Electronic Artist You'd Most Like To Put In Your... Y'Know

no DJ Rap, no credibility.

Joseph Yablonski

DJ Murdering Jock

I've never heard of electronic artists Benjamin Curtis and Sonic Boom... Who are they?

i'd like to think i'm as polymorphous as the next guy but y're on yr own with Thom Yorke WCC

Sonic Boom does / did analogue knob twiddling for Spacemen 3, Spectrum and E.A.R.

Benjamin Curtis does laptop knob twiddling for School of Seven Bells.

Electronics means anything, apparently so they count!

Poor Thom, it's the ponytail, isn't it? Sigh. Luckily I have enough socks to vote for all of them. (I think?)

i am surprised and slightly disappointed to see a lack of lindstrom here.

(voted b.curtis anyway)

::slaps forehead::

I knew I'd forgotten someone!

What do you want, I made this poll literally sitting up a tree.

k.i.s.s.i.n.g.

(dancing about like a hippie to I Want More, I had the sudden awful thought: are Can the Grateful Dead it's OK to like?)

I have tricked people into listening to the Grateful Dead upon similar pretexts.

WHAT'S. NOT. TO. LOVE.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5239/6917791764_ef5663479c_b.jpg

I really am beginning to think there's something wrong with me that I find that man attractive.

i get really angry when i see guys like b. curtis because i can never have hair like that :/

but i'll vote for him anyway

I know I'm so in the minority on this, but I just don't like what Benjamin Curtis has done to his hair these days. I liked him so much better with longer hair, when he was still in Secret Machines.

NEVER FORGET!!!!

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l86jq6ly1O1qdzn2ko1_500.jpg

haha if i'd first seen benjamin curtis w/longer hair i don't think i'd have ever found him attractive.

xosar more like xosRAWR amirite

http://quitmumbling.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Xosar+IMG_13901024x7411.jpg

Wow get a load of those Rolands!

would smash into tiny little particles of dust

Man that is no way to treat delicate analogue gear.

http://www.mixmag.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/article/images/NINA-KRAVIZ-1.jpg

the big one from boards of canada, whatever he's called.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/21628821/Boards+of+Canada+BoC.png

but andy barlow from lamb is the beautifulest man.

http://stratamusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/chainmailcrop.jpg
http://media.musicfeeds.com.au/files/1e97c05a5a690d44264a1161db566cd4.jpg

nah she looks like a swedish troll doll next to xosar

i mean she's totally beautiful too obv.

I'm trying to find a recent picture of Aphex Twin that doesn't have Penderecki in it because Penderecki is a major ladyboner killer. :-(

I don't like that second lady, she doesn't have any Rolands, this will not do.

is that nina kraviz, jim? i was wondering how long it'd be before she appeared here.

i'll put in a vote for ben klock. he always gets comments like "too mainstream-looking" or "too conventionally good-looking" or "looks like he works out" as if those are bad things

http://www.boingpoumtchak.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ben-klock-berghain-04.jpeg

that is an xpost

but that BoC pic looks like it could be any of a number of ilx dudes who post on wdyll

that is nina kraviz yeah. ben klock is a good-looking dude, i don't understand "too conventionally good looking" as a criticism.

it's actually kinda funny how klock and dettmann are these sculpted cheek-boney aryan ubermenschen, so appropriate for berghain

I don't like "conventionally good looking" dudes, they're just too square-jawed and even, I like the dudes who are kinda o_0 and ginger and weird looking and actually have interesting faces.

Also, it's the little dark one that is the hott one in BoC.

ben klock's cheekbones look like they've been chiselled out of actual marble. that's exactly what i like.

The one on the left. He's the hott one in BoC:

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Boards-Of-Canada-27-02-12.jpg

It's that beard/pointy Celtic nose combination. Slays me.

but that BoC pic looks like it could be any of a number of ilx dudes who post on wdyll

i could go for some of those guys too.

xp that's not a pointy nose.

I'm so sorry about the Penderecki, but MAAAAANNNN, you want cheekbones chiselled out of actual Cornish granite?

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5423/0122krzysztofpenderecki.jpg

^^^^LOOK AT THAT MAN. JUST LOOK AT HIM. SO FUCKEN HOTT I CAN'T STAND IT.

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Nicolas-jaar-3.22.20121.jpg

can't say i see the appeal of those BoC guys, even correcting for preference

http://www.clr.net/images/large/33.jpg

^^ but dettmann i might switch teams for

click here to check out marcel's nipple

nicolar jaar can keep those glasses on!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KkGYtWH4p0M/TH_kIdntN0I/AAAAAAAAASk/saANbt9BCrs/s1600/todd_terje_456_001.jpg

Jaar would totally be cute if he let his hair grow out a little. I can't stand that closed cropped thing.

Dettmann is a lot closer to what I like, but he's still a bit too chiselled and symmetrical and not strange looking enough.

Wow, when did Todd Terje loose the terrible facial hair? He's good looking under all that!

I mean, he's no Lindstrom, but he's got more of a Beck-ish puckness.

you know what this thread needs is more xosar

http://www.junodownload.com/plus/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JPP30_art.jpg

yes to dettmann

DEFINITELY yes to jaar who is actually way way way hotter irl

THREAD NEEDS MORE LINDSTROM

http://rcrdlbl.com/files/rblog_images/lindstrom.jpg

that's an old pic of todd terje, i think.

i'd switch then switch back for peter kruder.

http://www.timeoutsingapore.com/contentFiles/image/2010/december/clubbing/02-clubbing-kruder-482x298.jpg

I mean, look at that nose. Look at that hair. Look at that sculptured Viking perfection. Pillage my shores any time, baby.

http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/8032/Lindstrom_550_1329759049_crop_550x550.jpg

HOW CAN ANY HUMAN BEING HAVE A JAWLINE LIKE THIS?!?!?!?

http://www.magneticmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Lindstrom.jpg

Getting a bit kinky, mayhap, but:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28085651/Klaus+Schulze+Klaus.jpg

Kinky is good if Klaus Schulze is involved...

Gutted that Thommy has lost his adorable little belly

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7213/6917640944_6a22fa1ab1_b.jpg

^^^^and now appears so light that he is actually levitating and floating away.

Needs to be force-fed hummus or some other fattening vegan food until the belly returns.

not for me, really, but possibly for kate.

ben frost.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MgfBNd2e4us/SnXsHYNjWfI/AAAAAAAADy8/-ppyx5gq42A/s400/ben+frost2.jpg

or danilo plessow

http://www.dj-kicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/MCDE_small.jpg

YESSSS, jed, either of those would do.

But Ben Frost is too implausibly good looking for his music to be any good, though.

Guys who make music I tend to like tend to look more like this:

http://www.daysarenumbers.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Irmin_Schmidt.jpg

it isn't. xpost

Am I thinking of another Frost that makes limp indie?

(I'm so shallow but even I can't find it in me to fancy him Irmin Schmidt, despite the Synthi)

want someone to post Hawtin for real

His hair could have its own thread.

is harvey hot? He def has a jawline that you notice

http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/uploads/show_pics/dj_harvey_456_001.jpg

Sorry, I'm still stuck on Richie Hawtin's hair.

http://www.djmix.com/wp-content/gallery/richiehawtin/RichieHawtin-01.jpg

^^^^Benjamin Curtis was clearly taking notes.

http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/uploads/show_pics/au_revoir_simone_456_001.jpg

they just play keyboards, but close enough

nah i guess ben frost is good, it's just nothing i have much interest in any more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qheTGTNxRVs&feature=related

Richie Hawtin was born in ~Banbury~?!!?!?!?

I always thought he was Canadian. Man, they sure grow those boys cute in Banbury.

Banbury Ontario.

No, Banbury, Oxfordshire. He moved when he was nine. Just like me. Sigh.

o_O

(Gave up on the Ben Frost track you posted and went back to Rosin Murphy after like two minutes.)

tom jenkinson, hello.

http://walrusmusicblog.com/wp-content/uploads/retro/1296blog_squarepusher.jpg

NZ trance DJs, might actually be horse-faced in real life, can't tell

http://www.maxumi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/maya.jpg

What is it about the name Thomas and absolutely TERRIBLE hair?

(His baby brother Andy is cuter anyway.)

i found my pic in this u+k blog post

Girls and DJs are possibly our two favourite kinds of people. So you can imagine how excited we get when the two combine – here we feature some of the sexiest, most talented and upcoming female DJs in the world. Breastacular!

I'm not even going to click on that link. It's still my birthday for 5 minutes and I refuse to be enraged.

although they are undeniably "fit"

http://www.dancemusicblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MayaVanya-450x324.jpg

there is definitely a sort of realdoll i mean "uncanny valley" effect

oh mean i knew they were a little creepy but now i see evidence in the lower left that they're actually disguised reptilians

((also Jenkinsons, not Yorkes, in case that wasn't clear - Ceephax Acid Crew is hott. Andy Yorke is somehow taller, more chiselled, more symmetrical and has less terrible hair than his brother and oddly somehow not as sexy))

I don't know who this Richie Hawtin guy is but he's a good-looking dude I must say.

Richie Hawtin? OMG I know, right? Plastikman. Stupidly good looking.

