dsat wrote:Zinthek wrote:You're telling me tracks like The Bells or The Extremist or The Hacker aren't minimal?
don't bother zinthek... minimal is a just sales term now, explaining what minimalism means in music is so exhausting... endless
there are loads of rhythmical, percussive and other kinds of elements in those tracks, so they're not minimal at all to me.
Well, maybe you could call "H&M - Suspense" minimal, but to me, "minimal" has always been something that at first is
reduced, not only in variety of the used sounds, but also in speed and variation of the whole tune.
I know, it's become more and more trendy for the neo-Minimal-headz to call everything "minimal" that's not Electroclash or Hardtechno but I won't jump on that bandwagon ever. Minimal remains minimal and Jeff Mills will never be.
Edit: "Minimal techno" would be Regis to me, e.g. - but not even half of his tracks...