Re: (idm) IDM not a GRRL thing?

From Chester Blaze
Sent Mon, Feb 15th 1999, 23:24

I would agree with most of what is being said about women not being as 
inthralled by idm as men.  But I think in Detroit it is a little different.
I have met quite a lot of super cool girls who know what to give props to
and what sucks, and a few know a hell of lot more than i do.  On the norm
though, I would have to agree - most women would rather listen to moby whil=
e
exercising than sit down, pack a chalace, and spend three hours in an
innebriated meditation.  As for Aphex Twin, most people, whether it be
girls, football players, parents, granmothers, kids - they are all
immediately offended by his music and then when they see him they just thin=
k
the world is coming to an end.  Well, as Kid 606 put it, "electronic music
is the sound of a bleek tomorrow."

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(in my cd player now: Artificial Intelligence- electronic listening music
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>From: Hess Hodge <xxxx.xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
>To: eye dee emm <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>Subject: Re: (idm) IDM not a GRRL thing?
>Date: Mon, Feb 15, 1999, 5:19 PM
>

> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, 9-5 Superspy wrote:
>
>> If you want the women around you to get into IDM, try playing it for the=
m.
>> Don't play them the most fucked up gescom record you can find, ease them
>> in with something with melody. I haven't met a girl yet that didn't reac=
t
>> favorably to Boards Of Canada or Lexaunculpt for this very reason.
>
> I tried this once...  While driving in a car with a girl I decided to put
> on the BoC album and see if I could get her to like it.  She thought it
> was 'okay' but she would rather have 'something she could sing along to'.
> So, I skipped the disc to Aquarius and sang along with the woman counting
> the numbers.  She wasn't impressed...
>
> In my experience, I have never met a woman who was into IDM.  Could quite
> possibly have something to do with where I am living at the moment...
>
> Hess
>
> -/\=3D Hess M. Hodge
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