I would totally go lesbian as all hell for Andy Jenkinson.

http://scs.viceland.com/int/v10n2/htdocs/exploding/1.jpg

http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-20390-1265386102.jpeg

He's not the guy from Phish is he?

No, he's an ACEEEEEED DUDE. Squarepusher's little brother.

Putting the HAWT in Hawtin. Oh yeah.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/59404895/Plastikman.jpg

Ok that's a relief.

Glovebox

Punch Bowl

Dairy Case

What I really wanna know is, does Tom Middleton have a little brother named Andy?

And ifso what kind of music does he play, and is he hott?

happy birthday btw

http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/wp-content/issue17/Mira-Calix-image-1.jpg

Playmate and Dj Carla Miskov
http://www.midiario.com/history/2010/12/29/fotos/29-20-PLAY.JPG

and DJ Andrea Rincon

http://media.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/i/2012/02/362105.jpeg

No idea how good they actually are but they get hired a lot.

Completely agree on Nina Kraviz. She's really hot.

Nicolaas Jaar and Andy Barlow are good choices for me too.

Of the ones on the actual poll I don't really find any of them hot. Sorry.

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/174377_677923178_444035_n.jpg

Anyone fancy some Ed Rush? ;P

A few more:

Miss Nine (incredibly hot but she was actually a model before a dj, so...)
http://www.juice.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/miss-nine-stereolab.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9Sqb6Vhazxg/TLqYWUDUY9I/AAAAAAAASEE/Mc5CzNMEtEM/s1600/DJ+Miss+Nine+%283%29.jpg

Scarlett Etienne
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BG_ZOKnhp-U/S12WH0KtNQI/AAAAAAAAIz8/j87mKVA06yQ/s400/scarlettetienne.jpg
http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/128/302f1201fe3547d3941fca5cb254944b/l.jpg

tokimonsta is sweet

http://mnmpresents.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TOKiMONSTA2012.jpg

Hm. Can anyone spot the difference in presentation between the majority of the men and the majority of the women in this thread?

the girls arent ginger?

http://www.cdeuroxpress.com/images2/730003707124.jpg

Yeah I know emil.y although in my defense 3 of the 4 girls I posted were first known for exposing their bodies and for their dj skills later.

Of the women the most discrete looking is Nina Kraviz and she's also the one with the best music of the bunch.

Andrea Rincon and Carla Miskov were even playmates. I don't really find them sexy to be honest.

Miss Nine and Nina Kraviz on the other hand are all around beautiful.

kraviz is fine tho i cannot picture her digging for shit on moldy basements

...vagina?

Hm. Can anyone spot the difference in presentation between the majority of the men and the majority of the women in this thread?

THIS is why I like E.MILY (part 1,257)

Men not sponsored by FHM.com.ph

to be fair there are plenty of female DJs known for being attractive, inc on this thread, who don't present themselves in FHM-style.

and tbh i wish nicolas jaar and ben klock would.

which reminds me, total approval for how d. lissvik presents himself. top 3 last.fm images!

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/59440283/D+Lissvik+Dan.jpg
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/63680179/D+Lissvik+Dan.jpg
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/17583701/D+Lissvik+dlissvik_400.jpg

Hm. Can anyone spot the difference in presentation between the majority of the men and the majority of the women in this thread?

― emil.y, Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:36 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I dunno, I'm having some trouble here?

http://www.theimagist.com/files/images/Windowlicker.jpg

http://www.earthhouse.com/images/poster_art/thom%20yorke.jpg

Those Lissvik photos must be old, if iirc corectly he's around 35 now and he looks like 19 on those.

No, I kid. And I hear you.

But it's like, it bothers me. A lot. And don't want to have to have the conversation for the eight billionth time about how dicey unisex perve threads end up because FUCK THE MALE GAZE, FUCK IT IN THE EYEBALLS, WITH KNIVES. AND GUNS. AND IMPLEMENTS OF DESTRUCTION. And that gets me angry and I don't want to be angry when I'm still on a birthday high and Thom Yorke wore the red trousers again last night, and those red trousers are so tight he might as well be nekkid.

And I don't want to be heteronormative and scream "no naked girls on my beautiful thread!" And you know that I am the A+ number one fan of excellent women making excellent electronic music and if people posted pictures of Laurel Halo or Zavoloka or Stellar Om Source or Roisin Murphy or Grimes or Mira Calix with a room full of synths or up their knuckles in a laptop that would be awesome. But that "always with the half naked girls with their breasts on display" thing, it just pisses me off and then it pisses me off that I have to get pissed off about it and then I don't even fancy D Lissvik but I'm going to look at him naked just to feel like there's some tiny modicum of balance.

x-post or just get out the cheesecakey Thom Yorke photos. Sigh.

BELLY. ROWR.

http://i.imgur.com/nf08R.jpg

I mean, I don't know what's going on in this photo, but I LIKE IT.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/63680179/D+Lissvik+Dan.jpg

he's a bit diplo looking, no?

harvey's pretty primo for an old dude.

harvey looks like the dealer from withnail and i

Yeah he does look like Diplo. If he qualifies as an electronic artist might as well add him on the writeup votes.

I don't find Lissvik's face that attractive, (too square jawed, too symmetrical) but his blue tights are just beyond rowr.

Some day, SOME DAY, someone will discover ancient photos of Colin Greenwood in his bodystocking wearing eyeliner and the entire internet will explode.

Also, that photo of Thom in the swimming pool is reversed and it's really bugging me.

Why do I find asymmetry so ridiculously sexy in men? It's the same thing with Aphex Twin, it's the photos where his phace looks the most wonky that I find the most ridiculously hotttttt.

Speaking as a female I don't see what's so wrong about the semi-naked djs. They were playmates and they play for a specific niche. You'll have no trouble finding the other side of the spectre for men in gay clubs. eg (a quick google search for gay djs threw these photos on the top):

http://www.thegayobx.com/default/assets/Image/hotty_scotty_thompson_dj_gay_chicago_gay_new_york.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OYfnPEQrU_g/So0puKMKwlI/AAAAAAAAAD4/VfkjwT4-_D0/S1600-R/gay+DJ.jpg

http://www.gay-party.com/docs/photos/antoine.jpg

Sexploitation is inherent in club culture.

Moka, I'm not going to spam up this thread arguing with you, but if you want to take a look at any of the million threads about gender and gender presentation, and the dichotomy of "men act, women appear" and the Male Gaze, you will see that we have been through this a million times before.

Why is it that you have to GIS for "gay DJ" in order to find sexualised photos of men, while standard photos of female musicians are sexualised in a way that your "not specifically packaged for the gay scene" male musicians are just not? (See also: the assumption that sexualised men are "for the gay scene" and not for a female audience, because that's annoying, too.)

This isn't just about club culture, this is about *all* of culture and how women are generally automatically presented as sexually appealing in a really standardised way (and also a really impossible beauty standard) before anything, in a way that men just are not.

And a couple of shirtless photos of men does not redress that balance, because men are always given the *choice* of whether they want to portray themselves in a sexual light, in a way that women are pressured, both subtly and overtly, to do the FHM thing.

I'm so fucking tired of this argument, and look, here I am having it again. ARGH.

I completely understand the argument and I don't support it. But I'm not sure if sexism works in the club context. My point in here is that it really depends on what electronic scene we're talking about. On the minimal techno / IDM scene you'll hardly find a dj male or female that uses sex as a presentation card. In the dance / house club scene you'll find semi-naked men and women all of the time, all over the place. It's a scene fueled by looks and sex and if you frequented clubs at one point of your life you know exactly what I'm talking about. This isn't about war of the sexes.

The problem here is that we started comparing male IDM artists with house female djs, and I'm responsible for it. Female artists like Nina Kraviz, Andrea Parker, Grimes, Bjork and all of those you mentioned are much better fits and you wont see them using their bodies as marketing weapons.

I just can't do this any more.

L@@K!!! HERE IS A PICTURE OF THOM YORKE'S ERECTION!!!

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i67/soundship/album%202/mygod.jpg

LOOK AT IT!!! LOOK AT THAT YORKE BONER!!! L@@K AT IT!!!!!

Female artists like Nina Kraviz ... you wont see them using their bodies as marketing weapons.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's not really the impression I get with Nina Kraviz.

Female artists like Nina Kraviz ... you wont see them using their bodies as marketing weapons.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's not really the impression I get with Nina Kraviz.

― French Cricket in the USA (NickB)

Why not? In every photo I've seen of her she's always dressed very conservative, I don't think I've even seen her showing cleavage.

Well, she's definitely more sophisticated than that phwoar-look-at-my-tittays stuff upthread but she is definitely using her looks as a marketing thing in stuff like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=605bwlAz_iQ

If an artist dancing in his/her own music video is a symbol of sexploitation then I'm completely out of tune with you guys.

from very tail end of 2011 - its almost pastiche but i don't really mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW6Xox7lDcc

hmm i think i may have posed this in the wrong thread

Yeah, I don't think I would claim that Nina Kraviz is being exploited in that video. That being my first exposure to her though, my primitive man-brain is now having a hard time dissociating her looks from her music.

