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All genres of music have their moment in the sun. In dance music that moment lasts about 6 months, and then it sounds completely out of date. In many cases, that leaves a lot of legitimately great musicians and Djs waiting five years to become relevant again. I guess the last big fad was Minimal, and I suppose every sincere dance fan should be a bit Minimalised out by now. Just like they’ll be Discoed out eventually. And then everyone will be Housed out etc. Let’s just hope Trance is indefinitely out of the loop

Anyway, here’s a Minimal tune that still packs a punch. It contains all the best elements of the genre without much flourish. I suppose thats how a classics are usually defined.

ps. turn up the bass for this one

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Only heard this subtle little track for the first time last week, even though it’s 5 years old. Could realy see it fitting it with the likes of James Holden and the Border community stuff. Great thoughtful synths  and an arp’d bass that sounds like a constantly approaching helicopter. Cool wee track. Enjoy

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This is quite simply a track for little weirdos, kind of elite minimal, for the die hard fans….. Ridiculously repetitive with its twisted little bleeps and bloops, it’ll drive the sanest of us into madness, most likely fulfilling the creators intentions. I’ve been quite a fan of some of Melchior work over the past few years, especially his Cadenza stuff. Anyway, Enjoy!

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Tunes like this made me want to dj, really simple but effective. I could think of nothing better than to absolutly thump this out to a massive crowd through a function one. Repetitive grooving but unlike the masses of dire ‘minimal techno’ this is full of live…lifting up and down with the 909 hats and slamming straight down with an 808 kick, worming its way on a 303 groove- this is a roland masterpiece!

DBX is one of the first wave of ‘Detroit techno’ artists famous for early minimal sound combining elements of detroit with a stripped down and jacky sound more popular in Chicago at that time. Incredible crossover appeal on party tracks and stripped down minimal bleep techno, with crisp grainy claps that have made his sound and use of the RZ-1 drumbox unmistakable. Had huge underground hit with “Losing Control” on UK’s Peacefrog records in the mid-90’s, later reissued with remixes from Robert Hood, Carl Craig and Richie Hawtin, the 3 biggest names in Detroit techno during that time. Continues to produce and DJ worldwide, his work is available now on dozens of labels and compilations.

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Haha, I haven’t  tired of this little summer samba remix from Luciano, light and refreshing, I heard him finish with it last year and it really went down a treat. For some reason the harpsichord part conjures up memories of the theme tune to ‘last of the summer wine’, dunno why, they arn’t even similar……

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Tasteful and sympathetic remix from Gigamesh here, turning Yorke’s classic into a late night melancholic groover, perfect last tune.

Your welcome.

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Cut this tune out of my CBS top 100...i really liked this thune a couple of years ago when i was going through my minimal techno phase. I loved the funky acid bassline constantly getting tweaked combined with the creepy vocals and the 808/707 beat. Would sound right at home in my favourite fabric cd- the Death in Vegas one ;) exercise those analogue fingers!

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Hard to believe that this is the first Wighnomy Brother’s tune to go up on this blog. We have been big fans for years, they’ve constantly been throwing the craziest parties (thankfully, some which we have attended) with an ‘anything goes’ attitude. Their music consists of crazy ticking, clicking, clocking & tocking beats that always have that perfect balance between madness and a calming quality, reminiscent, in that respect, of some of Aphex twin’s work. 

Here is a remix Robag did some time ago for a german group called ‘Das Bierbeban’, it’s much faster than what i would play it at, but great none the less. Enjoy.

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After being raised in the cornfields of Indiana and brought up on Midwest house & techno (Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills, Derrick Carter, D-Wynn), Troy became a bit jaded by ten years in New York where the struggling minimal techno scene consisted of a handful of die-hard fanatics…Then moved to Berlin and hooked up with Richie’s M_nus crew and things changed.

He goes under the alter ego Louderbach in which he has made a couple of cracker EPs. Here are a couple of tunes to get you started!

Troy Price- Lost On The Way To DC10 (Berlin Version)

Troy Pierce- The day after yesterday

Alex Smoke is a Scottish talent making electronic records that blur together European minimalism, pop structures and emotional strings and pads. He has released two full length albums, ‘Incommunicado’ and ‘Paradolia’ [Soma Records] and a slew of singles and remixes, many of which have arrived on Soma and German label Vakant.

His debut release ‘Random As’ came out in January 2002, but Smoke has always been immersed in music. In his youth he sang in a choir for four years (a far cry no doubt from the mournful tones on his ‘Don’t See the Point’ or ‘Never Want to See You Again’), his parents are involved in classical music, and he has classical training in cello and piano.

Alex makes minimal uncompareable to the stigma this genre has attracted over the last years. So step back a couple of years and to one of my favourite tunes by him, I would highly recomend checkin out his other stuff.

Alex Smoke – Don’t See the Point

Here is a well sculpted video by the guys at We Love… which features Mr.Smoke

Nothing, and I mean nothing can top this stuff at 2 in the morning, blisteringly raw and simple as hell, Puts all modern highly polished super-produced minimal to shame. All ya need’sa 909 kid!
The winners for me are ‘Bleep’, ‘Losing Control’ and of course ‘Electric Shock’

01. Bleep
02. Phreak
03. Losing Control
04. Electric Shock
05. Schitzo-Squelch
06. Work That S**!
07. Flying Saucer
08. Beep
09. Baby Judy
10. Squirrel Bait
11. Rhodes 2
12. The Wild Life
13. Goodbye

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