..Minimal Techno
Minimal techno, a minimalist sub-genre of Techno music, is characterized by a stripped-down, glitchy sound, a fairly steady rhythm (usually around 120-135 BPM), repetition of short loops, and subtle changes.
Related styles include Detroit techno, ambient techno, microhouse and tech house.
Style
Minimal techno features consonant harmony, but most tracks lack functional chord progression, sometimes to the point of seeming atonal. Melodies, when present, are usually short loops of one or two bars, and emphasis is put on creating layers of unique sounds. Musical development is achieved mostly by adding or removing instruments (sounds) on eight-bar phrase boundaries and adjusting sound effects. Music created under this genre can range from melodic beautiful harmonies with a prominent bass line, to glitchy, unstructured, disjointed sounds which are unified to create an organised new track.
In recent years, the genre has taken great influence from, to the point of merging with the microhouse genre. It has also fragmented into a great number of difficult to categorize subgenres, equally claimed by the minimal techno and microhouse tags.
Minimal techno has found mainstream club popularity since 2004 in such places as Germany, South Africa, The Netherlands, Spain, North Italy and the UK with DJs from a wide variety of genres incorporating differing elements of its tones, the famed after-hours club DC10 in Ibiza being one exponent of the genre.
By the second half of 2006, the term 'minimal' had in many ways become contradictory, as it serves as a denominator for the tech house sounds of the moment, many of which should rather be coined as 'maximal' in terms of their sonic content, in contrast to the original stripped down, i.e. minimalist electronic genre.
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/
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..Artisti Minimal Techno
- Sadjoy
- Minimal Techno
- Sailorgloom
- Electronica, Minimal Techno
- Sakura
- Minimal Techno, Progressive
- Salto
- Minimal Techno, Tech-House

- salvo
- Deep House, Electro, House, Minimal Techno, Trance
- Sammy Garcia
- Minimal Techno
- Sanna
- Minimal Techno, Tech-House
- Sarasin
- Heavy Metal, Minimal Techno
- Schultztek
- Minimal Techno
- Sean Jay Dee
- Electro, Minimal Techno
- Seb Neitsa
- Minimal Techno, Techno
- Sebastian Ross
- Minimal Techno
- Sebastian Schwartz
- Minimal Techno
- Sebastian Stepa
- Minimal Techno, Progressive
- Senjan
- Minimal Techno
- Serhi
- Happy Hardcore, Minimal Techno
- Serio
- Electronica, Minimal Techno
- Shaheeran
- Funky Breaks, Minimal Techno
- Shaizen
- Microhouse, Minimal Techno
- Sheera
- Minimal Techno, Progressive
- Shufflemaster
- Minimal Techno
- Siciliano
- Electronica, Minimal Techno
- Sidney Frost
- Minimal Techno, Nu Breaks
- Sidt
- Minimal Techno
- Sigmatron
- Minimal Techno
- Simon Pitt
- Minimal Techno, Trance
- Simply- C
- Minimal Techno
- Sinisha
- Minimal Techno
- Sir Damien
- Electro, Minimal Techno
- Siri
- Microhouse, Minimal Techno
- Skeet
- Microhouse, Minimal Techno

- Sleeparchive
- Electronica, Euro-Dance, Minimal Techno, Techno
- Slinger
- Minimal Techno
- Snowy905
- Minimal Techno
- Somomo
- Minimal Techno
- Sonny H
- Microhouse, Minimal Techno
- Sorrow
- Minimal Techno, Power Metal, Trance
- Sou Kobayashi
- Minimal Techno
- Stass3d
- Minimal Techno
- Stathis L.
- Electro, Minimal Techno

- stefano L
- Minimal Techno
- Stek www.myspace.com/bbstek
- Minimal Techno, Rave, Techno, Trance

- Steve Bug
- Electro, Electronica, House, Minimal Techno, Techno
- Steven Engelmann
- Detroit Techno, Minimal Techno
- Suresh Nelson
- Minimal Techno, Techno
- Sven Palzer
- Minimal Techno, Tech-House

- Sven Väth
- Electronica, Euro-Dance, Hardcore Techno, Minimal Techno, Techno
- Sweet Sarah
- Microhouse, Minimal Techno
- Synth-Hacker
- Minimal Techno, Tech-House

- System of Survival
- Acid House, Deep House, Detroit Techno, Electronica, Minimal Techno

