your thoughts on minimal..

[RDR]

Ah, the unmistakeable sound of a can opening and worms spilling all over the place...

To me there are two very different things that get bandied around as minimal.

One is what I would call "genuinely minimal" Techno, like Basic Channel and older Hawtin. Stuff with few elements, sparse arrangements, generally restrained DSP with massive soakings of reverb and echo. The great thing about this stuff being that it can actually be either hard or soft, in-your-face or understated. There's quite a lot of range.

The other is this "mnml" stuff that's floating around a lot, which to me sounds like what they used to call "Click House". Which is actually pretty complex and intricate but uses very tiny little clicky and blippy noises compressed to buggery. A great example of the sound is Akufen. It has its moments, but I'm not a massive fan.

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