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That Reichatronic track is good, but what is minimal about it, it's all out synths percussion and shit?

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You can listen to the entire tracks on their website

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Mr. Maximal wrote:

That Reichatronic track is good, but what is minimal about it, it's all out synths percussion and shit?

Yeah, it's not quite there yet. Though I think using the term "minimal" in a literal sense wouldn't describe it well, it's made of "minimalist" ideas, 7/8 6/8, 5/4 and I believe there is a 9/8 loop in there starting from the bongo's to the 1st bassline to the melody, then adding the standard 4/4 elements.

As I mentioned in the first post I really don't know much about minimal dance outside of the 60s classical minimalists, when I saw that that was a key influence on the techno people I just ran with that idea.

Will you be contributing to the project? I'd love to hear more people's interpretations of the phrase.

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I'd say Minimal is a very dubious term in dance music. I think the academic approach you are referring to as 'minimalist' is, in a way, history also in the techno genre by now. It has just become an overly used, routine-like aesthetic clich

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I think this might be a major problem, in the sense that for me it has the potential to turn into a cerebral exercise, that would lack the base level fun aspect of the Antoni Maiovvi project, or Disco in general.

One of the things that first attracted me to the Italo stuff was it was an extension of all those horror and thriller soundtracks I had been obsessing over since I was a teenager, and in terms of performances and writing it was very different to the other work I had been doing over the 6 years before.

I digress.

Still, there has to be a way of mixing this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYLHRdgdnKk[/youtube]

this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ECQHJ_tzo[/youtube]

and this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_g2rZEJos[/youtube]

and still make it fun and without the trappings of stuffy academia

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Wow, that Philip Glass one is mindblowing!

I have to say I admire your idea. The slow, trippy horror movie aspect I think has been covered by a lot of artists before. Not quite sure how to make the minimalist idea more visible though. Check out some of the more recent DC recordings artists like Emperor Machine, White Light Circus (better than EM in my opinion), Goat Dance (released on Bear Entertainment), Padded Cell etc. It might also be in the lines of what you're looking for. It's pretty trendy (or was that last season? wink) psych/space disco, but decent music.

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yeah the horror thing is the one thing I know about already and try to use a lot of those techniques in the Maiovvi stuff.

this track by Heldon has some elements I think work in the vein of what I'm talking about, but it's old french prog rock

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2pKx1WYkMQ[/youtube]

wait until the arpeggiator comes in

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If someone told me to find a track that fittet the label minimal disco i would say Powerline - Double Journey

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRSloevn88A[/youtube]

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Erroraudio wrote:

If someone told me to find a track that fittet the label minimal disco i would say Powerline - Double Journey

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRSloevn88A[/youtube]

fucking cool!

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36 Reply by Maiovvi (edited by Maiovvi 2009-08-23 09:07:36)

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Just had this sent to me:

http://soundcloud.com/vast-and-bulbous/ … fundibulum

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fuck I love Philip Glass...might have to break some out today after that little youtube clip.

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Re: The Minimal Disco Thread

Maiovvi wrote:
Mr. Maximal wrote:

That Reichatronic track is good, but what is minimal about it, it's all out synths percussion and shit?

Yeah, it's not quite there yet. Though I think using the term "minimal" in a literal sense wouldn't describe it well, it's made of "minimalist" ideas, 7/8 6/8, 5/4 and I believe there is a 9/8 loop in there starting from the bongo's to the 1st bassline to the melody, then adding the standard 4/4 elements.

As I mentioned in the first post I really don't know much about minimal dance outside of the 60s classical minimalists, when I saw that that was a key influence on the techno people I just ran with that idea.

Will you be contributing to the project? I'd love to hear more people's interpretations of the phrase.

Hey,

As far as contributing goes I'm still messing around with a small midi setup and being a Noob I'm not yet making actual "songs" but messing around with synthesis and drum programming (the easy part) and shit.

As far as the sound i would like to create that could be described as "minimal disco". Making something interesting with only basic sounds, an addictive groove with only a few synth layers. Typical minimal disco for me would be Moroders' faster than the speed of love and Lost Angeles. This qualifies too:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-wiNconI5E[/youtube]

But contributing is far far away.

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here's my attempt.  I don't know if it counts as minimal but I've stuck to a disco drum beat.

http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/1770935