Smear wrote:tone-def wrote:isn't a very repetatve track with 3 to 6 elements a little boring? sometimes you need substance.
Well it all comes down to how you define 'substance' i suppose.
exactly.
i could reference Stars Of The Lid, Terry Riley, or Thomas Köner here, but in the spirit of keeping with more dance-oriented material, i digress.
what made records like M4.5 so great was not only the quality of the sounds, but also that they seemed repetitive to the average listener....except those with patience and an open mind could hear an ever-changing psychedelic landscape. another example: 'Twin Bleebs' has like 3 elements to it, it's just (like all those records) the way the sounds are used between channels, effected, arranged, and the time signatures combinations.....that & Mika made every one of those sounds from scratch.
if you need more than 3-6 elements, it just isn't 'minimal' music anymore.
unless you're using Beatport's definition...