Dan Bell

[The_Laughing_Man]

plenty of classical minimalism is about small vocabularies of relatively "unaltered" tones, e.g. john cage's "string quartet in four parts," (which is really worth checking out, if you don't already know it), or shifting patterns of short repeated tones, like "in c" or "music for 18 musicians." that's exactly what rob hood was doing, albeit in a far more superficial way than said composers. but hey...all techno is superficial compared to the giants of contemporary classical. by the bar set by classical minimalism, virtually all "minimal" electronic music is "kiddie minimalism." but nothing wrong with that...just the nature of the beast.

not really, there is plenty of electronic music that more captures the detail and ethic of minimalism fairly effectively, yet still within the post african rhythm context.
More so in the last 10 years than before.
Hood was just an early explorer (only comparitively, within his own niche of electronica)
What he did is like a an old Ford Model T in a museum compared to a Koenigsegg CCX Edition (In black of course).

[SlavikSvensk]

not really, there is plenty of electronic music that more captures the detail and ethic of minimalism fairly effectively, yet still within the post african rhythm context.
More so in the last 10 years than before.
Hood was just an early explorer (only comparitively, within his own niche of electronica)
What he did is like a an old Ford Model T in a museum compared to a Koenigsegg CCX Edition (In black of course).

but it is kid stuff, really, and not a lot more. there's certainly a place for that, and it has value, but it's like comparing graffiti art to dan flavin. minimal electronic music should be appreciated for what it is, but pretentions to transcendence are misplaced, and obviously so when compared to classical minimalism.