Well, I thought that this might be true, until I did a little experiment. I went to beatport, and I listened, in order, to the 150 newest tracks, WITHOUT SKIPPING TRACKS, from the following genres:
deep house techno tech-house techno Guess what - in my opinion minimal came up better, compared to some of the god awful stuff in the other genres. There were without a doubt plenty of similar sounding clickity clackity throw away tracks, but certainly no worse than the other genres. But at least there wasn't too much that was just straight up horrid. All the genres had stuff that sounded a lot the same. There was a little bit of decent hard techno, but since I like to play housey stuff in my sets again now, I didn't get some of that cus it was too fast. Honestly though, there was a surprising variety in some of the minimal tracks, precisely because some very different things seem to be stuck in that category. I bought more from that category than the other out of sheer merit.* If anything, my problem with some minimal is that certain things called minimal end up all trancey in the synths ... *note though - I also have gotten burned several times now by the short sound clips from beatport, where a track seemed good, but then something that annoyed the $%^& out of me occurred after the breakdown or whatever, making the track unplayable. But really, this looks more and more like the old curmudgeon argument about hating that damn racket the kids listen too... I agree that many DJ's have a boring approach, but wasn't that always true about "average" DJ's? Would you care for 8 hours of 2 beat loopy hard techno again, remember that??? ~David On 1/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd dance to a spoon on a pan as long as the beat is interesting. I just don't find the same pulse all night that exciting. imo, there's far too much sameness within the majority of "minimal" releases. MEK
