Jackmaster weighs in on Inequality in Dance Music

Jackmaster has tonight rightly joined the fight against inequality in dance music, with a series of tweets.

One of the recent hot topics at the last Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), IMS & BMC conferences is the sometimes horrific treatment and belittling of female co-workers within the electronic music industry and how the diversity in music with a focus on gender is still a massive problem that needs rectifying for future generations. This is something that a large portion of the scene are working hard to stamp out, including all of us at Data Transmission. He took to twitter do say “To hear the things that I heard said about females in the industry tonight were fucking not acceptable.”

1) Tonight was the 1st time that the plight and/or prejudice surrounding females in the music industry truly hit home and resonated with me

— JACKMASTER (@jackmaster) February 5, 2017

2) It is way waaay too easy to be ignorant to the fact as a male DJ in a privileged position. There is something very wrong here.

— JACKMASTER (@jackmaster) February 5, 2017

3) To hear the things that I heard said about females in the industry tonight were fucking not acceptable.

— JACKMASTER (@jackmaster) February 5, 2017

4) I apologise for my prior ignorance and silence on the subject. That stops now.

— JACKMASTER (@jackmaster) February 5, 2017

Big men with little dicks jealous of ladies with talent, intelligence, integrity. Trying to shoot them down. Im off to bed haha

— JACKMASTER (@jackmaster) February 5, 2017

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Grahame Farmer

Grahame Farmer’s love affair with electronic music goes back to the mid-90s when he first began to venture into the UK’s beloved rave culture, finding himself interlaced with some of the country’s most seminal club spaces. A trip to dance music’s anointed holy ground of Ibiza in 1997 then cemented his sense of purpose and laid the foundations for what was to come over the next few decades of his marriage to the music industry.