first that come to mind are:
Sister Bliss - i think she's a trained pianist and she's been intrinsic in production duties for Faithless alongside Rollo
Leila - i dont enough of her stuff sadly but i assume she produces it herself (?)
Marusha - mrs westbam but i'm sure she took control of production when it came to her own tracks...
details on Andrea Parker would be good...and just more of an insight into the level of musical input the female artists have in this kind of music would be useful.
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 22 November 2002 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
DJ AstridTatana
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
who's kelly hand?
the others are all primarily DJs...i'm looking for actual musicians in the electronic field
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Liv, Friday, 22 November 2002 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
what i'd like to see are more female engineers as well as female equivalents of Basement Jaxx and the like. maybe its not that relavant but havent you wondered why the girls tend to just want to dance to this stuff rather than actually MAKE it themselves? is it all just down to stifling stereotypes?
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Here's an odd reason that will probably be shouted down (by myself) due to sexism. The very nature of dance music/electronics is the idea of one geek, alone in the bedroom twiddling knobs. (or up in a DJ booth twiddling knobs.) Geeks - women in the minority. Knobs - OK, I've just been looking at Barely Legal Teen Boys so I'm gonna steer clear of that one. But the way that women approach music is a communal thing, women often prefer to write in partnership, so the solo bedroom twiddling thing is not the preferred option. I'm too full of sugar to hone this into a fully formed opinion right now, but does anyone else know what I'm getting at?
It's just the way that I've seen women work when they create music, from having worked with so many of them...
― kate, Friday, 22 November 2002 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tag, Friday, 22 November 2002 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Miss Kittin does some producing.
Meat Katie for breaks.
Making electronic music is often a lonely and anti-social process, no other band members, much less interaction with your audience. It's not just that it puts off a lot of women, but is does seem to attract a particular kind of boy (yes, boy, not man)
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Anna, I am insulted.
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
i think kate is actually onto something in that boys are often brought up to believe its 'correct' for them to be interested in technology and want to sit in their bedrooms on their computers whereas this doesnt seem to happen with girls by and large
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 22 November 2002 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― original bgm, Friday, 22 November 2002 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
nabisco makes a fair point - there are many female renegades in electronic music, but out of the ones she listed Peaches is the only one having any kind of modcium of commercial success...so the issue becomes more why cant women in electronic music be perceived as a commercially viable thing?
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 22 November 2002 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 22 November 2002 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
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!*
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 22 November 2002 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 22 November 2002 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
The nature vs nurture debate starts now!
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 22 November 2002 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
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...
― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 22 November 2002 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 22 November 2002 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
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?
― meirion john lewis (mei), Friday, 22 November 2002 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil, Friday, 22 November 2002 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Omar, Friday, 22 November 2002 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― locus solus, Friday, 22 November 2002 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― stevo (stevo), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Honda (Honda), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 22 November 2002 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― s magnet, Friday, 22 November 2002 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Friday, 22 November 2002 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
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?
― Kiwi, Saturday, 23 November 2002 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― dsico (dsico), Saturday, 23 November 2002 06:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Saturday, 23 November 2002 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link
vicky from people like us
and.... the godmother of the whole shebang - bebe barron!
― stirmonster, Saturday, 23 November 2002 08:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 23 November 2002 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Honda (Honda), Saturday, 23 November 2002 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 23 November 2002 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom & Ed, Saturday, 23 November 2002 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Saturday, 23 November 2002 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 23 November 2002 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07lg56k
Haven't heard it but this should be of interest here.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 August 2016 10:03 (four years ago) link
laurel halo?olivia blockbonnie jonesandrea neumannanne guthrie
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 7 August 2016 14:23 (four years ago) link
i did listen to the late junction thing but i don't remember it being particularly special. website does contain the following howler though:
Delia Derbyshire & Lisa StansfieldCircle of Light Part 2Circle of Light (Original Electronic Soundtrack Recording). Trunk Records. 2.
complete with picture of Lisa Stansfield... (it's meant to be Elsa Stansfield)
there was an episode of LJ recently that had a female Buchla player on it, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith with a great, almost unbelievably coincidental, Suzanne Ciano annecdote. She also asked for the bbc to supply her with an ems polysynthi for the session, thinking they hadn't a chance in hell of finding one...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jmvbh
― koogs, Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:01 (four years ago) link
I really enjoyed this retrospective that was doing the rounds last year. Ruth White's "Flowers Of Evil" is a fantastic discovery.
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/05/15/40-years-of-women-in-electronic-music/
― Pheeel, Sunday, 7 August 2016 18:27 (four years ago) link
Is that the one that was reissued on creel pone recently? About the witches? Yes, good.
― koogs, Sunday, 7 August 2016 21:48 (four years ago) link
i am appreciating how electronic music history listacles are finally reaching parity
http://blog.landr.com/moments-music-10-synth-wizards-machines-fell-love/
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 06:47 (four years ago) link
with that one it seemed like it was taking an affirmative action approach to gender parity
― sarahell, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 17:20 (four years ago) link
Just realized Barbara Morgenstern's work on "Sweet Silence" record is reminiscent of the band Insides, particularly a track like "Relentless".
