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into one what? queen? haha villalobos is ghay

*pats your head*

"your short bus has arrived"

My idea was tracks with just a few instruments and/or layers, especially some classics (also) could be considered as 'minimal trance'.
They do sound a bit minimal although melody and rhythm easily could fit in a nowadays a.s.o.t.-like track.
Face the Phase - Face the Phase is also such a track. It's not on Youtube yet. Maybe I'll upload it.
When I'm right he didn't mean the genre "Minimal". In that case I don't think I should reply at all.

Those two words should never be in the same sentence.

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Originally posted by smellyblack if you are looking for percussion, some melody, piano ec download this http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...1&forumid=73&s= i would not call it minimal though, although dj tools are used in the spirit of the way most mnml dj's tend to mix. /shameless.

I just discovered that you are an elfreak alt! My suspicions were valid after all!




Damn i feel such a genious right now...

you are a super sleuth.

parts is getting together now

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Originally posted by smellyblack Man i hate genre tags all the time.

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Originally posted by smellyblack Man i hate genre tags sometimes.

+1 . I like them to some degree but not when it overly splinters things to an unnecessary degree imo.

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Originally posted by PETRAN No no its not minimal trance...its Neo-Trance! (lol)Yeah some people have referred to a few kompakt artists (actully, releases) in this way. Its minimal techno actually but it is a little more hypnotic, melodic and sounscapei-ish e.g. From the countless and pointless minimal/glitch-techno/micro-house garbage out there i actually like these more "atmospheric" releases. Its still within the minimal genre though, there are not substantial releases to create a new seperate sub-genre such as "neo-trance" (or minimal-trance as you say).

Sounds like sped up chill out, not early 90's trance really.

omg i love minimalist trance,

artists like tisto, deadmau5, armin, peter hook, really breaking through on this new genre.

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Sounds like sped up chill out, not early 90's trance really.

Who talked about early 90's trance?

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J There's no such thing as minimalist trance, or even mininal trance. If you define trance as you've just described, then it's a redundant tag anyway.

That's not what I said, either. Trance, as it was in the beginning, had what could probably be classified as a mediocre take on musical minimalism. The concept itself is essentially minimal. Using long delays and little change the musicians wanted to induce some sort of feeling or state, and I guess hypnosis, trance or maybe sleepiness was the result. Of course, to many musicians the drug culture was probably a presupposed and thus the attempt at making the music itself minimal could at some times fail.

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Originally posted by Morphology The concept itself is essentially minimal. Using long delays and little change the musicians wanted to induce some sort of feeling or state, and I guess hypnosis,.

how is that minimalism? this is something completely different to that sphere of thought/compositional attitude. It's more romantic than minimal.

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Originally posted by nefardec how is that minimalism? this is something completely different to that sphere of thought/compositional attitude. It's more romantic than minimal.

This brings us the point where we need to divide everything into specific dimensions. There's the musical dimension, and that's ostinato conveyed in electronic soundscapes but maybe not to the extent more pure minimalistic music styles do it, that's always hard to say.
There's the autonomy of emotions, this is probably where I'd say the minimal idea comes to surface. The repeated sequences and the essential simplicity of the tracks are there, the way they are, because it's a probable attempt at achieving something that a minimalistic song should. Again, this is something I've identified as just... sub-conscious listening or whatever. And of course; sleep, hypnosis and rather just putting the brain in a certain state and not, like romanticism, imagining things. LIKE romanticism, this side of minimalism could very well be described as some sort of escapism.

Oh man, I don't even know if I'm making any sense, I talk a lot but say little.

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Originally posted by ownymcown omg i love minimalist trance, artists like tisto, deadmau5, armin, peter hook, really breaking through on this new genre.

lmfao. That gave me a good laugh before bed.

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