The strange, lingering death of minimal techno

inesb · Post by **inesb** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:53 pm

Gummo wrote:Yeah, genres don't die... they just kind of become "obsolete" because too many people ruin it. EDM is cyclic, so I guess when Alex Young & friends will start making tracks called "Housalistic" and "Housecongas" and even the crappiest italian digital labels will switch to tribal samples, we'll start seeing better quality minimal once again.

it is now happening, at least here,
changing the names ("alex young") and nationality...
and yes, i can still hear mnml i like
but it is not what has become "mainstream".

Gummo · Post by **Gummo** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 10:51 am

inesb wrote: it is now happening, at least here,
changing the names ("alex young") and nationality...
and yes, i can still hear mnml i like
but it is not what has become "mainstream".

While genre names are stupid, I agree that there's still a lot of good-sounding "minimal" out there... the new Maetrik comes to mind. It just sucks that its drowned by all these bullshit tracks that are released everyday. I remember I started liking a-certain-kind-of-techno because it was weird, abstract and glitchy and now 99% of minimal is the complete opposite: boring, predictable and badly produced.

Give it some time and we'll start seeing some innovation again

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Rich · Post by **Rich** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:02 am

Minimal might die, but Minimal Techno won't...