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.