Techno coming back

[dirty_bass]

Minimal was never techno.

It`s house for people who don`t like to admit or think they are listening to or dancing to techno.

You`ll find minimal "techno" in more house record shops and online shops labeled as minimal house, than you will places that call it techno. And rightly so.

Not that I don`t love it.

[massplanck]

Minimal was never techno.
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Tell that to Rob Hood.

[koma]

Robert Hood on minimal

"These days I am focused purely on minimalism and really embracing minimalism because it’s taken on a life of its own. It’s now a music style separate from techno. I would never have imagined that it would take this direction. I didn’t see that one coming! Back then I think people looked on at it as a trend but they didn’t realise that minimalism is an art form. I did not realise it would take on this characteristic as it has now. So where I’m at right now is embracing minimalism and seeing how far I can push it—in my interpretation of what simplicity and the music is all about. I am really representing it as an art form and not a trend. As the future evolves, we’re going to get more and more minimal..."

more: http://www.fabriclondon.com/press/be.../731-guid.html