come on! are you looking at discogs categorization to see whether something falls under a certain style! of course there's a lot of minimal stuff not categorized under the term "minimal", back in the day there was no question about "MINIMAL"!!! it was all techno and housedjxlr8r wrote:Yeah I agree, but it seems as though especially with all the artists I mentioned that they just have the genre title "minimal" but not minimal progressive because that is in fact what it is. If you were to a get lets say a new Daniel Bell record then you'll pretty much know that it's going to be minimal techno, an artist like S-Max will be minimal techno/electro and so on, but check out sites like decks.de and or discogs and see for yourselves that a lot of these artists are just being categorized as minimal and it's just not the case.brianc wrote:I still don't see minimal as its own genre, but more of an adjective like minimal techno, minimal house, minimal whatever.
and don't look at shop categorization, they are practically always wrong
actually minimalism is one of the main characteristics of the last 20 years of electronic music, but if you weren't there in those days, you wouldn't know, repetitiveness is what makes a groove, it's the backbone of electro(funk) in 1983, of house and acid in the late 80's, of early techno late 80's and everything that came later...
but what is (or should be) understood as minimal techno is stripping it down to its very essence, patterns, beats, repetitiveness, it's characterized more by "lack of" than "presence of"
in other words, saying that Minimal is not a style, is actually true as it pertains to different styles of electronic music that developed in the 80's
but you have to understand that the term "Minimal" is a thing of the last couple of years and has blown out of proportion so that everything is coined minimal something these days for purely commercial reasons (yes, to make money!!)
it's not because some tracks in a particular style of music have minimalist characteristics that you have to call it "minimal trance" or minimal progressive" or whatever... just because you saw it on an online shop because in the end, practically all of electronic music has minimalist features
(progressive now means tiesto and van buren, so how are you going to interpret that?)
don't call a duck a chicken just because it has feathers too
they're both birds anyway
but then again, i'm wasting my time trying to explain these things
i tried doing the same with electro years ago, and people looked 'utterly' amazed when i told them electro developed from hip hop in the 80's
(but tv says differently! power of the media over people's minds... wave of the future!)
blablabla
i'm even afraid of calling my music minimal techno actually
minimal is too much ballast (lol)
