Robag Wruhme wearing sunglasses indoor is peak minimal 😅 It was cool to take a trip down these tracks - it's been a long time since I last indulged in that sound
This is an interesting episode, I thought I'd do much better than I did as I played a lot of minimal at the time. But to be honest I think a lot of 200's minimal records are quite interchangeable. I guess everyone had their own favourites, but I didn't hear any of mine on this episode, although the Villalobos track is a classic. During Covid I cleared out my record collection and let go of a lot of my minimal techno records as I failed to have an emotional connection with them. I also did buy some that I couldn't find at the time. The concept of minimal techno was and still is still very strong, but it's not easy to make a memorable record. Some of the artists of this jury have made timeless records that I will cherish forever, especially Robag.
I didn't know a single one and thought I might get one or two. 2005-2007 was a really weird time. I didn't like minimal. I described it as someone recording "throwing pots and pans down the stairs to a 4/4 beat". Actually, I didn't like a lot of the music that had come out at that time. Record stores were closing, digital was on the rise. I had loved the last few years of tech house with the likes of Eddie Richards, Burridge, Richards, but Tech House was slowly taken over with a more electro sound into the garbage mess it has been since the late 2000s early 2010s. There was such a huge knee-jerk reaction to Progressive Trance and House from the previous few years that gave us minimal and some other sub-genres that took a few years to find their footing. I like the experimentation, but it really left a lot to be desired because the tracks were repetitive and boring.
I love this series because it's always introducing me to new genres and tracks, even though I'm too young to have been part of any of these scenes the feeling of recognising a track in these makes me feel 'in on' something special. Keep 'em coming!
I grew up listening to electronic music - mostly minimal - but warmed up a great deal to metal over the years. In the end is’s not so much about the genre but about the artists and what they want to say. The technical skills of many metal bands are out of this world and some emotions are more easily expressed with metal. But there is a kind of energy I only get from good minimal techno, and it’ll always feel like home and relaxing to me.
Alex played 3 times for me when i was running shows in Australia.. Hands down a gentleman and such a genuine guy. Have some amazing memories hanging out with him and watch him slay the dancefloor.. I still listen to Paradolia and Incommunicado all the time. Miss ya Alex 💕💕
@@danieleden1856 yeah, this was my experience with him: he killed it and then we just drank, chatted and had a laugh. Top bloke. His music has aged so well unlike so many - presumably because it’s underpinned by real song craft and genuine emotion. He’s still still releasing excellent mixes of radio buena vida 👍
I get why loads of people in The Netherlands are complaining about this era. From what I hear this stuff was booming back then, you couldn't escape it. Glad I was too young and not into techno yet and started partying in the tail of it, I guess (2010). That being said, the blind tests are always fun!
Really loved this selection, probably the most interesting and creative records I heard in the whole series. They don't feel minimal (literally speaking) to me, but full of layers, unexpected sounds and surprises.
There is a touching point between the Minimal featured in this episode and the Progressive you're talking about, via labels as Get Physical, Love Triangle, Kompakt Extra. Border Community, Systematic,
@@s90210h not really - prog basically died in the early 00s, when this boring stuff was starting to become more prominent. While there was a very brief overlap with some stuff on Border Community and Kompakt etc, it very quickly stopped being prog and was in the vast majority of cases very different. None of the tracks in this video are close to 90s-early 00s prog.
i see the production value of those tunes. but for me this one is a nice reminder why most minimal techno records never got me and probably never will.
Love it…. I have been watching many episodes but in this I actually , have, know or recognise some tracks… haha I guess this is my genre!!! Thank you guys!
omg I remember the analogy of DJs arriving with their laptops just to check emails on stage. For me that was one of the lower points in dance music, that's also when I lost track of everything just to get back into it a few years later thanks to Doc Scott.
@@ElectronicBeatsTV Hey thank you for respecting my younger self :D I was a laptop dj for a short while there... most definitely played Dexter and Carthago... Loved this episode. I understand why the old school vinyl DJs resented us though, Many of us were absolute frauds... I still think the democratisation midi controllers and digital music brought to the scene helped revive the interest for all kinds of electronic music and bred a lot of innovation
Vielen dank das hat wirklich Spaß gemacht da das genau den Zeitgeist traf wo ich angefangen habe platten zu drehen!!!meine erste platte,platzhirch records Gabriel Ananda M.whop
Many people disagreeing with you in the comments there... I don't blame them : only a small percentage of my playlist of the time still remains today. But that small percentage really feels timeless to me, so I do kinda agree with you as well :)
How did I get the title wrong on Dexter?! I did guess Gaiser from the style alone though, and only got Ananda because they said Doppelwhipper... I guess I'll have to go Make The Tea again, I was never übercoolische 🤣
gotta include RV, but i was hoping for some Akufen, not gonna lie. regardless: love the time and effort put into this series. kudos to all involved behind the scenes, y'all should be mighty proud!!