I never really know what anyone looks like but of the ones listed here I'd say Ben Klock though he's not really my type as such

Yeah, I don't think I would claim that Nina Kraviz is being exploited in that video.

well, i'd say she's def walking on a thin line

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJtf-Mmkx-Q

this vid is almost embarrasing, like she's on the verge of being literally raped by a bunch of drunken fellas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckjKUPVWRts

h: In the international underground DJ scene, there’s only recently more women that have a lot of respect as DJs. Have you found it difficult to be accepted or difficult to get respect from the crowds because of this?

NK: No, no.

h: Or have you found it worked to your advantage in any way?

NK: I can definitely tell you that I have so many things to think of, and I really don’t want to go down the topic of living in a sexist world, being such a poor lady and stuff like that. I have a personal problem with one thing…

h: Sure.

NK: I don’t want to talk about more women in the industry or this. My problem is that people are still taking… A driver, does he have a sex?

h: Sure…

h: I’ve seen you DJ a few times and I had no question that you knew what you were doing, absolutely no question. I was trying to approach the question more from the angle that I understand that you do actually do what you do, and I understand that you’re actually really doing it, but I still hear a lot of people, even people that I know that I respect in the music scene, that will talk about the way you look before they talk about the way you play.

NK: Well that’s not a problem for me. Of course it’s not a problem! I’m a girl… if people stop looking at me as a girl I’d be very upset. Didn’t you see the real girl who doesn’t like to look at the mirror and check how pretty she is, or if the makeup is perfect? Come on! I’ll always be a woman and I like my femininity. I like to be attractive and have people constantly watching me and stuff, definitely.

h: Yes.

NK: I mean, I believe energy is one of the most important things that makes everything move. That’s the most important point in the whole thing! Coming back to the question, I would say I have no problem with people taking me as a woman behind the decks. No problem! But only if they are really educated enough to realize the difference between just any woman behind the decks and me is huge, enormous… it’s immense, it matters. So when they realize the difference and they realize I’m a professional first and can mix my tracks and have my own style and sound, then no problem. Look anywhere you want! Enjoy my ass shaking, anything, feel free, but only if you realize that and enjoy what I’m doing and the music, only if you take it as the whole concept. If you take it separately, then get lost really! Then this is sexism, I don’t want to be the doll really or a puppet.

https://halcyonline.com/2011/qa-nina-kraviz/

so russian

so amazingly russian <3

ARGH see this is so complicated, because it is, and it isn't.

Like, the whole thing of, sexuality is INHERENT in music, and especially dance music.

Dancing is sexual display. It's an artform and an expression, too, but it's also very much a sexual display. And it's not as if male musicians from Elvis Presley to Thom Yorke have not taken advantage of that. Because, on one level, I really don't see any difference between that Nina Kravitz dancing video posted above, and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8

Sexy artists doing their sexy thing, to sexy music. That's what it's about.

But it gets complicated by, questions like, why is Nina doing her thang in a leotard, while Thom is doing his thang in a pair of jeans and a non-revealing shirt? They're sexualised in different ways.

But it's also about the sense of entitlement which exists in the eye of the viewer, of how many men take a woman being in revealing clothes, doing a sexy dance as entitlement, that that means not just that they are entitled to the Gaze, that THEY ARE ENTITLED TO THEIR BODY. In a way that, when most people see Thom Yorke doing sexy dancing, they think he's just sexy dancing because he's ~feeling it~ in the song, and that doesn't reduce Thom to solely being his looks and his sexuality, or that we, as viewers, are entitled to his physical being. The expectations are different, and that's the ugly thing. But also, that a man being sexy is just adding another layer to him as a human being, while, if a woman gets sexy, it seems like it utterly subsumes everything else they're ~allowed~ to be. They get reduced to sex and nothing else. Which is blatantly unfair. And it's not about ~man-brains~ so don't give me that crap, it's about how women are portrayed and the expectations that our society has around women and female beauty. And it's bullshit.

But, you know, I just want less dudes talking about women's bodies and sexualities on this thread because you guys have the rest of the internet for doing that, and there are very few places that women and gay men get to discuss men's looks and sexuality in the same way without being punished or penalised for it, so can we just go back to enjoying what we were enjoying?

You know, Nina, I am happy for you to have the option of being pretty-girl and enjoying your own looks and your sexuality.

But I would like to be a girl, and be accepted as a real girl and a true girl, as someone WHO DOES NOT LOOK IN THE MIRROR THAT MUCH and wants to be free to be accepted as a woman in the same way.

Like, I want to have the freedom to have the same attitude towards my looks that the Aphex Twin does.

And not have these expectations of "what girl doesn't like looking in the mirror?" foisted on me, because you know what, I would like to be a woman and be free of *those* expectations of femininity. That infuriates me.

I would like a world where Nina gets to be sexy, and I get to schlump around in baggy combats with my hair in a messy ponytail and both of these be OK options for us to be ~taken seriously!~ as women.

As women, and as *musicians*.

Obviously there's a difference to "being exploited" and having one's sexuality serve as part of one's persona and music. Surely there's loads of counter examples, but I think it's straight up naive to say there isn't a disparity in representation in a male dominated market.

And I think it was Ronan who once made the very OTM point here that there's so much subliminal (homo)erotic hero worship placed on djs that when you finally get a high-end female djs it suddenly becomes acceptable to be "omg cassy i luv u ur so beautiful"

Wait sorry, he wrote: isn't half the problem the fact that most techno writers are single dudes used to ranting about how militant and dark whatever music is and then they're all "oh cassy ur musics are so beautiful i luv u"

In any case, the point still stands. And yeah, I think this thread has discussed the matter: Women in electronic/dance music

Well, yeah.

It's just like, I thought this was just a stupid parody thread that was gonna be me and the ILX gays going "Ben Curtis and Lindstrom, are they hott or what?" for about 10 jokey posts but instead we're all up in gender theory and presentation of electronic musicians and it's like, that's fine and there's a place for that, but I just want Thom Yorke in overly tight trousers, dancing like a fule.

Argh, sorry for kicking this off again. I guess another question is, Moka, do you actually fancy those women? Because I read this thread as for posting electronic artists you actually fancy, rather than posting half-naked DJs because they're 'supposed' to be sexy.

Anyway:

http://www.electronicbeats.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/teaser_2x2/img/mouse_on_mars.jpg

Completely agree on Nina Kraviz. She's really hot.

― Moka, Thursday, 12 April 2012 03:10 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ip4vYybJgic/TV7kvxDdpYI/AAAAAAAAARQ/I1YikHFgDo0/s1600/harald.jpg

***caveat: this is the best photo of this man***

That album cover gives me...feelings...so I was disappoint when I got the reissue from RVNG and it used a different pic.

anagram, that's one. Moka put up lots of images.

Now we're considering silvery German electronisch guys, what do you think about Riechmann?

http://images.plixid.com/imager/w_500/h_/e44254df37f7ac8793fff47cca7d0bd7.jpg

Wait, Mouse on Mars look like *THAT*?!?!?

I am suddenly starting to see the point of them!

Hahaha, MoM are H0TTTTTTT.

I can certainly see the ~appeal~ of Abb's and Emil's silvery teutonic electronischmensches, they are visually exciting and pleasing aesthetically, but I'm not getting the "want that, in the orifice of my choice" feeling.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/45429731/Doris+Norton++1983.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28179467/Doris+Norton+doris.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/36950777/Doris%20Norton%20nortondoris70s1.jpg

Wow, I had no idea what Mouse On Mars looked like. At all. They should TOTALLY make more of a thing of their looks, they are BEAUTIFUL. Shame about their music, but, y'know. Holy shit, they are amazing looking.

But... um, not getting back into Feminist Theory again, but - this is a thing. That it's possible to think of five male electronic artists, and they can be faceless - like, I had no idea what MoM looked like, I still have no idea what Drexciya look like. That they have the freedom to be completely faceless.

Yet, if I did a thought experiment, of told us all to think of five female electronic artists off the tops of our heads, I bet we would have clear images of what they looked like. And although I'm sure that was the choice of each of those individual artists to use their face or bodies as part of their image, when you put it all together, you realise that choices don't get made in a vacuum. And that options exist for males that don't really exist in the same way for women.

But. Well. I'll shut up and look at the hotties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVM6iClGRpU

masonic boom = horniest fucker since pacino in carlito's way

Well, you know I love MoM as musicians as well as hotties, but I'll let it lie.

I'm afraid my attempt at the experiment may be an outlier, as out of the first five that came to mind, only two have strong images associated with them, and neither of those two are particularly sexualised. HOWEVER, I am a nerd, I feel a kinship to music based on interiority, and I have poor facial recognition.

LOL that's actually quite hilarious considering I am pretty much functionally asexual. I have almost zero interest in having sex with anyone any more, but I sure do like to look at pictures of attractive people.

x-post to Dwight.

a vote for BOTH numbers guys

i think there's consensus that jackmaster is hott

http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/uploads/show_pics/jackmaster_456_004.jpg

but spencer is just ridiculously good looking imo

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/58969_432828467185_687352185_5725329_443916_n.jpg

I don't know what interiority means, because I'm uneducated and big words perplex me.

