minimal techno on the ambient 5 am bar music side of things... S/D

some tracklists from (early morning) that funny cafe in Kreuzberg which is apparently sorta famous! pOn de river.

Microcosm Music

trees "late drive" is probably the closest thing so far to what I was thinking of. But maybe even down a few more bpm from that.

why not just put on FSOL - ISDN?

but this Philpot & Microcosm stuff pretty much is, thanks ILM!

http://www.odeo.com/audio/274295/view

On the more soulful yet minimal side, I really love this record. It's got one track with pretty lame rapping on it, but rest of it is great.

Going further into history, you might enjoy Patashnik by Biosphere - it's more beaty and techno than some of his other stuff.

Work backwards, though. Some of their older stuff is meh.

Thread should have more posts!

The Marc Leclair album mentioned upthread is gorgeous (ambient end of BoC, Skee Mask, Sora, kind of).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cshKQCj7z9g

Love that excellent and slept on Marc LeClair album!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpqOn6u1Eu8

sorry, that's "joni" by efdemin

Nice.

Move D and Benjamin Brunn - Let's Call it A Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I_PI2e3m54

god knows what I meant back in 2006... probably not even techno (facepalm)... house, perhaps something between a chill out set and a warm up set

most of this set might be closest approximation

https://soundcloud.com/oscar-in-stereo-space/club-der-visionaere-with-jooice-14072023

Just bought this album on Bandcamp after checking it out via Philip Sherburne's writeup on his Substack
(https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/futurism-restated-100-microtonal):

"Girl Scout Cookies - 1

The (don’t-call-it) minimal revival just keeps coming. (A quick aside: I really need, we really need, a better word than 'minimal' for this stuff, because it wasn’t the right word in the first place, and I don’t want the wrong assumptions from the first wave to get baked in all over again. But that’s a topic for another day.) Girl Scout Cookies are (is?) part of the mysterious Munich crew gathered around Ro.Pax, wrk.dat, et al., but beyond that, I couldn’t tell you much...

Rather than zeroing in on a single given sound, as Huerco S. did with his springy and refined Loidis project, Girl Scout Cookies survey the field: I hear bits and pieces of Move D & Benjamin Brunn, the Bionaut, Farben, Soul Center, Isolée. While the proportions change from track to track, it’s all heavily repetitive and hypnotic, lush and loop-heavy, with filters and delay applied to add slipperiness and buoyancy. Perhaps there’s even an occasional touch of very old-school progressive house ('Jain'), where it overlapped with early-phase tech-house (Circulation’s colors series, say)? Maybe I’m imagining it, but I guess part of what appeals to me about this release is the way it seems to ooze between established cracks. The closing 'Max Beef Noodles' picks up the resonant baton from old Force Trax and Kompakt releases—MRI’s great Rhythmogenesis, perhaps—while 'Neuromancer' is just the sort of fogged-out Chain Reaction homage I can never get enough of."

https://danks.bandcamp.com/album/1

That sounds great. The brilliant Ghost Dubs album Sherburne reviewed last year could fit here, though definitely the heavier end of things.

Jan Jelinek - Do Dekor
Farben - Love to Love You Baby
Pole - Pferd (Melchior Productions Zodiac Mix)
Move D - Jus House
Photek - Kanei
Vera - Now Not No

Cousin is a someone relatively new doing interesting things in this vein. See long-EP/mini-albums Wake the Town and HomeSoon: https://secondcousin.bandcamp.com/

Yeah Cousin rules!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMNlCYLDkhE

boreal - evochamber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T8sEfGw5P8

albinos - palazzo

Oh some tasty music in here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S1B4U0G7Vs

El Fog - Mountain Dub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0lRWpbmKBk

Lizz - Misca Ioane

a mazy meander into the box

Rod Modell & Taka Noda *Glow World*.

Feel like there should be a Rod Modell thread. He's mostly absent from streaming services but slowly tracking stuff down and it's all good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBhuYM8RiVM