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minimal

17 tracks.

The Hacker, Mount Sims

Traces (Oxia Remix)

Oxia turns The Hacker and Mount Sims' cold-wave electro into a patient, rolling techno journey, all brooding synth lines and a build that keeps tightening the screw.

Nicolas Jaar

Time For Us

A young Nicolas Jaar's slow, sultry minimal-house classic, a crooned vocal and dusty, swaying textures that famously sink from dance tempo into a long, swooning breakdown nobody wants to mix out of.

Mount Sims

Restless

Seven minutes of slow-burning tension, Restless loops a nervous synth figure and a stalking beat until the repetition itself becomes the thrill.

Marek Hemmann

Gemini

Nine minutes of melodic German minimal from the Jena label Freude am Tanzen: Marek Hemmann's Gemini drives on a swinging house groove while synth patterns and funky tenor-sax licks twist around each other.

Kölsch

Bloodline (feat. Tomas Høffding)

Kölsch's melodic techno meets the warm, weathered voice of WhoMadeWho's Tomas Høffding in Bloodline, a slow-burning track from 1983, an album about childhood road trips across Europe, that swells like a sunrise over the booth.

Klangkuenstler

Golden

A late-night techno roller from Klangkuenstler's 2015 debut on Great Stuff: a massive, rounded bassline, a nasty but beautiful sawtooth lead and a bed of vinyl noise that makes the dark groove feel strangely warm.

Codec & Flexor

Time Has Changed (Northern Lite Remix)

Erfurt's Northern Lite rework Codec & Flexor's electroclash-era club hit for the 2004 remix EP: a six-minute version that keeps the song's cool, detached refrain and gives it the band's own blend of electro and pop.

Hania Rani

Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

A serene, immersive 36-minute KEXP session recorded in July 2022: the Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani plays 24.03, Ghosts, Komeda Part 3 and Buka on piano and synthesizers, pieces that would reach her later albums.

Northern Lite

Trusting Blind

The 2001 debut single of Erfurt's Northern Lite, released on their own 1st Decade Records: techno roots turning into electronic pop, with ambient pads, a steady bassline and a slow build toward a driving finish.

Mirwais

Naïve Song

Mirwais, the former Taxi Girl guitarist who would soon produce Madonna's Music, sets a vocoded voice against stop-start acoustic guitar and retro synths: a 2000 French electro single that reached number two on the US club chart.

Gabriel Vitel

Burn It Down

'Burn It Down' by Gabriel Vitel is a dark, six-minute minimal track from the German songwriter and indie dance live act's 2014 debut EP on Ipoly Music, built for the dance floor rather than the radio.

Marcu Rares

Camimosa

An eighteen-minute minimal track by the Romanian producer Marcu Rareș, the title piece of his 2018 EP for the Romanian minimal techno label Welter Records.