@@JeremyForTheWin 2 words for the same sub-genre. Any difference is absolutely minimal (ehehehe) to the point that they really can't be considered separate.
Thank you so much for that video ! I miss early 2000's for the good progressive and minimal, and playing vinyl as well :/ What the scene has become with the kids wanting to make hits and become famous is so sad. Put back dj's on a dj booth and make them have a blind test and QI test before booking them ! ^^
Love this series, I watch em all and i was so excited to see the that Minimal episode was coming. Everything on top as always, except for inviting AW who is a lunatic who snaps on people every now and then. I guess your team didn’t know. We can debate on the idea “separate the artist from the person” for sure, each one their perspective. I just don’t think we should give credit and visibility to people that spread hate and show violent behavior. Thank you for the show! Peace
I also thought I was an expert, when they did the drum and bass blind test. Boy was I wrong :D I did DJ around 2000, so I know quite a few records from back then.
@@ElectronicBeatsTV no suprises for me, knew them all aside from the trapez one. great choice. Edit: And btw. my suggestion Andreas Werner was tied for the win! Makes me a little bit proud :D
I was waiting for this, and it didn’t disappoint. This mid 00’s minimal sound was by far my favourite era for dance music. I came up on the late 99 trance sound, but grew up around 2002 and subsequently grew out of trance, I heard “Dexter” and that was it. Minimal was always such a sexy, hypnotic sound. Sounded great in the clubs too. I’m patiently waiting for this hardstyle of techno to pass, so hopefully we can have the second coming of minimal 🙂
I’m happy that this sound isn’t everywhere anymore. I really like some of the tracks, like Dexter and the Thomas Brinkmann and Alex Smoke tracks. I also own some older Perlon and Max Ernst records. But It was soooo boring hearing this sound in every club. Many records of that era were unimaginative samey crap.
Pretty minimal episode indeed - the music, my knowledge of it and the participants' title recognition abilities. One little exception on ze amount of nice dschörmen accents! And I even learned something... Always thought, minimal is not quite my stuff. But now, I'm pretty sure about that. 😂 Loved the episode like all of them anyway.
@@ElectronicBeatsTV Could you guys do an blind-test episode about funky disco-house like it was played in 1998-2002 in Netherlands, Ibiza, Germany? Obviously not to well known tracks.
@@Elctrc The only track from these episodes I would consider as deep house is Prix Choc (De Crecy). You could easily make a playlist from that era with similar tunes from the likes of Ron Trent, Kerry Chandler, 808 State, Timewriter, Chez Damier, St.Germain, Terry Lee Brown Jr....
'I can't even remember the names of my own tracks'. - Robag Wruhme. What a hero!
And he made some of the most bomb minimal ever!
I think many of us go through this - LOL Many people don’t realize how many tracks are not released, and never heard by others… 😂
Robag Wruhme wearing sunglasses indoor is peak minimal 😅 It was cool to take a trip down these tracks - it's been a long time since I last indulged in that sound
not only at his homeplace, also in the club he's consistently wearing his sunglasses, no joke 😁
You really can't enough of these. Seriously, Telekon Electronic Beats TV... don't ever stop. Some progressive house, breaks, and trance would be nice.
Telekom Electronic Beats TV is indeed fantastic!
90s hard trance! 150bpm or more only!
Oh man I forgot how much I dug minimal from this period. Got my work commute soundtrack sorted for weeks now.
My favorite one yet! More 2000’s minimal techno, please!
Robag wearing sunglasses indoors whilst doing a Blind Test AND having a picture of a blind person in shot, is peak Robag!
I couldn't name a single track but enjoyed this episode as much as every other Blind Test. Thanks so much for another fun Blind Test.
Minimal never dies...
This is an interesting episode, I thought I'd do much better than I did as I played a lot of minimal at the time. But to be honest I think a lot of 200's minimal records are quite interchangeable. I guess everyone had their own favourites, but I didn't hear any of mine on this episode, although the Villalobos track is a classic. During Covid I cleared out my record collection and let go of a lot of my minimal techno records as I failed to have an emotional connection with them. I also did buy some that I couldn't find at the time. The concept of minimal techno was and still is still very strong, but it's not easy to make a memorable record. Some of the artists of this jury have made timeless records that I will cherish forever, especially Robag.
