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Not enough good things can be said about ohmygosh.se. And really, not enough good things can be said about minimal right now, as I am currently running an INSATIABLE appetite for new minimal tracks. Names that even three or fourth months ago meant nothing to me all of a sudden have become bright stars in my personal music constellation: radio slave, stephan bodzin, pan pot, mark houle, loco dice, gui boratto, ...along with old(er) faves like booka shade, dominik eulberg, luciano, villalobos, mathew jonson, trentemoller, mathew dear/audion, sleeparchive, the Kompakt krew (Total 7 is an excellent example of this), even carl craig...aarrrrrggg! Fantastic.

It's strange because at the beginning of the year I was a bit cool on the whole "minimal explosion" thing, it struck me as often being quite dry and boring, but now the plip-plop dry stuff has somehow turned into insectile mind-invaders (see: pan pot, villalobos, sleeparchive), while erstwhile electro-house has decayed from enriched uranium rods of hook-filled death to depleted uranium shells of trace-elements rave-hooks (see radio slave, stephan bodzin, booka shade). And even though "explosion" is a very relative term here, they played a mostly minimal set in between acts at the Ladytron concert I went to a few weeks ago (good call Kirkham!), and this club night looks to be pretty much right down this alley (anybody wanna go?). K, so, some samples:


The Knife - Like A Pen (Stephan Bodzin Mix) ****this was the track that inspired this whole damn post, download it!!****

Kissogram - My Friend is a Seahorse (Radio Slave Remix)
Pan Pot - Back Window
Audion - Mouth to Mouth

[you may need to login to yousendit to download some of these...it's fairly painless, i've done it already...can i help it that none of these tracks are less than 9:30 minutes??? That's another great thing about minimal: super long songs, yesss!!!!]


Please remind me to make a mix of this stuff! I was going to make a mix closer to the beginning of the year, and by now I could probably make about three pretty good ones. I always hate I never get around to making a mix and then later on when I look back at something I was pretty into I can't remember what all the good tracks were (this totally happened with grime, i had 2-3 solid mix cds worth to put together and never did, and now that i don't really listen to grime that much any more i'm already starting to forget what the good stuff was...).

But really (and going back to the first sentence of this post, that I kinda forgot about) just go to ohmygosh and download the stuff he says is good, cuz it is. That site has played a large, large role in my getting into minimal over the last few months...