I am so morbidly curious about the pretentious s h i t e someone on here must make that it almost makes me pee my pants. Seriously, I want to hear Plaster's apparently extensive work in japanese microtonal scales, containing only virtual synths he fabricated from oscillators up, using "his"...

steevio wrote: you will find you have a resonance with certain scales, maybe its from your deep ancestry.

Please tell me you're kidding.

Otherwise, non-western scales are SO 1987 Seattle.

Real minimal is making a four-measure bassline on an mc-303 and running it for 11 hours.

Posers.

New Guy wrote:Minimal is minimal if there is minimal artistic ideal in it

D00d. That was, like, so deep.

I don't remember my great-grandparents names. We have the same blood still. (about comparing 60's tape music to today's stuff). Yes, relatives you never met's tastes in art and music certainly influence yours. I feel foolish for not seeing this. Have you ever heard major names in ANY pop music (yes...

tzusing wrote: you can't tell me minimalism from the 1960's didn't somehow contribute some ideas for the music now.

I haven't heard anyone around here bring up Rauschenberg.

Have you?

Sorry dude. The Greeks had seven-tone scales for as long as they wrote about music. Try again. Excuse me, but what does the Greeks (opposing)seven(12?)-tone scale have to do with the presence of the minimal ideal? Oh, I know... Nothing! How's that for a try? Tell you what, let's talk about minimal ...

New Guy wrote:Perhaps, modesty.

No egos in minimal techno.

Really.