The Grandfather Paradox “50 Years of Minimalism”

Holy frikkin sh*t! Front runner for compilation / mix of 2009 so far. Âme, Henrik Schwarz and Dixon collaborate on this journey through 50 years of minimal music, and we’re not talking about only minimal house here… from early electro, disco, jazz-funk, to today’s minimal house/tech sound.

Love this definition of minimalist music “mostly in consonant harmony, steady pulse (if not immobile drones), stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells.”

1.Steve Reich — Electric Counterpoint
2.Etienne Jaumet — Repeat After Me (Ame Mix)
3.Kenneth Bager — Fragment Eleven
4.Liquid Liquid — Lock Groove Out
5.Cymande — For Baby Oh
6.Patrick Moraz — Metamorphoses
7.To Rococo Rot — Testfeld
8.Matematics — Blue Water
9.I:Cube — Acid Beatless
10.Ø — Atomit
11.Conrad Schnitzler — Elektocon
12.Green Pickles — Feedback
13.La Funk Mob — Motor Bass Gets Phunked Up (Ritchie Hawtin Mix)
14.John Carpenter — The President is Gone
15.Yusef Lateef — The Three Faces of Balal
16.Raymond Scott — Bass-Line Generator
17.Mooondog — Invocation
18.Robert Hood — Minus
19.Arthur Russell — Make 1, 2
20.Can — Sunday Jam
21.Pyrolator — November Muhlheim
22.Young Marble Giants — NITA

Lexis

Montreal-based DJ and the founder MusicIsMySanctuary.com (2007) and 24 Hours of Vinyl (2011).