However, you are talkign about a short piece of time. New York had and still has a much larger house scene. Germany had a ton of stuff happening before berlin became hte "it" city. The cocoon family is frankfurt and sven has always been there. It is similar for Kompakt and Cologne. Remember, Berlin had a wall up until 89. Before it came down there were acid parites in the west and since it came down, most party locations have been in the east. Detroit and Chicago also suffered from (imho) too much local influence and hte music had stricter purity. Who moved to detroit or chicago vs who came up from around there? The mixing of different backgrounds keeps the influences mixed up.minimal house wrote:Remember when Chicago and Detroit were the epi-center of house and techno music? Eventually the market became over saturated and hit a brick wall....thats when we found new markets in europe and everyone and their mother started moving over there for a piece of the action. And now most house is crap, and techno is now "scrantz"
Were new european markets "found," or were they always there but under the radar of american media? Dance music has never been received well in america, but europeans love to celebrate. People have been traveling here for years.
Is minimalism jsut a fad? This board makes me think it is. Prog trance got too big and cheesy, so prog house had to make it more serious. That got too pretentious, so tech-house had to add some percussion. Then came ableton and the complete ease of downloading, and tons of hacks could mouse around, not apply themselves, and claim to be minimal, when they jsut werent trying. danbell dates well before the century change. Glass, Reich, and Cage date beforemost of us were born.
Of course, theres a ton of you that havent been to berlin, and say its a fad and minimal is all the same now, but you cant even get access to some of the music being produced and played here.
