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Was always in Depeche Mode, Soft Cell & New Order. I kind of started when my friend gave me some cheese CD's like Scooter and ATB and stuff. I usually liked the rare occassions when cheesy tracks topped the pop charts. Eventually I just started looking for different trance cd's. Got into things like ASOT and the essential mixes but then tried to explore more and delved into things like techno, electro, progressive, break beat and the right back into pure uplifting trance and have kind of started to get into psy now.

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back when i was younger it was always rock/grunge ex: nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, stone temple pilots, smashing pumpkins


then when i hit uni in 98 something changed. i met a group of people that introduced me to electronic music. then it was trance and hardhouse. i fell in love with the music, being there, dancing, just letting go of everythign that had been superimposed on me all those years.


from there i grew

eventually found my way to idm and acid techno in about 2001, and have never looked back. it is still my fave stuff

mmm...D.A.V.E. the Drummer and rdj being my fave

started in Euro in the mid 90's, moved to jungle then trance in 2000 and I loved Tiesto, Armin and PvD for a while then my tastes just expanded into sasha and digweed, kleinenberg, lawler and others. My tastes continue to evolve like mad, my CD collection is so varied and I can't say I like one genre the best, I like them all, I am really an EDM lover and you just move out to experience other music and I have so many genres now, I don't know what to play at times.

then:
Trance - Ferry Corsten, Armin Van Buuren

now:
Portishead, Massive Attack, Spook, The Beatles, Sarah Blasko, KT Tunstall

Call me a moleass if this wasn't a huge endeavour in necromantic practives.

As a young kid, i.e. around 8 years old, I fell in love with the Prodigy, and my mum bought me The Fat Of The Land for my birthday. A few years later, around the 98-00 trance boom my Mum was going out to the local club 'The Crystal Rooms', where Judge Jules was resident, and even PvD would make the occasional visit. I asked her what kinda music it was thinking it would be stuff similar to the Prodigy, so I asked her to get me a couple of CD's of the stuff she was listening to. I got a couple of early Matt Darey Euphoria compilations, and from about the age of 12 I loved it. I would listen to trance all the time, but I didn't really follow it, per se.

While about 14/15 I fell in love with Drum & Bass (Roni Size in particular), but got pretty bored of listening to the same stuff over and over again, and so I started listening to trance again and started paying more attention to the scene. It wasn't until about a year, maybe a year and a half ago that I branched from the sterotypical Tiesto/PvD big anthem trance into other genres, and now I listen to pretty much everything from Prog to Techno to DnB to Electro to Trance to House...

I've been brought up listening to stuff like The Smiths, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division etc from my Mum's side, by then my Dad's taste varies from Iron Maiden to The Jam/The Clash/Sex Pisols to Madness, and I still listen to 95% of what my parent's do. My music taste is seeeriously varied, but I'd get bored of music pretty quick if it wasn't!

I started off listening to classic trance (by that I mean the 98/99 stuff) and just kept collecting the euphoria/gatecrasher/godskitchen cd�s so I had all the main anthems (to me they were anthems for a reason, just straight up good tunes)� and no matter how hard I try I can�t get into today�s �trance� of AVB style, but I really adore the prog house/prog trance out there like Gabriel & Dresden

I also grew to love what I call �party breaks� ie Freestylers, Breakfastaz, Freeland� it was a bit too awkward for me at the start without the four/four beat, but now it�s undoubtedly one of the best genres for me to dance to.

Seeing a Carl Cox set made me realise I don�t mind a bit of tech, so long as it�s party bombs and not that minimal shit.

I have also realised I don�t necessarily hate house, I just hate that cheesy, overplayed vocal stuff that sounds really good first listen and gradually wears incredibly thin after that�

The only thing that has truly evolved for me however is that I now adore progressive Digweed style- that dirty, hard yet minimal sound that traps you on a dancefloor! I can�t get enough of it!

I started off being into real new agey music like Enya as well as more dance based (but still kind of "new agey" i guess) like Enigma and Delerium. I then got into electronic music that was mainstream and a little on the breaks/big beat or eclectic side, like Prodigy, Moby, Crystal Method etc. I moved on from there into early progressive and melodic trance/house from DJs/Producers like Paul Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, BT, Sasha, John Digweed, Nick Warren and all the stuff like that from the later 90s. I then went through a cheese phase, where I enjoyed DJ Sammy (I still don't know why I was into this crap), ATB (his early stuff though was brilliant, Movin' Melodies esp) Ian Van Dahl and Lasgo. I was only into this stuff for less than a year, and then I got into the big, epic trance anthems played and produced by Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, DJ Tiesto, George Acosta, Above & Beyond and stuff like that.

