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Even though Minimal music and experimental music often go, and historically have often gone, hand in hand, they are divided by fundamentally different basic approaches. Yet they share unorthodox stances on time, musical material, and listening processes – think Cage, La Monte Young, Reich and Lucier! – and demand these, too! And in dance music, we meet these attitudes towards time and listening appear in practice, rather than theoretical abstraction.
Longtime Perlon affiliate Margaret Dygas is a prime example within the club scene for articulating these positions. There has always been more to the Minimal ambassador’s sound than just frugal grooves: from her 2010 concept album How Do You Do to her recent SoundCloud activity, filled with experimentally leaning, and often conceptual mixes that frame listening as context rather than mere consumption.
Across a career in which time is treated as a malleable musical factor – from prolonged, rigid repetition to open-ended approaches via 46-minute double maxi LPs – it is timelessness, rather than zeitgeist, that defines her work. This arguably makes her – and her experience! – more exciting than ever: > I started during the minimal moment, and I still love a lot of that sound. But I keep those records not because they’re minimal, but because they’re good. <
Loidis, aka Brian Leeds, follows seamlessly. Also known as ambient icon Huerco S., he understands the art of making people listen. His self-described > dub mnml emo tech > (emotional focus without expressive excess!) explores the junction of atmosphere and rhythm in ways that resonate closely with Dygas’ sensibility, while echoing the spirit of spaces like Berlin’s CDV (where she, was a regular presence) through shades of dub Techno, Minimal, and deep- and microhouse.
Rounding out the programme is our resident Stenny, whose mixes, albums, 12″s, and live sets consistently traverse the functional and the experimental in their own fashion, moving fluidly between Techno, IDM, Bass, Breaks.