The thing I have trouble with minimal is that it's not like there's been a movement of people embracing 'minimal' techno, or embracing the music, but more a movement that embraces what can be made by the majority of people with the current software. If what you can create without too much effort on a laptop running reason sounds minimal, then hell, that's gonna be the new music.
-----Original Message----- From: Arturo Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 12:38 PM To: 313 Mailing List Subject: Re: (313) Ellen Allien's New Mix: Opinions? I think I'll give it another listen and see if I feel differently. All that echo-y german at the beginning just sounded entirely too much like one of Miss Kitten's solo albums I didn't like (I Com) and it probably started me off on the wrong foot. As this seems to have transformed into the bi-monthly minimal hate fest I'll throw down as well. This is just like everything else that gets popular, where you have a few exceptional people that did great work and continue to do so, and you've also got every hack producer jumping on that bandwagon putting out terrible tracks (that sell quite nicely). They'll move on to something else when the spotlight moves on to something new, and hopefully the people that did good work will continue to do so. You just have to dig deeper for the quality stuff, that's all. This is just like dubstep; for every "Burial" you get 30 EP's of UK hardcore massive garbage. I guess what I particularly don't like about this minimal resurgence is that it can just be so damn boring nowadays. This seems to have coincided with the explosion of laptop djs, which unless you are throwing down like Stewart Walker or Isolee or something, are damn boring to watch. So you get the back of a mac laptop, a dj that hits a few buttons and goes and eats a sandwich, and music that for the most part sounds like a halfway finished track with just the drum loop on repeat. Take a look at anything Minus has put out over the last few years and tell me with a straight face they aren't riding this cash train straight to the bank and privately laughing at anyone buying this garbage. I rest my case: http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF284632-01-01-01.mp3 -Arturo No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.5/1359 - Release Date: 4/4/2008 8:23 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.5/1359 - Release Date: 4/4/2008 8:23 AM
