how did you start listening to minimal music?

harass · Post by **harass** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:06 am

shypht wrote:Then, one day - I listented to Hawtin while in a k-hole, which just further enforced my love of minimal, I suddenly 'got' plastikman, and started to listen to alot more minimal stuff after that

ahahhahahah word...

smith · Post by **smith** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:28 am

A tough question indeed. Usually people don't just fall into listening habits, it's more of a gradual thing. A few highlights for me..

-Plastikman's release of Sheet 1 and then hearing him and Terry Mullan DJ at Trascendence's Fusion party in 1994.
-Hearing Murat & Jeff Milligan DJ in Toronto in the mid 90's
-While vacationing in Cologne in 1998 opting to hit the hardwax vs. formic popkomm event rather than hear Jeff Mills spin. Monolake and Brinkman were playing and if there was pretty much no turning back after this night.

-as a DJ force inc. and mille plateaux were both pretty seminal labels for me

There are lots of other moments I can point at though, like the first time I listened to Steve Reich's drumming with headphones on!

,g

Aleksi · Post by **Aleksi** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:01 am

a holiday in berlin forced me into more techy music, and minimal

sektori · Post by **sektori** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:07 am

1992 or so I got into The Prodigy and all that breakbeat stuff. Also tried briefly some hardcore,gabber and trance. but first minimal was Ø -Metri CD on Sähkö. It was 1994, shorty after that I heard Robert Hood's Spirit Levels from radio. ever since I've been mostly into more or less minimal stuff.

dncn · Post by **dncn** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:26 am

my mate lee andrews when he was working in pelicanneck, boomkats shop in manchester, just a case of 'check this out' i think it was a sascha funke record to start with, I was already making stuff not too far from that sound , but kompakt and traum/trapez were definite early influences.

Semirk · Post by **Semirk** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:58 pm

Just a general progression through styles really. I've always liked techno but minimal techno is definately hotter at the moment.

Robot Criminal · Post by **Robot Criminal** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:54 am

HC-> dnb (long, long period)-> techno (also long period)-> mnml...
(@ present i'm listening mnml, techno (not the clubby, italo party sh!t though), jazz, etc etc etc etc etc but absolutely NO dnb, just can't stand it)

i've allways listened to ambient though... (since when i really started to listen stuff)

fromkaraoketostardom · Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:49 pm

electronica (Warp & al), abstract hip hop, then discovered The Electric Ladyland series on Mille Plateaux, then Force Inc (my fav label of all time), Sutekh, Twerk, then Plastikman, then Richie, then parties, then lil pills, off we go !!!!