Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Getty's Central Garden
it's true that about 90% of minimal tracks are shitty, but so are about 90% of any genre of music. i also think minimal gets a bad name because so many dj's are spinning it, but don't really know how to fit the minimal tracks into their sets. just like trance, house, techno and other genres of edm, minimal is here to stay and it will continue to influence dj's and producers. however, the hype and explosion of minimal is definitely on the downturn b/c it's no longer "fresh" or "new" - something will take its place.
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Sep-13-2006 17:18
chesco
out to lunch
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Glasgow
Re: Minimal is Over Predicts German Minimal Star
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Berlin¹s where it started
A person of infinite knowledge I see.
If he doesn't even know who the first pioneers of minimal house and techno were and where they came from the likelyhood is he doesn't have a fuckin clue what minimal is.
No doubt he's talking about all this nu-wave stuff which has been labelled by minimal by every shite dance music mag or record store, but which is in fact anything but minimal.
Sep-13-2006 17:52
chesco
out to lunch
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Glasgow
a friend of mine made this comment on another forum and tbh, I think it's absoultely spot on:
quote:
Whenever a sound "blows up" Joe Bloggs is always eager to jump on the bandwagon. On the flipside people are just as eager to slate it and be the first to notice that there is a bandwagon being jumped upon (or at least suggest they were digging it when it was cool).
Fact is, there is good music and bad music. Well made music, with depth and layers and shitty transparent cack. This goes for all style/genres.
Registered: May 2006
Location: Eisenstein's laboratory
quote:
Originally posted by Demoted
So with minimal "over", 'electro tech house' played out, trance "dead/dying" for the past three or four years easily, what is the in thing?
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Sep-13-2006 18:36
basilisk
Ektoplazm
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by d-miurge
Progressive with melodic constructions and electroish elements, without the tsss tak tak of the minimal: that's the next big thing. The prog electro thing is too hype for me.
Progressive with melodic constructions and electroish elements, without the tsss tak tak of the minimal: that's the next big thing. The prog electro thing is too hype for me.
