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minimalism: technique versus style
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| nefardec |
i can't stand how a technique has been transformed into a style
minimal is only really minimal in the context of something else.
so many deejays i feel think of minimalism as a style, a fashion or otherwise hip/underground aesthetic, but i think the basic strength of minimal is that it can be played meaningfully in the context of something 'not-minimal'.
if you listen to dan bell's deejay sets, or move d's for instance, you will always hear a range of spacey, funky music. they move between more minimal grooves and noiser grooves.
in other words, minimal should be more of an adjective, but everyone seems to use it as a noun these days
a deejay can take a groove and strip it back simply with the selection of a track, revealing the basic foundation of the thing, and then embellish and express with the next selection. i think good techno deejays don't stick to one 'style', they play techno, and within this continuum they are free to become more minimal or deeper or harder, etc.
minimalism should be a technique for penetrating to the core of a thing, and not the sort of circus show spectacle it has become |
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| Az |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
a deejay can take a groove and strip it back simply with the selection of a track, revealing the basic foundation of the thing, and then embellish and express with the next selection. i think good techno deejays don't stick to one 'style', they play techno, and within this continuum they are free to become more minimal or deeper or harder, etc.
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| |Thrax| |
I agree.
Also, I love how you took this thread; and stripped it back simply with the selection of words, revealing the basic foundation of the thing.
makes sense to me. |
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| SMC |
| Yes, in a context where everything is minimal the minimalism loses it's poignancy. That's what happens with most things when people forget about variation and contrasts. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| This is why I (and possibly many others too) find minimal and would-be minimal very dull. There's nothing wrong with the tracks in isolation, but techno sets that never move past minimal and just wallow in the same genre for the sheer sake of it are deathly dull to me. Minimal techno should be used with other flavours to work properly. |
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| DOOMBOT |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
This is why I (and possibly many others too) find minimal and would-be minimal very dull. There's nothing wrong with the tracks in isolation, but techno sets that never move past minimal and just wallow in the same genre for the sheer sake of it are deathly dull to me. Minimal techno should be used with other flavours to work properly. |
Richie Hawtin Live @ Mysteryland 2006
All minimal baby and my god does it work. ;) |
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