Introduce Yourselves!

Hi! My name is Andi, and i love music! I love everything from emo to screamo! I think it looks like i'm going to like it here

Hi gang, name's django. I guess I should re-introduce myself. I haven't posted for a while and I sort just jumped back in, but there's all these people I don't remember/know and I picked a new username (and now I hate it so I might re-register with something else). I've been a fan of ILX for about 3 years, I live in NYC with my boyfriend and two dogs and like to spend my free time on computers so as to make music and pretty pictures. I prefer reading over posting as I tend to say stupid things but occasionally my hands just start typing anyway. I'm 32, cute as button, a surly drunk and think this is the best message board around. I love noisy things, pretty things, people who know things and people who give a shit about the world. Hi! Glad to be back. And thank god Ned's still here. True gentleman that one.

Why thanks! Pleasure to have you back in your new guise.

I am totally registering that domain name! Great idea, Ned.

Did you really? Nice!

Ramzi A, Brooklyn NY. I've been around for I don't know, a year and a half now? Took me some time to get settled in but I'm getting there, getting to know where to post and how to search properly :-) My schtick is being a musician, a good one at that. I love rich, out-of-the-box textures combined with sharp melodies. Haven't done much with my stuff yet, and I'm desperate for feedback so any ears are appreciated. I love ILM, I'm not sure why but it feels good. My favs are Kate Bush, Kim and Kelley Deal, Kristin Hersh and Bjork - no order, although Bjork is definitely last. Oh and I'd feel really guilty if I didn't mention Madonna. So, hi, finally!

Hello, my name is Eddie, not thomas, as my name would often suggest.
I came upon ILM in early 2005 as a result of utter boredom one evening which led me to try typing as many words into one google search as possible; alas after something like 35 or so words I came upon 2 results: what appeared to be an online listing of the english language, and a top 11 tracks of the moment thread. After looking over this thread, I was quite impressed, and starting lurking here right after. I frequent the minimal house bobbins thread, and stuff of that sort generally, as that's my sort of thing I suppose. I'm generally pretty reserved about posting because I guess I'm here to learn rather than to just say what most people already have said, yet I have posted mixes here, probably as because this is the only place they would ever get heard.

Hello! Thanks for your post....I'm Tape Store. Or Chris. We probably won't run into each other much, though, as I don't listen to minimal house-ish stuff. But still nice to meet you.

oh Ned, you just make me fucking smile. god bless ya

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"ILM ruined my life, I'm only 31 years old. . ."

erm... are there any ladies on here? anyway, i'm 20, from the nw, go to college in ohio. holla at disco inferno. also: hall & oates, swirlies, royal trux, this heat, eric b. & rakim, bone thugs, bedhead, isolée, rhys chatham, the clean, lync, fleetwood mac, unrest, lotsa giorgio moroder/cerrone/italo-whatever stuff. and that's just, like, memorable stuff that recently popped up on itunes shuffle. but i also just listened to erasure, drive like jehu, aztec camera, and young marble giants on vinyl, so you stodgy vinyl diehards can stop sniveling. i don't wear pants. categorically. i write. creatively. for my major (yeah, it makes me wince, too). i wear huge earrings and high top vans every day and am incorrigibly lazy. i have an affinity for pickles. i probably deserve to be slapped.

oh, i've been lurking creepily for maybe a year, but hey, it's summer break, i'm bored, and i'd rather not spoil my consumptive pallor by, i dunno, venturing outdoors. so i figured i'd like, register or something. greetings.

hi do you go to oberlin?

or is that just what everybody in ohio listens to?

or the planet

TERRA

aw shit am i that transparent?

guilty as charged.

Hello! Finally. I started posting here recently and I was in a crappy mood this week, so if I snapped at anybody, I'm sorry for doing that. Sorry CaptainLorax. It was just me.

Anyway, I live in Seattle in the Capitol Hill neighborhood with my girl who I'll call Jamee. Right near Broadway, the street that keeps pumping more value into our pad but gets crappier and more depressing as time passes. Now we're just waiting to see when it becomes too much to live in this place or when the value will hit its highest peak. It's like Vegas baby!

