i love minimal as u do mark. always have. im in two minds about the music being in the lime light. my techno head says i hate it cuz trendy wannabes latch onto it. my mind loves it that our music is being listened to by the masses.
just the other day i was talking to a girl and the music topic came up. I usually shy away from the word techno as it usually conjours up the image of a 1990's banging rave, and that can scare people. but this girl was like, "yeah, ive been listening to minimal techno recently", which i thought was quite nice.