Why are we all going minimal?

**Miromiric** · 08-12-2005, 05:38 PM

that should boost up my sales rates.

**Agent Orange NYC** · 08-12-2005, 06:43 PM

Everything gets its turn in the spotlight. Right now its the 'stripped down' sound. I think any music that's done right kicks ass, and alot of the bandwagon jumpers will probably be gone in a year, just like anything that takes off so fast.

I just don't understand DJ's that are so extreme and only feel that they need to stick to one style to represent their sound. I think it kills things to do that. The minmal sound is about atmoshpere, ambiance, sound manipulation, the sound that alot of 'techno' fans were used to till now focused more on the groove, and use of layers to build energy. There are times in a club that call for each sound, I think if we really want to move things foward we have to accept that a good record is a good record and if played at the right time will be amazing to hear on a good system.

**thetonewrecka** · 08-12-2005, 10:17 PM

It's like taking off the braces and now your teeth are straight. All the fixes are in place.

**Craig McW** · 08-12-2005, 11:01 PM

I hate the fad, but love some of the music.

When the fad dies, there'll be some good producers who remain.

I've never and never will stick to a fad. I play techno. To me techno is a framework that encompasses my approach to music.... everything I do is techno. In that I trust....

Luciano is cool as.

**dirty_bass** · 08-12-2005, 11:14 PM

I just like techno.
**** Sub sub genres.
Mix it all up, shove it down your neck and go crazy-aid-bonkers

**basslinejunkie** · 08-12-2005, 11:18 PM

ahmen

**dan the acid man** · 08-12-2005, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by dirty_bass

I just like techno.
**** Sub sub genres.
Mix it all up, shove it down your neck and go crazy-aid-bonkers

too right.

as for the people that follow trends, hopefully a few of them stick around and continue to enjoy the music when the next trend comes along and the rest of the sheep toddle off.
im sure i posted earlier in this thread but its not here

**MARKEG** · 08-12-2005, 11:55 PM

now that's what i like to see - a mod who doubts the mods haha :lol:

no honest mate, np's this end FOR ONCE. everything is running smooth.

:)

**dan the acid man** · 09-12-2005, 12:02 AM

cool :boadj:

**Dustin Zahn** · 09-12-2005, 10:54 PM

Here's something I forgot to mention earlier. I think a lot of harder producers maybe kept hearing about the minimal trend so they just fooled around in the studio for shits and giggles or simply to try their hand at it. They probably realized over time that it's quite refreshing to work on some techno music that doesn't require them to just throw some synth stabs on top of drum loops, filter out the break and call it a day. So, I think a lot of them are currently enjoying producing something a little bit different...cause a lot of those guys have done nothing but hard and dark drummy shit for the past 5-7 years straight.

Now, there's also another thing to be said for that...maybe it's their fault for following their own forumlas for too long or not experimenting years ago. Right now, I think people are just up for experimenting more rather than just putting out loopy shit for the sake of it. Sales are in the dumps so badly right now that producers can afford to take chances without taking too much more of a loss, and the funny thing is a lot of them are experiencing an increase in the number of sales.

**dirty_bass** · 09-12-2005, 11:56 PM

The problem is that techno became and still is slightly, over comparmentalised. With producers only making one sound and only listening to one sound.
And as I have commented many times on this forum, inbreeding makes no contribution to evolution.
Going minimal is just another trend and it really is no more superior than any other type of techno.
I`d like to see artists branching out rather than releasing the same record again and again and again and again and again and again and again.

**The Divide** · 10-12-2005, 01:15 AM

As far as I’m concerned no ones going minimal, its more the minimal scene has just grown, good on it I say. I wouldn’t say it’s a trend neither, I mean surely people who listen to it are more than fashion slaves. I think people ought to get over the fact that people are genuinely interested in something they don’t understand or like.

I can relate to it, to an extent as my interest in a lot of techno has started to fizzle. I mean there’s stuff out there that I love but its rare, very rare. People started layering loops instead of building new rhythms and focusing on clever changes, etc. I have started to find it lazy. Its all a matter of opinion, but in mind its as simple as that. All this minimal stuff has the rhythms, clever changes but has no attitude and that’s why I am not interested in it.

Me personally, I’m finding grime or dubstep much more straight up, innovative and exciting. I don’t have a problem with this as for me its sounding more techno than most techno does as it has a little more than a lazily produced half baked loop. Dont agree? So sue me :lol:

**evanrees** · 10-12-2005, 01:23 AM

I do love a lot of the new minimal stuff (specially a couple of Hawtrin sets posted here recently and that Alex Under set) but at the end of the day it's just another sub genre that is going through a phase right now. The sets i prefer to hear really go through the works not just sticking to one small part of whats out there. Why limit yourself to one small sub genre.

**The Divide** · 10-12-2005, 01:37 AM

For those of you who dont know what im talking about check...

Rephlex

and try to blank out the mc :lol:

**The Divide** · 10-12-2005, 01:38 AM

Mark can you do something about the hyperlink font on here, that was a link i posted above..

http://www.thedivide.co.uk/audio/Rephlex.mp3

cheers

**MARKEG** · 10-12-2005, 06:18 AM

nps yeah will do that mate this week. am working on a slightly better colour scheme so that's now on the list!

**sash** · 10-12-2005, 06:24 AM

i'm lovin watchin techno evolve :)

**djshiva** · 10-12-2005, 05:11 PM

i just think it's always boring when a dj only plays one style throught an entire set. i love some of the more minimal tunes, but many of the djs lpaying it just keep it all linear...one speed...no cuts, no nothing...just end to end mixes of the samey sounding bleep bloop all night.

i love to hear people mix it up. start out with some minimal then go funky then go drummy then go banging then go weird then mellow out again. that keeps my interest better than more than an hour of anything that sounds exactly like the last hour.

my three cents...

**miss bass** · 10-12-2005, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by The Divide

Me personally, I’m finding grime or dubstep much more straight up, innovative and exciting. I don’t have a problem with this as for me its sounding more techno than most techno does as it has a little more than a lazily produced half baked loop. Dont agree? So sue me :lol:

heavy heavy heavy ;) thats what im talking bout bruv...da gal dem shake dat batty high n shake da batty low

hehe hotness

**miss bass** · 10-12-2005, 07:47 PM

u made me wana go to a grime rave now so bad

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