Jamee and I are both dykes in our forties. We currently love rnb and dance music. We used to love punk rock, hip hop, and experimental or industrial music and we still do, but we don't live there anymore if that makes it clear. I'm here just to see if I Love Music will help me discover material that I have been missing or not getting all these decades. And you guys seem knowledging and eager to share the 411.

No, my girl and I think the Indigo Girls are blah. They are pleasant enough and if they came over the speakers or the radio when we are with company, we would not stick our fingers in our throats or leave. And I wish I could say the lesbian Indigo Girls stereotype was not true but it is, with our friends anyway. Rnb, funk, hip hop, punk rock or whatever else I mentioned speaks to both of us a lot more than the whole granola lez folk thing. But that's just us. The only frustrating thing is that some of my friends will not even consider Sinead O Connor or Bonnie Raitt, who we do not worship, but are so much more interesting than the Indigo Girls. We do have friends who love the Rnb the funk and the hip hop though, so we're definitely not going crazy or nothing. *Lol*

Now it's time for me to hush and let someone else take the stage.

Greetings and hi dere. It's always good to meet a Seattle personage, since I visit the city fairly often (though alas probably not again until next April). Your Indigo Girls disdain strikes me as healthy and right (though I'll allow for "Closer to Fine," at least musically).

Thank you Ned! What is going down in April?

Indigo Girls disdain is healthy? I do not think disdain for anything that is just for entertainment purposes can automatically be healthy. I like hearing the people explain why they like or don't like something meant to entertain. And the explaining part is healthy. Sometimes the explanation is not healthy, but that is a subjective thing. Is that what you meant?

In large part, though I'm prone to snap judgments in general, it has to be said. Said duo doesn't do much for me as you've gathered, but on a larger point any kind of defeat of expectations as to what one must or must not like musically in favor of simply enjoying what you enjoy the most is a good thing to start with, for anyone -- and it sounds like you're not one to be put into a box, taste-wise!

As for April:

http://www.empsfm.org/education/index.asp?categoryID=26

Ned: and it sounds like you're not one to be put into a box, taste-wise!

Don't be so sure.

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*Lol*

That EMP thing sounds really striking. I hope I don't forget by April!

Don't worry, the thread will be hyperactive at that point.

What's up, Miza Din II! Always good to have more Seattlites on ILM. Be warned, SeattILXors party 'til we throw up. And play croquet.

You might occasionally want to drop into the de facto Seattle thread. Seattle! How is it now? Are there jobs? Should I move there?

Oh, and if you go to the EMP thing, avoid the long-haired hippie-looking guy with the deep voice. He'll talk your ear off if you give him half a chance.

Yeah, fuck that fucking punk.

Indeed.

OMG Ned, that photo: Please tell me you're not trying to pull a Waldo Jeffers there. It ain't worth it!

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Fuck a non-rapist! Real men rape and pillage and burn and destroy all fucking day, because that's what makes us men! Actually, now that I think of it, being a non-rapist is excusable if you're female. Maybe.

OMG Ned, that photo: Please tell me you're not trying to pull a Waldo Jeffers there. It ain't worth it!

But I'd reached my limit!

Hi, my name is Jamie, I'm 28 and live in North London although I originally hail from Devon. Office monkey and freelance Designer.
Record my own bewildered sounding electronic stuff.

Long time favorites would be New Order, Underworld (got my ticket for the Roundhouse next month!), Massive Attack, 808 State, early Mo' Wax, Autechre up until they went totally bongo, Aphex and other early Warp AI stuff - B12, Link and all their subsequent Global Communication monikered stuff. Recent-ish convert to Dubstep (namely the Hyperdub strain, Random trio / Bug stuff). Teky (i.e. early Photek) d&b, teky (but not emotionless) House. Not all bleeps; big respect for The Durutti Column, Can and Killing Joke.

Longtime dislikes; Ill-informed, florid student music journalism, ill-informed, florid baby boomer gen music journalism, rockists, the London trust-fund posh boy indie scene. Zealots.

Might change my hilarious username to something more sober in the near future.

Formerly "Dr. Gene Scott"...I've been wandering the desert for years due to email change + Firefox registration glitches... There were so many things I have wanted to say, and now I cannot remember a damn one of them.

In any case I wanted to be the very first to welcome me back.

Welcome back, me!

Welcome back, you!