Good minimal isn't actually minimal if you look at it objectively.
There is more happening in most good minimal tracks as is the most MAXIMAL techno/house/metal/rock whatever... So that is that.
Minimal is ( for me) a term wich identifies certain 'cutting edge' slower house and techno, and the scene with it's people around wich seems to be partying to end up at an afterparty!
I don't see myself as progressive minimal producer like ''djxlr8r'' thinks, although I understand what is is trying to say.
By using more melody, people tend to call it progressive or trance, but for me its just a stylechange, blending different elements into something different, which people label as 'Minimal'
x. Ludwig