When we first started thinking about the compilation, we had in mind the idea to put together a great minimal techno selection with stuff from the early 90s, which really inspired us, like Robert Hood, Dan Bell, Plastikman, Pansonic and Mike Ink to name a few. Whilst working on the project we had the feeling that there is so much more great and influential minimal music from way before the techno thing started.

So we were very excited to combine the music from the electronic pioneers, with the tracks from the minimal techno godfathers in a very modern way. In Minimal Music there is so much (space) in between the sounds and the space that gives you a lot of opportunities for an own interpretation.

The Grandfather Paradox is a scientific theory about time travelling and was first described by the science fiction writer Rene Barjavel in his book - Le Voyageur Imprudent. We took suggestions out of that because we felt like we are travelling back in time and manipulating the old music with modern knowledge. The fact that we did all this with the deserved respect to the originals makes us quite sure that the results are bringing something new and interesting to the old tracks and transport the past into the here and now.

anhh cree que por muy productivo e interesante que pueda resultar tratar de conectar los distintos “minimalismos” de “The Grandfather Paradox” con aquellos que responden a la “música minimalista” (todos los tipos que Kyle Gann describía en su laaaaargo artículo al respecto), tratando de visualizar correspondencias con la visión oficial del asunto (Steve Reich, Glass, etc.) o si los temas usados simplemente funcionan como ejercicios de desnudez que priman la variación de texturas mientras la ejecución del mix crea los aspectos de acumulación en la repetición y la organización en células sonoras que transitan durante la ejecución, es un tanto perder el tiempo. Eso sí, uno de los mixes del año (anhh está comprobando si hay razones detrás de no haber hecho a esta altura del año un pequeño resumen de las mejores canciones y discos, o si la falta de ellos se debe más a su descuido que a la categoría de estos, o simplemente si está escuchando y hablando demasiado AKB48).