What do yo know about minimal?

What is minimalism? What constitutes a minimalist work?
"Lord, what vexed questions" someone whould say. I certainly have my own answers, but so does everyone else (save for those who object on principle to any kind of musical definition), and I hesitate to offer guidelines that I know no one else will agree with. So let's try talking around the subject a little.
Minimal techno is a form of electronic dance music that is considered a minimalist sub-genre of techno. It is characterized by a stripped-down aesthetic that exploits the use of repetition, and understated development. This style of dance music is based on  the motto less is more; a principle that has been previously utilized, to great effect, in architecture, design, visual art, and Western art music. The tradition of minimalist aesthetics in Western culture can be traced to the German Bauhaus movement (1919 to 1933). Minimal techno is thought to have been originally developed in the early 1990's by Detroit based producers Robert Hood and Daniel Bell.
 Of course this is gest a way to define the term minimal , but people like Paul Sherburne proposes what the origins of Minimal techno might be. Sherburne states that, like most contemporary electronic dance music, minimal techno has its roots in the landmark works of pioneers such as  Kraftwerk and Detroit Techno's Derrick May and Juan Atkins. Minimal techno focuses on rhythm and repetition instead of melody and linear progression, much like classical minimalist music and the polyrhythmic African musical tradition that helped inspire it. By 1994, according to Sherburne, the term "minimal" was in use to describe any stripped-down, Acidic derivative of classic Detroit style.
Minimal techno has found mainstream club popularity since 2004 in such places as Germany, France, South Africa, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Ireland and the UK with DJs from a wide variety of genres incorporating differing elements of its tones, the famed after-hours club DC10 in Ibiza being one exponent of the genre.
By the second half of 2006, the term 'minimal' had in many ways become contradictory, as it serves as a denominator for the tech house sounds of the moment.
Today, minimal has grown a lot gest like progressive, drum'n base or rave had. This happened because the apparition of many clubs and the desire of the modern man to be entartained. Here are a few artist for y'all if your interested: Daniel Bell, Ben D, Richie Hawtin (Plastikman), Ricardo Villalobos, Luca Bacchetti, Mika Vainio, Maurizio (Basic Channel), Jeff Mills, Paulo Nascimento, Steve Bug, Luciano (Lucien Nicolet), Robert Hood, Troy Pierce (Louderbach), Sleeparchive (Roger Semsroth), Sutekh (Seth Horvitz) ,Tom O'Hara, Dj Ivanoff, Raresh (Romania). Monochrome, David Vandetta, Claude Vonstroke.
  These are gest a few infomation about minimal techno, the subject is very complex and not everybody agree with me, so I give a more simple way to look at it , I leave you with a comment of Robert Hood: 'Minimal is a basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound.'