Techno Awesum: Konrad Black Minitek Set

Last weekend saw the notorious late night revelry masterminds from Minimoo, whose secret, last minute, invite only soirees harkened back to the roots of rave culture, and resurrected the lost art of the late night loft party in New York, attempt something truly magnificent with The Minitek Festival.

While many who attended had negative things to say about the festival, and its organizers likely bit off far more than they could chew with an event of that scale, I for one tip my hat to them for being the first folks I can remember to attempt to showcase electronic music on a Euro-esque festival scale in NYC. NYC has long been an important city on the map of the global techno underground, and the rise of the minimal genre, and these parties in particular, really did a lot to put NYC back on that map as a destination for appreciators of great and cutting edge dance music. This was able to stem a tide of neandertahls meatwad clubs and model-bottle culture that essentially destroyed everything that was beautiful and lovely about NYC musical nightlife.

I offer them my congratulations for what they tried to do, and by many accounts, in the face of nearly impossible circumstances, they were able to salvage some pretty amazing moments. Should they try again in the future, I will support them and hope to be able to attend. Anyone who attempts to throw even small parties in NYC knows how difficult it is, and someone had to try something like this eventually. Doing so is worthy of some praise in my opinion, as the first to try has no real model for success, and is always the easiest to criticize.

Full disclosure: I know the main organizer, Jenny, personally, and like her a lot. She's been very cool and nice to me since starting her parties and I consider her a friend, though not a really close friend.

I've downloaded and am enjoying Konrad Black's set. Perhaps you might to!

DOWNLOAD: Konrad Black live at Minitek