I kind of got tired of the same sounds with this stuff (but still enjoy some of it to this day) and discovered stuff that had similar formula (build, breakdown, build up etc), but deeper and using new sounds from other genres but still keeping the magic that I love with trance. Some of these DJs haved followed suit and played some of this stuff that some may call "McProg" but I think of a lot of it as drawing a fine line between being melodic and epic and also being progressive and deep at the same time, the best of both worlds. This includes my current favorites like Probspot, Mark Otten, Perry O'Neil, Hydroid, Envio, Kalafut & Fygle, Micro de Govia, Jonas Steur/Estuera, Benz & MD, and Peter McCowan/Alucard among others. This stuff uses alot of the stuff I really enjoyed early on with trance, and then the later stuff as well without the cheese that I got into for a little while (still embarrased about that stuff but it was just a stupid phase).

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Started off listening to Industrial and EBM as an angstfull teenager and then progressed somewhat ironically to a glowstick toting raver after I discovered E. Although I never sucked on a dummy or wore a smiley face on my forehead, the deep desire to do so was always there. I have no idea what music it was they were playing then. Techno, Happy Hard, Jungle.. it all sounded really new anyway. Really popped my EDM cherry with that shit and I still measure the wow factor of today against those innocent memories.

Had a brief flirth with Breakbeat/Drum n Bass during the genre explosions that came during the mid nineties. Until finally I found my true calling one fatefull night back in 98 when I was introduced to GOA. She became the love of my life and together we went to lots of outdoor parties, expanded our minds and generally had a blast. As the relationship progressed, she became an exotic, focussed and intense creature, maturing into Psy.

During that time I had a short affair with a dumb ass blonde with big tits called Uplifting Trance. She was great fuck for about a year or so until I realise it was a big elaborate hoax designed to test my attention span.

Starting to dig techno again too... also getting curious at where DnB is these days...

my tastes have been mainly epic trance orientated since 1996. tinkered with prog in 2001, prog breaks in 2003, and techtrance 2005, always seem to end back up where i started though and i've always liked the odd indie track and chillout stuff too. evolving tastes is one thing i've never seemed to get

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Originally posted by isoterra my tastes have been mainly epic trance orientated since 1996. tinkered with prog in 2001, prog breaks in 2003, and techtrance 2005, always seem to end back up where i started though and i've always liked the odd indie track and chillout stuff too. evolving tastes is one thing i've never seemed to get

Yeah I always seem to end up at this stuff too, but like I said in my last post, I think the "McProg" stuff that some people call it is a combination of epic and prog structure and form. So both epic and prog has evolved just as we have, you just need to know where to look. There are still really traditional prog and epic tunes out there too, but to me "McProg" is a combo of both styles. Yeah there's some stupid "McProg" too or stuff I don't like in it either, but most of the artists I mentioned in my last post are pretty good in my opinion, nothing cheesey or really poor quality. It may be what some call "fluff" too but who cares? If some people like uplifting, melodic music (such as myself) then who cares. If thats all you play in a set, yeah thats boring (unless it's just for fun which I do time to time) but a little bit of it spread throughout a set is not a bad thing at all. You need something that will make you feel good from time to time, or to have something you can listen to and not just dance to as well. The Psy stuff, techy stuff or hard stuff is just dance stuff to me, some people (such as myself) think of trance as more than just dance music (esp the uplifting, melodic stuff or "mcprog). Some people (such as myself) enjoy listening to it on a daily basis as well, not just dancing to it at a club or in your room haha. And no I am not a fan of ASOT, and Armin is not my favorite DJ anymore (I don't even think I have a favorite DJ anymore).

At first I started off with Oakenfold, Tiesto, PVD, etc, but, in the words of sander kleinenberg: "everyone grows up eventually."

I started in the mid 90's with my brother having me listen to a pleathora of different kinds of music. Including gangasta rap, classics rock almost anything and everything which was quite hard for a young teenager to comprehend.

My first taste of dance music was when i heard KLF - The White Room. OF course we all know its blend of trance/techno riffs and ambient music made it a classic. Up there with Underworld and Orbital's early work. That facinated where people listened and danced to this kind of music. I got into 1999 trance when i started going clubbing. But due to uni i ended up goin cheesy clubbing so got back into my bands and went cheesy clubbing for a good year or two.

