what is minimal?

so does minimal......

Well thats me told

As i said in another thread i havent heard much but what i have heard was imo was just beats and nothing else...I look for a lot more than that in a tune

Personally, it's not really my cuppa, some of it's good, some of it's shit, but to me the good stuff isn't THAT good, and the shit stuff is REALLY shit, but I guess that's just down to opinion.

But there are some pretty good labels kicking about....

Personally, I don't see the point in a night's worth of music that you need to take a sack full of horse tranquiliser to "understand".

It's a fashion thing, like electro house was a year or so ago, it will always be around now, when the big lads start playing the next micro genre of haircut house, and vets start alarming their drug cabinets, people will move on, but that's just the way the music scene seems to work.

edit: I don't necessarily agree that it's poorly produced; due to the stripped down nature of it, the production level is usually pretty high, at least to me anyway.

Shit loads of really good techno DJs have jumped ship and taken up the minimal thing over the past year. Mind to be fair, there has been a lot of shit looped up techno released over the past year or so, but that's no excuse, they should make some good stuff

I understand people's taste can evolve into something new over time, but I agree that too often it is influenced by the media.

I just did, i have got some awesome prog recently with the above mentioned

Adrian Martin and Santiago - My friend

NARCOTIC THRUST-Waiting for you (Dave Whelan And DJ Scala remix)

to be fair though cocoon has been going for ages and its probs one of the best nights to go to in ibiza , cant comment on dc10 as i aint been but by all accounts its really good.

yeah but thats vath

hawtin and villalobos on the terrace b2b all night

so is your banter about minimal been shit :sleep:

i aint arsed if u like it or not it dont change my opinon

and i aint paticularly arsed if you disagree with what i say, everyone has the own opinion.

and not everyone can like the same thing would be rather boring now wouldnt it

I like a lot of minimal. Ok, so the really bleepy, glitchy stuff might not be well suited to peak time sets, but the housier end of minimal is still decent.

Check - Elektrochemie " Don't Go" on Get Physical

Or Martin Landsky "1000 Miles" on Poker Flat

the poker flat stuff is wickid! richie hawtin is also a legend
defs not peak time stuff but never the less theres some quality minimal stuff being produced as is there some shite.

A lot of music that gets tagged as minimal is not even 'minimal'.

a lot of the stuff that steve bug, mayer, ame, james holden, alex smoke etc are playing it not really that minimal and is very accessible and melodic. a lot of it is just good HOUSE music.

THE WAY I SEE IT, dance music only needs to do one thing , make you want to dance

on most occasions MINIMAL does not do this

imho its like japanese water torture

and the equivalent of watching paint dry

obviously theres a few exceptions to this but in general its souless gash

i love that tune

Have to agree, bought mixmag about a year ago as featured a minimal cd by Loco Dice, like most people on hear i had heard all the hype and was quite interested to hear what it was like, however after three songs i was feelin sleepy so replaced it with music that actually had some life about it. I thought dance music was supposed to make you want to dance? Well... all minimal does is make me want to sleep, if i wanted music to make me slepp i would have put on some David Grey or Coldplay.

Seramic speeadboats, that drive up your cacky shoot when your on the dancefloor at a minimal event. You have to wear scarves and T-shirts for them to work proplerly though..... God I hate those cunts.....

Shut up man. It's filth. My lass loves fucking to that cd

Plus it has Marc Houle "Borrowed Gear" on it. Nice tune

So true. A lot of the tracks in this set below that I posted a while back are classed as minimal, but have so much more character than the real deal, glitchaton minimal.

M.A.N.D.Y. @ 10 Days Off (19.07.06)

Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig remix)
Andre Crom & Tigerskin – Notaufnahme
Audiofly & Scarlett Etienne – Loose lips sync ships
Mike Monday – Bhalobbashi
Thomas Schumacher – High On You
Elektrochemie – Don’t go
Marlow & Dehlia – Movin (Matthias Tanzmann remix)
Gabriel Ananda – Doppelwhipper
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Kaliber 4
Gui Boratto – Arquipelago
Shake it !! (remix?)
Rockers Hi-Fi – Push Push (M.a.n.d.y remix)

'Tis an awesome set too

Minimal in a club does work! This is DC10 when we went!

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1106840719&n=2


its not FULLY minimal!