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[ Techno Inside ] (pg. 19)
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| Skipper |
Kate, have you gotten your order from music head yet?
I'm going to have to place an order there...they have all of the releases I need to fill out my collection of Alex Under. :) |
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| Kate Manus |
nah not yet... I just placed it not long ago and some of the titles aren't even out until next week so I imagine they won't ship it for another few days.
I can't think of the last time I placed an order that was mostly all hard techno... One of them is this fun Felix Krocher double ep that has a track on it sampling lines from Fight Club... hehe
I noticed there is a new remix of Murder was the Bass... I wish they'd let that tune retire for a few years.. another remix is so not necessary at this stage!! |
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| Kate Manus |
Mixmag Make Minimal Their Next Big Thing
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
Mixmag dubbed minimal techno 'the hottest sound in dance' this week in a four page feature asking 'why are we going mad for squeaks and bleeps?'
The UK dance mag raved about 'the rest of the world going spastik to minimal' describing it as 'the catalyst to a resurgence in underground music that's reinvigorated clubbing all over again', just as Time Out staked a claim to be the first magazine to start the 'minimal is dead' inevitable upcoming backlash.
"Minimal: the sublime and stripped back sound of the future or is it just for wasted K (ketamine) kids at silly hours on a Monday morning," asked Time Out. "Will it be the sound of the our summer or will we be so over it be then?"
Riton ('it can be really dull') and Ben Fat Trucker ('it's already starting to look really tired') offered up the sharpest sound bites while Secretsundaze' Giles Smith ('I can see why some refer to it as boring') was more positive complaining instead that the term is already overused.
Scottish minimal maestro Alex Smoke raised the same point chatting to Skrufff last week, declaring 'everything gets called minimal, whether it's techno, electro, house or anything and it's become quite bloated as a genre definition."
"I suppose I've listened to more of what's called minimal in the last year and I've DJed some of it, but already I'm starting to play more electro and techno again,' Alex added.
"Because it's experienced such a rapid expansion it can't help but change just because you've got a lot of DJs out there now all playing the same tunes," he said. |
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| Skipper |
More pics from awakenings on Friday! no sets tho :(
Babs...looking a little tired from her tour?
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| Kate Manus |
some pics from the following night of Awakenings.... sheesh... must be nice to not only have one party of that stature as an option for the weekend.. but two!!
A rising female dj from spain.. Pelacha!
Joel is such a cutie! :D
The man of the party.. .Steve Rachmad! Rachmad considered it to be his best Awakenings party in years... and he has played 30 of them :)
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| sufee_b |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kate Manus
Mixmag Make Minimal Their Next Big Thing
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
Mixmag dubbed minimal techno 'the hottest sound in dance' this week in a four page feature asking 'why are we going mad for squeaks and bleeps?'
The UK dance mag raved about 'the rest of the world going spastik to minimal' describing it as 'the catalyst to a resurgence in underground music that's reinvigorated clubbing all over again', just as Time Out staked a claim to be the first magazine to start the 'minimal is dead' inevitable upcoming backlash.
"Minimal: the sublime and stripped back sound of the future or is it just for wasted K (ketamine) kids at silly hours on a Monday morning," asked Time Out. "Will it be the sound of the our summer or will we be so over it be then?"
Riton ('it can be really dull') and Ben Fat Trucker ('it's already starting to look really tired') offered up the sharpest sound bites while Secretsundaze' Giles Smith ('I can see why some refer to it as boring') was more positive complaining instead that the term is already overused.
Scottish minimal maestro Alex Smoke raised the same point chatting to Skrufff last week, declaring 'everything gets called minimal, whether it's techno, electro, house or anything and it's become quite bloated as a genre definition."
"I suppose I've listened to more of what's called minimal in the last year and I've DJed some of it, but already I'm starting to play more electro and techno again,' Alex added.
"Because it's experienced such a rapid expansion it can't help but change just because you've got a lot of DJs out there now all playing the same tunes," he said. |
ahh yes, the minimal band wagon... |
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| Cribby |
I <3 mnml.
It's all I have been listening to lately. Blip Blurp Beep Squeak. |
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| m2j |
minimal's good... in small doses.
but then again, thats how I started out with DnB, and now its one of my fav. genres.
I guess as with most EDM genres, it takes some getting used to.
Although I did really enjoy Alex Smoke's EM from a little while ago. Fun stuff. |
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| Skipper |
I've been listening to a lot of minimal at home, on my commute, etc. It takes the right environment to enjoy going out and hearing a whole set of it, but if done well, it's the sound I'm enjoying the most right now.
I don't think minimal will be as huge as it is now forever - but it's certainly not just a passing trend. Minimal techno is not new. What I think this focus on minimal is doing is introducing it to a wider audience with a lot of top DJs playing it, and eventually a lot of these DJs are going to be regularly playing a wide variety of sounds in their sets. Some will focus on certain aspects more than others, but generally, the recent movement of top techno DJs towards electro house and minimal is eventually going to mean in any given set we are going to hear a variety of sounds - which I think is exciting.