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 04:36 (three years ago) link
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170522-daphne-oram-pioneered-electronic-music
In the 1960s, though, Oram was taken up with her own invention: the Oramics machine. She had encountered a Cathode Ray Oscilloscope – which shows a visual image of sound waves – during her BBC training. Why not reverse it? If you paint in waves the ‘shape’ of the sound you want to hear on 35mm film, determining the pitch, vibrato, timbre and so on, scanners can read and convert that into layered sound. It was, in essence, an early sequencer – and more advanced than those that initially would become available in the 1980s.The idea of a ‘graphical music’ system consumed Oram. It typifies her view of electronic music not as a soulless, mechanically-controlled thing, but as organic, human and joyously imperfect as any other music. “It’s quite a democratic view: on something like the Oramics machine, you can just draw,” points out McArthur. “That gestural interface means all people become composers, conceivably, which ties back into her philosophy which says that, at a molecular level, we are sounds. We are all made up noisy atoms and vibrations – sound is at the core of who we are. I find that really inspiring.”In 1972, Oram also published her manifesto (of sorts): An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics. It is a deeply odd but fascinating work. Oram may explain how, say, electric circuits work, but will then go on to use them as far-reaching analogies for the human body and psyche. Much of it would prompt scientists to snort, but there’s compelling conviction and playful imagination in her ideas. She considers humans as instruments, featuring “a whole spectrum of resonate frequencies which are never at rest, never in a steady state, but are vibrant with pulsating tension” – right down to our very cells and atoms....Oram was only 23 when she wrote Still Point. A wildly ambitious piece, it predates equivalent experiments by the likes of Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The piece is a sort of warped call-and-response between the orchestra and 78rpm records, using turntables and microphones to live-manipulate the sound. Its long-delayed debut was hailed as a triumph, Oram’s visionary take on electro-acoustic composition finally unleashed.
The idea of a ‘graphical music’ system consumed Oram. It typifies her view of electronic music not as a soulless, mechanically-controlled thing, but as organic, human and joyously imperfect as any other music. “It’s quite a democratic view: on something like the Oramics machine, you can just draw,” points out McArthur. “That gestural interface means all people become composers, conceivably, which ties back into her philosophy which says that, at a molecular level, we are sounds. We are all made up noisy atoms and vibrations – sound is at the core of who we are. I find that really inspiring.”
In 1972, Oram also published her manifesto (of sorts): An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics. It is a deeply odd but fascinating work. Oram may explain how, say, electric circuits work, but will then go on to use them as far-reaching analogies for the human body and psyche. Much of it would prompt scientists to snort, but there’s compelling conviction and playful imagination in her ideas. She considers humans as instruments, featuring “a whole spectrum of resonate frequencies which are never at rest, never in a steady state, but are vibrant with pulsating tension” – right down to our very cells and atoms.
...
Oram was only 23 when she wrote Still Point. A wildly ambitious piece, it predates equivalent experiments by the likes of Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The piece is a sort of warped call-and-response between the orchestra and 78rpm records, using turntables and microphones to live-manipulate the sound. Its long-delayed debut was hailed as a triumph, Oram’s visionary take on electro-acoustic composition finally unleashed.
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:55 (three years ago) link
there are so many dope female producers and DJs right now
list your top x
mine would be
LNSstellar om sourcehelena haufflaurel haloamelie lensjayda gd. tiffanycharlotte de witteblack madonna
pretty sure i'm forgetting someone dope
― the late great, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:38 (three years ago) link
not ms owens, i'm not so enthused about her work
― the late great, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:45 (three years ago) link
JlinWillowLAPSBeatrice DillonMarie DavidsonLena WillikensAvalon EmersonRroxymoreShanti CelesteKaren GwyerIona FortuneSolid Blake
― paolo, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:49 (three years ago) link
Jlin is probably my top electronic/dance producer right now
― paolo, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:50 (three years ago) link
nidia minajKaitlin Aurelia Smith plus what everyone else said
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 1 September 2017 19:52 (three years ago) link
oh yeah jlin!! and KAS!!!
both SUPER dope
― the late great, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:53 (three years ago) link
don't know nidia minaj - dj or producer
beatrice dillon's side of the split cassette she did w/ ben ufo is super sickkkkkkkkk
― the late great, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:54 (three years ago) link
oh shit SHANTI CELESTE
i saw her DJ on a rooftop in LA and it renewed my belief in the power of techno
avalon emerson YES
i think i need to check out k gwyer
― the late great, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:55 (three years ago) link
i know she has been mentioned earlier, but only in passing. after her mo'wax trip hop album, andrea parker then went totally into the bass music scene.set up the label touchin' bass, and released some insanely fantastic stuff.the 3 'nobodys perfect' mixtapes that she released via TB are worthy.and for her own productions, she released a rather wonderful compilation, 'heres one i made earlier' that compiled stuff she made with david morley.summary : tis all rather wonderful.
