(idm) Re: minimalism...

From Will Samuels
Sent Sun, Jun 6th 1999, 00:19

--- Joshua Reuven <xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > Millsart - Mecca ep (Axis)
> > Jeff Mills - Kat Moda ep
> > Actually there is alot of Jeff Mills that is
> awesome.
> > Surgeon (just about everything)
> > Basic Channel/Chain Reaction artists (of course)
> > Paul Mac (really good and underrated)
> > Luke Slater/Planetary Assault Systems
> > James Ruskin 
> > Oliver Ho (use to be cool, not digging his newer
> > stuff)
> > Cari Lekebusch (loved his stuff for a while, but
> > hasn't been doing much lately)
> > Conceiled Project (Adam Beyer) Code Red #9
> > Ratio/Die Rhythmiker (awesome stuff!!)
> > The Advent (I really like there older stuff like
> > "Elements of Life". There newer material has been
> sort
> > of dry...still good...but it lacks something) 
> 
> very peculiar selection not really what i'd consider
> minimal...if you
> really want to go minimal i'd reccomend these

Really just about every dj I know that spins minimal
considers all of these minimal. You are the first
person i have ever talked to that DOESN'T think this
stuff is minimal. 

Is Robert Hood's Minimal Nation NOT minimal?

> ...all
> of these contain
> only clicks, pops and sine-waves...beautiful...for
> those of us who do
> enjoy looking at "left-hand signals flashing"...

> pita
> ryoji ikeda
> panasonic
> thomas koner
> philus
> ø
> noto
> bernhard gunter
> stillupsteypa (their newer, electronic stuff...not
> the avant-rock stuff)
> the majority of noton's 20-2000' series...
> the majority of the mego label...

I would say that there ISN'T just one type of
minimalistic electronic music. 
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