well yeah sure, there's plenty of examples of 'minimal' - or stuff that's come out on labels associated with mnml - that isn't really minimal at all! the point surely is that 'minimal' or 'mnml' was/is a terribly imprecise and frequently misleading term...of course there's lots of dry boring house and techno out there though, and people who think it's a really great idea to insert a minimal woodblock sound into a cod prog house track...and as for 'mnml' not being 'odd and housey'...perlon?! EDIT rereading what you wrote, though, mms, you do say 'minimal stereotype', so fair enough
but e.g. perlon sit pretty firmly at the centre of my conception of what minimal is...it's precisely the stereotype, tho, that i'm getting really sick of, way more so than the music itself. i guess it's similar to people characterising dubstep as 'nothing but stoopid wobblers'.
maybe i'm reading the lyrics of 'minimal' as satire cos i want to believe aguayo is taking a more sophisticated approach, rather than just cashing in on the backlash and accusing 'mnml' of a lack of soul, of earthy 'groove', cos obviously what we need are more cheesy vocals and maybe some latin flair in our tracks (no one's thought of THAT before have they?) tho i guess some would argue that getting people who are into 'mnml' to dance to a record that takes the piss out of their scene is very clever too...clever in a self-hating indie-ironic way, though.