minimal minimal everywhere minimal.

[koma]

todays techno scene is like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gP4Ih58Yzg

everyone's making minimal moves except for that one happy guy behind the keyboard hehe

[A.P.]

todays techno scene is like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gP4Ih58Yzg

everyone's making minimal moves except for that one happy guy behind the keyboard hehe

Wicked reply there mate...haha!
That guy with the synth sure does rock!

[dirty_bass]

Wicked reply there mate...haha!
That guy with the synth sure does rock!

HAHAHAHAHA
that rules.
**** minimal, next year everyone will be doing that.

[davethedrummer]

todays techno scene is like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gP4Ih58Yzg

everyone's making minimal moves except for that one happy guy behind the keyboard hehe

that's someones dad that is!

[DannyBlack]

theres some good and some bad. just like ever genre.

if it makes me get down and sweaty then i like it, if it dont, then i dont.

[Sinister_Minister]

No one called anyone names. Reread my post. It's the internet dude, wtf do you expect? People talk trite shit redundantly.

I like minimal sometimes, it serves a purpose. I wouldn't listen to it ever if I didn't then it wouldn't matter to me. All musical genres come in cycles, soon loopy hard tech will be the "in with the new and there'll be a new Guns N Roses type outfit shooting heroin in their necks and punching out prostitutes. Personally I'll take anything but Fall Out Boy:)

Peace

[RDR]

No one called anyone names. Reread my post. It's the internet dude, wtf do you expect? People talk trite shit redundantly.

I like minimal sometimes, it serves a purpose. I wouldn't listen to it ever if I didn't then it wouldn't matter to me. All musical genres come in cycles, soon loopy hard tech will be the "in with the new and there'll be a new Guns N Roses type outfit shooting heroin in their necks and punching out prostitutes. Personally I'll take anything but Fall Out Boy:)

Peace

Thats awful

And a complete waste of a punch.

[echodek]

are we arguing about arguing about the relative merits of minimal and "minimal"? john cage would be so proud of us!

[RDR]

are we arguing about arguing about the relative merits of minimal and "minimal"? john cage would be so proud of us!

Nah dont be silly, cage hated minimal and nothingness towards the end of his life.

[tots]

no disrespect to it or anything....i do enjoy a good minimal track here and there.

but....it seems that its all the regular techno guys are making right now (aside from electro house). i go to sort through the record shops and mp3 shops and surf the techno section.....everything that is considered techno now is Minimal.....and when i listen to the minimal section, that music is even more minimal than the minimal they now call techno....

i've always been a dj who is diverse in when it comes to techno....but it seems like im going to have to start getting into ketamine to enjoy most of the stuff that is coming out lately. and if i look for some hard techno all i find really is REALLY HARD schranz....where is the happy medium techno i love so much?

My god someone who is as lost as me at the moment dont get me wrong i always find what im looking for but as well as djing i like clubbing and a good rocking night is hard to find elswhere thes days!!Dude i saw adam beyer at priveledge(thinking i might find a bit of purist)but to say i was disapointed is an understatement all the music he played sounded the same massive build up in the break and then when it kicks in it crashes back down to some sort of leaky tap dripping at the side of a microphone sound.

I was gonna leave but i thought id wait and give piccoto the benefit of the doubt,big mistake it was an absolute bag of shit but as long as these people dance to this stuff they'll keep producing it,dont get me wrong minimal in the build up of a set is good as long as you take it in to some nice groovy compressed synthy sort of stuff to get the set rocking but these guys take no higher than when they start,i did however catch jeff mills a few days earliar and had one of the best nights ive had in years pure detroit purveyed through three decks two cdjs and a drum machine that he slammed the hell out of!!!!Id look towards holland if i was you bas mooy,jeroen librigts,christian wunsch the list goes on,Glen wilson jon nuccle and mike humphries are also churning out good stuff still too imo........

[tots]

Check this link and look at the poster you may find something to your liking there anx

www.myspace.com/joy_tots

[Jay Pace]

I saw cave last night and he beefed it out.
As did james ruskin when we had him over in March.
As did paul langley when we had him over in May

Green velvet was ****ing good when i saw him at exit. Derrick May rocked it at lost.
And not minimal at all.

So if these guys are chunking out it out, what are they playing? Where are they getting their records from?

Some old, some new, same as always.

i like minimal. its a new type of record to put in the box alongside the others.
Unless you methodically collected every techno and house record released over the last two decades i reckon there's more than a few gems out there waiting to be discovered.

Get digging! Supposedly what djing is all about. Your selection. Can't rely on a "now thats what I call techno album" to deliver the goods in one tidy package each year.

Check out what ruskin and siegling are playing. There's plenty about, just got to keep looking.

[Ritzi Lee]

nag nag nag.
techno labels just need to work harder to sell their records themselves at the shops, then letting it done by a distributor. Do more promotion to the retailers and shops, and keep pushing those sounds.

[eyeswithoutaface]

nag nag nag.
techno labels just need to work harder to sell their records themselves at the shops

spot on mate

too many people take this scene for granted and seem to think it owes them something

[MARK ANXIOUS]

there is definitely a lack of middle ground in techno at the minute. you have shit loads of minimal and shit loads of schranz (which i love - it's all music). but once you really start looking, really searching, you can find it - just not at the rate that it has been. damn, anything that's in fashion is going to easy to find for sure, but what really makes me happy is that the middle stuff i play has been searched for through the hills - a real great feeling when i play it :)

just get on those internet sites mate and find that music. that's what djing is all about :)

[Craig_Lea]

just get on those internet sites mate and find that music. that's what djing is all about :)

Not that I actually DJ, but I couldn't agree more.
It's all about the quest :)

[RDR]

Not that I actually DJ, but I couldn't agree more.
It's all about the quest :)

The Art of digging..

hip hop djs been at this for years.. and they've got a LOT more to get through - and they love it.

I find it a bit strange that some people believe there to BE no variety - crikey, there's thousands of different artists out there. And a lot of it is catlogued. in alphabetical order. in genre order too on some of the bigger dowload sites.

there's never been a better time for techno!

[audioinjection]

haha now i see complaints about not enough of the middle ground techno, but back when it was being released more werent people complaining about how it all sounded the same?? geezus

[Split-Personality]

I guess such an international and diverse art is always gonna be open to taste, interpretation and trends..............

"Pays ya moneys makes ya choice".

I only got into Minimal relatively recently, was hard not to when the Beach Parties in Barcelona are so good during Sonar but I digress. Either like it or hate it you cant argue that it hasnt made an impression on a lot of the Genres out there today. Thats not to say thats necessarily a good or bad thing.

[dirty_bass]

Why doesn`t everyone stop band wagon jumping and following trends.
Mix it all up.
Techno is now swinging into the same rigmarole as all other fashion/advertising lead crap.
People need to be told what is in and out, they don`t seem to have the courage to just do stuff on their own merit.