Re: Re: (idm) Schematic Night and some Electro releases../women

From Kid60666
Sent Thu, Oct 22nd 1998, 00:21

In a message dated 10/21/98 3:52:35 PM, you wrote:

<<hi all

as a girl who is (admittedly) completely obsessed with electronic music, 
i must agree with nate here.  more girls need to get into this 
stuff...open their minds to it more...or come out of the closet about 
it.

unfortunately, it seems that a lot of the girls i know only like house 
music becuase it's what they mostly hear/dance to at the parties.  
likewise, many girls seem to only like the music because they think the 
dj's a hotty...which is completely and totally pathetic and they're 
totally missing the point. i'm not saying this is the case for all 
women, 'cause i know there are more like me out there...it just seems 
like it's a lot easier to get a guy to listen to a little Ae or BoC than 
my girl friends.  

it seems to me that a lot of this industry has a strong male 
presence/visibility, whereas i just don't hear a lot about women 
producers, DJs, etc.  maybe that's part of it?  I also know that i had a 
really difficult time "breaking in" to this scene, though i don't think 
that's necessarily a "woman thing"...guess i'm just kind of thinking 
aloud here.

dunno...any other thoughts?

>> 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