A strange observations with Aspies and electronic

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I've been on here as well as other aspie boards for at least 4 or 5 years and there's something I've noticed very consistently; I wouldn't say its a bad thing or anything like that, but its just puzzling.

It really has to do with energy in music; particularly in electronic. It seems like while everyone's pretty diverse on rock and pretty diverse on some other more common genres it seems less so with electronic. The best way I can draw this reference is between grunge/metal/industrial vs. something like jungle or techno. I'll see for instance that there are enough people here who are into stuff like AIC, Tool, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Pantera, rock and alternative bands with darker and more septic edges; which I like all of the above a great deal, but I never see that with people's tastes in electronic or at least very rarely.

I'm thinking most people's guesses that dark jungle or similarly dark acid techno are just too obscure or scene-related but I don't know if that really tells the whole story, at least not with so many thousands of people who come to this board. With electronic I'll see people do some industrialish stuff as musicians that a bit VNVish, most of the listeners are either into synthpop, trance, video game music, 8-bit, or something along those lines. The only reason why it feels like its even worth pointing out is that it would be like progressive rock just completely not existing in the threads aside from one or two people; all three are large genres and especially with dark jungle or dark rolling techstep they're very popular genres at least in the UK, big in urban areas around the U.S., big in Europe, catching on in places like Australia and even South America, at least fifty to one hundred household names in the genre, and sometimes it makes me wonder if - like some people think of gangster rap, if its somehow just too distinctly NT in style or emotional charge? It has very similar sounds to industrial but seems to borrow more of its style and attitude from hip-hop, dark funk, etc.

Its not any kind of charge against aspie tastes but its one of those things that's always had me scratching my head and wondering why it feels like I'm the only one who's tastes arc that span of genres.

Although this is by no means a definitive answer, most of the music I like, be it from whatever genre (from your account, that would make me into almost every single 'aspie' genre of music in some respect ), I much prefer music that has definite structure. I find that most of the genres you talk about that most people on this board are not so much into, i.e. techno, d'n'b, dubstep, tend to have very loose structures and are more geared towards being mixable during a DJ set rather than anything else.
Conversely, newer industrial, synthpop, future-pop and such tend to use fairly strict 'verse, chorus ,verse ,chorus, bridge, 2xchorus' structures, or at least variatoins of that, while other stuff that's popular such as trance and 8-bit music have very distinct hooks that recur throughout the song, usually some sort of melody, sequence or sample that gives the song a lot of focus.

Yeah, I'm not saying the other sounds are distinctively aspie, just that certain sounds distinctively don't seem to catch surface here. Interesting thought on it though.

My love of those things tend to be their immersiveness, textural sophistocation, emotional intensity, and how kinetic they are in aspect. Anything that swings sick, has something that catches me off guard or seems tricky in a way has an added plus to it.