"Things begin slowly and primitively with howling winds and baying wolves at the door, but it isn’t until the metronomic beat drops on ‘Meat in the Markt’ that the album finds its sound. ‘2007’ is more minimal than full throttle, interested in slowly evolving changes and subtle percussive manipulations that ping and echo around the popping beat. It sounds like being in a doctor’s waiting room, and something must be very wrong with you because the walls keep closing in and rushing away..."
Steffi owns her role at Panorama Bar, the famous Berlin club where she's a resident DJ. She has a reputation as a reliable purveyor of warm and welcoming deep house, and though she's only been putting out records for a few years, she's already racked up a certified anthem ("Yours"). Panorama Bar 05 is her first official mix CD, and a chance to shine outside the confines of a club—it should be a dazzling display of skills and finesse...
Steve Reich & Pat Metheny - Electric Counterpoint - Fast (Movement 3)
Etienne Jaumet - Repeat After Me (Âme Mix)
Kenneth Bager - Fragment Eleven… The Day After Yesterday Pt.1
Liquid Liquid - Lock Groove (Out)
Cymande - For Baby Oh
Patrick Moraz - Metamorphoses 1st Movement (Live)
To Rococo Rot - Testfeld
Mathematics - Blue Water
I:Cube - Acid Beatless
Ø - Atomit
Conrad Schnitzler - Electrocon 11
Green Pickles feat. Billy Lo & M. Pittman - Feedback
La Funk Mob - Motor Bass Gets Phunked Up (Richie Hawtin's Electrophunk Mix)
John Carpenter - The President Is Gone
Yusef Lateef - The Three Faces Of Bala
Robert Hood - Minus
Raymond Scott - Bass-Line Generator
Moondog - Invocation
"When started thinking about the compilation, we had in mind the idea to put together a great minimal techno selection with stuff from the early 90s, which really inspired us, like Robert Hood, Dan Bell, Plastikman, Pansonic and Mike Ink to name a few. Whilst working on the project we had the feeling that there is so much more great and influential minimal music from way before the techno thing started.
So we were very excited to combine the music from the electronic pioneers, with the tracks from the minimal techno godfathers in a very modern way. In Minimal Music there is so much (space) in between the sounds and the space that gives you a lot of opportunities for an own interpretation.
The Grandfather Paradox is a scientific theory about time travelling and was first described by the science fiction writer Rene Barjavel in his book - Le Voyageur Imprudent. We took suggestions out of that because we felt like we are travelling back in time and manipulating the old music with modern knowledge. The fact that we did all this with the deserved respect to the originals makes us quite sure that the results are bringing something new and interesting to the old tracks and transport the past into the here and now."
