From Trux Trax Sent Thu, Oct 22nd 1998, 01:07
From Trux Trax Sent Thu, Oct 22nd 1998, 01:07
YOU WROTE: > >>> I think you covered most, but I seem to have noticed that lots of guys in >the "IDM" scene kind of have this arrogant mentally about the music being so >"intelligent" that most girls wouldn't understand it and that they only want >to listen to dj keoki or at best orbital. I notic ethis a lot at local record >stores when girls go look at the "experimental" or "aphex twin" section (there >is a store in san diego which says that everything on warp or rephlex is an >aphex twin side project, I kid you not.), the guys that work there are like oh >now, you want this armand van helden record and they try to sell them some mix >cd as if being a girl instantly turned you into a candy raver without a brain. >It's like there was pressure to be a dj hanger on or something. And even when >I use to go at raves everytime a girl would come up to me I would discount >them as some kind of candy raver because that is what I experienced 99/100 and >I must admit to getting kind of prejudiced. it must be hard is all I can say:( >hopefully this will change as the music does. > > >thinking out loud again:P > >-kid606 > you're right, it is hard sometimes. i mean, i'll go into a shop and experience what you're talking about all the time. the guys who work there automatically think i don't know jack about the music because i've got blonde hair and makeup on. it's really frustrating when they're pointing out the latest happy hardcore and i'm looking for the complete opposite. one guy in Chicago actually CHOKED when i asked for the new mu-ziq EP awhile ago...it's crazy. the most important thing is not to judge on appearance or the fact that somebody's a girl or a boy. i mean, just because somebody happens to be a boy at a party doesn't mean that i assume he's a know-all, and just because somebody's a girl doesn't mean they're clueless either...if you go around making assumptions on shit like that you're gonna miss meeting a lot of really hip people, right? (YOU in the figurative sense). what do the rest of you hip chicks think? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com