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Ever have an epiphany and realize you really like a genre that you generally avoid?

I took all my CDs out of my car, and forgot to put them back in. I was going crazy listening to the radio, when I found a lone CD tucked away in the side door compartment. It was a burned CD that some other TA had mixed together. I recognized it as hard trance and scoffed, but anything was better than the radio.

As the CD goes on, I keep turning up the volume, then all of a sudden I realize that I'm rocking out to Hazard - James Brown Is Dead (Gary D Deadly Hard Bass mix), and not only that, I liked it! So thanks DJ Dawn. I forgot how fun hard trance is when your driving in your car.

That's a wonderful story. For sure, sometimes I find that if there's not a name attached to something, I'll listen to it differently. But I'm pretty open-minded on the whole. I like that word, "epiphany".

Hard trance rocks, even though a lot of people actually mistake it for hard house.

Now, that makes me wonder about hard trance-house, or hard tech-house, or even hard tech-trance! LOL

Well i've said this before but about a month ago I listened to and thoroughly enjoyed DJ Dan's "In Stereo" which I had for 2 years and never listened to because when I bought it (basically because it said "DJ" something),I skimmed through the cd and decided that it was crap, while I pounded Ray Munns' "Ray's House" instead. Now I know better. Pretty much the same thing happened with Keoki's "ego-trip" which I bought at the same time as "In Stereo". I'm surprised that those 2 cd's even work now with all the neglect they've had in the past two years. Hell i'd say they're the most unique and interesting cd's I own today.

yes !

Prog and I have had many a moment like this.

yes when I got the new mixmag with the Lisa Lashes free cd and realized that I liked it...

*awaits the fire*

well, it's funny that you mention this since I generally avoid house music, but lately I've realized that I actually don't mind funky French house every so often!

thats how i began to like EDM as a whole...

Yeah! I used to avoid hard house and hard trance until one day that I got invited to a party where they were playing hard house and hard trance and nowdays I really like it!

While we're all making intimate confessions, I might as well say I detested most minimal, techy things -- turns out I was listening to a lot of derivatives and got the goods from the often-copied roots of the likes of Richie Hawtin and Jeff Mills, as well as some of the more punctual, melodic earlier Detroit stuff and that gave me a better view of the whole picture.

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Originally posted by DiMethGuy yes when I got the new mixmag with the Lisa Lashes free cd and realized that I liked it... *awaits the fire*

still listen to her mixmag cover cd from 2000 every once in awhile, good shit

I do not "get" what some people have against the likes of Lisa Lashes and the Tidy crew. I cannot relate to it, and I understand it is an opinion, but she comes off to me as very fun and sparky with her sets, and that's reflected in the music.

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Originally posted by jwear2004 well, it's funny that you mention this since I generally avoid house music, but lately I've realized that I actually don't mind funky French house every so often!

that's exactly what I was thinking

With some genres I find it hard to break into...like the hard trance stuff; I heard the tidy (Paul maddox) vs. frantic (Tom Harding) mixmag cd (feb 2003), and totally enjoyed that, but I listened to a Yoji Biomehanika set, and that put me off. Maybe it's just the different styles of the DJ's but it's pretty hit-and-miss for me.

I did have an epiphany with DnB though!!!! Could never really get into it until I went to one party, and the energy in the DnB room was awesome, it blew the trance room away. That opened my eyes for that genre.

hm myea i used to really hate electronica and dance music..and then when i actually started trying out different songs (communication omg) i realized i actually really like trance..and then house and prog. house now

yeah, my redneck friend brought over a Toby Keith CD (country) and put on "The Taliban Song"

at first i was like then i was like then and then

since then, i always put that song on if they have it in the jukebox at the bars, and i've actually sort of started to like a few other country songs too. that's the only genre i really avoided up until that point.

Recently i was in south beach with my boyfriend and we met up with a friend of his who was leaving for NYC the next day and wanted party with us that night. so we left the club we were at and met him at some other not so big and popular night club (i forget the name). they were playing all this retro music and classic rock stuff. at first, i was like, "oh god"! i thought the night was gonna suck. but then i looked around at how much fun everyone was having and i started to enjoy myself a little more. there were these three beautiful models dancing on the bar top to that old school song, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and they had these cute little 80's outfits on (yes, the 80's are coming back in the WORST way in case you didn't notice), and they were jammin out. i knew all the words and i was just having so much fun. they even busted out with old michael jackson songs and stuff like that.

lately they've been playing "Pour Some Sugar On Me" on this alternative/rock station i always have on at work, and i smile when i hear it cuz i think of that night. it was fun

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Originally posted by aspergian That's a wonderful story. For sure, sometimes I find that if there's not a name attached to something, I'll listen to it differently. But I'm pretty open-minded on the whole. I like that word, "epiphany".

"I like that word, "epiphany" it sounds like icesicles breaking"
hahahha, has anyone else seen that movie?

I have that happen to me sometimes but a lot of the time it happens to me with a track I had and I didn't even realize how brilliant it was, like a few tracks on Balance 005 that do that to me

id rather listen to nothing than the radio, elitist or what lol

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Originally posted by Luke Terry id rather listen to nothing than the radio, elitist or what lol

I'm the same...radio just doesn't do it for me. Other than the two local university radio stations, I don't listen to the radio at all (except for online radio, but that's totally different). I'm not sure how that fits into having an epiphany though,

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Originally posted by Luke Terry id rather listen to nothing than the radio, elitist or what lol

I don't think this qualifies as an elitist attitude anymore, I'm hoping more and more people realize how much the radio blows these days. I remember I had a friend I used to work with and he used to say, "for hundreds of years good music has been produced, not anymore."

My problem with watching the radio, or say, MTV, is that it's too passive for me... if I hear something I like, I'm glued, but most of the time it's meh meh meh "not mah cuppa tea" for me personally.

I call it the 19/20 rule... I did some serious calculations and worked it to about that, 19 times out of 20 I won't really be into whatever comes on the dial and I can't exactly skip it -- so I turn to the Internet.

But, I did discover some great stuff this way. It's getting harder tho because some of the good stuff I do hear I've already discovered (and unless I haven't heard it in awhile and want to indulge nostalgia or something . . .)

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