Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
For me, the point is that, there are producers who have always stepped in various genres, and just get on with it.
So for them, doing minimal is nothing out of the ordinary, as they do a variety of stuff anyway.

But the amount of producers, who would have nothing but the sound they were focusing on, without an incline to diversity, are suddenly "oh yeah, minimal is the thing man"
That`s when for me, it`s just not genuine. I`ve never dug fashion victims.

As my mum always says about trends.
"If they told you to stick your head in the oven, would you do it?"

Well, there are certainly a few people now, with their head planted firmly in the mnml oven, the heat is up to 10, and they still don`t get it.

As for the music spreading techno to non techno people, this is of course a good thing, but really, i feel it`s more for the housey-ness, than the techno-ness.

Cool stuff out there either way.
I fully agree with you there, yes alot of idiots jump on the bandwagon because they are told by mixmag or whatever, fake, ungenuine motives are something I personally cant stand. But in that sense, 15 people jumping on the bandwagon, 9 getting off at the next stop, the remaining then being introduced to sounds they never new existed before and becoming a convert is a good thing for fresh underground music imo. Aslong as the genuine stick by what they want, what we all love and crave will exist and grow, bandwagoners will come and go.

Minimal is still an underground fad really, no matter what it will never appeal to a really massive audience. Underground fads become interesting to many, then stay interesting to a few. They dont blow up and become some void form of music that has this mindless following (hardcore, trance, hard house) they just run out of ideas and become abit stale, if you know what I mean, I may be wrong but thats how I see it.

But without popularity, nothing would get noticed.