Partly, perhaps, with truly faceless records it's that (inherently sexist and much noted) tendency to attribute "anonymous" to men, even when the authors were female but unknown? Perhaps it's that in order to *gender* an artist in the first place, we have to see their face or body, so that's why I know what they look like? Because I discovered that they were female by... looking at them? I don't know.

I do have to admit that part of my irritation on this thread is kind of... argh, men colonising space intended for women. (Thought obviously that doesn't apply since Lex is one of the biggest posters of hott boys and Moka is one of the biggest posters of semi naked ladies?)

I do feel caution and I want to call out mine own heteronormativity in being disturbed by the highly gendered (and sometimes sexualised) presentation of the women. I mean, it's not like there aren't female electronic musicians that I *would* actually like to put (in the orifice of my choice.) But it's just that the qualities of my attractions to women are so different to the quality of my attractions to men.

That if I'm attracted to a woman, it's because she's SO AMAZING that she's triggered a state of sexual superfluidity in me. And the amazingness of her has little to do with what she looks like, it's about who she is, what she's like, and all of the individual things that make her so amazing. It's not like, "see nose, see hair,
see cheekbones, WANT" like it is with men.

That my attractions to men, 75% of it is purely what he looks like, and 25% of it is him not being a complete idiot. (Ok, with the single exception of Thom Yorke, because with him, it's not what he looks like. Even though I do think he's physically attractive, he's physically attractive *because* of the inherent ThomYorkeness of him. I fancy him *like* a woman. Which is completely strange and odd and unusual. And probably why it's persisted for so long, unlike crushes that fade when the dude gets an unfortunate haircut.)

How can I decide, from a picture of a lady, with her hanging breasts out, whether she's AMAZING or not? In fact, if she's willing and prepared to pitch herself as her sexuality first and her musicianship or intellect or whatever second, it's unlikely that I'll find her amazing. Which is shallow, perhaps. But. It's complicated.

Anyway, here is a funny picture of Thom Yorke being sexay. It is hilarious. But also hott.

http://i.imgur.com/OejsC.jpg

...and x-post but the second of Lex's dudes is more attractive than the first. But still not someone I would orificise. He's a bit too 90210.

I have no idea what Grimes looks like. Pretty sure I could think of other examples if I went through the CD collection.

oh i'm pretty sure that's true in your case nick

If you asked me to name female electronic musicians, the first folks I think of would be Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Eliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher etc and then people like Laurel Halo, Rachel Evans aka Motion Sickness of Time Travel, what's-her-name aka Stella Om Source. No idea what a lot of these actually look like, think I'm probably an outlier too though. Still have a soft spot for Mira from Ladytron though.

arrggh, too many thoughs, am prising those keys off my keyboard with pliers.

Because I discovered that they were female by... looking at them? I don't know.

heh, i thought tama sumo was a dude for a while, embarrassingly - had only half-seen a ~moody~ promo shot of her, and her style is totes butch.

i agree with you re: options - i think women and gay men are much more conscious of themselves as a (potential?) sexual or visual object, and more ready to present themselves accordingly - which applies whether they're doing that in a conventional FHM style of getting their tits/chest out (as per moka's pictures upthread) or in a more "arty" fashion (björk's name came up as someone who that wouldn't apply to, but she's shown a lot of flesh in her videos).

idk where i was going with that except to say that from another angle it seems like an option that's closed off to male electronic musicians. can't imagine a single one of the male DJs posted in here doing an interview where they ended up saying, as nina kraviz does, "yeah sure people can look at my ass if they want".

tama sumo dude

I think I used interiority rather than 'intellectual' or 'abstract' there, due to the fact that the latter descriptions often have connotations of elitism, but I may have shot myself in the foot by doing so. I guess it's head-thinking music over rump-shaking music, and what that means for the visualisation of the acts creating such music. But even then, that's not really true for me all the time.

Also, I think your description of attraction to women is closer to my feeling of any attraction ever, really. Like, I wouldn't be transfixed by the h0ttness of MoM if I hadn't started out by loving their music.

Well, Bjork is someone who is such an interesting case, because although she doesn't do any of the standard "tits out" type sexualisation, she is STILL someone whose image, whose physical attractiveness, whose looks are a huge part of her whole act. But it's more like, she's made her body as much a work of art as her music. She's just taking her personal style and fashion choices as one more artform. I wouldn't say it was sexualised at all, but sexuality and looks are organic parts of the whole oeuvre.

I would LOVE for a male musician to go "sure, people can look at my ass if they want." It seems like there are actually male DJs or whatever who would totally say that, if anyone ever asked them, or if given a chance for that to be viewed as... OK for a man to want or enjoy.

x-post to Lex obv

we've gotten this far without
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FINvJrKyCUs/TNGmUI4T6wI/AAAAAAAADDg/WoHtTyUrDAM/s1600/Laurie+Spiegel+L.jpg

Also, I think your description of attraction to women is closer to my feeling of any attraction ever, really.

In terms of "gendering" sexuality, it's the more stereotypically "feminine" way of experiencing attraction.

Or, person-based attraction as it's called, if you de-gender-ify the world.

This is how "feminine coded" persons are supposed to experience attraction - be attracted to the person. And how "masculine coded" persons are supposed to experience attraction is primarily to the body or the gender.

And it's just to-may-toes to-mah-toes that it's got coded that way round. Like lots of "gender" stuff.

also Stellar Om Source OTM

http://gifttapes.com/FEB18/i/sos-2.jpg

mayaan nidam's pretty ngh
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/profiles/maayannidam.jpg

aw, blurry Blevin Blectum

http://www.museumfire.com/graphics/blevin.jpg

Spiegel! Lovely Spiegel.

Thread needs more

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/73785048/Aphex+Twin+IMG00279.jpg

and more

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/74885444/Aphex+Twin+afx.jpg

granted, Laurie Spiegel is 42 years older than me & I don't know if I'm ready for that kind of age gap

It seems like there are actually male DJs or whatever who would totally say that, if anyone ever asked them, or if given a chance for that to be viewed as... OK for a man to want or enjoy.

yes that last part is what i was thinking of - ime when str8 dudes think of themselves as a sexual object it's often to do with their style, or swagger, or status, rather than their bodies or looks, and to be overly conscious of those codes "gay". (obv this isn't always true - am guessing it doesn't apply to mainstream actors for instance, where your looks are your career to an extent.)

but yeah ESP in a field like electronic music, which is almost a priori faceless - when almost every woman uses the visual presentation options she has (inc sexual, but across a fairly wide spectrum, and often in v creative ways) but almost every man doesn't, it actually seems like it limits the dudes.

I would LOVE for a male musician to go "sure, people can look at my ass if they want."

david lee roth assless chaps, never forget

http://www.feelnumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/david-lee-roth-wine.jpg

david lee roth assless chaps, never remind me

just doing the Lord's work here

It must be so fucking awful and terrible to be a str8 dude and be constantly afraid of one's own body's latent eroticism for fear of being perceived as gay.

But you know, I'm sure the whole "ruling the world" thing kinda makes up for it. LOL.

But, just every now and then, when there is a dude who seems comfortable enough - and it's usually not the "stereotypically handsome" dudes, it's weird looking dudes like TY and Kevin from of Montreal - to do that whole "look at me! just fucken LOOK at me" joy of being gazed at thing.

And then that's really refreshing, in an odd way.

Wait, aren't e.g. boy bands full of guys like that?

Full of guys who have been carefully choreographed to behave like that.

Not that the two things are mutually exclusive but, y'know...

Argh, sorry for kicking this off again. I guess another question is, Moka, do you actually fancy those women? Because I read this thread as for posting electronic artists you actually fancy, rather than posting half-naked DJs because they're 'supposed' to be sexy.

― emil.y

You mean dj andrea and dj carla? Definitely not. I even find them gross. In retrospective it was idiotic of me to even post them here in the first place. First because I don't really find them sexy and second because they're house djs and it's apples and oranges as I stated upthread. They do well and they do well by sexploitation, not by their actual mixing abilities. With those two I completely agree with everyone, they're being used as objects, but at the same time I don't want to think it's exclusively sexism because you see half-naked men djs in that scene too.

The rest of the girls I posted I think are genuinely sexy, even Miss Nine.

I do have to admit that part of my irritation on this thread is kind of... argh, men colonising space intended for women. (Thought obviously that doesn't apply since Lex is one of the biggest posters of hott boys and Moka is one of the biggest posters of semi naked ladies?)

I do feel caution and I want to call out mine own heteronormativity in being disturbed by the highly gendered (and sometimes sexualised) presentation of the women. I mean, it's not like there aren't female electronic musicians that I *would* actually like to put (in the orifice of my choice.) But it's just that the qualities of my attractions to women are so different to the quality of my attractions to men.

1) what did you expect would happen on this thread

2) why is leching on ginger beards superior to leching on boobs out

3) are you seriously arguing that you have better reasons for fancying people than other people on this board do? why don't you go police the WS thread then?

4) in the future, you should start threads like this w/ "this space is intended for women and gay men, straight men please don't colonise"

But, you know, I just want less dudes talking about women's bodies and sexualities on this thread because you guys have the rest of the internet for doing that, and there are very few places that women and gay men get to discuss men's looks and sexuality in the same way without being punished or penalised for it, so can we just go back to enjoying what we were enjoying?

