From Kent Williams Sent Tue, Feb 16th 1999, 15:15
From Kent Williams Sent Tue, Feb 16th 1999, 15:15
I've been deleting this topic for the past week, except for drew and peter's posts. I will say that people should really avoid getting involved with troll threads, if they can. What's new that I can add? I am involved with a weekly club night called Rotation, and Sunday night, in honor of Valentine's Day, we had an all-woman DJ lineup, and women were free. Mayhaps a sexist arrangement, but it was fun nonetheless. My observations? Female DJ's sound like male DJ's. The records are the same (or similar) records, and they still spin clockwise. I think that if there is a uniquely female perspective on dance music, I'd like to see it and hear it, but I think since music isn't made with the genitalia it's kind of a dumb argument. Oh, and if you ARE making music with your genitalia, can I watch? My friend Li'l Megan had positively the most fucked up mental set I've heard in years. She's on a whole 'nother wavelength from me, and seems to have discovered records that can only be classified as 'intelligent gabber.' Mixed with some of the harder distorto-drum&bass it was brilliant. Since she was spinning with a massive sinus headache it was pure dedication to the art. I think that dance music as a boy's game should end. Women producers and DJ's have had a harder time of it because of the testosterone level in the scene, but it's simply unfair. Maybe men are threatened by a woman who is more interested in her records and gear than in being some guy's appendage. Oh, and incidentally, I was working the door for a lot of the night, and I realized after letting one person in free, that it was actually a man. Wasn't in drag, but the guy just struck me as feminine. Maybe that's your third sex. kent williams -- xxxx@xxxxxx.xxx