As with anything that becomes popular, there's a lot of crappy content that gets put out there by people trying to quickly capitalizing on the trend...but there's a lot of great stuff too, groovy, sexy, dancefloor minimal techno that can be layered and worked over and tweaked and cut and faded just like harder techno. |
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| m2j |
Generally, I like my Techno BANGIN' and I did not think much of minimal techno... until I heard this set.
Alex Smoke
Essential Mix 2006-03-05
Download
Track List:
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Actress 'Credit Da Edit' (Werk)
Automat 'Prelude III' (Karat)
Shadow Huntaz 'Roar' (Skam)
Basic Channel 'Prescence' (Basic Channel)
Mitchell Akiyama 'Force to Part' (Eat this Record)
DMX Krew 'Mars Memory' (Rephlex)
3MB 'Die Komischen Kuriere' (Tresor)
Alex Smoke 'What Can I Say' (Vakant)
Ricardo Villalobos 'Duso' (Cadenza)
Ricardo Villalobos 'Früh' (Playhouse)
Unknown Wanderer 'Living in Concrete Houses' (Pnuma)
E.O.X. 'Reproduction' (AD Ltd.)
Sleepless Crew 'Spell House' (Dalriada Ltd.)
Hardfloor 'T2 Da C (Claro Intelecto Mix)' (Hardfloor)
Shyza Manelli 'Take it Back' (Tuning Spork)
Onür Ozer 'Envy' (Vakant)
Ricardo Villalobos 'Bahaha hahi' (Playhouse)
Thomas Brinkmann 'Karin' (Ernst)
Matthew Dear 'Good Girl' ( Spectral)
Carl Craig 'Darkness (Radioslave Mix)' (Unknown)
Salif Keita 'Yamore (Luciano Mix)' (Cadenza)
Sleep Archive 'Research' (Sleep Archive)
Audion 'Rubber' (Spectral)
Paperclip People '4 My Peeps (Shot Mix)' (Planet E)
DJ Bone 'The Funk' (Metroplex)
Dirty Hospital 'Krankenhouse' (Rotten Row)
Ark 'Sucubz' (Perlon)
Samim 'House Nation' (Tuning Spork)
Stephen Brown 'I Am Someone' (Transmat)
Arp Aubert 'Actress (Alexander Polzin Remix)' (Mirau)
Enjoy. |
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| Kate Manus |
I remember reading an interview with Mauro Picotto years ago in which when asked why he had shifted his style to techno, he replied something to the effect of:
“I am playing techno now because I feel that the quality of the productions at the moment is high, but I will never play any one style forever”.
I will be the first to admit that techno productions have suffered in recent years and most of the new releases I have heard are far from innovative, but I do get a bit annoyed when I hear/read that certain techno djs cite the fact that they have shifted their style in large part because they think the current techno releases aren’t especially interesting. People change their taste and inspirations all the time so I can’t fault anybody for that, but sadly I rarely hear of a leading techno dj (they are basically all producers these days now too) truly trying to actually do something about it to help the cause (for lack of a better expression)! Instead they seem to focus their production efforts elsewhere.
I’m personally not ‘bored’ with the releases I’ve been buying but if shifting your style is simply a matter of the production value being weaker these days, then I have to wonder a bit why more techno DJs (like Cave) aren’t trying to develop their own Live PA or something, which I think could be a good creative challenge!
As we all know though, everything happens in cycles.. there will always be a place for minimal, as well as techno… and it seems like we are experiencing a bit of changing of the guard, with many of the older jocks shifting styles, and new ones emerging to take their places! I definitely think either way it will be an interesting period for techno in the coming years. |
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| Skipper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kate Manus
but I do get a bit annoyed when I hear/read that certain techno djs cite the fact that they have shifted their style in large part because they think the current techno releases aren’t especially interesting. People change their taste and inspirations all the time so I can’t fault anybody for that, but sadly I rarely hear of a leading techno dj (they are basically all producers these days now too) truly trying to actually do something about it to help the cause (for lack of a better expression)! Instead they seem to focus their production efforts elsewhere.
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I don't believe many of these DJs "switching" have strictly been interested in hard techno for the duration of their careers until now. Many of them have exposed their "softer side" here and there over the years and now there is more of a market for that sound, it is the perfect time to develop that sound as a DJ or as a producer.
I don't believe very many of them are focusing their production efforts elsewhere simply because the trend is now to play electro or minimal or house or whatever - I think it's because it presents a great development opportunity for them as artists.
I get the impression now that the "cause" is not limited to one sound, in fact I think it's the exact opposite - the inclusion of all sorts of music. |
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