5) this is ridiculous

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gA7t63XypO8/TsQnXl0eeuI/AAAAAAAAAzg/EqCcILnMpMU/s1600/people-magazine-nov-28-2011-bradley-cooper-is-the-sexiest-man-alive.jpg

^^ IIRC they only talk about their skills and talents in this issue

1) Well, it was a birthday present for indulging herself in, so possibly she thought people might stay with the spirit of the thread? I know, I know, it's the internet, but still, one can but hope.

2) Because it doesn't reinforce the normative gender paradigm? (If one wanted to go the more prudish route, one could also say: because a ginger beard isn't a sexual characteristic, but I prefer the other answer)

3) This was never said.

4) Could be useful, though personally I dislike that balkanisation. Plus a bunch of straight dudes on here *have* taken it in the spirit it was intended.

5) Not ridiculous, actually true.

emil.y so OTM the money is getting a serious ladyboner.

nah emily is wrong

1) haha what is this totally benign "spirit of the thread" that suddenly got gross and awful once a few bikini pics showed up

2) i would argue that the real normative gender paradigm is that the other gender exists primarily for leching on and that this thread is playing into that whether we're leching on ginger beards or swimsuits

3) o rly go back and read the thread because i am pretty sure that i read some threads where ksc goes "oh yeah, i only like these men primarily / first for their artistic accomplishments, not for the sexiness, unlike gross people"

four) "this space is intended for women and gay men, straight men please don't post bikini pics"

5) we're going to have to disagree on this, i'll try to keep my eye out for women getting punished for discussing men, i mean i know you guys live in england but i didn't realize you lived in victorian england

i said threads, i meant posts

seems to me that there are lots of dudes in rock that make erotic objects of their bodies. iggy pop, alice cooper, mick jagger, robert plant, jim morrison, chris cornell, david lee roth, prince, the red hot chili peppers ("give it away" video), lenny kravitz, etc.

i would say that the explicitly sexualized, male version of "that whole 'look at me! just fucken LOOK at me' joy of being gazed at thing" is an essential component of rock's identity. to say nothing of R&B artists like d'angelo and usher.

offered not as a rebuttal to anything, but as a complement to other ways in which bodies are flaunted or negated in pop.

4) she did start a Radiohead thread by basically saying don't post here if you're not gonna do so in the spirit the thread is intended in, and it did kind of work to an extent

5) but if this isn't the place for the kind of discussion you want then maybe you should look elsewhere, the internet is a big place after all and there's room for everyone. saying "you have the rest of the internet for that kind of conversation" is like saying we're living in a house with only like three rooms or something

SO suppose i posted a pic of a female electronic artist whose music i have a longstanding engagement and appreciation for (say, andrea parker) but who generally people probably wouldn't lech on in a heteronormative way (again andrea parker fits the bill, i never found her attractive) and then wrote something about what a gigantic boner her collection of analog synths gives me

please explain why i would get a sexism pass for sexualizing someone based on something non-sexual, and yet if i were to just post SEXAY PHOTOES i would not get the sexism pass

1) "It's my birthday; pick who should blow out the candles on my cake..."

2) While I agree somewhat that creating an equality of removing autonomy in favour of objectification is not ideal, you are being incredibly disingenuous if you're really trying to claim that there is no difference here.

3) Ha, okay, that's pretty much the opposite of anything MB said.

4) Yeah, okay.

5) Again, disingenuous, punishment doesn't come in the form of being put in the stocks and you know nobody was ever claiming that.

there's something distressingly hostile about your tone here, the late great. the internet (and ILX not to put to fine a point on it) is wall-to-wall with designated spaces for str8 guys to see "hot" women flaunting what they got. less so when the genders are switched. given a) the boy girl disparity on ILX and b) the complexities of gender relations in general, it's not at all unreasonable for someone to want to create a designated "safe" space for leching on electro boys. i don't see why this would be objectionable to anyone.

I was pretty o_O at the first few female electronic artists that got posted to this thread, because idk I do think they're pretty but I feel uncomfortable just being like "yo check out this hott chick wearing headphones, high five bros" & I feel like it's clearly more in the original spirit of this thread to focus on ppl who are beautiful in a cool or quirky way and are clearly invested in music than just a bunch of folks who meet some boring accepted physical norm

i think xosar and nina kraviz are pretty firmly in the "cleary invested in music" camp

In a way that, when most people see Thom Yorke doing sexy dancing, they think he's just sexy dancing because he's ~feeling it~ in the song, and that doesn't reduce Thom to solely being his looks and his sexuality, or that we, as viewers, are entitled to his physical being. The expectations are different, and that's the ugly thing. But also, that a man being sexy is just adding another layer to him as a human being, while, if a woman gets sexy, it seems like it utterly subsumes everything else they're ~allowed~ to be.

this is the #3

That if I'm attracted to a woman, it's because she's SO AMAZING that she's triggered a state of sexual superfluidity in me. And the amazingness of her has little to do with what she looks like, it's about who she is, what she's like, and all of the individual things that make her so amazing. It's not like, "see nose, see hair, see cheekbones, WANT" like it is with men.

more #3

i think xosar and nina kraviz are pretty firmly in the "cleary invested in music" camp

yeah but that doesn't mean people have to post this kinda bullshit on this thread

http://www.junodownload.com/plus/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JPP30_art.jpg

Thanks for being the entitled dude pissing on my chips, and ruining my birthday party thread, Late Great.

This is a perfect example of a dude who just cannot HELP himself, colonising space intended for females.

Stop putting words in my mouth, stop wilfully missing the point of everything that has been discussed - so far quite reasonably and politely! - and just go away.

late great, how on earth do you transpose those into "the way I feel attraction is better than the way you feel attraction, eurgh, you grosslings"? The former is a reasonably accurate look at the socialisation of sexuality, the latter is a personal exploration of how one person feels attraction.

basically, everyone just chill out, post pics of people you wanna bone and then we can either smirk at your choice or agree with it. simple, surely.

fair enough, i have no real take on this ~issue~, i just kind of look on in awe as the fucks begin to cluster

xpost to crut

i can help myself. in fact i am going to help myself by *flouncing off*

meanwhile pls enjoy yr designated time of leching on male electronic artists w/ non-standard body types (oh wait they're all tall and skinny) and non-classically-attractive faces, i'm sure it is really helping to fight negative gender dynamics

THREAD NEEDS MORE LINDSTROM

http://i.imgur.com/PLkbx.jpg

well she's certainly not being a complete regressive moron itt like some of us

I'm sure that Thom Yorke will be DELIGHTED to learn that he's tall now.

Dr O'Brien's treatments worked wonders, he grew a foot overnight.

If only he could grow Jonny a new thumb!

worst cheesecake ever

No, that actually happened.

Dr O'Brien (Ed's father) treating Thom to make him grow, that was a real thing. In the actual world, not a cheesecake.

(He only grew an inch, though.)

((Why do I *know* these things?))

voted aphex twin in my vagina

this thread was always going to end this way, regardless of any variables that happened in between.

(He only grew an inch, though.)

This is a self-indulgent birthday thread*, which imo is way less odious than the fact that ILX has one to five gigantor rolling threads in site new answers threads devoted to posting nude or nearly nude traditionally hot chicks. And has for many years on end.

*thank god for one day a year of excused self-indulgence; I think I started six polls one year on my birthday

This thread is a good place to admit I have a totally dumb crush on Fletch, electronic/clapping and saying "yeah" artist

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2386/2423625749_154d98456d.jpg?v=0

man hasn't touched a non-computer keyboard since 1983

yes I know <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLBn1bRnOvc

love the leather scene/incredibly dumb white t-shirt outfit he is rocking here

just dancing away behind that teetiny moog

Does anyone else really, REALLY hate the tone of those "what did you expect?" comments and "did you think this thread was going to end any other way?" comments. You silly woman. You talked about boys you fancy. You mentioned your vagina. You wore a short skirt. You were ASKING FOR IT. You totally DESERVED to get raped/clusterfucked/attract misogyny.

Fuck that attitude in the most un-heteronormative orifice you can find, please.

I have to say - if I had a source of endless naked or nearly-naked photos of dudes who look like Aphex Twin or Thom Yorke, I'd have a rolling thread on site new answers for each of them!

My beef isn't with people fancying who they fancy - my beef is with the way our culture works, in terms of 1) the way female artists vs male artists are packaged and marketed, 2) how male sexual desire is made primary, and female sexual desire is demonised and 3) how unattainable those standards of beauty are, and how these unrealistic standards are used to punish women who cannot conform to them.

The only mild controversy was "Moka, you can not be serious!" to which she replied "actually, you're right, those were silly" and we rolled on happy as ever coz I <3 Moka.

But there's always some guy with a beef who wants to hallucinate things I did not say into an argument. I mean, how - HOW - do you get from my describing the differences in kind between my str8 attractions and my lesbian attractions - how do you get from that to "my lust is better than your lust."

