Minimal Techno Thread

**Mahatma Coat** · 02-11-2012, 06:55 PM

Let's get a thread for this stuff people.

US/European, fast or slow we need to get the sparse minimal sounds down

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**BuddyUK** · 02-13-2012, 06:54 AM

Rob Hood is minimal techno now?

That said i do like the Villlalobos track, find miminmal techno, slow clicky and boring on the whole but there are some good trcks out there if you're willing to search them out.

This will always be the best minimal record ever IMO

**propertrax** · 02-13-2012, 01:08 PM

Yeah, I'd call Robert Hood one of the pioneers of minimal techno, and he claims his music minimal.

Just because the vibes can be maximal doesn't mean the composition and production aren't minimal. Listen to most any Hood track and you'll find 5-8 individual elements at the most (kick, hat 1, hat 2, bass synth, atmosphere/pad, hook synth for example...dubbed and drenched with some reverbs, delays, etc...maybe)

In fact, producers like Hood, Function, Silent Servant, DVS1, even Chris Liebing qualify for the "minimal" moniker far moreso than the typical offerings in Beatport's "minimal" section (italian shuffle-rama, white noise surge prog tech, and minus-ish sinewave cave plonkers are usually what dominate and get tossed out at 'minimal' )

Minimal techno was being made by Hood, Wolfgang Voigt (aka Mike Ink, Gas), Hawtin, Dan Bell (DBX), and loads of other Detroit/Berlin cats in the early-to-mid '90s, and IMO, often hold up as the best of the style to this day.

That Trentemoller above, I'd not consider minimal personally. Especially the 1st track posted. Sure, he rose to prominence during that second minimal wave in the mid-2000s, and some of his tracks were definitely on the minimal tip...but I think a lot of the production and vibe is too big and polished to really consider it minimal.

**Hausgeist** · 02-13-2012, 05:25 PM

This is more of a drum tool than a proper track imo, but I love it. It's great for mixing, especially to keep some beats going over another track's breakdown.

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**monomer** · 02-13-2012, 06:21 PM

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**Hausgeist** · 02-13-2012, 06:45 PM

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**LoveBass** · 02-13-2012, 08:37 PM

**monomer** · 02-14-2012, 01:31 AM

Zone out, on repeat:

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**BuddyUK** · 02-14-2012, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by monomer

Zone out, on repeat:

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Essential Double 12", it's in the collection bro

Originally Posted by propertrax

Yeah, I'd call Robert Hood one of the pioneers of minimal techno, and he claims his music minimal.

Just because the vibes can be maximal doesn't mean the composition and production aren't minimal. Listen to most any Hood track and you'll find 5-8 individual elements at the most (kick, hat 1, hat 2, bass synth, atmosphere/pad, hook synth for example...dubbed and drenched with some reverbs, delays, etc...maybe)

In fact, producers like Hood, Function, Silent Servant, DVS1, even Chris Liebing qualify for the "minimal" moniker far moreso than the typical offerings in Beatport's "minimal" section (italian shuffle-rama, white noise surge prog tech, and minus-ish sinewave cave plonkers are usually what dominate and get tossed out at 'minimal' )

Minimal techno was being made by Hood, Wolfgang Voigt (aka Mike Ink, Gas), Hawtin, Dan Bell (DBX), and loads of other Detroit/Berlin cats in the early-to-mid '90s, and IMO, often hold up as the best of the style to this day.

That Trentemoller above, I'd not consider minimal personally. Especially the 1st track posted. Sure, he rose to prominence during that second minimal wave in the mid-2000s, and some of his tracks were definitely on the minimal tip...but I think a lot of the production and vibe is too big and polished to really consider it minimal.

If he want's to lay claim to being the godfather of minimal, then I'm happy to go along with it, did not know that, why he'd want to associate himself with it I dunno, better than fucking Hawtin I suppose. Don't know for sure if stripping techno down to it's basics is that original an idea TBH seems to have always gone on as as a reaction to other music of the day, the everything but the kitchen sink sample-a-thon Rave/hardcore era or the overblown epics of the early techno/trance days. Electro whas often been as simple as possible, any Speedy J track with more than about 3 machines going would have blown his mind (and his plug socket probably). Personally have always pegged Robert Hood as Detroit artist TBH.

That Trentemoller above, I'd not consider minimal personally. Especially the 1st track posted. Sure, he rose to prominence during that second minimal wave in the mid-2000s, and some of his tracks were definitely on the minimal tip...but I think a lot of the production and vibe is too big and polished to really consider it minimal.

Only record of his I own/like i think, that could well explain why, could be wrong though, may have more of his stuff knocking about though.