian and German poems.
Content: ImiAFan remains faithful to a kind of retro-styled Minimal-Electro/Wave. The sound treatments are pure vintage-like, carried by some solid bass lines, robotic bleeps and good-old strings. The songs are pretty short and have been sung in Slovakian.
+ + + : ImiAFan is a project I deeply respect for its retro approach although it has something refreshing. ImiAFan has its own sound and I even dare to speak about a real sound DNA with a modern touch on top. The album is varied, even a bit versatile –featuring Experimental passages, and absolutely interesting. Pay some attention to “Sezóna”, which is an absolute masterpiece driven by a hard-beating kick (that’s part of the modernism of the composition). I also have to mention “Sekundenzeiger” for its impressive bass line. And the last cut I want to mention is “Pod Čiarou V Mestách”, which is pure Minimalism, but still a cool, danceable song.
– – – : I regret there are only ten (short) cuts featured while I’m not a huge fan of the Experimental passages.
Conclusion: ImiAFan is a project I can only, but highly recommend for its vintage approach, but with this personal touch on top.
Best songs: “Sezóna”, “Sekundenzeiger”, “Pod Čiarou V Mestách”, “Ipoly”.
Rate: (8).
Artist: www.facebook.com/imiafan
Label: www.facebook.com/senkrechtrecords
About ImiAFan
ImiAFan is the minimal-electro and synth-pop project of Imrich Végh, started in Slovakia in 1999. Miki Bernath later joined and the project continued as a duo, at times completed by guests. Most releases came out on 4mg Records, the label Végh founded in 2003. He discussed running both in the November 2019 ‘Click Interview’ with ImiAFan Vs. 4mg Records, around the release of the vinyl mini-album Videnie on the French label Falco Invernale Records, reviewed on Side-Line in October 2019.
“Te Is Tudod” was released by the Hungarian label Senkrecht Records on CD, limited to 200 copies, and as a download. The artist’s Bandcamp page dates the release to 13 February 2021; the label’s page gives 11 February 2021. The ten tracks, recorded between 2013 and 2019, are “Ipoly”, “Loptička”, “Te is tudod”, “Sezóna”, “Odpovedz”, “Pod čiarou v mestách”, “Sekundenzeiger”, “Na druhú stranu ulice”, “Aj naše šaty” and “Deje sa to”. Végh wrote the music, with Bernath co-writing “Ipoly” and “Sezóna” and Clive Pierce co-producing “Loptička”. The lyrics are poems by Ivan Štrpka, Sajó Sándor, Szőcs Kálmán and Hans Arp. Végh and Bernath mixed the album, István Gazdag of First Aid 4 Souls mastered it and Brian Pfeffer made the cover.
The project appears on the compilations V/A Wave Earplug No.4 (4mg Records, 2020) and V/A Synth Slovakia Vol.2 (2021), both reviewed on Side-Line. Later releases are the album Clearly Defined (4mg Records, 2024), reviewed in January 2025, and the digital EP Elmúlt idő, self-released on 29 May 2026. “Te Is Tudod” is the album that preceded those.
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