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The Minimal Sound (pg. 10)
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by MissK
Minimal is my new tribal.... seriously amazing sounds. I never did like electro, hurt my head after a while.
But minimal ^5 |
KATY - je t'aime SI BEAUCOUP!
You are soooooo my girl more and more these days! (even thats even possible based friendship over the years dating back to our Collingwood/Stay/Glencairn/Brentwood days :D)
I love that... even since learning before going to my cousin Dustin's wedding that minimal was 'ur thing' ... well, its like i just became re-smitten with you all over :toothless
i guess minimal could be like my new tribal too.. .seeing as i no longer really like it, but was absolutely into it back in 2005.
and we're in TOTAL agreement on not liking electro. annoying and totally hurts my brain after a very short whiel too :disbelief |
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| urban_legend |
ok I am gonna get on for this.......
I think Minimal is ballz
so boring, progessive music with raindrops...
can take maybe 5 minutes of it, and thats the good stuff.
Dont get me wrong love my techno but I need to be in a grove and that stuff doesnt do it for me.
*ducks* |
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| geroin |
| keep in mind that minimal has many subgenres, i find some stuff to be boring also but some of it is absolutely amazing |
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| urban_legend |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
keep in mind that minimal has many subgenres, i find some stuff to be boring also but some of it is absolutely amazing |
Can you name some so I can download it and check it out? I would appreciate it :toocool: |
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| geroin |
| quote: | Originally posted by urban_legend
Can you name some so I can download it and check it out? I would appreciate it :toocool: |
i really started appreciating minimal after listening to a couple of sets i downloaded, first i got interested after listening load of times to trentemoller sets about a year+ ago, I didn't like it first but it grew on me.. mostly his "La Noche Escabrosa" set (most of his sets are very similar because they are done live i guess). Then what finally did it for me is after seeing Audiofly at TIL by accident i kinda liked it so i downloaded their "Electronation" set. (both available in the HOUSE HEADS music thread).
After i started liking Ame, Gabriel Ananda, Radio Slave and many others
but try the audiofly set, it might work lol |
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| urban_legend |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
i really started appreciating minimal after listening to a couple of sets i downloaded, first i got interested after listening load of times to trentemoller sets about a year+ ago, I didn't like it first but it grew on me.. mostly his "La Noche Escabrosa" set (most of his sets are very similar because they are done live i guess). Then what finally did it for me is after seeing Audiofly at TIL by accident i kinda liked it so i downloaded their "Electronation" set. (both available in the HOUSE HEADS music thread).
After i started liking Ame, Gabriel Ananda, Radio Slave and many others
but try the audiofly set, it might work lol |
Thanks I will give er a try. See how she goes. |
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| geroin |
| quote: | Originally posted by urban_legend
Thanks I will give er a try. See how she goes. |
cool ;) |
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| rabbitjoker |
We know nothing of minimal.
The minimal we get is fancied up tech-house or techy-techno. |
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| The Highroller |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
We know nothing of minimal.
The minimal we get is fancied up tech-house. |
Very true. What most people call minimal right now, isn't really minimal. The stuff we hear in Toronto is tech house, but it's quite different sounding than the tech-house from days of yore.
Why do you guys think this new generation of tech house is being called minimal? Personally, I think it's because there are certain "sounds" (for lack of a better term) that you hear in modern day tech house that is also present in minimal in the true sense of the word.
Although this isn't the best set, this is an example of what I would consider to be "minimal" in the truest sense:
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| slingshot |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
We know nothing of minimal.
The minimal we get is fancied up tech-house or techy-techno. |
Which, you can also go on to say that what most people perceive as tech-house really isn't tech-house at all. |
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| shanny |
| quote: | Originally posted by slingshot
Which, you can also go on to say that what most people perceive as tech-house really isn't tech-house at all. |
I haven't heard real tech-house in years...
All we get now is this techy scwheky house and it drives me nuts when people call it real tech house. |
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| DigiNut |
To be honest, I think a lot of the minimal people are talking about here (not all minimal music in general) is more related to last year's electro than it is to tech house.
Tech house is something I'd associate with at least some funky, jazzy, or disco elements, just with a harder edge in the rhythm section than classic house. But then, the tech house we had/have in Toronto was never much like real house either; it's mostly been drab, soulless drums, really closer to techno than house but without the speed, effects and technical skill generally present in techno.
The same goes for electro. What everybody was calling electro last year bore no resemblance to real electro from the time when house music was still in its infancy. The main distinctive element in electro was never clicks and pops, it was the 808. That 808 cowbell especially - everybody recognizes that sound. A lot of breaks producers still produce this kind of electro and a lot of breaks DJs still spin it. You'll hear at least a few of these in any Krafty Kuts set. Of course it sounds different with the newer production technology, but the resemblance is quite obvious and most of the music tends toward melodic rather than just percussive. Drums in real electro are often, well, pretty minimal.
What people are calling minimal now - the sound that seems to have caught on in Toronto this year - it's just last year's "electro" fad with the chipsounds (clicks and pops) removed and the drums thinned out to sound similar to (but obviously not the same as) those same chipsounds. As such, the sheep have assumed that this is what minimal really is: dull, percussive, un-funky tech-house, except with less percussion. You take music that's almost entirely percussive in nature and take out half the percussion and you have something that I suppose does make sense to call minimal, since there's not much there.
But it's not, really. The sad trend in Toronto's music scene should be painfully obvious to anyone who thinks about it:
- First we had regular, funky house music
- Then they took out the funky elements and replaced it with blander, but generally listenable "progressive" melodies and harmonies
- Then they took out all the melodic elements and it became tribal / tech house
- Then they took out most of the tribal drums and distinctive techno elements, threw in a couple of clicks and pops, and called it "electro"
- Now they've taken out the clicks and pops and removed a lot of the rhythmic elements and are calling it "minimal"
- Next year we'll all be listening to alternating bursts of white noise and total silence.
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