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Minimalism lacking direction?!
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| kush paintings |
| Bare with me now, long night.... but, I'm thinking about this right... and after listening to some "minima/ electro" sets, I really think the efforts (sets as a whole) are lacking true structure and direction. There are tons of gems out there that push the envelope and are truly original, but when I sit down for minimal and electro sets they seem shallow and often times predictible attempts at creating what a good mix should be. They are neither emotionally compelling, nor twisting and turning to directions unforseen. Take this as a drunken rant whathaveyou but I honestly feel this way about the two genres (often combined). I think there's loads of potential in them, so hence my frustration. Any thoughts, arguements against? |
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| MoBreakz |
| i dont think minimal can be really a direction or journey medium. You can have pretty much just a buncha great great tracks together that have nothing to do with eachother in a minimal set...programming minimal I would imagine is easy due to this......or maybe extremely hard if im wrong and minimal dj's actualy do program a directioned or journey set. That said what are some good Minimal tracks......Loco Dice was here this past weekend he rocked it. |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by MoBreakz
i dont think minimal can be really a direction or journey medium. You can have pretty much just a buncha great great tracks together that have nothing to do with eachother in a minimal set...programming minimal I would imagine is easy due to this......or maybe extremely hard if im wrong and minimal dj's actualy do program a directioned or journey set. That said what are some good Minimal tracks......Loco Dice was here this past weekend he rocked it. |
I think there is definetely a journey involved- |
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| nefardec |
| whoa watch it with the 'minimalism'...steve reich will take you down |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Steve Reich is amazing. |
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| Az |
there's too much minimal for minimals sake at the minute
when you strip it down there needs to be a groove, and there's a million and one records out there that simply don't have it |
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| Zild |
| Just like any other genre most of it is and it is really up to the DJ to find the songs that aren't and put them together in a coherent way. That said it is probably impossible to put together a great set of ONLY minimal music. Throw in some tech, throw in some prog, a little bit of funk. |
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| JMorris |
| I've heard some great minimal sets that definitely throw you on a journey. :) |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by kush paintings
They are neither emotionally compelling, nor twisting and turning to directions unforseen. |
Hence the term......................................... minimal? ;) |
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| distant |
| I'd say it falls into the "head-noddin' beats" category. I've never really had an emotional connection to any techno, though I like it for its roughness. Well, except the Detroit kind. Some beautiful strings there. |
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| stren |
| minimal and electro can be boring as (minimal especially) when its all you hear in a set |
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| distant |
| Electro boring? Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Name some "electro" artists for me, and we'll see. |
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