I'm just gonna take the fact that my dumb parody birthday thread is still rolling two days later as, I dunno, evidence of the fact that birthdays are cool and most people on this thread are happy to celebrate with me in the spirit it was intended.

x-posts, Abbs, I approve, but I cannot join you, because incest is RONG.

Now we wanted some HOTT ELECTRO BOYS so here is Erol Alkan to prove that I don't discriminate against hott boys whose beards aren't ginger.

http://www.mpiii.com/images/artists/e/erolalkan.jpg

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/legowelt-slide.jpg

wd join the Legowelt movie and book club (may not speak enough Dutch however)

MB what is your relation to Fletch????

hey ftr i didn't say you deserved to be raped

Abbs, I approve, but I cannot join you, because incest is RONG

whaaaa? (not on the wrong part; agreed there)

Whoa, I just fell into a huge pile of jpegs on my hard drive of Erol being really really gay with Xavier du Rosnay and my head nearly exploded. It's like it's 2007 again.

ennyway

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xZeYYTIC8ss/TW7gsFkKWvI/AAAAAAAAC6A/_RxYKyVlPV8/s1600/KruderDorfmeister.gif

OK, I found one where they're not in the midst of bromantics and just hangin' out being hottt together.

http://i.imgur.com/YkGZ0.jpg

oh, Erol, why'd things go so wrong?

http://www.hipsterwave.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jimmy-edgar-smoke.jpg

bonus indie keyboard playing dude who I'm just going to pretend is some icy German techno dude bcz he kind of looks like one
https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.kungfustore.com/shelby_bryant.jpg?rw

I still want to know the Fletch answer!

whoa hi smoking dude

Sorry, I shouldn't have said anything. It was a joke. I have no identity, I'm not related to anyone. At all. Ever.

Anyway, speaking of 2007, I'm surprised this dude hasn't made an appearance on the thread yet

http://www.electronicbeats.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/detail_image_500/img/music/columns/tough-at-the-top-james-holden/80567-2-eng-GB/TOUGH-AT-THE-TOP-James-Holden.jpg

He seems to have sorted out his hair after that awful incident with Richie Hawtin's clippers, thankfully.

http://www.lifo.gr/uploads/image/375726/jolden-portada.jpg

i know the answer

but im saying nothing

(Is the smoking dude Gareth?)

((Can someone please photoshop in a phone booth for him to be perplexed at))

matthew dear is a handsome dude

http://cdn.beatsperminute.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/matthewdear.jpg

Does anyone else really, REALLY hate the tone of those "what did you expect?" comments and "did you think this thread was going to end any other way?" comments. You silly woman. You talked about boys you fancy. You mentioned your vagina. You wore a short skirt. You were ASKING FOR IT. You totally DESERVED to get raped/clusterfucked/attract misogyny.

Incredibly insulting over-egging of what I said there, shame on you.

Not to mention misquoting

well tbf, "incredibly insulting" is sort of what she does

comparing somebody saying "this thread was always going to end this way", ie in an argument of some kind, to condoning or claiming someone deserves to get raped, is truly one of the worst things i've ever seen on ilx.

Well this is how it often feels, on ILX, when I do things like, starting a perve thread, or using a vagina related screen name, or all of these things that dudes do, without a comment, and then I do it, and I'm told "what did you expect?" I expected to be allowed to have the same freedoms to be cranky, to be lusty, to be all of these things that human beings are.

To me, it FEELS the same kind of mentality as when I was told "what did you expect, getting blind drunk in Hoxton, and you got sexually assaulted?" When my male housemate used to stagger around in the same condition and for whatever reason he never felt like he had to be sexually assaulted for this.

I'm not drawing a direct metaphor, I'm saying "this is a feeling I'm familiar with in an uncomfortable way" when it's people saying that I deserve assholes coming on my thread and being a dick, or I deserve clusterfucks. This is how it feels.

And I'm sorry, but yes, I DO get to say "experience A feels like experience B" when I have had both those experiences.

And man if that is truly the WORST THING you have experienced then you have had s seriously easy ride here.

I mean seriously, if this is THE WORST THING you've ever seen on ILX you live some sugar coated life, for real.

Maybe I missed them but I don't recall too many male-begun perve threads on ILM lately.

bandying the word "rape" about presumably is something you're fine with then. i didn't post any images or get involved upthread, but personally at this point i'm done and will leave others to decide.

Ronan can you please just killfile me instead of taking it upon yourself to tell me how I should or shouldn't feel?

Thanks.

flagged your post that reduced rape to the equiv of a messageboard argument. killfile me if that bothers you.

This was such a nice thread for the most part. So many of my favourite people posted, so many of my favourite artists were mentioned, such fun was had.

Some douchebags just like the taste of their piss on other people's chips. It's not a good look.

Garda, flagging her posts is really, really not a good look. What, is she not GOOD enough to post on your precious little message board? Is she somehow inferior? This is the kind of mentality that leads to genocide!

It's my birthday tomorrow and just to warn you I will totally be spamming this thread up with hot electronic chixx0rs like Rene Hell and Dominique Leone.

Not to mention hot young Mego recording starlet Emma Ralds.

But it gets complicated by, questions like, why is Nina doing her thang in a leotard, while Thom is doing his thang in a pair of jeans and a non-revealing shirt? They're sexualised in different ways.

btw I did mean to say yesterday but didn't want to drag things out (boy, if only I'd have known) - that whole long post was helpful in thinking through my feelings about that Nina Kraviz video so thanks!

I think it is actually good to talk through things like that Nina Kravitz video, and get to the heart of one's discomfort with that stuff - if one does or doesn't feel discomfort - and why. If one can do it in a non-judgey and non-slut-shaming kind of way. It did help me flesh out and explore my thoughts, so I'm glad it was helpful to you, too.

Anyway, happy birthday for tomorrow! I will play Avril 14 in your honour.

(It's also my brother's birthday, oddly enough.)

I agree with Masonic Boom. There's been some great insights in this thread, there's no need to get all agressive about it. Talking about these things has actually make me think a lot about the point where one has to draw the line and what is it precisely that makes people attracted/repulsed to a certain way of presenting yourself. There's been some interesting perspectives that I hadn't considered seriously before.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/426944_286044408127328_100001653139632_742562_567629341_n.jpg

Also I haven't really posted men because my taste in men is sort of particular. Asides some that have already been posted upthread here are another ones I find attractive:

diplo
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/74376704/Diplo.png

john roberts
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/59004903/John+Roberts+John_Roberts_1.jpg

dan snaith
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/13120217/Manitoba.jpg

apparat
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/7915/Apparat.jpg

And I remembered yet another electronicsche lady that I find quite cute:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/69133234/Colleen+PNG.png

Im sort of a skinny person so I guess I also like my counterparts to be skinny, scruffy looking :S

I dig roberts and apparat too, Moka.

was going to post on this thread yesterday but was too tired to join in a conversation I feel has been had on this board a million times before. anyway, all I wanted to do was tell MB that I voted for Ben Curtis (and also that SVIIB are pretty much the most impossibly attractive band working today).

Happy belated birthday, booms. And to you too, NickB!

And hello, (non) Blondes.
http://www.salarazzmatazz.com/imagenes/artistas/blondes.jpg

and oh man, I loved Tiga back in the day (speaking of dudes who don't mind being perceived as sexy)

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/features/2010/feat-tiga-with-mic.jpg

(and also that SVIIB are pretty much the most impossibly attractive band working today)

ha yeah, i was wondering why, given the og choices, none of the str8 boys had mentioned the deheza sisters!

i think this has mostly been a good conversation too, apart from the posters who came in specifically to be hostile. these are vexed but interesting issues.

pretty much all the girls in my rave crew lust over apparat massively, also pantha du prince - i don't quite see it myself but i like faces to be vertical rather than horizontal.

braiden is v v v hott imo, and even has the pointy nose beloved of WCC. y'all can GIS though, not gonna post photo as he is a friend and it would feel a bit weird.

haha for years i assumed tiga was gay and even now i'm like "SURELY he can't be str8"

i really hate that i find diplo attractive from certain angles

i really hate that i find diplo attractive pretty much all the time

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/30889989.jpg

I try not to shame anyone's perving objects here, but Diplo? Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh! It's not even what he looks like (even though I don't find him attractive) it's just that he comes across like such an unpleasant person. Do not want anywhere near my orifices.

Dan Snaith is wearing my shirt. That kinda disturbs me. But I guess he shops at Liberty, too. I think Ed also has that shirt for the same reason.

Also, LOL Tiga. I think everyone has the same reaction when they find out he's straight, like "WHUT?!?!?"

Apparat, like sometimes I think he looks really beautiful, and sometimes he just looks strange looking. Which usually I'm into, but... well, his music is really really pretty so I'll do a +1 on Apparat. Pantha Du Prince is just stupidly attractive. I don't think I could even imagine having sex with him, though, he's just *too* pretty. I would want to put him on the table in my sitting room and just look at him, I couldn't imagine touching him, like, he is so pretty he would probably break my hand if I tried.

And Lex, I don't mean to diss your friends, but although I googled Braiden and he does have a cute nose, um, I don't know how to break it to you, but your friend is kind of... a dog?

http://b.vimeocdn.com/ps/753/753929_300.jpg

.

.