I didn't know a single one and thought I might get one or two.
2005-2007 was a really weird time. I didn't like minimal. I described it as someone recording "throwing pots and pans down the stairs to a 4/4 beat". Actually, I didn't like a lot of the music that had come out at that time. Record stores were closing, digital was on the rise. I had loved the last few years of tech house with the likes of Eddie Richards, Burridge, Richards, but Tech House was slowly taken over with a more electro sound into the garbage mess it has been since the late 2000s early 2010s.
There was such a huge knee-jerk reaction to Progressive Trance and House from the previous few years that gave us minimal and some other sub-genres that took a few years to find their footing. I like the experimentation, but it really left a lot to be desired because the tracks were repetitive and boring.
I love this series because it's always introducing me to new genres and tracks, even though I'm too young to have been part of any of these scenes the feeling of recognising a track in these makes me feel 'in on' something special. Keep 'em coming!
Had a few nights to those records. Fun times,
Takes me back to the early to mid 00's.
Looking for all the great minimal tracks.
Was into metal music until I stumbled into an after hours bar in london in the early 2000s and never looked back. I def got a few of these!
Nice musical change 😂
Metal is as dope
Same here ;)
@@arenreiser3643 it seems to be a pretty common thing!
I grew up listening to electronic music - mostly minimal - but warmed up a great deal to metal over the years. In the end is’s not so much about the genre but about the artists and what they want to say. The technical skills of many metal bands are out of this world and some emotions are more easily expressed with metal. But there is a kind of energy I only get from good minimal techno, and it’ll always feel like home and relaxing to me.
Met Alex Smoke in a club once and thanked him for the tunes. He grinned and replied, "So you're a doom pop fan, then." Absolute gentleman, he was.
Alex played 3 times for me when i was running shows in Australia.. Hands down a gentleman and such a genuine guy. Have some amazing memories hanging out with him and watch him slay the dancefloor.. I still listen to Paradolia and Incommunicado all the time. Miss ya Alex 💕💕
@@danieleden1856 yeah, this was my experience with him: he killed it and then we just drank, chatted and had a laugh. Top bloke. His music has aged so well unlike so many - presumably because it’s underpinned by real song craft and genuine emotion. He’s still still releasing excellent mixes of radio buena vida 👍
Daniel Eden biggie! i remember alex smoke in canberra, what a time
@@posmentatt ayo Chris! 😎 Hope you're well
The "tears on the floor" comment for Dexter is accurate... Those moody happy little tears and looks between friends. Only on electronic music lovers
I still kinda wanna tear up when listening to it today... It really is an emotionally powerful track
I was all over the minimal scene, brings back memories these tracks :)
SUPER! Please continue this episode!
I get why loads of people in The Netherlands are complaining about this era. From what I hear this stuff was booming back then, you couldn't escape it. Glad I was too young and not into techno yet and started partying in the tail of it, I guess (2010). That being said, the blind tests are always fun!
Great times, it was more tech-housy with 100% pure / 2000 and One. I loved it a lot!
Really happy to see this series back! I always look forward to them.
we do them regularly it just takes more and more time to find participants.
We need 90s trance and techno againnnnnnnnnnn
Alex Smoke's Don't See the Point...what a great tune.
That whole album - Brian's Lung - Amazing.
@@jimiscott Indeed
that was so an easy session... best time in my life in middle of (East)Germany so many small high quality electro openairs every weekend 2004-2007
Really loved this selection, probably the most interesting and creative records I heard in the whole series. They don't feel minimal (literally speaking) to me, but full of layers, unexpected sounds and surprises.
How about a 90s-early 00s prog episode?! Digweed, Lawler, Pappa, Dubfire, Humate, Quivver, Tilt,, Howells, Nick Warren, Dave Seaman etc.
Was bout to post the same again. Let's keep posting every episode until it happens ;)
There is a touching point between the Minimal featured in this episode and the Progressive you're talking about, via labels as Get Physical, Love Triangle, Kompakt Extra. Border Community, Systematic,
When
@@s90210h not really - prog basically died in the early 00s, when this boring stuff was starting to become more prominent. While there was a very brief overlap with some stuff on Border Community and Kompakt etc, it very quickly stopped being prog and was in the vast majority of cases very different. None of the tracks in this video are close to 90s-early 00s prog.
@@PhatInAHat fortunately progressive house is one of the biggest underground dance music sounds on the planet all over again.
Funny was thinking about perlon nights in panorama bar in ostgut and then berghain the other day, some great times. Thanks EB crew again.
I love these, they never get old, can't wait for each episode.
