For anybody who's afraid Mr Paap has gone a bit too minimal these days

[force]

here's a bit of his set from Closer in Vauxhall, london a couple of weeks ago.

Sounds obviously distorted through crappy camera mic but you get the idea....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfndvlWSRM

[Tiptoe]

tune thats on 2min 40 in is amazing!v don't suppose anyone knows what it is lol

[jesus]

well thats what minimal sounds like through a soundsystem init. was good set. had traktor on left laptop and ablerton on right hand laptop. seemeed to be mixing hawtin sytle tunes but with his own loops layered in. though it was aight

[koma]

old news is so exciting :P :D

[DannyBlack]

I remember seeing speedy j and chris liebing a couple if years back. I hate to say it but it was probably the worst set I ever witnessed. It was slow and minimal with builds that just went no where.

the minimal train is a money maker, generation bland are willing to pay for it. I can understand why he's going down this route but I don't condone it.

[koma]

i dont think he's doing it for the money
there's not that much money in minimal as people usually thinks there is...

anyway, this guy has been around for years and years and its not like he was never experimenting with different sound...

[DannyBlack]

Yeah, true I guess. But there are so many different good avenues to go down. Why minimal? :-(

[force]

well, this set was as hard as nails and a wasn't bored for a second..

[Frank Dogshit]

i can barely make it out what style hes playing in this video to be honest.

[Elvio Neto]

well, this set was as hard as nails and a wasn't bored for a second..

+1


i can barely make it out what style hes playing in this video to be honest.

+1

hahah

[mattboyslim]

he was mint at the Jam last month

[The Overfiend]

That's hard?

[Smear]

I'm not all that fond of the minimal stuff on that clip(and to be honest i'm not a huge fan of Speedy J's techno stuff either).......here's a question though....why is it bad that he's making minimal, but no one even mentions the fact that he made trance for years? To me that suggests that people here are more inclined towards trance than techno.

I don't think there's genuine hatred of 'mnml' here, or at least not as much as people are making out. It's a byproduct of having a close-knit scene that there ends up a hate figure, and in this particular time and place that hate is currently channeled towards 2 guys who happen to have had more than one interest in the past 20 years.

[stjohn]

sorry darren.. sounds pretty boring to me :)

the only reason i say that is coz ive seen the lad BANG it out.. and i know what he can do production wise, when he wants to (old tracks on ED, Novamute etc..) he is able to make the sexiest hard techno, or the craziest breakbeat idm-style stuff when he wants. even his early mnml stuff was classs (1st 30 mins of loudboxer era)
this is pretty pants in relation.

[force]

Well, none of you were there and you cant really make out the music from that clip. What he played that night WAS as hard as nails, and that doesn't mean it has to be 150 160 bpm stupid fast, maybe the system helped, i dunno, but what i know as minimal is NOTHING like what he played that night.

@Rory
I'm sure if you had been there you'd have been rocking your titties off dude.

BTW. Im over in Dublin again in Feb mate. be good to see ya again. I'll finally give you those Circuit bending lecture vids i took last time.....

didn't upload cos they were massive

[Paul Zykotik]

Hmm, I don't know if it was hard as nails, but it certainly wasn't minimal either. He built it up well and there were glimpses of harder tracks. I certainly enjoyed his set much more than I thought I would. He properly got into it as well which was good to see.

[clubsynthetic]

does he EVER play shit faster than 130 bpm now? That speed of stuff isn't very good to warm up to and have as a main act.

In other words i want pumped at 143 bpm like he used to.

as for the minimal chat - bla bla bla

[gunjack]

anybody participated in this? - http://blog.soundcloud.com/2008/11/07/speedyj-opencollabs/


too late to enter now but cool project by our man speedy

[force]

anybody participated in this? - http://blog.soundcloud.com/2008/11/07/speedyj-opencollabs/


too late to enter now but cool project by our man speedy

Yep, i sent some loops couple of weeks ago, he seems to like them as well...

[RDR]

The open collabs is good... the video is shit... joachem has always been experimental, check www.umfeld.tv

im not excited either way. I enjoy his music and was interested in that set but couldnt figure out what was going on.

[force]

I dont think its a bad bit of footage myself,considering the 25 shrooms and large dab of MDMA i'd consumed before hand!!!
Granted, the audio is far too distorted tho

[stjohn]

@Rory
I'm sure if you had been there you'd have been rocking your titties off dude.

BTW. Im over in Dublin again in Feb mate. be good to see ya again. I'll finally give you those Circuit bending lecture vids i took last time.....

didn't upload cos they were massive


sorry lad i dont hang with mnml lovers!
haha, only buzzin. course ill be around! would be good to see ye again, mate. im sure we'll chat before that. yea those vids would be great.. i know people have been asking me about them. id like to edit them a bit and whack them on yougearporn.com

[force]

sorry lad i dont hang with mnml lovers!


RIGHT, i'm bringing you a cowbell when i come to Dublin!