I can only think of one appropriate response:
Thank you, New York Times, for condemning electronic music as "mindless" and
"immature." You have confirmed its coolness once and for all. The only way you
could have helped electronic music more is if you called it "shameful" or
"unholy".
If you really want to respond to Kakutani's article, I would recommend against
bringing up ANY specific examples of contemporary electronic acts into the
argument. It's obvious that the author and her editors don't know *anything at
all* about electronic music, so your arguments are going to fall on deaf ears.
She's a closed-minded hippy classic rawker or something and there's no
reasoning with people like that! Just tell her she's a prude.
Better yet, we should all just tell her to "Fuck off!" and leave the
pretentious pseudo-intellectual theoretical arguments to DJ Spooky. She appears
to enough of a fucking idiot that if she talked to Spooky for an hour she would
start to love electronic music. In dismal, soulless ivory towers like the NY
Times, DJ Spooky is our #1 most effective spokesperson. Those dorks love his
schtick!
-CF