Minimal really isnt minimal....

[MARK ANXIOUS]

Wilko touched on this on the BOA radio show this month. And I agree. It's all techno. Sure, hard became huge over the last few years, so did funky or tribal or whatever... minimal is now the buzz word..... but techno isnt just about hard or funky or whatever. It's not about this shit...I listened back to an old Mayday track at the end of a Steve Bug album this week and I was like, holy cow - techno means so much more than just one category or style - or fashion....

Damn it's just my rant for a Sunday heheh :)

[MITA]

it's all tekkno
energetic,slow,banging,cuting,mellow
just.the question is what drug ya need a..

[Joycey]

In ibiza they call minimal "underground house."

So many names/ genre's ect its fukin mad

Not keen on minimal me tho - love me pounders!

[Numeric]

i love it all man, all styles...

[hoodlum]

i love it all man, all styles...

got it in one.

[conflict]

minimal scouse house is where its at

[DannyBlack]

minimal scouse house is where its at

yeah, the less the better!


minimal is alright, there is something in all kinds 'o' techno that will appeal to all techno heads.

[BloodStar]

minimal is good, but why so many tracks are sounding all the same?

[TechMouse]

It's funny...

Most of what people call "mnml" these days just seems to sound like what Akufen was doing a few years back - when it used to be called "microhouse", which I think is kind of a more accurate (if supremely pretentious) name for it.

I tend to think that minimalism is more of an approach than anything else. It's doing a lot with little, or at least attempting to do so. So much "mnml" seems to just be lots of little clicky noises and stuff with sparse processing.

[basslinejunkie]

It's funny...

Most of what people call "mnml" these days just seems to sound like what Akufen was doing a few years back - when it used to be called "microhouse", which I think is kind of a more accurate (if supremely pretentious) name for it.

I tend to think that minimalism is more of an approach than anything else. It's doing a lot with little, or at least attempting to do so. So much "mnml" seems to just be lots of little clicky noises and stuff with sparse processing.

exactly. 80 per cent of the stuff i hear thats labelled minimal i just view as new age house. which aint bad,i like some house now an again.

[Mucky Beats]

mark you hit the nail on the head with techno is techno .... all this breaking it up into diffrent genres is bit silly i think and is almost people tryin to get away from the word techno like its got the lurgy or something he he ...
The reason we started the techno experiment is to try and break down these walls and party under one roof to TECHNO.

[Jay Pace]

Neo-eclectic self propelling beatcore is where its at.

Everything else is spazrock for dads and brainwrongs.

Labels schmabels.

[audioinjection]

haha, how funny, last night i was trying to explain to my girlfriend what styles of techno there was and i was like, ****, its all TECHNO! the whole "minimal" sound is just how techno is sounding these days, but i agree it's all just techno

im over the whole argument now...

[Ritzi Lee]

wouldn't it be lovely to just trash all the name droppings,
and just play what you feel like?

[The Overfiend]

Techno is what it is.

Unexplainable

[eyeswithoutaface]

minimal is good, but why so many tracks are sounding all the same?

yeah but no use just singleing minimal out for that, practically every sub genre of techno suffers from this, with hard techno, as much as i love it, probably being one of the worst offenders

just nature. Someone hears something they like, they want to imitate it, some happen to mould what they do into their own sound, some dont

[SlavikSvensk]

you guys should hear my seriously minimal sh*t. just one 808 kick then silence for 8 minutes. then another.

[eyeswithoutaface]

you guys should hear my seriously minimal sh*t. just one 808 kick then silence for 8 minutes. then another.

sounds great, will this be available in mp3?

[AcidTrash]

Amazing how the music progresses but the people do not.

[basslinejunkie]

Amazing how the music progresses but the people do not.

you think techno has progressed in the last say 6 years, rather than taken a step back???