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LWE’s Top 20 Singles of 2008 (Part 4)

05. Matias Aguayo, "Minimal" [ Kompakt ] ( buy ) In the year that minimal either went cynical or cyclical, or simply gave its critical audience more to harp about than usual, Matias Aguayo played devil's advocate with "Minimal." Aguayo's late-night lover-man persona can be hard to read, so who really knows if this is smackdown or pisstake (I daresay it's both at the same time), but it's the groove that carries the track, a bumptious, licentious shake and slide. File it next to Barbara Morgenstern's "Come To [...]