Sorry, couldn't resist, that came up first in GIS. I did find the dude, he's attractive, has a good nose, but his hair is not doing it for me.

And who is the desert-dude, Fantasy?

xposts is that Tiesto?

re: Apparat I think it's the odd symmetry of his face, similar reason I like looking at Jonny Greenwood too.

yeah aside from his personality, diplo's too much of a jock for me, which is a quality I sometimes like in actual jocks like tennis players and footballers but not so much in musicians where I like pretty much the opposite of that ie skinny, tall, kinda asexual/androgynous... and this whole thing is kinda funny now because i just remembered diplo saying in an interview a long time ago that irl Tiga was apparently even more of a jock than he was.

tiesto vertegenwoordigt de commerciele kant van het trancegenre. trance is eigenlijk al de meest commercieel klinkende kant van dance. daarbij ook de platst klinkende. alhoewel ik niets tegen trance heb, doet de muziek van Tiesto mij helemaal niets. het is me te plat, te gemakkelijk, te inhoudsloos, te spanningsloos. in tegenstelling tot vakbroeders als Ferry Corsten of Armin van Buuren speelt tiesto altijd op save, zoekt hij nooit het experiment of kruisbestuift hij zijn muziek nooit met andere gernes. de laatste single van Ferry Corsten, het fenomenale Punk, heeft alles wat Tiesto niet heeft. wat mij betreft dus: Tiesto: not!
― theo (theo), Sunday, November 24, 2002 8:36 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL I had no idea at all, what Tiesto looked like!

My Dutch isn't good enough to translate, but I agree with the last two words, at least.

lol

(I'm actually really laughing a lot and rather enjoying the way this thread is swerving between gender theory and bouts of complete objectification. Like, we're not even discussing these men as men, we're discussing them as paintings, or works of art.)

I just wanted to post tiesto

sometime's a man's gotta post tiesto

hahahah, Tiesto as palate cleanser to make all the really attractive men look more attractive by comparison.

We all have embarrassments. I don't see anything in Tiesto or Diplo but (deep shame here) from some angles, Guetta looks, um, kinda cute, if I don't realise who I'm looking at. ::dies of shame::

Apparat is another one that it depends what his hair is doing, because the photo above, he looks too much like Jonny Greenwood and I just don't get Jonny. Great musician, do not want in my orifices. But then, when he grows his hair out and lets his beard get all scruffy, then it's like, yes, hello!

http://static3.unlike.net/system/photos/0072/0269/APPARAT.jpg?1323696885

I mean, if you forget for a moment about the terrible music, and you forget that it's David Guetta I mean, just for a second there... almost...

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_VkmKM1A0EyA/TYSIas9L8GI/AAAAAAAADcs/MPDFAL-mugk/david_gu_45.jpg

GOD THAT IS SO SHAMEFUL. HIS MUSIC IS SO TERRIBLE.

But that particular haircut, just looks better on Yasutaka Nakata.

http://www.wotakunow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/capsule11iyci1.jpg

Who is also a musical genius, so I don't feel ashamed of fancying.

http://blondesearch.ru/img/57/571/Perfume_Yasutaka_Nakata_with_English_subs_.jpg

He is just so fucking pretty it's not even funny. But I bet he is even shorter than Thom Yorke. Sigh.

http://aoaoblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/lunice.jpeg

(also known as the dancing guy from the "212" video)

He is ~pretty~ but I could just be a sucker for a French Inhale.

Diplo? Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh! It's not even what he looks like (even though I don't find him attractive) it's just that he comes across like such an unpleasant person.

yup i'm guessing that's why rev and i hate that we find him attractive ever :(

i knew tiesto was all buff and muscled but for some reason i thought he was blond - a friend of mine flew out to ibiza to interview him a couple of years ago and apparently he was an incorrigible flirt (but not in a remotely good or subtle way)

nguzunguzu! they are both beautiful people

http://www.electronicbeats.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/detail_image_500/img/n1.jpg

Jimmy Edgar, y/n

http://83.142.229.90/~harderbl/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/jimmy-edgar.jpg

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jimmy.edgar_.live_.08.24.2010.jpg

hey smoking dancing 212 dude

Lex your boys are all so *clean* looking! We have such different tastes.

Jimmy Edgar looks wise is an enthusiastic yes, but what's his music like? I distrust men that beautiful.

He looks a bit like Kristian Capitol K who is fit but he so so knows it. :-P

He does "click-hop"/instrumental hip-hop/""BASS"-music" nice textures but sort of fatiguing on the ears after 10 minutes or so.
He needs to slow down on the facial piercings before he gets into Dennis Rodman territory, though.

Well Jimmy Edgar has a song called 'I Wanna be Your STD'.

It's pretty dope actually. (ignore the fanmade video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW0BOHHd9ig

I too think diplo might be sort of unpleasant in person but secretly I wish I had his life.

Well, he used to work as a teacher in Philadelphia and he created a non profit organization in Australia so he can't really be that bad, can he?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4259434375_89f5d35fe3_o.jpg

Ryuichi Sakamoto

http://thebigupmagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/rephlektorlist_skmtartistphoto2_1.jpg

have serious lust for Tujiko Noriko but won't post a pic because i don't feel comfortable with the fixing of picture posting, like 1 jpeg wd be like "this is why i like you" but it wd be a lie cos still pictures depersonize people

thread's missing jb

http://culturepop.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Fader-Cover-James-Blake.jpg

Yeah, see, this is why I'm suspicious of boys that look like ~that~ - because they end up having songs called nasty things like "I Wanna Be Your STD." And though the music is not objectionable - and though a song called "I Wanna Be Your STD" could be ~amazing~ in the hands of someone like Beck - it just comes off icky, and it's turned my yes to a no. Because I'm shallow like that.

But then again, this whole thread is all about teh shallowness and depersonising ppl so that's OK.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, OMG yes.

James Blake, get tae fuck.

And now I've seen this, all other thoughts have gone out of my mind.

http://i.imgur.com/FvV1h.gif

talking bout gingers

http://www.rennat.pri.ee/dnbartistid/images/Photek%20aka%20Rupert%20Parkes.jpg

my kinda guy

http://de-bug.de/musik/files/2010/12/mg_5235a.jpg

i wasn't really objecting to objectification last night btw, just drunk and in an odd place

Surprised at the absence of Sasu Ripatti.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/42256.jpg

And though mentioned, Pantha also deserves a picture.

http://www.bestival.net/media/pantha_du_prince_2_1291160418.jpg

Portable

http://uzurirecordings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/portable_250.jpeg

Midnight Mike

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/334301/Midnight+Mike.jpg

oh hello there midnight mike!

Wolfgang Voight

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luqu5mmRbP1qhzfrb.jpg

Is picking the least electronic member of Harmonia cheating?
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/9354/harmoniamainlarge125726.jpg

xp Voigt is p. striking, isn't he? And Jörg Burger was cuet in the 90s (may still be, I dunno) so I was trying to find a pic of them together but they all looked great in thumbnail and then had some kind of unnerving dark alley quality at full size. Here is one with added fish:
http://rcrdlbl.com/files/rblog_images/BurgerVoigt%281%29.jpg

Sadly Midnight Mike's long-haired pictures have drowned out his short-haired ones.

I question the shift from this:

http://www.gardenofearthlydelights.com/mm.jpg

to this:

http://dalstonsuperstore.com/wp-content/themes/dalstonsupertheme/timthumb.php?src=http://dalstonsuperstore.com/wp-content/files_mf/mickeymoonlightatdalstonsuperstore.jpg&w=300&h=365&&zc=1

Tellingly the first image is found at gardenofearthlydelights.com while the second is at daltonsuperstore.com

Photek is ginger? My vagina is getting very full with all these delicious electronic musicians!

Michael Rother should be on every thread immer weider for always and ever with his beautiful German beardiness. I might go off and write Rother/Benjamin Curtis slash.

Reality has now officially left the building.

(is it RONG that I prefer the "after" photo of MM? But I like the outfit better in the first.)

That's Photek?

Well long hair bias wins, but damn that's a dinky after photo. Was the passport look intentional?

Ital

http://planet.mu/image/artists/daniel-rooftop-2-small3.jpg?size=E279x279

Motorbass's Zdar

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cJzUh1S2kcA/TcFHQ1lkzoI/AAAAAAAAAYI/_sOUT0-KtJk/s1600/zdar07.jpg

http://www.rfimusic.com/sites/rfimusique.files/dynimagecache/76/0/713/533/344/257/sites/images.rfi.fr/files/aef_image/zdar_recadre.jpg

p.s. George Issakidis did not look like what I expected. Unposted because I don't know how people feel about a French Robert Plant.

I'm suddenly feeling v v v shallow because I can't even remember if I like Photek or not, but oh my god, holy shit is he attractive?

http://eecue.com/i/photek-eecue_24708_gq6x_l.jpg

I have a real thing for men with lovely hands/fingers. (Which is odd because both RDJ and Thom have kinda pudgy little hands, so I guess it's not *that* important to me.)

But the other thing about seriously ginger men (and not even just ginger men, but stealth gingers like Thom, who is not ~really~ ginger but has these aspects of gingerhood) is that they have ginger ARM HAIR. And ginger EYELASHES. Which are things that just make me weak in the knees.

