Oa: Do you play bass now, or did you quit completely?
Angie Reed: I've played bass in some side projects, I am going to play bass on my next songs too, I am going to play bass for my boyfriend here, he's doing a couple of his own songs we'll be recording in the coming week, but it's not like I will be playing any fat bass to make a basic statement.

Oa: What do you write your songs on? Messing around with keyboards and
computers?
Angie Reed: Yes, I am messing around with all that jazz and I write the lyrics, I forget them, I find them again, then I work on them a little more with a bit more distance and attitude. Some of them I reread, and I just go 'oh my god, what kind of bullshit is this?' and for some of them I go 'hey, that was a moment of great wisdom, I don't even have to work on this one.' On the last record, for instance, I made the beats, figuring out how worked this sampler that I bought. it took me half a year to have the courage to touch it, let alone programming... Then all kinds of interesting things were happening with that, so very weird beat, home basic beats, I thought they were all very sympathetic to me, so then I took them over to my friends's place -very proudly and I played them into his computer without any protest from him and then they all seemed to kind of roll and fall into my lap. Then I would play synth over it, or a guitar. Most of the things are first take and I laugh about the mistakes that you can hear here and there and the slip-ups because they have funny tours, and for me they give more character to the songs. I didn't want to make any impressive computer music, it's enough people doing this really well, and I don't even want to try, I just wanted to do some kind of charming stuff.

Oa: You wanna keep the DIY-like, spontaneous approach?
Angie Reed: yes, exactly.

Oa: What do you write your songs on? Messing around with keyboards and computers?
Angie Reed: Yes, I am messing around with all that jazz and I write the lyrics, I forget them, I find them again, then I work on them a little more with a bit more distance and attitude. Some of them I reread, and I just go 'oh my god, what kind of bullshit is this?' and for some of them I go 'hey, that was a moment of great wisdom, I don't even have to work on this one.' On the last record, for instance, I made the beats, figuring out how worked this sampler that I bought. it took me half a year to have the courage to touch it, let alone programming... Then all kinds of interesting things were happening with that, so very weird beat, home basic beats, I thought they were all very sympathetic to me, so then I took them over to my friends's place -very proudly and I played them into his computer without any protest from him and then they all seemed to kind of roll and fall into my lap. Then I would play synth over it, or a guitar. Most of the things are first take and I laugh about the mistakes that you can hear here and there and the slip-ups because they have funny tours, and for me they give more character to the songs. I didn't want to make any impressive computer music, it's enough people doing this really well, and I don't even want to try, I just wanted to do some kind of charming stuff.

Oa: You wanna keep the DIY-like, spontaneous approach?
Angie Reed: yes, exactly.

Oa: Would you say going to art school gave you a lot of self-assurance or did you find more support through friends, other artists' influences, the riot grrl movement?
Angie Reed: I have gotten a lot of support, yes, but from Art School... I never studied seriously, I am kind of glad that I had it on the side, because that way I didn't have to take the music thing too seriously, and because I had the music I didn't have to take the art too serious. I kind of tricked around with both of them, and nobody really gets offended or pissed off, or at least in my face nobody does, and that's been encouraging for me. It's like being a little oblivious on one hand and on the other hand, I've had a lot of support from friends, and people who have similar sense of humour, so that would be the common denominator between what I do and how it's appreciated and whatever I get back, that's the generator, actually.

Oa: Did you find the female scene empowering, with bands such as Team Dresch, Babes in Toyland, Bikini Kill...?
Angie Reed: When I was 18, I liked Babes in Toyland and L7. Of course it influenced me, but bands like Le Tigre, I mean I was already on my own, and I got to know them personally and they're all very nice, they make good music, and show, but I can't see that I am a follower of them. I think they are important for their times, and the places where they are, they are doing
the right thing. For me, I do not really identify myself with any category. I mean, you're talking about feminism, now, right?

Oa: In a way, yes.
Angie Reed: Of course, because that's what the basic statements are. I am not really married to any belief, or system. I would support it liberally but I am not a ...

Oa: You basically do not want to call yourself a feminist, although the statements you make on your record are quite feminist oriented, is that it?
Angie Reed: I like to see myself as an individualist. As long as you take the freedom to express yourself. If you have to d it in a feministic way, then go for it. I do not want to be forced by men to express myself, and I do not want to be forced by women to be a feminist. Everyone's got their own projections I have more fun trying to follow my own path, or whatever. I don't want anybody to dictate me what I am supposed to be as a woman. I do not want this from man or women, I want to find this myself.

Oa: Your album, still has a pretty feministic stand, though, don't you think?
Angie: Because I am a woman and I have a certain stand doesn't mean....

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