what is minimal?

have a look at this video

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=904394600&

looks pretty peak time to me.....

Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)

Kristan Beyer from German electronic duo Ame chatted to Skrufff this week about their already hugely successful minimal tech-house anthem Rej and revealed that he absolutely loathes most minimal music.

“Some tracks are good but in my opinion 90% of this music is bullshit,” said Kristan.

“Rej is a big hit with the American guys like Louis Vegas, Francois Kevorkian, Timmy Regisford as well as the minimal guys like Richie Hawtin but we’ve never made minimal music and I don’t like minimal music at all,” he stressed.

“We think it’s only popular because it’s the best music to accompany the drugs people do these days. In Germany we call it ketamine music,” he added.

The former Sonar Kollektiv star and Jazzanova peer stressed Ame come from a ‘more traditional house and techno music’ background and predicted minimal’s days are numbered.

“Even in Berlin, people are starting to get bored of this music,” he said.

“I know a lot of people on the scene, Steve Bug, for example, is a good friend of mine, as are the guys doing the Perlon label, who are famous for minimal and they’re bored of it. Berlin’s where it started and the fact the people there are bored of it, to me means there will be a big impact on it in a couple of months and minimal will go down and something new will emerge. I don’t know what style, maybe house?” he guessed.

UK house star Felix Buxton from Basement Jaxx also admitted to feeling less than impressed with most of what passes for minimal, telling One Week To Live ‘don’t get me wrong it serves a purpose and sounds good in clubs but the riffs are all just old house riffs. And most of them are quite boring, considering it’s meant to be futuristic house music,” he added,

Ame’s Rej is (re)- released on Defected Records imminently, with two new remixes by the Pasta Boys and 100 Birds.

luciano is soo good that vid is class

When we went to see him loads of our mates took fake moustaches

he looks like paul calf

why would i be offended by that comment, i know it has vocals and breakdowns it's the best part of prog lmao

That looks like the look kyles going for, the gay peado, actually he resembles toecutter

The women in the background looks like she is doing some sort of move off Karate Kid

Isn't their a pic of sarahatbeep doing a similar dance?

The look is coming on great mate. Bought some class trousers from Cancer Research today, along with my leather sandals, and Pringle socks. The glasses are truely noncified. E-bay is a god send for Pringle cardigans, and I now look like a geography teacher, wahay :lecture:

That's canny banging like

hahaha darlington will love you

course it can be peak time music

anyway, if you wanna argue some about it, join in the fun over here

http://northeastclublife.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8390&start=0

my head is hurting now

I was kind of just highlighting how mint dc10 is Circo loco

but circo loco is a minimal night there!

Dan stop being sarcastic! You know what I mean !

Minimal has had it's day I think....

it will go back underground till the crazykidz find Circo Loco and the Cocoon terrace again in a few years time.....

The UK scene kills good music .....

**waits for it***

yes I still play some minimal tracks early doors.....still some really good stuff about.

just like electrohouse...has been done to death