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BitchTapes: Queens of Dark + Ethereal Wave a la 80s

Music post by Nicole Morales on July 22, 2011 - 12:26pm; tagged 80s music, BitchTapes, Cocteau Twins, darkwave, Dead Can Dance, emotive post-punk, ethereal wave, Joy Division, Kate Bush, new order, Q Lazzarus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Xmal Deutschland.

 

To this day I still pooh-pooh Obsession cologne, but continue to love all that 80s mood music. Here’s to the haunting lyrics, heavy snyths, and syncopated bass rifts of my youth. May the mood be with you. Track list after the jump!

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Electro Feminisms: Authorship and the Gendered Division of Labor

Music post by emily_mcavan on April 6, 2011 - 9:55am; tagged authorship, electro feminisms, Emily Manuel, Kate Bush, sampling, Utah Saints, women in electronic music.
Making music is work. Rewarding and fun work, to be sure, but work all the same. Like just about everything in a kyriarchy, the divisions of labor in making electronic music lead to an unequal distribution of value, financially, and artistically—who gets paid and how much, and who gets credit and for what.
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