Isn't the point that at the moment there's a lot of minimal releases that sound like a lot of other minimal releases? And of course if you're not super into minimal then the 'subtle nuances' that differentiate each minimal release are kind of evasive...
I liked that quote from that berlin/party dvd "they'll dance if you bang a spoon on a pan" or something along those lines...it sort of fits with what MEK finds unfathomable about this genre... -----Original Message----- From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 6:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: (313) What's happened to rhythms? On 1/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the emphasis on that kick and hihat it's difficult for my ear to > not focus on that. I know with minimal stuff there's tons of other > things going on but eventually, if things don't change up, that "boom > tsk" starts to get magnified until I'm ready to puke. Same goes with > any techno that sits on bang-bang-bang all night. Yawn. There's so > much of that sort of techno out as well. Too much sitting in one > place. Maybe it's just the instruments assigned to the patterns. > Imagine a drummer in a band that just played the same beat out on a > kick, a snare, and a hi-hat. I thought the funk was in the rhythm? i like minimal straight hats and kicks as much as the next man, but to me theyre most effective when mixed up with other beats and rhythms. a minimal acid cut sounds good all the time, but it REALLY sounds good when youre mixing it into some weird electro or disco cut. too few people are out there switching up the rhythms. detroit deejays are usually good for that kind of thing though, derrick may, shake, and theo parrish are extremely notable cats who will play all sorts of different rhythms and make the "boring" techno beat sound so good because of the juxtaposition. tom -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.7/620 - Release Date: 1/8/2007 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.7/620 - Release Date: 1/8/2007