*Love this!*
Hi Wanderlust
I love all those Blind Tests...
Minimal war eine schöne Abwechslung zum runter kommen vom Schranz.😄
Und am besten war sie wenn sie Electro lastig gewesen ist.
love this series.. even if it' s not my genre of music , i watch it :)
Fantastic episode! I bought so many records of the track list, Alcachofa LP is such a masterpiece ❤
Impossible de se lasser de cet épisode
love this era, way better than the business gabber techno 140 bpm sampling old hardcore of today's sound 😭
i see the production value of those tunes. but for me this one is a nice reminder why most minimal techno records never got me and probably never will.
I think this type of techno will have his next comeback after this hardtechno era we are currently having…
🤞
yes, please!
Nah hardgroove/tribal First !
I agree. Revivals are usually on a twenty year cycle, so it’s coming up soon.
Let’s hope not
🥳 That emoji basically sums up all of my emotions when I see a new Blind Test posted.
Brought back some nice and some foggy memories 😁 good selection on tracks though! Thx!
Se aprende mucho de música 😊 saludos desde chile 🇨🇱 ✌️
lovely episode, like every time 🖤
Hat off to them all for this one
Love it…. I have been watching many episodes but in this I actually , have, know or recognise some tracks… haha I guess this is my genre!!! Thank you guys!
oh, sounds amazing, know some tracks and now added another 5 brilliant tracks, gabriel amanda just blow my mind, thank u, now my fav episode
Perfect video !
When the best score is 6/10 you know it was difficult! You could do a late 2000’s/early 2010’s electro house one at some point. That would be fun!
omg I remember the analogy of DJs arriving with their laptops just to check emails on stage. For me that was one of the lower points in dance music, that's also when I lost track of everything just to get back into it a few years later thanks to Doc Scott.
Nowadays DJs at least need some performance quality 😉
@@ElectronicBeatsTV Doing, perhaps, even less mixing?
@@ElectronicBeatsTV you mean like Thomas Brinkmann dressed like Evel Keneavel? (Sp on the name) jk
More like Dance Moves and Hands in the air action while music is playing in sync.
Laptop DJs weren't that bad 😉
@@ElectronicBeatsTV Hey thank you for respecting my younger self :D I was a laptop dj for a short while there... most definitely played Dexter and Carthago... Loved this episode. I understand why the old school vinyl DJs resented us though, Many of us were absolute frauds... I still think the democratisation midi controllers and digital music brought to the scene helped revive the interest for all kinds of electronic music and bred a lot of innovation
Whoever thumbs the needle across the records is steady AF
would love more electro episodes!
and they should invite the king dave clarke for this one
Great to hear tunes I've never heard before.
I find them easy on my ears but not especially memorable.
Vielen dank das hat wirklich Spaß gemacht da das genau den Zeitgeist traf wo ich angefangen habe platten zu drehen!!!meine erste platte,platzhirch records Gabriel Ananda M.whop
Ach schön euch zu sehen! Grüsse aus dem Westerwald!
I thought they were saying “Baby Fart” for the last one! 😂
Microhouse and this is my all time favorite
Love this format ❤
most of this stuff still sounds amazing nowadays.
Many people disagreeing with you in the comments there... I don't blame them : only a small percentage of my playlist of the time still remains today. But that small percentage really feels timeless to me, so I do kinda agree with you as well :)
How did I get the title wrong on Dexter?!
I did guess Gaiser from the style alone though, and only got Ananda because they said Doppelwhipper... I guess I'll have to go Make The Tea again, I was never übercoolische 🤣
MAGDA MAKE THE TEA hahhaha, no u dint! 😂😂
These are fantastic! ❤ thank you so much. 🙏🏼 🐜
I know this one, but I don’t know what it is! Classic
Really surprised that Dice's Carthago wasnt guessed, his 2005/6 releases were probably my gateway into minimal around that time
great one
My fav episode ❤
gotta include RV, but i was hoping for some Akufen, not gonna lie. regardless: love the time and effort put into this series. kudos to all involved behind the scenes, y'all should be mighty proud!!
akufen is more microhouse than minimal, no?
@@JeremyForTheWin true - but with a decent chunk of his material there's tons of overlap.
@@JeremyForTheWin 2 words for the same sub-genre. Any difference is absolutely minimal (ehehehe) to the point that they really can't be considered separate.
