"minimal is the new trance"

keto · Post by **keto** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:05 pm

If we compare the amount of people who hate the genre, it has potential,indeed.

trak660 · Post by **trak660** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:22 pm

Where I live, minimal was more popular 10 years ago than now. It's like time is moving in reverse. Trance and progressive are big here and house/techno trax are considered boring and repetitive. I don't know what happened. There is a bit of an age gap in the scene, though. You're either around 30 or under 21, nothing in between. My friends and I are steadily winning people over from the cheesy side. It won't be long before it gets good again.

thok · Post by **thok** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:55 am

Well,
what most of the people call minimal today is just a genre of contemporary dance/electronic music. The relation with classical minimalism (f.e. La Monte Young) is almost non-existent. When you label Loco Dice's (or Richie Hawtin's) music as minimal then you can expect that "minimal" is going to be the neo-trance.
Everything that is underground surfaces occasionally to the ground but then returns to the underground.

pantycontrol · Post by **pantycontrol** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:55 am

as long as it doesnt go cheese...or has it already?