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![Nyxen - Running
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Running by Nyxen
Curated by: Maddie Swarr
Spotify: http://bit.ly/RunningNyxen
Genre: #electropop
I’m a self-described feminist. Find me screaming on the streets about how women can do everything that men can do, and it should never be assumed otherwise. So it frustrates, confuses, and ultimately kills me a little when I find myself gendering music. And what I mean by this is this subconscious habit that I have to hear a song with pulsing baselines and eardrum-blowing drops and immediately assume that there’s a dick behind it all.
I’d like to think that I make these assumptions knowing that the EDM world is dominated by mainly male producers (somewhere on the order of 90% of EDM music is produced by men), but if I’m being honest with myself I know it’s actually the deep-seated biases and internalized misogyny that have been subconsciously ingrained in me that are responsible. I could go ahead and turn this post into a thirty-page essay about the effects of systematic sexism on the music industry, but instead I’ll transition into talking about this awesome song and how it was produced by a dope-ass LADY.
As you probably could infer already, when I first heard “Running” I immediately wanted to know who this guy Nyxen was, and was extremely excited but equally angry with myself when Google presented me with pictures of Chelsea Lester, the Tokyo-born, Sydney-based producer behind it all. She’s been a musician since grade school, but, as the story often goes, stumbled into the electronic music world in her teenage years when she discovered Ableton and its ability to design sounds drafted up in one’s own imagination. Since her transition into the EDM world, Nyxen has steadily built a name for herself with a few hits, including “Running”, which bears testament to her keen musicality. To me, this song is gold. Incredibly mixed, not too long, not too repetitive, a tasteful dose of ethereal feminine vocals that are indeed her own, and that pulsing baseline that chugs the song along to perfection.
So in conclusion [insert thirty-page thesis above], the ability to create great electronic music is not an issue of gender, but as one Reddit post so elegantly puts it, “men are just more likely to spend an entire afternoon/evening clicking around on a computer”. Maybe I should be doing more of that… Nyxen - Running](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jEZtO2mknOg/mqdefault.jpg)







