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Less is more has been the approach of minimal house.
Groundwork is laid with simple, 4/4 beats (usually around 125-130 beats-per-minute) usually only barely accompanied by sparse, percussive effects, synthesizer work, and simplistic vocal.
Also categorized as minimal tech-house or microhouse. Microhouse music takes minimal house to a new level, focusing on the essential dance-inducing elements of house music: the beat, the bass and the melody. ...
External links
Djmitch.it - minimal house dj, mixes, reviews, news
KOMPAKT - one of the most important german minimal house labels. Featuring artists as Thomas Fehlmann, Superpichter, and more.
Minimal techno, a minimalist sub-genre of Techno music, is characterized by a stripped-down, glitchy sound, simple 4/4 beats (usually around 120-135 BPM), repetition of short loops, and subtle changes.
Minimal techno has found mainstream club popularity since 2004 in such places as Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, North Italy and the UK with DJs from a wide variety of genres incorporating differing elements of its tones.
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.