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 Publicado: Mie May 16, 2007 12:12 pm Título del mensaje: Top 100 "Minimal" tracks of All Time.. |
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Esto encontre en la web, hecho por un man llamado "darktremor". El decide opinar acerca de la historia del minimal y sobre su nombre. Como todos, el tiene su opinion y bueno.... la cosa es que aca estan los tracks "Top 100" segun el, un trabajo hecho con mucho tiempo y paciencia.. bueno chequeenlo 
*** work by "darktrenzor"
"Top 100 "Minimal" (and neo-trance) tracks of All Time - aka: the worst name possible goes to the best dance genre by "darktremor"
I've decided that the "minimal" world of electronic music is just too fast-growing, shifting, and creative to peg down. So, instead of trying to categorize the little reviewer pet-styles like neo-trance, ketaminimal, microhouse (the beginning of all this nonsense, really), minimal house, minimal electro, nanotrance, post-microhouse, ketamine house, microtrance, or anything else of the sort, I'm just going to make one ultimate best of "minimal" list. Even though I think minimal is the worst-named genre since IDM (it being just about the least minimal style of electronic dance music to come out, ever.).
Anyways, this consists of all the best "microhouse and neo-trance" and "ketaminimal, nanotrance, and psyhouse," as well as all the newest "minimal." It's all just lumped under "minimal" now anyway, everybody seems to have given up slicing it into categories.
This is going to be even more extensive than my trance lists, as I have far more "minimal" now than I have trance. There won't be any consistency with my previous "minimal" lists. I'm not even going to try. Nothing made before 1999 will be on this list, because I think the overly stripped "minimal techno" that this style spawned from now has little relation to the dense polyrhythmic melodic collages coming out today.
Note: I'm going to mark the trancier tracks with {neo-trance}. Tranceheads should be able to appreciate any of those. Note that "neo-trance" takes its time far more than straight trance, thanks to its very closer relation to other "minimal" styles.
Aril Brikha - Groove La Chord (The other mix) [1999]
Groove La Chord is arguably the first "minimal" track in the modern style, and probably also the best. It bridges the gap between the deep techno of the 90s and the complex collages of today. Groove La Chord was perhaps the first dancefloor-stormer to turn its gaze to the microscopic in any respect, and it does so with beautiful results.
Akufen - Deck the House [2002]
This track represents perhaps the most chaotic funk ever to get pressed to vinyl. Starting off as a completely indecipherable ocean of microsounds and indiscernable samples, a groove slowly coalesces into the one of the dirtiest and funkiest house bangers you'll ever jack to. And you will jack.
Ame - Rej [2005, although most people will tell you 2006] {neo-trance}
Here's proof that trance is back and doing everything it used to do back in 1997. No coincedence that it's 2007 and doing the same thing (retro trends and all that, although the big revival won't be for another 10). Either way, this song is brilliant. It's like a Dracula fever dream, or a dark, twisted circus, or an abandoned vampire-infested castle. Regardless, you'll think of vampires and evil in some respect, but it's lovely in a gothic sort of way. Plus I've never seen anything fill a floor like Rej does. Never. And it grows on you: WAY too much. I had this thing stuck in my head for 3 weeks at one point, and I once listened to it 7 times in a row (after having it for almost a year and a half).
Jurgen Paape - How Great Thou Art [1999]
This kicked off the "microgoth" sound that eventually became completely ubiquitous with minimal (which has now culminated in overblown 6 hour sets ending with Superpitcher crying on stage in front of the dancefloor while mashups of his most depressing tracks play in the background). Don't let the melodrama deter you though, this is seriously awesome music. And really, it's not that gothic. It just has the sweeping string arrangements and melancholy of other gothic music. This is a really beautiful track, and probably the most minimal form of the style. It's more gothic in a vampiric sense than in "black makeup emo kid slitting his wrists".
DnTel - (This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Kompakt remix) [2002] {neo-trance}
Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (James Holden mix) [2005] {neo-trance}
Ricardo Villalobos - Que Belle Epoque 2006 [2006]
Matthew Dear - Dog Days [2003]
Isolee - Beau Mot Plage [2000]
Markus Nikolai - Bushes [2000]
Jurgen Paape - Mit Dir [2003] {neo-trance}
The MFA - The Difference it Makes [2005?] {neo-trance}
Audion - Mouth to Mouth [2006]
Dimbiman - Koppchen (Herbert's D-d-d-dazzle dub) [1999]
Kalabrese - Skamel [2006]
Luomo - Synkro [2000]
The Field - Over the Ice [2006] {neo-trance}
Another one for the tranceheads. Bah, minimal. What were they thinking?
The title says it all. Imagine yourself crossing an enormous glacier under a star-packed sky in the middle of the day.
