Women in electronic/dance music

I didn't mean it as an absolute statement, honest. Just, generally ... anyway, you're only 25, don't sell your youth down the river young man.

NABISCO IS A SAD AND ISOLATED LOOSER!

*runs and hides, ha!*

The nature vs nurture debate starts now!

eh?

blueski, she co-produced post, homogenic and did most of vespertine herself. talk to ANY of her collaborators and they'll tell you she has extremely well-defined ideas as to how she wants the music to sound; if anything, her weakness is as an engineer, NOT as a producer/musician.

an across-the-board first impression consensus from collaborators past and present is that she's much more involved (ie. in terms of sheer detail -> the 'musician' bits) than they ever would have expected. (i mean, bear in mind she attended the reykjavik music conservatory from 5 to 15 and has been recording since 11.) so to dimiss her perceived input as on par with beyonce or madonna (onetime professional bjork piggybacker!) is a tad dismissive, and probably reflective of the bjork as kook mentality that she's admittedly brought upon herself...

All her albums sound like her and it's not just because of the voice. I've seen her on TV programming a laptop and using and SU10. I think she can probably writes scores to an extent.

No ones mentioned Nic Endo so far who does (or did) a lot of stuff for ATR, live she must be making 50% of the sound. I've seen Alec Empire with and without her and without her he was rubbish. Her replacement on that occasion was a man. Nic also has sole albums.

Le Tigre are fantastic!!!

How much does Missy Elliot do? She's usually credited with co-production I think, but it seems easy to assume she does the words and Timbaland the bleeps. Does she make the music too?

http://www.sparkleproductions.freeserve.co.uk/djshardhousetechno.html

Siegbran or Steve have you ever seen Phil Reyonds play a set? What do you think of him?

vicky from people like us

and.... the godmother of the whole shebang - bebe barron!

indeed! plus claire is completely gorgeous too, which doesn't change my enjoyment of the music, but i just thought i'd mention.

kelli (i spelled it wrong before) hand is a detroit techno producer, records as k. hand, you might know "ready for the darkness" or "global warning", runs acacia records.

>Squarepusher doing practically EVERYTHING himself for >example, and i think it would be a really cool thing to see >someone that just so happens to be a woman working along >the same lines, making similar music

of course there are many women who do this. OF COURSE.

I do, Kevin Blechdom does, Peope Like Us does, there's plenty.

and of course when and if the world becomes a more enlightened place, there will be more women who do so. dude.

no one's opinion means anything!!!

Blevin Blectum

Um?

I highly recommend many of the names already mentioned too.

whoa, this thread started back when blevin and jon l were in a band together ...

and when i used to book their band on the reg

what the heck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Padberg

Fortran!

Fortran Hero

so rad

https://github.com/bgenchel/PyPadberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OAqEgHpR3k

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.04470.pdf

remember last year when nina kraviz was racist and k. hand went to bat for her on twitter? that was weird

https://pitchfork.com/news/pauline-anna-strom-dead-at-74/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Anna_Strom

New BBC Culture article on women composers: Oksana Linde and the forgotten pioneers of electronic music

waiting for another Karen Gwyer, hoped this thread bump would be that!

also my god that aya record im hole is outstanding

[MOD NOTE: TRANSPHOBIC BULLSHIT REDACTED]

what the fuck are you talking about, get the fuck out of here.

Uh. Yeah can we not be transphobic please.

if that fucking dickhead isn't perma-banned very fast I'm going to be having words

"Barging into this thread only to say that I wish both Solex and Mira Calix would release more albums (yes I know they're still working, but still)"

Alas Mira Calix passed away in March. I remember liking Skimskitta but I always wondered if she was a pseudonym for someone else on Warp. It turns out that she helped keep the label running in the background, which is why she had such a spartan discography. I was going to say "she was the only woman on the Artificial Intelligence compilations" but she wasn't actually on the Artificial Intelligence compilations. She was on Blech II.

Radio 3 did a tribute, now sadly unavailable:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015v5h

Just for fun I remember going through the roster of Mille Plateaux Records and City Centre Offices and and Fax Records and counting all of the female musicians and "not British, German, or Japanese" musicians, and giving up because there weren't any. Which is probably true of any cross-section of heavy metal labels, but this music was supposed to be progressive.

It struck me as a kid that literally all of the acts on the European Warp equivalents* etc were male twentysomething graphic design students who spent their lives flying between Tokyo, Berlin, and London, which I suppose was a kind of wish-fulfillment fantasy if you were a teenager back then but ye gods a lot of that music is generic and indistinguishable from itself nowadays.

* Warp itself has working-class people, so it doesn't quite count.

Sky Arts showed Sisters With Transistors on friday which was a good watch, all the early female pioneers in original footage. (everything else they showed is being repeated throughout the week but i can't see a repeat for this before friday)

couple of new names to me: clara rockmore and maryanne amacher, the latter of who wins for noticeably scaring thurston moore.

(although both are mentioned upthead)

I’m sure I used to “play out” Amacher’s ear dances at our old Greenwich gatherings, koogs. Good way to clear the room at the end of the evening.

oh and there is a new Karen Gwyer! It’s under Karen Lee Gwyer on Bandcamp. Solid albeit nothing startling.

I feckin' missed most of it because I was watching Match of the Day!

had a look in programme guide and listings for a repeat of the Sisters with Transistors and can't see one 8(

if you can remember the old Greenwich gatherings you weren't really there. or you left early to get back to the other side of london before the rave music started.

https://archive.org/details/delia.-derbyshire.-the.-myths.and.the.-legendary.-tapes

This is the only way I can find to watch the Cosey Fanni Tutti Delia Derbyshire movie since it left the BBC site

FWIW, there's a 1080p encoding easily found on the dark net.

Sisters with Transistors is repeated tonight on sky arts, Freeview ch11, 00:40

should be earlier imo but they are busy with Floyd, byrds, Stevie Nick's and numnah from 18:00

(numan)