From wiiija Sent Wed, Jun 24th 1998, 15:59
From wiiija Sent Wed, Jun 24th 1998, 15:59
>I don't think that statement about girls not being into IDM is valid. >maybe there is just a larger male presences cuz we sit in front of our >computers a lot more..... >g thats where a man belongs these days, typing. Personally I try to get out the house a bit more but then I'm a grrrl. > >> On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, GamePrg. wrote: >> > as for girlfriends, It's like totally futile to try and find a >> > girl who likes this kind of music !! Oh dear, have we a little trouble connecting with the opposite sex? I wouldn't try and define your personality by the music you like, it's very unfashionable. didn't goths use to do that? i would hope the people on this list listen to more than just IDM music! I certainly do!! give me Buffalo Springfield and Nick Drake on a warm summer stoned day, thanks, save Squarepusher and Faze Action for the night and come to daddy when you want to discombobulate the cat. I think you might find a lot of women are intimidated by the cult of the jock and the one-up-man ship that man can often indulge in when they are into music. It's funny but the premise in the music industry still seems to be that women aren't that into music (quite often people assume they like what their men friends like!!!!) and this is reflected in company's A&R employment policy. Well it's them that are missing out! You wouldn't catch me DJing these days, I'd be too anxious waiting for some wanker (or probably more than one!) to hassle me about my poor taste, crap mixing or not having the latest white label. I thinK I was more arrogant when I was young, but then I did indie DJing. >BUT it is >the attitude that somehow women aren't aware, or dont appreciate the >music because they dont necessarilly obsess about the act of collecting >that botheres me. Well, Ms Ninja Tune talks some sense. >Jeff definately >thinks that more men like IDM and this proven by the fact that they are >the ones buying it. Yes, but this is partly to do with the difficulty of hearing the more obscure stuff if you are not prepared to go into a rekkid shop and ask to be played all the new 12"s!! And have loads of sad Djs sneering at you because you don't know shit. You can't get near the decks in the rough trade shop for blokes listening to bleepy stuff and stroking their chins! >I found Broadcast to be fairly mundane indie-rock with some "kitsch" (ie >crap) >keyboard noodlings on top. Quite forgettable - and why on earth are they on >Warp? Hmmm, didn't you ever like Spacemen 3/Loop? Think you might have to smoke a lot of hash and totally relax, the mesmeric quality of their music borrows from (the better parts of) Stereolab, but they have more chords. True, they are better on record than live. A Warp attempt at a commercial signing!? Alien Spit Who went to see the Beasite Boys last night and thought they were embarrasingly bad.