@@urmumsbaps i disagree. microhouse is glitchier
Awesome thanks guys so much fun
Thank you so much for that video ! I miss early 2000's for the good progressive and minimal, and playing vinyl as well :/
What the scene has become with the kids wanting to make hits and become famous is so sad. Put back dj's on a dj booth and make them have a blind test and QI test before booking them ! ^^
Robag. Doesnt move. What a boss
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 GREAT 👌...hi from Belgrade 🇷🇸
Love this series, I watch em all and i was so excited to see the that Minimal episode was coming. Everything on top as always, except for inviting AW who is a lunatic who snaps on people every now and then. I guess your team didn’t know. We can debate on the idea “separate the artist from the person” for sure, each one their perspective. I just don’t think we should give credit and visibility to people that spread hate and show violent behavior. Thank you for the show! Peace
Please do a tech talk with Audio Werner!!!
Beste Zeit und Musik. :)
Need a U.K 90s Rave. I might get some right then. 😂
Love these one❤
cant wait for this, i consider myself an expert in this era.
Will be different as what you expect probably 😉
I also thought I was an expert, when they did the drum and bass blind test. Boy was I wrong :D I did DJ around 2000, so I know quite a few records from back then.
@@ElectronicBeatsTV no suprises for me, knew them all aside from the trapez one. great choice.
Edit: And btw. my suggestion Andreas Werner was tied for the win! Makes me a little bit proud :D
@@gnutscha you don't sound knowledgeable, you just sound insufferable
Lets go! Audio Werner is my fave producer!
Yes
Have most of them on viny. Still, hard to come up with the titles. Kudos to Mayer & Werner!
I was waiting for this, and it didn’t disappoint. This mid 00’s minimal sound was by far my favourite era for dance music. I came up on the late 99 trance sound, but grew up around 2002 and subsequently grew out of trance, I heard “Dexter” and that was it. Minimal was always such a sexy, hypnotic sound. Sounded great in the clubs too. I’m patiently waiting for this hardstyle of techno to pass, so hopefully we can have the second coming of minimal 🙂
It's perfect now, this undancing music.
Got Villalobos, Brinkmann and Melchior Productions correctamente!!!
I’m happy that this sound isn’t everywhere anymore. I really like some of the tracks, like Dexter and the Thomas Brinkmann and Alex Smoke tracks. I also own some older Perlon and Max Ernst records. But It was soooo boring hearing this sound in every club. Many records of that era were unimaginative samey crap.
this.
trust me, today's tracks are just as disposable and boring, if not more so. I haven't heard innovation since this era
Love these vids
So Good!
Robag actually played dexter in his album 'wuppdeckmischmampflow' for kompakt
Yet he struggles to remember the name: Speaks in Code
This episode's not really my thing (although actually maybe more my thing than I expected) but Tobi Neumann is a complete sweetie.
very nice!!!
I have most of these but it's so hard to remember the names! I think I remembered track names so much better when I had them on vinyl.
That Melchior track sounded great - never heard that one.
Holy fck,we're all getting old😂
two things
1. you can replicate these sounds with MicroTonic
2. I was about to write where is Baby Ford. LOL
round 9 is amazing
Managed to guess Baby Ford and Dexter, and that one of the tracks is from Trapez - they truly had a distinctive sound.
Das Grinsen von allen beim Track von Ricardo ❤️
what a great episode
Thanks TEB
I finally did good on one of these! I have most of these records.
This music was my entry into rave culture. Such a weird but great period
I HOPE IT DOES!
excellent choices....I got Dexter, but not the others.
Long life to the boss Mayer :)
Pretty minimal episode indeed - the music, my knowledge of it and the participants' title recognition abilities. One little exception on ze amount of nice dschörmen accents!
And I even learned something... Always thought, minimal is not quite my stuff. But now, I'm pretty sure about that. 😂
Loved the episode like all of them anyway.
A deep house blind test, please!!
What is Deephouse for you?
@@ElectronicBeatsTV A more jazzy, soulful, funky take. A more intimate, introspective beat, not so happy. It's more relaxed. It's more weed than acid.
@@ElectronicBeatsTV thats a great question! checking the 90s house episodes its really difficult to say what the difference should be.
@@ElectronicBeatsTV Could you guys do an blind-test episode about funky disco-house like it was played in 1998-2002 in Netherlands, Ibiza, Germany? Obviously not to well known tracks.
@@Elctrc The only track from these episodes I would consider as deep house is Prix Choc (De Crecy). You could easily make a playlist from that era with similar tunes from the likes of Ron Trent, Kerry Chandler, 808 State, Timewriter, Chez Damier, St.Germain, Terry Lee Brown Jr....
90s Minimal next Time please!
I love it! Maybe Hard Techno/Acid Techno/ Schranz next time? 😈😈
nice