jpls wrote:plastikman - hypokondriak
Always will be among my favourite tracks. Awesome.
But.. "what is minimal music?" as you're all basically asking?
I don't honestly think there is such thing. Nobody knows what it really is. Minimal isn't a qualifier or a distinct way of looking at music, and it's certainly not a "genre".. not these days anyway. Sooo many people have weird ideas, like thinking it's all about using glitchy noises or short random bursts of human speech and so on. There's a lot of people pushing what is essentially early trance and house as "minimal" on the basis that there isn't much there/it's really simple. I hate the word "minimal" because so many people use it so casually now like it's an every day term and like they know what it means. Truth: it's been around longer than anyone on this board, including myself.
At most, "minimal" is just a word people throw around to distinguish from other similar types of music. And these days, so many people percieve things as being part of this sound regardless of what it actually sounds like that it doesn't really matter. Everything is minimal as far as people are concerned it seems.
The way one might view it all as an artist, however, is that 'minimal' is an approach to achieving a certain result in one's own work. it's about achieving a concept, an idea using very detailed understanding of both the goal and the techniques required to get there, using exactly what is required and nothing more. As soon as it becomes about making music or art that's "minimal" or even as soon as any concious thought is put into purposely doing "minimal", it's no longer an accurate representation of what it is supposed to be about. It becomes once again, just about making music.