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Peak Hour Minimal

I'm so used to using minimal as a way to build into something faster and proggier that i forget that sometimes minimal is heard throughout the night.

I have unofortunately never been to a "minimal" night but do they spin really minimal tunes at the peak or harder techier more traditional "techno" type stuff?

Any examples of tunes that could be heard at peak hour on a minimal night?

Thanks!

marco bailey - bollucks (gabriel ananda remix)
gabriel ananda - der senn des lebens (gabriel ananda remix)

Ti�sto - Traffic

Argy - Love Dose (Luciano Remix)

sounds about right.

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Originally posted by DJ Sid Ti�sto - Traffic

ame - rej

gaiser remix of 25 bitches.

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Originally posted by chesco gaiser remix of 25 bitches.

"bitches...gone too far"

thanks! Any more reccomendations would be awesome!

Ballroom - Open Air

edit: just wanted to say that this isn't minimal at all, but still a good track.

Matthew Dear - Pinch and Pillage
Adam Beyer - A Walking Contradiction

Sensient

Sensum

... and most of the artists on Zenon rec. for that matter.

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Originally posted by RapidFire Argy - Love Dose (Luciano Remix) sounds about right.

zomg choon!

and Laid- Me (Zoo Brazil Mix)

Minimal sucks dick, its so boring. No energy. Did any one get the Loco Dice and Richy Hawtin CD's with mix mag, if this is what a minimal night is composed of, i cant think of a worse way to spend a night, ow yes i can HIP-HOP/R'n'B night.

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Originally posted by AndySmith Minimal sucks dick, its so boring. No energy. Did any one get the Loco Dice and Richy Hawtin CD's with mix mag, if this is what a minimal night is composed of, i cant think of a worse way to spend a night, ow yes i can HIP-HOP/R'n'B night.

Ok andysmith.

May not be minimal but eh:

Lonestar - New Kicks

Actually it's progressive house so scratch that. I still thinks it's a massive tune though.

I don't think andy is completely wrong here, he is just being too absolute about it. Minimal, at least in my opinion, is a very hard genre to mix, as maintaining a flow is incredibly hard. Most of the time I find I am bored with minimal sets, even though they always seem to have a few shining moment in them. I described my theory in another thread about Holden's Controls, but I will put it in here, as it didn't spark any discussion in there. The problem with the minimal genre is that it often times seems to get full of its own shit. Producers seem to be filling songs with glitchy bleeps and whathaveyous jsut for the sake having adding yet another layer of noise. A ton of songs never really go anywhere, but remind me of the hip-hop loops lapping over and over again through a song. In mixes this can lead to disasterous results. I propose, rather than throwing glitchy track after track, think if you interjeccted a few more songs with melody and soul in them, like Tejada's- End of the World. Juxtaposed against the at times, harsh sounding, glitchyness of your other (more common sounding) minimal tracks, and you have a new formula that I have never heard be used consistently in an EDM mix comp. Glitchyness with melody breathers. Just a thought.

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Originally posted by DJ Sid Ti�sto - Traffic

dunno why but that shitty old joke made me lol.

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Originally posted by kush paintings I don't think andy is completely wrong here, he is just being too absolute about it. Minimal, at least in my opinion, is a very hard genre to mix, as maintaining a flow is incredibly hard. Most of the time I find I am bored with minimal sets, even though they always seem to have a few shining moment in them. I described my theory in another thread about Holden's Controls, but I will put it in here, as it didn't spark any discussion in there. The problem with the minimal genre is that it often times seems to get full of its own shit. Producers seem to be filling songs with glitchy bleeps and whathaveyous jsut for the sake having adding yet another layer of noise. A ton of songs never really go anywhere, but remind me of the hip-hop loops lapping over and over again through a song. In mixes this can lead to disasterous results. I propose, rather than throwing glitchy track after track, think if you interjeccted a few more songs with melody and soul in them, like Tejada's- End of the World. Juxtaposed against the at times, harsh sounding, glitchyness of your other (more common sounding) minimal tracks, and you have a new formula that I have never heard be used consistently in an EDM mix comp. Glitchyness with melody breathers. Just a thought.

It annoys me when people asscosiate holden with minimal as a genre. At the controls contains a few decent minimal tunes but it really isn't what I'd class as minimal, try something like transitions for a proper mix, while not to everyones tastes, imo it sums up what minimal should be.

i find it's become a phrase for describing any sort of slowed down electronic music, the majority of things people class as minimal these days are really not.

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Originally posted by AndySmith Minimal sucks dick, its so boring. No energy. Did any one get the Loco Dice and Richy Hawtin CD's with mix mag, if this is what a minimal night is composed of, i cant think of a worse way to spend a night, ow yes i can HIP-HOP/R'n'B night.

you joker

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Originally posted by chesco gaiser remix of 25 bitches.

this track is just being hammered by the techno jocks lately

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Originally posted by chesco It annoys me when people asscosiate holden with minimal as a genre. At the controls contains a few decent minimal tunes but it really isn't what I'd class as minimal, try something like transitions for a proper mix, while not to everyones tastes, imo it sums up what minimal should be. i find it's become a phrase for describing any sort of slowed down electronic music, the majority of things people class as minimal these days are really not.

minimal tracks are not always slow - there are several minimal tracks that can be spun at a higher bpm and sound fabulous at the peak time of a club night

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Originally posted by AndySmith Minimal sucks dick, its so boring. No energy. Did any one get the Loco Dice and Richy Hawtin CD's with mix mag, if this is what a minimal night is composed of, i cant think of a worse way to spend a night, ow yes i can HIP-HOP/R'n'B night.

i would definitely say that these mix cd's do not represent a hawtin or loco dice live set

find hawtins set from moscow...and come again here.

I agree with a lot of what you are saying, I'm very picky about what minimal I listen to and cannot stand a lot of tracks by the "big boys" or minimal- lobos, smoke, magda etc... It really takes a lot to find minimal that stands out- its' probably the genre I find most difficult to wade through, But when you do find those gems, you just never want to stop listening to them. I'd also liek to add how kickass Alex Stealthy is... It's like a mixture of minimal, prog and some hardy techy stuff on some of it. He's been on heavy rotation lately.

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