Minimal house anthems

[baboon2004]

I realise that minimal house (perhaps Villalobos aside) isn't as popular among Dissensians as grime, dubstep or rnb, but there's still some very interesting stuff going on (and no doubt some interested parties posting to this board). Trouble is, there's not much quality control, and so the whole genre can quickly become bewildering.

I'm looking for recent anthems (2007 or latter part of 2006) that are up there with 'Full Clip' and 'Fizheuer Zieheuer' from 2006, and 'Body Language' and 'Mandarine Girl' from the year before. Please help to un-befuddle me...

 

[sodiumnightlife]

Audion - Mouth to Mouth

was a proper anthem

the villalobos remix of depeche mode, baby kate by heartthrob.

I like techno but there aren't a whole lot of places round here that play the proper minimal stuff so I don't have as much of a sense of anthems as just tunes I really like. Time for phillip sherburne to come out the dissensus woodwork...

 

[simon silverdollar]

loco dice- seeing through shadows

mfa- the difference it makes (superpitcher remix)

theo parrish- falling up (carl craig remix)

cosmic sandwich- man in a box

are 4 really big anthems.

efdemin- lohn & brot is pretty big now too.

 

[viktorvaughn]

I never understand where minimal, techno and house all interact and meet in these cirumstances....

It seems that 'Minimal' has taken off as a genre that is both at once, e.g. Villalobos.

 

[sodiumnightlife]

i forgot that superpitcher remix, amazing tune.

I think minimal has become a bit of a catch all term, describing both house and techno with similar ideas (ie. minimalism.) I don't know how people on here would divide up house and techno nowadays. I would say something like audion is more house, and onur ozer is more techno, but that's just going on feelings.

Is there a better way to define things that i'm missing?

 

[tox]

I'm looking for recent anthems (2007 or latter part of 2006) that are up there with 'Full Clip' and 'Fizheuer Zieheuer' from 2006, and 'Body Language' and 'Mandarine Girl' from the year before. Please help to un-befuddle me...

Saw Booka Shade live over the bank holiday and my recommend would have to be "In White Rooms" by Booka Shade themselves - although that might fall into 2005, I can't remember. It's worth your bandwidth though.

I'll have to second Simon's props for Falling Up by Carl Craig and also suggest you check out his remix of Revelee by Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom. Not quite as immediate as the Falling Up refix, but a good listen nevertheless.

Blogwise, keep your eye on OhMyGosh! and Tape.

Minimal is far and away my clubbing music of choice these days.

 

[baboon2004]

Thanks for all the replies- very useful.

Plus thanks for the heads-up on blogs - forgot to ask that question. Find myself drowning in genres and a surfeit of information without any guidance. For instance, what is 'beardo'-disco as opposed to space disco - last time I looked, it was Lindstrom and Prins Thomas and that was all....now apparently there's a whole other thread of disco revivalism (*head briefly explodes*)... The 'House is a Feeling' blog is very good too, with downloadable radio shows...from one of those, heard Ame's 'Fiori', which could be massive.

Minimal would definitely be my clubbing choice were I to live in Berlin...alas not.

 

[tox]

Minimal would definitely be my clubbing choice were I to live in Berlin...alas not.

Just by chance I've lived in two cities with good minimal scenes over the last couple of years. Fukuoka in the south of Japan I thought would be one of the most unlikely places to have minimal DJs passing through, but thanks to the work of a couple of enthusiastic promoters we had M.A.N.D.Y., Ewan Pearson, Ivan Smagge, Superpitcher, Ada, Henrik Schwartz, Jeff Mills and a whole ton of Japanese DJs playing these tiny (by European standards) clubs. Wicked stuff. They used to pass by on a Thursday night on the way to play sets in Osaka and Tokyo over the weekend.

I'm currently living in Leeds where there's more minimal than you might expect. There's pretty much a big name in town every Friday and Saturday night. Last weekend was Gabriel Aganda, Booka Shade and Riton, and Richie Hawtin was down the other weekend too. The students are loving it which means there's plenty of demand. Having spent a year dancing to this stuff with about 100 other people out in Japan its a real buzz to see rooms of 1000s shaking away to minimal.

(sorry for the bloggish nature of this post).

