Today I had the displeasure of encountering an indie kid blogger who wrote in his recent post that M83's Couleurs is 'proper minimal techno' (listen to Couleurs for reference here: http://www.myspace.com/m83), and accused Moby of being a part of the nu-rave movement because of his obvious references to dance music on his new album ('cause y'know, back then it was all rave).

When I told him that Couleurs is hardly minimal techno and added some reasoning as well, he responded that it must be minimal because 'it has 4x4 beat and some guitars, just like Sascha Funke's and Justus Köhnke's new albums do' ('cause Kompakt artists is all you need to know about techno).

I've read about it in this quite entertaining article a while ago (read here: http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2008/03...nd-oranges.html), and today I was able to find out on my own how true it was.

Does anyone have similar experience? Where did their interest in techno come from? And why the hell do they have to babble about music they have very little precedent for?

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Since when we care about what indie kid bloggers say about EDM?

Indie kids don't care about music, they just want to tell their friends about obscure genres and artists because they think it makes them look cool and sophisticated.

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haha you get that a lot here in williamsburg brooklyn where everyone is a self-professed indie music 'guru'.

kompakt has a lot of quirky stuff approachable to them - it doesnt surprise me in the least. they are very fragile and white so they like artists like the field, justus kohncke, etc

they like those bittersweet little numbers with acoustic percs

minimal techno has a sort of underground indie quality to it that indie kids try to appropriate into their own persona i think.

i think it's the same process as armin van buuren transmuting everything into 'trance'

mostly though they recognize the honest underground quality of the scene and believe it gives them some kind of indier than indie edge

how this person thought that couleurs was in any way minimal is baffling to me.

it is, in any case, awesome.

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Originally posted by Project-K Indie kids don't care about music, they just want to tell their friends about obscure genres and artists because they think it makes them look cool and sophisticated.

I agree... personally i hate them...however scene kids are the worst

Yeah, its like that with some of the people I know. I tell them I listen to techno and house and right away they ask "So have you herd of Dj Sammy and Tiesto?"

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yeah that happens too

but usually indie scene kids know a little better

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Originally posted by Neon Sky Yeah, its like that with some of the people I know. I tell them I listen to techno and house and right away they ask "So have you herd of Dj Sammy and Tiesto?"

Actually, the opening post was about a different phenomenon -- people from the "indie rock" scene trying to latch onto the "underground cred" of the minimal techno scene.

Welcome to the real world???

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Originally posted by Neon Sky Yeah, its like that with some of the people I know. I tell them I listen to techno and house and right away they ask "So have you herd of Dj Sammy and Tiesto?"

That's why I stopped telling people what kind of music I like. When they ask, I usually come up with a convenient lie. It's so much easier that way.

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There's some very good indie stuff, but a lot of it strikes me as way too..."precious" or something. Almost like they try to make music that sounds like nursery rhymes.

See Kimya Dawson and most of the "Juno" soundtrack for good examples of that "cutesiness."