Access-authorized repetition.
Jeff asked me to go in the studio and dig
deep and to create something that was going
to let the world know who I was and what I
could do, so yeah, it was called AAR.
The name was too long.
It just didn’t fit.
It wasn’t catchy enough and so Jeff and
I were having this conversation about saying
the minimal nation is rising.
There’s this new movement called the minimal
nation and that’s when we both said that’s it.
We have to call this Minimal Nation.
It’s funny that God when He created the
earth, when the spirit of the lord moved over
the waters and God said, “Let there be”
and what we spoke and I what I spoke into
existence, we didn’t even realized what
brand new world we were creating and
in making the hi-hat do something else but just stand
there.
My whole idea with minimalism was to create
rhythms inside of rhythms inside of rhythms,
sort of hidden rhythms.
I remember those posters back in the ‘80s
where if you stared into it long enough you
see a hidden picture.
That was my idea was to not just create diminutive
art or simple art.
It was to draw, sort of like trance music.
This is real trance music.
I don’t know about that other stuff.
This is the real deal.
It was hypnotic and took you and drew you
in and my thing was to not make everybody
in the club go crazy with this spiritual movement
but to have that one guy in the back of the
room just lose it and just start to scream
and almost catching the holy ghost.
That was my whole focus.
