well put! i realize this when i try to organize my vinyl collection and i try to go with a "this is a little housier" and "this is a little techier" attempt and realize i get nowhere.clubfoot wrote:I find what we are calling "minimal" these days is often neither techno or house. That is, if you think of Techno as being typified by the Detroit sound etc and House music being a descendant of disco (excuse my generalism). I find a lot of the current "minimal" too slow to warrant the (traditional) Techno tag but perhaps also too abstract to fall into the House category. So, I guess "minimal" really finds itself in the middle ground between these two perhaps leaning more towards one or the other - often flirting with other styles such as progressive, dub, jazz, blues.
this is one of the reason i started to like minimal more and more, i felt that other genres such as dnb or hard (swedish) techno began to limit themselves after a while. don't get me wrong there though I LOVE ADAM BEYER, CARI LEKEBUSCH, JOEL MULL etc. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH and I still buy their records. well i love adam and marco more than ever now since they are switching up to some more progressive sounds. a walking contradiction is such a wonderful middle ground!clubfoot wrote:And that's the beauty of "minimal" - pretty much anything goes. Perhaps "minimal" can be best described as electronica for dancing to.
