Minimal?

Komputer Konfuzed · Post by **Komputer Konfuzed** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:19 am

Hello everyone, I'm new to the minimal scene. Can I have help in understanding what minimal is to you? Some links or description in words.
I know what I hear, I would just like some input from others...

Thank you.

Lostra · Post by **Lostra** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:51 am

Minimal is style in almost every aspect of Art like
Architecture, Music, Painting, Sculpture etc.

It is based on reduction of the elements of the work or
use of the basic elements needed to describe/present his imagination

Minimal Techno/House is based on that, and it uses only the important
pieces of a track/melody/sound to make it work in your mind or dancefloor.

For Example take tracks of Plastikman or Daniel Bell (Because they did it in the early years of this genre)

Up to date this genre evolved and has a wide spectrum of productions.
The influence on many other styles of electronic has born subgenres so you will be a little confused in the beginning but you will recognize anything
in time.

Hope i helped you out

Ciao

L.

MarcAshken · Post by **MarcAshken** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:59 pm

to me, minimal is about looking at things from a different angle, extreme experimentation and no boundaries in sound creation.

Lostra · Post by **Lostra** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:14 pm

MarcAshken wrote:to me, minimal is about looking at things from a different angle, extreme experimentation and no boundaries in sound creation.

this is experimental

MarcAshken · Post by **MarcAshken** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:45 am

maybe i make experimental then

Komputer Konfuzed · Post by **Komputer Konfuzed** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:47 am

Both of your comments help me,

thank you

Komputer Konfuzed · Post by **Komputer Konfuzed** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:04 am

Minimal for me is the purest in element and style of electronic music that I've herd in a long time. I'm not sure why I missed it but I did; wrong geographical location. It takes me back to the late 70's and early eighties when I was in love....I'm in love once again....It's magic!!!!

steevio · Post by **steevio** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:15 pm

Lostra wrote: Minimal Techno/House is based on that, and it uses only the important
pieces of a track/melody/sound to make it work in your mind or dancefloor.

I remember when i first heard minimal techno years ago, it completely changed the way i thought about music, i dont remember what the track was, but the effect was that my mind filled in the gaps that were so cleverly left in the music. I could hear sounds and feel grooves that werent actually there.
Alot of it is to do with the mathematics of the music suggesting other possibilities, which trigger the imagination.
It's not so easy to find true minimal music, minimal has become a genre which encompasses alot of music that doesnt comfortably fit into other categories, but which is in no way minimal, so you have to look hard if you want to find the real stuff.