Monolake is definitely very good.

You can get a free track by him from Sutemos, along with all sorts of other free gubbins. Mainly electronica, but quality electronica. Especially the Ruxpin stuff.

I had a big chat about minimal stuff with one of Jay's mates on saturday night.

I don't think minimal is a genre or style so much as an approach.

I tend to think a lot of what gets bandied around as "mnml" or whatever, isn't actually that minimal - it just uses a lot of tiny blippy noises in what are actually quite complex arrangements. Quite like what Akufen does. What they used to call "microhouse" a while back.

Genuine minimal crosses a wide variety of styles, but the whole point is doing a lot with little. It doesn't matter whether it's hard, funky, bleepy or ambient - if there's not much in it then it's minimal.

Jay's stuff is really good, by the way.

Still loving the old Basic Channel stuff.