Alain_Patrick, Aug 19, 2007
Nowadays I hear all over the place people claiming that 'minimal is the sound of moment', and I sincerely imagine what would be the reaction of those who really understand about music on this kind of declaration.
The ones impressed by the 'innovations' of the new minimal dance music movement certainly never heard (or simply don't know that) Liaisons Dangereuses, a group composed by Chrislo Haas, Beate Bartel and Krishna Goineau were behind a quintessential underground minimal dance music act more than two decades ago, in 1981 - and it became a huge reference to an incredible amount of producers since then, from the artists that remixed "Los Ninos Del Parque" (the biggest album's anthem) on Madcat (by Gabi Delgado & Saba Komossa from Delkom) and on Mute Records (by Renegade Soundwave) to other artists that sampled Liaisons through the years such as Torsten Fenslau on Out Of The Ordinary - "Play It Again (The Los Ninos Mix)" (1989), "Der Erdbeermund" (1989) by Sigmund Und Seine Freunde, and Carl Craig on 'BFC - Galaxy' (1990).
"Liaisons Dangereuses" LP was an absolutely shocking piece of art back in the very early eighties when it was released (1981) for its bold, avant-garde, unlabeable, atonal, rather abstract, minimalistic and most of all singular perspective of dance music. All of the tracks have a very obscure & out-of-the-usual atmosphere based on a combination of weird vocals, minimal synthesizers lines (which is not by coincidence the basic pattern of most of the alternative dance music nowadays), industrial noises and other strange types of interventions.
If you listen carefully to every single track on this extraordinary album, you'll find out elements that have been influencing many of the dance music genres since then. It's definitely a 'must listen', a 'must have', a 'must know'. A reference to the entire World of electronic dance music.
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