Rewound Circuit of the week
By Joe • Mar 5th, 2008 • Category: Music, Rewound Circuits
Melchior Productions - “Galera Da Bahia” (Mexe A Bunda) -[Perlon 2005]
2005 was the year that minimal techno went mainstream Circoloco had its best season to date in Ibiza and it was a year that producers took time in making records.The music was still coming through from the underground to the mainstream & it was mainly a group of certain labels that the music heads were taking notice of. This included labels such as Perlon, Pokerflat, M_nus, Crosstown Rebels etc. I remember getting excited of the prospects from an upcoming release because you knew it was going to be good. Fast -forward a couple of years and everyone thinks they can make techno/ minimal (whatever). For me this is when minimal went stale and i think alot of producers felt the same way. Joe Bloggs was knocking out minimal techno on sites like beatport, for fun the lack of time and creativity was showing and it started to get boring. This is why alot of the original techno producers have switched back to house and left it up to the 1 release label brigade to carry on. There was a time that the label was bothered about what it was producing and took time and thought about it, now its almost extinct everyone is producing and there’s far too much crap to sift through to find a decent record (in the minimal techno scene). I wish today’s music was like 2005 where the music was at a consistant high standard. Here’s a classic cut from 2005 which was massive in Ibiza, thankfully Perlon never sold out and kept there roots to making really good techno, perhaps that’s why they dont sell mp3’s because a piece of wax is more valued and the producer has taken more time in making it. Thomas Melchior shows us how ahead of the game he was with this trippy deep minimal track (d/l)
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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Chris Moran
It’s always sad when a majority of people misunderstand a genre of music. Oh minimal techno, we hardly new ye.
cadenza is still solid as well
melchior is teh man
[...] Max M wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt2005 was the year that minimal techno went mainstream. Circoloco had its best season to date in Ibiza and it was a year that producers took time in making records.The music was still coming through from the underground to the mainstream … [...]
Yeah cadenza is one of my favorite labels i dont class cadenza as minimal id say it was “other”