Synth Minimalism

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
Let's have some!

Any genre any era. I guess I'm kind of after the more moody / introspective side of things, but the basic criterion is a focus on synth textures and not much else.

It's a tendancy that I've always been sort of aware of, but couldn't name many actual examples of.

Here's some Mika Vainio:

Much older but not all that minimal:

But stuff that sounds like Kode 9 and Spaceape's Sign of the Dub without the vocals is the sort of thing I'm really looking for...
 

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
that mika vainio track you posted is a sample of a guitar, no synths
Oops.

I wanted to post some of the really synthy stuff of Kantamoinen, but couldn't find any of it on youtube,

Will have a listen to the rest when I get home...
 

nomos

Administrator
I've listened to a lot of Eleh (and nearly took down the stage lights playing it on a 4kW sound system)..

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Looooow frequency business (mostly ~.5 - 120Hz). Tone generators and pure waves, either on their own or modulating each other.

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/31856-eleh-floating-frequencies-intuitive-synthesis-1
http://boomkat.com/downloads/286066-eleh-location-momentum
 
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Slothrop

Tight but Polite
Some excellent stuff here. See what you mean about the Laurie Spiegel. And tg / industrial generally is something I've always meant to have a listen to, but sort of put off because I've been too lazy and also because I'm worried that it won't be as good as what I imagine it sounding like.

The Eleh stuff is great - just the sort of thing I was after!
 
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