Trio -- Da Da Da [[ Official Video ]]
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as an example of minimalist pop production and as the song that made the Casio VL-1 famous.
What it is
The official video for 'Da Da Da' by the German Neue Deutsche Welle band Trio, a sparse, minimalist pop song. The track uses a cheap Casio VL-1 keyboard as its core sound.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2012 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Cites mechanical_fish · 2012-01 · on “Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things”
Minimalism , like most words describing styles, is a very flexible word. If I write a composition in which a single person plays a pair of water glasses with one drumstick, that's "minimalism". And if I employ a very expensive sound studio to record a famous pop song consisting of the simplest possible drum track, a sparse guitar riff, a one-note vocal part with occasional distortion, and a toy Casio organ, that's also "minimalism": [this video] And, of course, I can be a "minimalist composer" even while writing complex works for entire orchestras: [LINK] None of these forms of minimalism is more "real" than the others. Meanwhile, I'm afraid I don't understand your point. At least the OP has prov
Cites FabHK · 2019-05 · on “Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System”
This OP-1 reminds me of the Casio VL-1 [1], made famous (in Germany at least) by the pop band Trio in their NDW (Neue Deutsche Welle) song Da Da Da [2] [3]. I wonder whether that's accidental, or an homage. [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] for example about 1:25 into this video: [this video]