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Progressive house star Sasha launching a typically outspoken attack against ‘stripped back’ minimal this week, claiming that many minimal producers previously specialised in ‘screaming trance’.
“A lot of minimal music is self-indulgent music for people to wank off to,” the veteran superstar spinner declared. “I’ve been to parties where the DJs are meant to be playing minimal but all I hear is an update on progressive house”, he told DJ Magazine.
In the same article, Sasha also confessed to liking ‘fluffy keys and melodies,’ both of which feature heavily on his new single Coma, an epic trance-style track that sounds remarkably like an update on progressive house.
The new music comes out on his own new label Emfire, some two years after his last album Airdrawndagger, when he chatted to Skrufff about overcoming his well known problems with procrastination.
“There’s a fine line between perfectionism and being slow and a pain in the ass, and deadlines are something I never previously worked well to though now I think I’m responding to them really well,” said Sasha.
“I’ve realised this recently that the worst thing I can have is any kind of open-ended deadline. I need to be constantly setting myself mini-deadlines within deadlines to get things finished,” he added.
The nowadays US based star, meanwhile, cancelled all promotion this week, as he rushed to hospital where his wife was due to give birth to his first baby.
Sasha’s new single Coma is out on Emfire now, with Park It In The Shade and Sparky follow in December.
srljb says...
Airdrawndagger was a masterpiece but it was at least 5 years ago (not 2 as stated)......
Dr Fegg says...
"Stripped back minimal" eh? What - just a drum beat...? :)
theheadmasters says...
Fundacion NYC was over two years ago
FunkyJ says...
"A lot of minimal music is self-indulgent music for people to wank off to"... And he's only just come to this realisation???
funkytom says...
What does it matter if people like it? Seems every dj now is poo pooing any kind of music that becomes popular. Whats with that...?
djbricksta says...
"A lot of minimal music is self-indulgent music for people to wank off to"... And he's only just come to this realisation??? "Stripped back minimal" eh? What - just a drum beat...? :) Holy crap guys, i like fell off my chair laughing at those...
Spekman says...
gotta go against the grain here and say i'm a big fan of some of the prog minimal... not all of it tho...
Suspekt says...
"Meant to be playing minimal" ... what does he mean by that? Seems pretty closed minded to "progressive" if thats his thoughts... to me progressive is about finding the new sound, not a particular genre or style. Any small bit of respect for the dude i had just went out the window. hes just a superstar like everyone else haha
northtwilight says...
Awesome - got bored to death at his last performance here in Toronto. What was he playing? Oh, just, uh, progressive minimalist crap...