 

[dogger]

Minimal would definitely be my clubbing choice were I to live in Berlin...alas not.

do you live in london tho? cos although it's not by any means berlin here, it ain't that bad either for minimal...e.g. yesterday afternoon at the t-bar: shackleton, kiki and silversurfer, roman flügel, konrad black and superpitcher... and all for free! the end and fabric regularly have good minimal lineups (even if the vibe in both places leaves a little to be desired), and nights like Südelectronic and Run Sounds are well worth checking out.

anyway, getting back to the original question, here are four more or less anthemic records all released this year:

Lazy Fat People - Pixel Girl (original and Carl Crag rmx)
Laven & MSO - Looking for God (and the b-side Looking for Uhm Uhm, which is less of an anthem but is actually an even better tune...)
and two that ARE house records: Andy Vaz: Endings and Beginnings (your mix)
and the ubiquitous Larry Heard pres Mr White - The Sun Can't Compare

a fairly good barometer of all things minimal is Groove magazine's top 50: www.groove.de/charts

 

[IdleRich]

"and nights like Südelectronic"

Anyone get down to that on Saturday? The venue this time sounded as though it ought to have been wicked and I really fancied it but I was out of town.

 

[dogger]

Anyone get down to that on Saturday? The venue this time sounded as though it ought to have been wicked and I really fancied it but I was out of town.

on friday, yeah. the venue was really cool, you had to go up in a really primitive lift to the top floor of this empty office block. really nice, intimate space...only problem was the paucity of toilet facilities... music was really good too, tho it dropped off a bit towards the end i thought.

 

[Guybrush]

For instance, what is 'beardo'-disco as opposed to space disco - last time I looked, it was Lindstrom and Prins Thomas and that was all....now apparently there's a whole other thread of disco revivalism (*head briefly explodes*)...

I think it comes from the stereotype of jazz guys supposedly sporting beards, loving real instruments, long solos, etc. Thus, it’s ‘tasteful’ nuevo disco. I would say that the two terms are interchangeable.

Ame's 'Fiori', which could be massive.

Top tune!

...and the ubiquitous Larry Heard pres Mr White - The Sun Can't Compare

This is a fantastic tune, too.

 

[baboon2004]

do you live in london tho? cos although it's not by any means berlin here, it ain't that bad either for minimal...e.g. yesterday afternoon at the t-bar: shackleton, kiki and silversurfer, roman flügel, konrad black and superpitcher... and all for free! the end and fabric regularly have good minimal lineups (even if the vibe in both places leaves a little to be desired), and nights like Südelectronic and Run Sounds are well worth checking out.

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Thanks for the recommendations (should've thought of looking at Groove...)....yeah, do live in London, but just never get the feeling that minimal is really big here, in terms of advertised nightss etc.

Fabric and The End (tho' mostly the former) do have great minimal DJs, but I've been before and been utterly disappointed due to the (lack of) vibe. Hence the unfavourable comparison to Berlin, where the presenc of minimal is tangible everywhere.

 

[sodiumnightlife]

as to blogs watch:

The Ill-ec-tronic

test

littlewhiteearbuds

philip sherburne

also residentadvisor has good reviews plus podcasts, the ripperton one is especially worth checking out, as are his productions.

 

[swears]

Audion - Mouth to Mouth

was a proper anthem

Audion are HEAVY. "Just Fucking" is awesome too. There's just something nasty and sleazy about their tunes, without having to resort to cheesy cliches like heavy-breathing female vocalists or porn samples. It's just there in the timbres and patterns.

 

[IdleRich]

"on friday, yeah. the venue was really cool, you had to go up in a really primitive lift to the top floor of this empty office block. really nice, intimate space...only problem was the paucity of toilet facilities... music was really good too, tho it dropped off a bit towards the end i thought."

Oh yeah, guess I meant Friday then. I dunno why the idea of a lift to a techno-party made me want to go so much more but it did. I have got a very weak bladder though so maybe it wasn't the best place for me.

 

[sodiumnightlife]

Audion are HEAVY. "Just Fucking" is awesome too. There's just something nasty and sleazy about their tunes, without having to resort to cheesy cliches like heavy-breathing female vocalists or porn samples. It's just there in the timbres and patterns.

yeh heavy is right, an audion tune stands right out in sets, they're minimal but they've got weight. and his remixes are sick as well, specially his claude von stroke and hot chip ones. i've still not heard his black strobe one but its meant to be amazing. anyone got an mp3 they wanna share?

 

[elgato]

Audion are HEAVY. "Just Fucking" is awesome too. There's just something nasty and sleazy about their tunes, without having to resort to cheesy cliches like heavy-breathing female vocalists or porn samples. It's just there in the timbres and patterns.

its interesting to think whether sleaze would be so apparent without the track names though, im not sure

early audion is incredible though

 

[sodiumnightlife]

what tunes qualify as early audion?

 

[swears]

its interesting to think whether sleaze would be so apparent without the track names though, im not sure

early audion is incredible though

I think so, the first time I heard "Just Fucking" I thought it sounded dirty without knowing the title.
Vitalic too, he's a sleazeball.