Superpitcher - Tomorrow [2002] {neo-trance}
Nathan Fake - Outhouse [2003] {neo-trance}
Joachim Speith - Abbi '99 [1999]
Ricardo Villalobos - 808 the Bassqueen [1999]
Isolee - Schrapnell [2005]
Ricardo Villalobos - Fools Garden (Black Conga) [2001]
Akufen - Skidoos [2002]
Juurgen Paape - So Weit We Noch Nie/Justus Kohncke - So Weit We Noch Nie [2002] {neo-trance}
I really don't know which mix I like better. they're both fantastic mixes, for utterly different reasons. One is a piece of sexy but gorgeous micropop, the other is a glitchy (but bombastic) disco house anthem. I don't even need to say who did which: It's pretty much obvious considering the 2 artists behind the tracks.
The PQM - You Are Sleeping (Luke Chable's vocal pass) [2003] {neo-trance}
Closer Musik - One, Two, Three No Gravity [2001]
Michael Forzza - Kahana [2006]
Rex the Dog - I Look Into Mid-air [2004] {neo-trance}
Further - Stone Cold (Richard Davis mix) [2003]
Marc Houle - Bay of Figs [2006]
This is the biggest rave anthem minimal has ever produced. If that late bassline doesn't get you moving at least one body part, you're not human. It sounds like a giant alien vacuum descending on the dancefloor to suck out the brains of everyone who breaks it down to the ultimate funk.
Moonbeam - Sunshine [2007] {neo-trance}
Aril Brikha - Winter [2007] {neo-trance}
All trance fans out there need to get this one. It's an absolutely perfect bridge between trance and minimal, with none of the more annoying trappings of either genre (those being: minimal: 10 minute long compositions consisting of nothing but harsh glitchy beats; trance: 5 minute long needlessly baroque breakdowns that end with a cliched drumroll trick into a sub-par lead melody, and stale arpeggiations containing no interplay between track elements). I'd call this track "neo-trance," but since just about all minimal now has some trance element to it (in 2007), that label is now redundant and pointless. Almost as redundant and pointless as calling this music "minimal."
Kaito - Hundred Million Lightyears [2006] {neo-trance}
Trance rears its head again. In a much prettier context, however. Rather than creating the sound of dancefloor lasers and bland DJ worship, Kaito takes us on a sightseeing jouney across the Andromeda Galaxy, populated by elder races of aliens in perfect harmony with nature, living in fluid-like structures that melt into their landscapes.
Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl [2005] {neo-trance}
M. Rahn - Toaster [2002]
Turner - When Will We Leave (Rob Hood mix) [2006]
DJ Koze - Djungle Froot [2006]
Justus Kohncke - 2 After 909 [2002]
Rex The Dog - Frequency [2004]
Donal Tierney - Verse 2 the Chorus [2006]
Extrawelt - Soopertrack [2005]
Holden and Thompson - Come to Me [2005]
Pantytec - You Are So 99 [2002]
Audion - Kisses [2005]
Akufen - The Unexpected Guest [2002]
Stefan Goldmann - Darkstar [2006]
Pile - Worldrecord Holder [2000]
Isolee - Keep on Dancin' [1999]
Phil Parnell - 2nd Line [2003]
Dextro - Do You Need Help? (The MFA Help Help mix) [2004]
Wighnomy Brothers - Draw Halcyon Days [2002]
Akufen - Psychometry Vol. 3.0 [2002]
Digital Excitation - Dream Party [2006]
Sascha Funke - Safety First [2000]
Isolee - Jelly Baby Fish [2005]
Richie Hawtin - We(all)Search [2005]
Avus - Real (original mix) [2003]
Fred Gianelli - Distant Gratification [2006]
Gui Boratto - Scene [2007] {neo-trance}
I have never heard euphoria sound so evil as it does here (with the exception of Rej, which is a masterpiece). Like a beautiful but ominously creeping love child of Paul Van Dyk circa For An Angel and Plastikman, all given to a modern minimal sensibility.
Alex Smoke - Chica Wappa (Mejor edit) [2004] {neo-trance}
Walter Jones - All God's Children (Maurice Fulton mix) [2003]
Pile - Perlipop [1999]
One of the 1st "minimal" tracks to adopt pop elements, a direction the genre has never looked back from. After a 4-minute microhouse tease consisting of the most complex Perlon grooves and details, a sexy and gorgeous house number floats out of the ether, transforming the filthy glitcher into something deep, silky, and melancholy.
Michael Mayer - Amanda [2000]
Pantha Du Prince - Walden [2006]
Freaky Chakra - Blacklight Fantasy [1998]
The one exception to my "1999" rule. This track wasn't really discovered for DJs until recently, as it was way ahead of its time. It may be more electro-house than minimal, but that drumming would fit into any minimal set put out today (and it does).
