**** MINIMAL

[Darkmode]

Blanket statements about any form of music are normally ill-informed.
On the contrary there is, like all music, the good and the bad, the sell outs and the artists. SOme is mediocre, some is pushing the cutting edge, some is downright aweful. Same as techno same as anything.
You simply have to find it, just like anything else.
No one was forced to do anything, and some of the artists who have embraced a change have done some truly great stuff, I think Regis stuff as Kalon has been fantastic.
The suggestion that people will go "back" to making techno is perhaps misguided, if anything those that move with the zeitgeist may just move on to whatever change and development is next.
Minimal is on it`s way out and is dying?
Surely that must mean then that the previous main form of techno is dead?
Or will minimal die, but the older form of techno won`t?
I`m confused as to how music dies?
I thought it just starts with die hard fans, reaches it`s commercial peak, and then goes back to being supported by die hard fans

I think these kinds of fearful raves and reaction always happen when things change.
With techno I din it the most odd, as musically it has always been so fluid, and about change, and the future.
When it changes though, people can`t accept it, because they don`t really want change, they want familiarity.

Just because I don't like Minimal does not mean I am informed there is loads of people who into Minimal are informed about the music as they are into it becasue it's fashionable some of them have not even heard of Robert Hood & some diss him saying he is crap!

I don't like Minimal & a lot of people don't like it at the end of the day not everyone likes it those Techno artists who jumped on the Minimal bandwagon jumped on it for the money & the music they are releasing now is crap as they are only doing it for the money & you can tell when you here it there is no passion it it's soulless crap thats what I think & if people who are into Minimal don't like what I think than thats their problem! It's for poncy scarf waring pricks with silly haircuts end of!

[The_Laughing_Man]

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ome of them have not even heard of Robert Hood & some diss him saying he is crap!

I don't like Minimal & a lot of people don't like it at the end of the day not everyone likes it those Techno artists who jumped on the Minimal bandwagon jumped on it for the money & the music they are releasing now is crap as they are only doing it for the money & you can tell when you here it there is no passion it it's soulless crap thats what I think & if people who are into Minimal don't like what I think than thats their problem! It's for poncy scarf waring pricks with silly haircuts end of!

That`s a blanket statement.
To say EVERYONE is doing it for the money is just plain silly.
Skoog for instance, got bored of normal techno and did his agaric thing.
It gets boring making the same thing all the time, minimal for some was like a breath of fresh air, something new that still had the freedom to experiment of techno.
Monolake has found a place between minimal and dubstep that is very interesting, artistically very deep, he`s obviously trying something new, I find it very passionate.
Ruskin has played with a more stripped down, slowed down minimal style, his track on the ep I was on, surface recordings, I think is very tender, passionate, yet slams on the floor still.
You have to accept that musicains who are actually passionately into making music, will want to try new things, and spread their wings. Otherwise they get stuck in their ways doing the same thing again and again, and we call people like that Hacks.

I`m not saying I particularly like minimal as a whole, I like good music though, and I have found some great dark and powerful music that is minimal.
There is some stuff with great passion and emotional content out there, very powerful too.

And some people may well say Hood is crap, they aree ntitled to say that, and just as correct and justified in saying that as you are in saying that all minimal is without passion and only made for the money, I for one, don`t like anything Hood has done, it bores me to tears, but I understand what people do like about it.