could some serious electronic music-head please elucidate the
discrepencies between the following genres : ambient house, minimal
house, minimal techno. this is a very geeky post PLEASE don't bother
complaining about it.
+ if i'm not mistaken, the following is correct :
ambient house - late 80's / early 90's scene, housish beats with a
dubby chillout vibe, loads of sampling and effects. e.g. : the orb,
808 state.
minimal house - really stripped-down 'hard' percussion-oriented
house. e.g. jeff mills, richie hawtin.
minimal techno - more recent, mostly german, scene of bare-minimum,
undanceably subtle click-n-bass quasi-ambient tracks. e.g. oval,
chain reaction folks.
...and i hear things with very subtle beats being called 'ambient'.
is this so ? by the classic eno definition, it seems that the genre
would be restricted to slow washes of sound.
is this about right ? ...or are the terms completely interchangeable
(as i originally thought) ? you see, i'm one of these kids who
discovered idm a year before he discovered the rest of dance music,
and, well, i'm trying to catch up.
thanks.
.af.
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