The purpose of our excursions – to open a door in the techno world, to tell about music outside of imagination. If you already listen to The Prodigy and Underworld, but yet have not opened for yourself Stacey Pullen or Underground Resistance, this series of articles for you minimal. At the same time, if Carl Craig and Derrick May in your taste, but you did not listen to The Connection Machine and Neil Ollivierra – we will tell and about them.

In work on the book which has laid down in a basis of a series of articles, have taken part already familiar advanced clubber minimal the House Phillips, the former editor of magazine Mixmag and the leader of the program BBC’s Clublife in 1998; Martin James, the journalist and the author “Adventures With The Voodoo Crew”, a full history of Prodigyi; John Burgess, editor Jockey Slut; Tony Marcus, the underground writer sometimes acting as the technical editor i-D; Sherman which once was the editor of section about a dance music
“Sherman At The Controls” in a weekly journal of Melody Maker and which now operates own club Cloak and Dagger and a record-label minimal under the same name; Peter McIntyre, journalist Miksmag and tech house The Wire; Dan Sicko, editor URB and the author “Techno Rebels”, a magnificent sketch about tech house sources; Jonas Stone, writing articles for Jockey Slut and «7».

In a force of the laws of space and time in the book of Tima Barra is obvious blanks. Such branches of a techno as a hardcore and габбер, deserve separate volume. At the same time the hippie of a techno born in the mid-nineties a sound – a goa-trance – has sunk into oblivion. The material was selected on a number of criteria, considering and other books which have left in this series (for example, Peter Shapiro’s book (Peter Shapiro) about dramas-end-bejs and Shona Biddera (Sean Bidder) about a house) to adumbrate about the central events of history of a minimal and the most significant releases. Along with stars there will be also less known names. You hardly will find their plates, unless in special musical shops, but these «grey cardinals» have brought the considerable contribution to music development. Recommended plates have been chosen so that to give accurate objective representation about the musician or group (as the card), taking into account their influence on the general current. It will be possible to hear to some tracks and mixes in mp3 a format. Articles from the book are supplemented with the information from the Internet, interview, photos, references to homepages tech house of musicians, many of which – the present products of the modern art.
The techno has made the official step first, at least, on a way to minimal wide popularity in 1988 the publication in a magazine May issue «Ze the Face» (The Face) Stewart Kosgrouva’s articles (Stuart Cosgrove) and an exit on Verdzhin (Virgin) legendary already compilations «Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit» («the Techno! A new dancing sound of Detroita»). This event was preceded by some techno of the releases which have descended from the conveyor of labels of “automobile capital» with fantastic names like Metroplex, Transmat and KMS which have found to itself a place in a rapid current of a growing phenomenon of an electronic scene – a house. Certainly, the techno and a house sounded differently, and Kosgrouvu managed to underline this difference, having collected, as a mosaic, authoritative opinions and having created some kind of the incendiary manifesto of a tech house. Charged by sharp moods, the rebellious, chaotic, another’s, resisting culture personifying gloomy futurism, began bombing attack on pop culture. Excellent start!

«The Detroit underground makes experiments with technology, - Juan Atkins (Juan Atkins) declares, – expanding its application, instead of simply using. As the prices for synthesizers have fallen, experiments began to be spent more and more intensively. We, generally, have got tired to listen to songs about love-carrots, eternal ar-end-bi (R&B), here and was born new прогрессив a sound. We name its techno».

«As though George Clinton and Kraftverk (Kraftwerk) have got stuck it in the lift, and the synthesizer would be in the unique way to have a good time», - explains Derrik Mej (Derrick May), having made thus the most well-known definition of a minimal techno.

«It is what it is» - the classical track of the early Meja acting then under pseudonym Rhythim is Rhythim, sounding as though the rhythms stolen from another planet, opens compilation «Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit». The techno, more rigid and “angular”, than the music which has come from Chicago, obviously, had something the general with arising electronic sounding of house-music. Мэй at once has shown, than they differ: «All difference in attachment to the past. The house still derives inspiration in 70 whereas we do not have this attachment to the old. A minimal techno, definitely, future music. We are much more strongly adjusted to experiment».
This bent for has served experiments as motive power in improbably prompt development of a minimal techno. Techno music unites such different directions and styles as габбер with its mad speed, эмбиент with its quiet psychedelia, flew-jazz with its refined bibop-rhythms, - and all it is penetrated by minimalism (бибоп - the jazz style which has affirmed in 50th years by efforts Charlie Parker (Charlie Parker), Teloniusa Monka (Thelonious Monk), Dizzi Dzhilispaj (Dizzy Gillespie) and others; it was characterised unusual for many fans of a traditional jazz by harmony and rhythm complication (a word origin – onomatopoeic)). And inside - the infinite undercurrents, new variations, the hybrids inflating this breathing cover, expanding musical borders. Genetically put minimal calling of a techno – to live and develop, or as Detroits Dreksija (Detroit’s Drexciya once has told): «There is only one rule – to invent!»

Years later after Derrik Mej has stated the authoritative estimation of a techno, di-dzhej and producer Dzhef Mills (Jeff Mills) has offered another: «the techno-music is minimal techno actually something that you cannot imagine. If you suddenly hear something absolutely unexpected, can be assured are a techno».

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