Tomas, a Canadian minimal house and techno DJ, toured Europe a few years ago, and with a two-week recess halfway through, his girlfriend flew over for a visit.
Vitamina M was the first to open, inviting visitors to stay in a chic, minimal house full of funky Italian objects (think bright red and shiny), while Terres d'Aventure Suites offers a slightly more serious, classy option, with mini-apartments also on offer.
No more hard techno, more a mixture of minimal house and ambient jams.
Here's a personal fave, DJ Space Safari impeccably mixing an hour of minimal house, bass music and techno.
Prosumer, meanwhile, is at the top of his game: since stepping down from his Panorama Bar residency in 2012 he's further honed a spacious, utterly groove-driven minimal house sound, blending 303 chaos with warm modernity.
Philipp Jung, one half of the duo better known as M.A.N.D.Y., went in hot and heavy on some dark minimal house worthy of an afterhours in their native city, Berlin surprising, considering the bright, summery attitude of the day.
Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung, better known as the duo M.A.N.D.Y., went in hot and heavy on some dark minimal house worthy of an afterhours in their native city, Berlin surprising, considering the bright, summery attitude of the day.
On this record, NERVE programmed jungle beats on acoustic drums while combining a spectrum of dance sounds including footwork, minimal house and glitch beats.
That scene — born in Durban and rapidly encroaching across the globe — for those not in the know, is a kind of hybrid of kwaito, skeletally minimal house, and the rollingly glacial tropes of contemporary rap and hip hop production.
