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Description of Minimal/Glitch

 
Techno, by its very nature, is a pretty minimal form of music. Not quite minimal enough for some, including Cologne resident Mike Ink (aka Kompakt records founder Wolfgang Voigt) and Dusseldorf's Thomas Brinkman, who specialize in stripping techno down to microscopic components and examining each drum kick in minute, exacting detail. Similarly, glitch house, click house or microhouse exponents such as MRI, Akufen and Pole appear more interested in the interference generated by electronic circuits than any debt to the dancefloor (as the house tag might suggest), often constructing beats entirely from the glitches that other producers try so hard to eradicate. However, there's no denying that at this intersection between the worlds of house music and academic, electro-acoustic exploration, some incredible -- even danceable --­ music is being created.
 

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1. Textuell Oval
2. Ask You Lusine
3. Body Si Begg
4. Grut Wall Matthew Dear
5. Leisure Centre Swayzak
6. Zero Gravity Monolake
7. The Mountain Song Alexander Rishaug
 

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Electronica/Dance  >  Leftfield/IDM  >  Minimal/Glitch
 

Minimal/Glitch Key Artists

 
Akufen

Stuttery but funky
glitch-house from Canada.
Not, as the name might
suggest, a headache
remedy.

Audion

Dear is a key artist on Ann
Arbor's Ghostly
International and sub-label
Spectral Sound. His
monikers include False, hi...

Basic Channel

Basic Channel were a
shadowy German
production duo and label
that revolutionized minimal
techno in the mid '90s. Th...

Ellen Allien

Proprietor of Berlin's Bpitch
Control label, Ellen Allien is
a heavy-hitter of German
techno and electro.

Luomo

Luomo is Finland's Sasu
Ripatti, who also records as
Vladislav Delay, Uusitalo,
Conoco and Sistol. While all
of his music explores the...

Matthew Dear

Dear is a key artist on Ann
Arbor's Ghostly
International and sub-label
Spectral Sound. His
monikers include False, hi...

Matthew Herbert

Matthew Herbert's career
spans influential house
tracks, innovative remixes,
a political manifesto and
even big-band jazz. His ea...

Maurizio

This ex-Tresor producer
makes the most of '90s
minimalism as co-owner of
the sensational German
Techno label Basic Chann...

Monolake

Robert Henke and Gerhard
Behles from Berlin make up
the minimalist techno sound
of Monolake. Monolake is a
part of Moritz "Maurizio" v...

Onur Ozer

Turkey's Onur Ozer is his
country's ambassador to the
international
minimal-techno community.
While based in Istanbul, h...

Oval

Oval brings Musique
Concrete into the '90s
digital realm, designing
microsound with skipping
CDs and fractured texture...

Plastikman

Canada's Richie Hawtin is a
minimalist Techno pioneer.

Pole

Working with sounds
between beats, Pole
features crackling hisses
and echoes as opposed to
beats and breaks. He take...

Rhythm & Sound

Ricardo Villalobos

Chilean-born German house
DJ and producer known for
his minimal, techy, tribal
sounds.

Robert Hood

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