With a few notable exceptions, minimal techno was mostly a European endeavor. The producers, DJs, and clubs that championed it were situated across the Atlantic. One such exception was Audio Injection, aka David Flores, a Los Angeleno who had been DJing since the early aughts and began producing in 2007. In 2011, he launched a new project called Truncate, a series of 12-inches designed for DJs ("techno tools"). The Truncate sound took the minimal techno blueprint and beefed it up, adding heavyweight kicks and searing synthesizers. Many Truncate productions are built around vocal samples, often one word repeating at various intervals, like mantras. In short, Truncate makes highly effective minimal techno.
He's joined by a handful of fine local DJs from the Direct to Earth and Robot Ears crews for two back-to-back sets: Max Gardner and John Kaberna for one, and Patrick Gil and Loui Vanhard for the other.
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