Minimal Techno (1992): Minimal techno strips the genre down to the bone. Robert Hood laid out the manifesto in 1994 with Minimal Nation: a loop, a groove, almost nothing, and…
Tech House (1994): Tech house is the London compromise of the 1990s between the groove of house and the pull of techno, embodied by the Wiggle and The End club nights. It trades…
Microhouse (1998): House music examined under a microscope, around the year 2000: clicks, fragments of voice and tiny grains of sound assembled into silky grooves. The style was…
Clicks & Cuts (1998): A laboratory of micro sound applied to rhythm, built around Mille Plateaux's Clicks and Cuts label at the turn of the 2000s. The glitch became raw material:…
Minimal Tech (1995): Minimal tech is the club minimal of the 2000s, the sound of Berlin's after-parties: a reduced but fleshy groove, round basslines, and small details that…
Minimal Prog (2004): Minimal prog is progressive house passed through a minimal sieve between 2005 and 2015: melody shrinks to two or three note motifs, a round bass line carries…
Ro-Minimal (1999): The Romanian school of minimal, born in Bucharest in the mid 2000s around Arpiar: endless loops, tiny organic sounds, a clean swing, ten-hour sets where time…
Minimal Wave (1981): Minimal wave is the posthumous rediscovery of obscure, cold synth-pop recorded between 1978 and 1985 on cassettes and tiny private pressings: primitive drum…
Deep Tech (1989): The London crossover of minimal and tech house in the 2010s: dark sub bass inherited from UK garage, rolling grooves, a basement mood rather than a festival…
Fidget House (1999): Fidget house was a joyous accident of the years 2005 to 2009: house music chopped into hiccups, basslines twisted out of shape, and pitched vocals that skip…
Micro Techno (1994): Micro techno reduces techno to its smallest grains, a current that applies the precision of micro sound to techno's own structures, somewhere between Thomas…
