Minilogue - Animals

Minilogue’s Marcus Henriksson and Sebastian Mullaert from Malmö, Sweden, seem particularly interested in revisiting, and revising, history. Nowadays they’re essentially minimal producers, but their early progressive trance days never seem far away, no matter how absurd the connection. (This may prove minimal’s most lasting legacy: its influence upon other styles has indeed proved dramatic. Few from the ceaseless deluge of lackluster, identikit minimal releases churned out each week are likely to be remembered -- although their volume may -- but now we can listen to music as ridiculous as trance and enjoy it.) Tracks such as ’Girl from Botany Bay’ and ’Space’ for Wir and Traum rein in these early blustery excesses in line with contemporary reductionist codes, and the results are staggering. Animals, their debut LP for Cocoon, performs a similar feat but on a much grander scale, viewing the wider history of house and techno through minimal goggles, and after 80 largely successfu