Which Era of Dance Music Are You? · Result
The Minimal and Blog House Split, 2003 to 2009
Two answers to the same question, both played with total conviction.
Designed rarity: about 9% of takers
You are often the most deliberate person in the room, and you do not need the room to agree with you. In the 2000s the floor split: minimal went long and reduced, centred on Berlin and Cologne and, by way of Windsor, Ontario, Richie Hawtin, while blog house went bright and loud through MP3 blogs and MySpace pages. Both halves were reacting to the file replacing the record. You have a position, you have your reasons, and you commit fully.
You tend to check the lineup in advance, choose the night on purpose and arrive with a clear idea of what you want to hear. You are happy to go alone, and you would rather stay with a set that is doing something specific than drift between rooms. People like you are usually the ones who can explain exactly why a set worked, right down to the moment it turned.
Your strength
You commit fully to a position and execute it without hedging.
Your blind spot
A stance can start to stand in for an idea, as both halves of this era found out late.
Key takeaways
- You commit fully and execute without hedging.
- A stance is not the same thing as an idea.
- Reacting against a trend is still being led by it.
Rooms to try in Seoul
- vurt., Hapjeong: The Seoul room that took the minimal position seriously, dark and reduced, and never softened it for the weekend crowd.
- Volnost, Itaewon: A basement with a clear policy and a floor that comes for it on purpose, which is exactly how you like it.
Rooms to try around the world
- Stereo, Montreal: An after hours room open since 1998 with a system built for long reduced sets, where a position can be held until noon.
- Coda, Toronto: The city's committed techno room, where a deliberate set gets a floor that has read the lineup and come on purpose.
- Berghain, Berlin: Where the minimal half of the split went to live, and where the floor still lets almost nothing happen for an hour.
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All twelve results
- The Paradise Garage Years, New York, 1977 to 1987
- Chicago House, 1984 to 1987
- Detroit Techno, 1985 to 1992
- UK Acid House and Rave, 1988 to 1992
- Goa and the Psytrance Diaspora, 1990 to 1999
- Hardcore and Jungle, 1992 to 1994
- UK Garage and 2 Step, 1996 to 2001
- The Minimal and Blog House Split, 2003 to 2009
- The EDM Festival Boom, 2010 to 2015
- The Streaming and Algorithm Era, 2015 to now
- Amapiano and Afro House, 2019 to now
- The Lockdown Streams, 2020 to 2021