― mark e, Friday, 1 September 2017 19:56 (three years ago) link
nidia's a producer, run don't walk
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 1 September 2017 19:57 (three years ago) link
yeah andrea is a real trailblazer, i loved her mo'wax stuff (especially ballbreaker / some other level)
i kind of checked out after awhile because i was tired of classicist electro bass, but i remember "freaky bitches" w/ dj assault was pretty sweet
is she still active?
― the late great, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:00 (three years ago) link
as long as we're talking about trailblazers, i first heard "freaky bitches" on WEISS.MIX by ellen allien
what a classic
― the late great, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:01 (three years ago) link
andrea parker still incredibly fresh sounding almost 25 years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Ucdujdkcs
― the late great, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:03 (three years ago) link
weiss.mix remains a total jam. i should beef up my collection of her work, i see all of her CDs at Amoeba on the cheap now.
― nomar, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:05 (three years ago) link
ZiurE.M.M.A.Elysia CramptonAMAZONDOTCOMIkonikaZora JonesKablamAbyss XCoucou ChloeSmurphy
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 1 September 2017 20:05 (three years ago) link
huh
i literally know none of those producers
― the late great, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:06 (three years ago) link
andrea parker's dj kicks is also a total jam
― the late great, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:07 (three years ago) link
Inga Copeland
― paolo, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:16 (three years ago) link
Nidia Minaj is great, Principe Discos crew
xp
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 1 September 2017 20:17 (three years ago) link
she pops up on the radar from time to time, but she is not that active.she once went up a mountain for 6 months i.e. the label/music is not the top groove for her these days.and yes, the david morley collabs are fantastic.
― mark e, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:20 (three years ago) link
Let me do that again with tracks:
Ziurhttps://soundcloud.com/planetmurecords/u-feel-anything
E.M.M.A.https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/glac
Elysia Cramptonhttps://soundcloud.com/breakworldrecs/the-demon-city
AMAZONDOTCOMhttps://soundcloud.com/amazondotcom/tiny-shrimps-dream
Ikonikahttps://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/track/ikonika-shovel
Zora Joneshttps://soundcloud.com/fractalfantasy/ruby-fifths-ft-heavee-zora-jones
Kablamhttps://soundcloud.com/janusberlin/kablam-furiosa-janus005
Abyss Xhttps://soundcloud.com/abyssxxx/nijinskian-ballad
Coucou Chloehttps://soundcloud.com/coucouchloe/doom
Smurphyhttps://soundcloud.com/djsmurphy/garden-1
Nidia Minajhttps://principediscos.bandcamp.com/track/da-banda
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 1 September 2017 20:28 (three years ago) link
Peggy Gou rules
― brimstead, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:46 (three years ago) link
Favourites:
Inga copelandMarie Davidson Keren gwyerLa vampire Maria Minerva Nina kravizAGFLaurel halo
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 1 September 2017 20:46 (three years ago) link
PEGGY GOU
― brimstead, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:48 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah and willow, who has been mentioned. She's the best
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 1 September 2017 20:49 (three years ago) link
Nightwavehttps://soundcloud.com/nightwave808/nightwave-wavejumper-fools-gold-records
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 1 September 2017 21:04 (three years ago) link
been enjoying a bunch of amelie lens, sama and charlotte de witte sets recently
― ||||||||, Saturday, 29 February 2020 10:16 (ten months ago) link
enjoyed chloé lula's set on hör berlin yt too (which looks like it was recorded in a toilet? iunno)
― ||||||||, Saturday, 29 February 2020 10:18 (ten months ago) link
Wow this thread sure tells a story
― Jeff W, Saturday, 29 February 2020 10:45 (ten months ago) link
yea a very bad one. the op ... jfc
― marcos, Saturday, 29 February 2020 14:26 (ten months ago) link
whoa, this thread started back when blevin and jon l were in a band together ...
― sarahell, Sunday, 1 March 2020 18:00 (ten months ago) link
and when i used to book their band on the reg
― sarahell, Sunday, 1 March 2020 18:01 (ten months ago) link
what the heck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Padberg
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 21 May 2020 06:01 (seven months ago) link
Fortran!
― sarahell, Thursday, 21 May 2020 18:26 (seven months ago) link
Fortran Hero
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 May 2020 19:29 (seven months ago) link
so rad
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 May 2020 19:35 (seven months ago) link
https://github.com/bgenchel/PyPadberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OAqEgHpR3k
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.04470.pdf
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:57 (seven months ago) link
remember last year when nina kraviz was racist and k. hand went to bat for her on twitter? that was weird
― crystal-brained yogahead (map), Friday, 22 May 2020 01:01 (seven months ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/pauline-anna-strom-dead-at-74/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Anna_Strom
― koogs, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 13:29 (three days ago) link