On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, amp wrote:
quoted 31 lines Subject: Re: (idm) neotropic> Subject: Re: (idm) neotropic
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:16:40 -0500 (EST)
> From: JTaraska@aol.com
> To: idm-owner@hyperreal.com
> fwd'd by idm-owner@hyperreal.com
>
>
> On 26 March, you wrote (about Neotropic's *15 Levels of Magnification*, I
> assume):
>
> > you know, i really *respect* this album - it's intensely well done.
> sonically excellent in every respect. but it just
> > doesn't *move* me at all! it just washes over me and
> > leaves me utterly cold
>
> I disagree completely. What struck me about *15 Levels* was that it was so
> funky, the beats-moving-in-the-hips-making-the-pelvis-shake funky that much
> idm lacks, aside from Squarepusher, Ae, and Plug. Not to simplify this matter
> to a gender difference (or to insult your taste), but I assume you are male.
> Because I am not, and this is a favorite album of mine and several female
> friends (and we're no idm lightweights, mind you).
>
> I think this album--and a lot of Riz's work--affects women more strongly
> because of her music's reliance on bass and low-end beats. Unlike men, whose
> center of gravity is in their chest and so feel the bass vibrations there,
> women's centers of gravity are in their hips, and we feel the bass right in
> our groins. (Ergo, that's why women like bass-heavy songs and often play bass
> guitar in bands. So would you if bass rippled up your thighs as it does
> ours). Female electronica artists and DJs from Andrea Parker to Rap to Sister
> Bliss all concentrate on a very bass-heavy, low-end range of vibrations as
> opposed to the higher frequencies employed in a lot of idm.
I think it was 4thWorld fave Santana who said something along the
lines of,"The Rhythm is the male and melody is the female."
Howie