Oh well, that didn't work. Open that image in a new tab, and you'll see the faint ginger armhair that makes me just completely *melt*.

Whoa I think I had never seen a photo of Pantha before. The one I was acquainted with is the one on last.fm where he is wearing a snow jacket that pretty much covers all his face.

Now I'm looking at some of his photos and I think that's a yes.

+1 on him.

Lil Silva:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1qdu4hneF1qarg6h_1333166477_cover.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q6FPxkKh0vU/TSix3DSn5sI/AAAAAAAABcc/Syk5ujKMFtU/s1600/lil+silva.jpg
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/75875340/Lil+Silva+LS_PNG_230312_01.png

Visionist:
http://www.xlr8r.com/files/features/frontpage_images/visionist_021512.jpg

Total Freedom:
http://www.attheecho.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/n718786442_1867510_2632.jpg
http://danielhernandez.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c2df253ef015432673a99970c-500wi

Total Freedom just won Best Beard On This Thread. So lush.

And +1 on Lil Silva just for his arms. I have got to stop getting excited over DJs' arms. But it's that knob-twiddling thing.

The dudes just keep getting hotter, and this is now my favourite thread on the entire interweb.

Reid Speed (I have a friend who looks almost exactly like her and I've always thought she is one of the cutest persons in my entourage so be nice)

http://hearingcolors.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/45754_423321491874_50231951874_5245863_6256208_n.jpg

Dieselboy

http://eecue.com/i/dieselboy-eecue_25268_etpa_l.jpg

Bailey is sort of too old for me now but I wouldn't mind 10 years ago.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTeHaVu0gNqiBDdEEH1vS0xJYH1Miz8B1ikeV_QLo7bIxte0BqvHhWlleIBdQ

hi Reid Speed

damn, that ridiculous thom yorke gif almost makes him look like a fun guy

or WKIW, whatever

this picture of nicolas jaar just because his ARMS, holy christ

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/60664863/Nicolas+Jaar+NicolasJaar.png

Is it wrong that the first thing I spotted on looking at that photo was the "it is our pleasure to serve you" Greek diner coffee?

(And I'm going to try not to start stanning for TY again, but his goofy, silly side is something that really gets missed out a lot in representations of his public personna, but seriously - I think he is a fun guy to KIW. I should post the video of him and Nigel Godrich DJ-ing where he's being completely ridiculous and if you don't want to KIW them after seeing that, you hate fun.)

mm, thread is full of love!

Well done all

Oh, Siriusmo, let's get hott together...

http://www.texturemagazine.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/m11_siriusmo.jpg

WKIW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZpDO0iDWwI

WNDJW though (esp not if he went spilling my drinks like that)

Does Hawtin look like Bruno or am I crazy?

http://screencrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bruno09-4-3.jpg

ACTRESS:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/68556706/Actress.jpg
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/49995677/Actress+FADER167.png

I don't have a vagina, but if I did I would be cramming Sasu Ripatti all up in that shit in hearty gratitude for the musical gifts he has blessed us with.

and I'd pop Parrish and KDJ in there if I could, might need to relax and breathe slowly in order to achieve this, but by god I will try

Actress is totally buff agreed

I had only listened to Actress, never seen him before. I always assumed he was some feeble, white-boy knob twiddler. With a too much time indoors pallid complexion. Well he certainly isn't!

Maybe doesn't belong, but...

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/34397881/Armand+van+Helden++01.jpg
http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/11/15411082b7e5163f1af59eafd14ae469/l.jpg

I love the transition in this thread from "hrmmm, don't know about this" to "wow, Actress is totes buff!"

His eyebrows kinda spoil it for me. I know I'm weird, that I can get turned off an otherwise completely fit bloke by not liking his eyebrows, but I am really funny about eyebrows.

i knew what armand van helden looked like but i didn't know he looked like THAT, if that makes sense. whew

idg this thread title, put in your... what?

lol i have a crush on raresh doing his little dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZedMLKLgKc

I think I have vagina fatigue. Like, there are so many beautiful artists on this thread I can't even contemplate which ones are attractive any more.

So instead I'm going to do self-indulgent gender theory for a minute... but, for real, I keep thinking about the switch in terminology on this thread.

Like, one of the reasons that I've been so hostile towards "would smash" threads is because I really, really hate that phrase. It just sounds so uncomfortable and painful. If you are the possessor of a vagina, then the idea of having it smashed into atoms or whatever is not sexy, it is knee-crossingly painful and awkward. And that is not the best state to enjoy some perving. So the flip in terminology at the start of the thread, yes, it was a jokey reference to an ILX clusterfuck, but I've decided that it's a worthwhile metaphor, and a different way of looking at sexual attraction - that "would smash" just has such violent and painful associations, but "I want to put that person in (the orifice of my choice)" is much more like how we listen to music, the whole idea of music being this lovely thing we put into our ears and into our brains.

Probably won't catch on, unfortunately.

When I can get Spodify working again, I do want to see if I can make a playlist of this thread. I bet it would be awesome. But YouTubes are great in the meanwhile, because Coal's dancing boys are cuet.

Armand has always looked, at bare minumum, 130% gayer than Tiga has ever seemed

Armand Van Helden sort of looks like he came out of a boy band but I can definitely acknowledge some peeps would be attracted to him.

smash is not so different from nail, screw, bang, etc. even fuck; one of its (contested obv) etymological roots is the germanic fuk/fok which means to strike, with words across the germanic family meaning either striking or sex or both

not that that changes the argument.

i...also had no idea armand looked like that. woooow.

i think carl craig is super-attractive

http://danceproject.info/photos/house/Carl%20Craig.jpg

http://kickkicksnare.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Maya_Jane_Coles.jpg

A blast from the past:

Described by Time Magazine as "a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna", astrophysicist, author and recording artist Fiorella Terenzi has studied opera and composition at Conservatory G. Verdi, Corsi Popolari Serali and taught mathematics and physics at Liceo Scientifico, Milan. In research at the Computer Audio Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, she developed techniques to convert radio waves from galaxies into sound - released by Island Records on her acclaimed CD "Music from the Galaxies".

http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/fiorella_thumb.jpeg

xp mb oh yeah i forgot there was a brief meme about that. i agree "smash" is unflattering but idk about this as an alternative, makes me imagine someone like, shrinking someone and then letting them crawl around inside their vagina??

A Fantastic Voyage.

in search of roughly cylindrical electronic artists between 6 and 12 inches in length

When Thom Yorke sings "I will shrink myself into your pocket" what on earth else could he mean?

Public schoolboys are ~dirty~

I think Carl Craig is a fine looking dude too but he really does love the turtle neck and shitty leather jacket

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Armand Van Helden sort of looks like he came out of a boy band but I can definitely acknowledge some peeps would be attracted to him.

The body might be boy band, but it's that facial blend of (per Wikipedia) Dutch-Indonesian father/French-Lebanese mother that does it for me.

That, and sexy videos like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGRQGm4-A4k

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

My black labrador Dogsby, would have probably got more votes than Pete Kember.

Well. Dear Aphex Twin.

Welcome to my vagina, I suppose.

Again.

i'm so glad benjamin curtis didn't lose to thom yorke!

And yet, some former lust object... turns up out of the blue and says...

8 former lust objects, and I don't think my vagina would fit them all, thank you very much.

Fair enough.

Great thread.

Also, Lindstrom and Todd Terje popped up on my news feed today.

http://distilleryimage0.instagram.com/f2edbc48e17311e19c6622000a1e89ba_7.jpg

Wow, there is just something so crocodilian about Lindstrom's smile.

I must really just be into dudes with slightly scary smiles because I mean, really...

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/480406_10151085069155489_822618422_n.jpg

Just when I think I am so completely ~over~ dudes and they are utterly uninteresting in every way, this thread pops up again to remind me.

In a similar way to Lex getting annoyed that no one had ~told him~ about the Daphni Remix of Emeralds until years later, WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT THIS WAS A REAL THING THAT HAPPENED IN THIS WORLD?

http://soundcloud.com/smalltownsupersound/lindstrom-lovesick-four-tet-remix

I just did!

Two years after it happened!

I have about a billion remixes of that song! Why did I never have that one?

Or did I find about it and my brain just chose to ignore it because the immense ladyboner power of the idea of Lindstrom and Four Tet making beautiful wibble together melted my memory creation circuits?

I did say I thought it was probbaly stupid to point it out to you; can't believe you didn't know it!

the exotic xosar

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1761

you know what this thread needs is more xosar

― the late great, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:41 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Prophetic and perpetually OTM.

While trying to restore all the bookmarks I lost overnight, I re-found this thread. Kinda sad (RIP), kinda LOL.

Aphex Twin is back and hotter than ever.

Benjamin is obviously no longer with us but I've got a super-crush on the guitarist from his brother's current band. (But I don't think he can be included as an "electronic artist" until he records an album full of SAWs. I'm not holding my breath.)

Thom Yorke finally shed all of his hottness by starting a shitty, shitty band with dude from RHCP and growing a Santa Claus beard *shudders*.

Who are the hottest dudes working in Electronic Music today. Enquiring Minds want to know.