Define Minimal

[Loop]

Sorry to say it but Hawtin was calling Sheet One minimal(1993) and its still one of the finest examples.
Arvo Part is amazing btw. Check this one out - http://www.discogs.com/Arvo-P%C3%A4r...release/896511

[The_Laughing_Man]

Sorry to say it but Hawtin was calling Sheet One minimal(1993) and its still one of the finest examples.
Arvo Part is amazing btw. Check this one out - http://www.discogs.com/Arvo-P%C3%A4r...release/896511

If you are a fan of part you have to get this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pärt-Sympho.../dp/B00001IVON

Gil Shaham, one of the greatest violinists in the world playing Fratres.
The textures he gets out of the strings are like shards of glass being shot threw your spine. I through this into a Voidloss live pa in Poland once on a big soundsystem. It was incredible. Longest most rewarding breakdown in a PA I`ve ever done.

[akuma]

i think to a lot of people minimal means techno a few bpms down minus the compressed percussive loops and distortion....and plus heavily swung arpeggiated basslines and white noise. i think thats what i'd expect if i went to a night calling itself minimal. (not that i ever have cos i live in devon!)

whether or not this is minimal or not doesnt matter anyway. theres loads of other stuff out there that is quality..stuff on ostgut ton and shed etc

anyway minimal is dead now. alexis petridis said so in the guardian and he wears an £1800 jacket so is well switched on innit?