Quote Originally Posted by The_Laughing_Man View Post
The less educated like to bang on about Robert hood inventing minimal blah blah blah, but modern minimal owes more to people like Pan Sonic ans Sahko Recordings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_Vainio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sähkö_Recordings
"Techno" music that traces it`s roots to Musique Concrete and Industrial, and art music, rather than Detroits funk and disco roots.

There is a very good short doc by Bjork about modern minimalism that has a lot of relevance to modern minimal techno and the pursuit of purity and texture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpbGGb6ZzWg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_7V7F6RrM

It also has a very rare interview with my fave (and I would say greatest composer of the 20th century) composer Arvo Part.
i actually totally agree. i got all the early pan sonic and sahko tracks and this was really developing way before hood. it was hood that 'made' the term commercial though. that's the first time we ever really heard an album described as 'minimal' in the press to my knowledge.

anyway, the definition of minimal, to me is the original idea of it. you take such small sounds and really develop them, but not obviously and in a kinda random way. modern day minimal is too obvious. that's why to me, much of it is a different genre entirely. not that i dont like it, i'm a music person after all, but i'm just saying it's not the true definition of minimal. funny what commercialism can do to a sound eh?!