Minilogue - The Girl From Botany Bay [2006] {neo-trance}
Dominik Eulberg - Die Trottellummen Von Helgoland [2005]
Adam Johston - Four Squares [2005]
Isolee - My Hi-matic [2005]
My My - Eleventh Hour [2006]
Luciano and Matthew Jonson - Alpine Rocket [2003]
Ada - The Red Shoes [2004]
Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life [2007] {neo-trance}
Sascha Funke - Dre Auf Dre [2002]
Ricardo Villalobos - What You Say is More than I Can Say [2003]
Nathan Fake - Dinamo (Dominik Eulberg mix) [2005]
Pile - One of Those Days [2001]
Gebr. Teichmann - Aus Der Ferne [2000]
Heartthrob - Baby Kate [2006]
Heiroglyphic Being - The Temple of the Moon [2005]
Alex Smoke - Don't see the Point [2004] {neo-trance}
Stefan Goldmann - Sleepy Hollow [2006]
Carsten Jost - You Don't Need a Weatherman [2002]
Superpitcher - Mushroom [2003]
Markus Nikolai - Dimbied Shake [2002]
Metaboman - Easy Woman (Robag Wruhme mix) [2002]
Gabriel Ananda - Ihre Personliche Glucksmelodie [2005] {neo-trance}
Daniel Bell - Squirrel Bait [2003]
Partial Arts - Trauermusik [2007] {neo-trance}
This one is practically progressive trance.
Sven Vath - Cala Llonga (Ricardo Villalobos mix) [2003]
John Shananigans ft. Mu - Charlie's on the Dancefloor [2002]
Henrik Schwarz, Dixon & Ame feat. Derrick Carter - Where We At [2006]
Patrick Chardronnet - Eve By Day (Ripperton mix) [2006]
Martin Landsky - FM Safari (Patrick Chardronet's Silent Snake mix) [2005]
Tom Pooks - Amande Douce [2006]
Superpitcher - Shadows [2000] {neo-trance...ish}
Marlow ft. Delhia - Quiet [2005]
My My - Half a Hole [2006]
Gabriel Ananda - Doppelwhipper [2006]
Late 2006. More progressive trance-ness. Anyone else seeing a pattern here?
Wighnomy Brothers - Wurz & Blosse [2004]
DJ Koze - Brutalga Square [2004]
Ricardo Villalobos - Balacharde [2006]
Superpitcher - Happiness [2002]
Triola - Leuchtturm (Wighnomy's Polarzipper mix) [2006]
Royksopp - What Else is There? (Trentemoller mix) [2005]
Luomo - Class [2000]
Ricardo Villalobos - Miami [2004]
Pile - The Spirit (Innervision mix) [2001]
James Holden - Lump [2006]
Riton - The Hammer of Thor [2006]
Wighnomy Brothers - Pele Bloss [2004]
Hobre Ojo - M.U.C.R.P.S. [1999]
Dettinger - Lemon [2000]
Luomo - Class [2000]
Lawrence - Teaser [2001]
Pantytec - Does Ronda Know? [2000]
Alex Smoke - 3AM [2004]
Michael Mayer - Pensum [2000]
This track is one of the very few on this list that might actually be called "minimal" by someone unschooled in badly named modern German electronic dance music. But don't let that deter you, it's beautiful, and the first-impression simplicity is deceptive.
Daso - Dott [2006]
Trentemoller - Polar Shift [2005]
Shaeben & Voss - Fein Raus [2000]
Matthew Jonson - Typerope [2003]
Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer [2006]
Justus Kohncke - Station 18 [2002]
Melchoir Productions - Feel Sensual [2000]
My My - Pelourinho [2006]
Thomas Fehlmann - Making it Whistle [2002]
Martin Buttrich - Full Clip [2006]
Heartthrob - Baby Kate [2006]
Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee [2003]
Paul Brtschitsch - Twirl [2006]
Ricardo Villalobos - Achso [2005]
Michael Mayer - 17 & 4
Selway - Flying Far [2002]
Jesse Somfay - Asinea Nectar [2005]
Closer Musik - 2 the Beat 2 the Rock [2000]
Michael Mayer - Hush Hush Baby [2001]
Shaeben & Voss - Ach Komm [2001]
Und - Fox in the Box [2006]
This is a really demented track. And it grates on you quickly.
Gamut 3000 - Feeling Love (Wighnomy remix) [2005]
Another track that sounds fantastic at first, but rapidly grates.
This is a huge work in progress. there are tons more tracks I haven't even looked through to consider adding yet. More coming soon...
Note: For those who want a taste of the style that "minimal" evolved from, the overly stripped minimal techno, try:
MI:5 - Logorrhoe
Grungerman - Fackeln Im Sturm
Reinhard Voigt - Personal
Pentax - Pentax Klub 1
Some of those cross into minimal dub techno, but it doesn't matter - they're all equally effective, efficient, and ultimately colourless."***
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