Minimal Techno

Who are your favourite artists?

Trentemoller is a beast, so its The Field

gogogogogo suggestions~~~

first, define 'minimal techno'. cos i have seen definitions stretching from shackleton to richie hawtin/villalobos to stuff i wouldn't even begin to call techno.

Surgeon.

Magda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8UIbRHZaok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbHtbNCFego

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmTNF6SXM_s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVmuAv_VZs4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lkHXYs4aY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7vT7IFN02I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lu8yJt42kg

oh well especially the second one might be more house-ish than straight techno. i hope we have not that many genre-assholes here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_techno#Artists_and_labels

Monolake and Pole are well worth a look too

anyone who wants to get into minimal techno may as well just download everything they can find on Ostgut Ton. by far the best techno label in the world imho.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNv7i9i02Uw

Classic.

More House elements here, but still pertains to Minimal heads.

I'm a whore for anything Detroit and Ghostly, with that said Matthew Dear kills it every time...

  On 11/28/2010 at 6:32 PM, soundwave said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_techno#Artists_and_labels

 

Monolake and Pole are well worth a look too

Pole is quite amazing

Fufufufufufu, totally forgot about Monolake.

Alaska is a great track, unfortunately the quality in that link sucks dick. The remix album is interesting too, it's a very strange mixture of Monolake and 2-step. An honorable mention is Wolfgang Voigt too, Nah und Fern is gorgeous.

M A U R I Z I O

i'm all about Audion. in fact I'd say some of his tracks could be included in the greatest dance tracks ever... "Mouth to Mouth..." AHHHHHHHHHH MOUTH TO MOUTH.

doesn't get any better than that.

not really "minimal" per say though. just noisy as hell techno that forever climaxes because it has nowhere else to go.

in terms of minimal I really like Ricardo Villalobos, Basic Channel, Plastikman...

there seem to be a great deal of good records with the sound of minimal but I don't know many of them. Move D+Benjamin Brunn "Songs from the Beehive" is good.

Bruno Pronsato:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a3fFCluEGA

and of course Monolake.

there's plenty more than that.

The Field and maybe Pantha du prince

The Monolake album Hong Kong is frighteningly deep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qMju5dgcc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-hOjqhbh-E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11NzyEHzxzg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ttvBE8QTc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpwruJM5cYc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjm2HqbnqpQ

  On 11/28/2010 at 11:26 PM, Enter a new display name said:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11NzyEHzxzg

QFT

and this too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsH4UpUFlKo

This thread has some great names so far: Pole, Monolake and especially Voight - the Gas records are as good as it gets for minimal. I love Audion and Surgeon too but they're doing a different thing entirely.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Frank Bretschneider - I guess I could look up some videos but I think his music doesn't work well in short segments.. you need to hear his stuff for long durations for the spell to be cast properly ;)

  On 12/4/2010 at 5:06 AM, bronchuseven said:

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Frank Bretschneider - I guess I could look up some videos but I think his music doesn't work well in short segments.. you need to hear his stuff for long durations for the spell to be cast properly ;)

This holds true in my experience.

i have the same problem with Stewart Walker.

the conversation usually goes:

"you would like Stewart Walker"

"how do I know I would like Stewart Walker? link me a youtube"

"um, actually..." *burns copy of Stabiles*

spent 4 days in Berlin to realise that what is called minimal techno these days is hardly minimal techno. sounds more like "micro house" or whatever that fad was a few years back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH7u1ZeRK34

did you see my man Stewart at Tresor?

listened to hongkong by monolake while walking in the snow at like 2 am this morning, it was absolutely blissful. what an album.