it was very mechanical in its responses and all excitement was situated around the drop at which point lighters went up and shouts rang out in a very pavlovian way.
social conformity (vs. repressed taste)? an aggressive/threatening atmosphere?
did the hard/dark techstep drum n bass help men feel more like 'men' and make women feel less like 'women'?
has anyone paralleled the fetishisation of the drop as a proxy of men's climax driven sexuality compared to women's whole journey sexuality?
actually it occurs to me that when i went to frequency for the deep tech night it was a similar crowd to what you're describing with the garage night - and there were loads of girls there
and deep tech around that time (radford, lance morgan, carnao beats et al) 'on paper' was coded very masculine - dark, stripped-back, spartan, even...
you just have!
my whole life is me discovering all the brilliant shit i've come up with has already been done by cleaver blokes 20 years ago.
you dont have to worry about ideas being original you just want ones which work and the drop as cum shot obviously works.