When i went back proper clubbing around 2001-2002 i found my favoutire genre which is still my fav and thats euphoric trance. Its what i love to dance to and listen to although ill listen to anything that sumone puts in front of me. Im still into my bands etc but just not quite as much but im sure ill go back to that ie where i started after i stop clubbing. I like techno in small doses but far prefer it in a club enviornement than at home. The psy/goa thing ive never been into and for that a lot of tranceaddicts probably think im unevolved. Thats your opinion.

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Originally posted by gizzymcg When i went back proper clubbing around 2001-2002 i found my favoutire genre which is still my fav and thats euphoric trance. Its what i love to dance to and listen to although ill listen to anything that sumone puts in front of me. Im still into my bands etc but just not quite as much but im sure ill go back to that ie where i started after i stop clubbing. I like techno in small doses but far prefer it in a club enviornement than at home. The psy/goa thing ive never been into and for that a lot of tranceaddicts probably think im unevolved. Thats your opinion.

Yeah I think some people look at this music from a dance music or club scene perspective, like how it goes down in a club. I think some people, well for me at least, as I mentioned in my last post, look at it through is something enjoyable to listen to AND to dance to as well. I mean I've never been into techno (the most stereotypical, commonly played stuff) because of the fact that it's unlistenable to me, the same to me about hard, tech and psy trance. That stuff sure would go down great on the dancefloor, but is this something that you can enjoy just listening to with your headphones on, or on a CD in your car, in your house wherever? I mean trance HAS potential, I've gone over and over this. And no I don't mean potential as the next pop music, but potential as being more than just dance or club music. I think of trance as more "conceptual" or "visceral", as putting images in my mind and giving me different feelings and emotions from it. It is almost IMO like "soundtrack" music, because one of my first exposures to stuff similar to this was with the computer game called "Unreal" back in 1997/1998. I just hope more people on TA agree, don't wanna be left in the dark on this

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Originally posted by Phortastic When i was about 12 years old my idol was Michael Jackson and i bought all his albums over the years. It was my idol and i didnt listen to anything else really. After that i started listening to commercial Rap like Eminem, DMX, Ja Rule... shit like that. When i was into rap i was really against anything 'house' (thats how i basicly called EDM back then, but i thought hardcore was the only 'house' music) related. Then i began listening to EDM because i was bored with rap pretty soon tbh. I began listening to hardhouse/hardtrance/retro then i went on to trance and now im more into progressive, house, elektro, ambient. Basicly anything that sounds good. So you could say i made quite an evolution But I still like good hardtrance, good trance and stuff. I still even like Michael Jackson his work. Anything up to 1995 anyway, what he made after that is pretty much crap. I dont listen to commercial rap anymore though. I really hate it even. And i dont like to listen to hardhouse anymore. But all the other genres i was really into when i was younger i still like now (if it is good)...

I have ahd a very similar evolution with a few differences.

From the time I was born till a few years ago when I moved out of the house, my father would have music playing pretty much all the time. In the morning he'd play classical of various sorts...on a rainy day he would play some Phil Glass pianio works, on Saturdays he would play Jazz from the likes of pretty much every great Jazz Musician to have recorded something. Thelonius Monk, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and i could keep going for about a page. His CD collection which is in our Garage at the moment counts about 7,500, from all different genres.

So baisically I was introduced to tons of music from all different styles that was just constantly playing. He got me into Moby when I was in high school. I loved Play, and he also introduced me to St. Germain, Vangelis, etc. I really liked the more repetetive but melody focused electronic music. For awhile in high school I listened to Rap, mostly because everyone else did and thats what I had to hear at parties...so I figured I might as well make the best of it.

In 2003 a friend from the UK introduced me to trance, Ferry Corsten - Punk to be exact, and I was hooked. I got heavily into trance, but mostly just listened to it on my own since no one in the US has a clue what it is or any ability to appreciate it. I started out a n00b liking Armin Tiesto & Co, simply because they were all I knew since they were the most talked about.

Slowly through TA I started hearing different music, progressive mixes from the amateur forum interested me, and I found a copy of Involver in September of 04'.

I didnt know who the fuck Sasha was but the relaxing and deep qualities of Involver rally did it for me...and I realised how great this music is when stoned

So I still was mostly into trance but I listened to alot of prog house too...and baisically anything...my UK friend had since gotten into happy hardcore, which I enjoyed for about 5 minutes before deleting most of it from my computer.

After seeing a very dull trance set from Johan Gielen in Feb 05' (even on drugs), I had an interesting experience listening to John Digweed - Fabric 20, while coming down, and it was a turning point...I had just never heard such a variation and creativity in the sounds used, in trance compared to this.

Right now I've been into more minimal and techy stuff but if you see my last mix my tastes are all over the board, since I like stuff from pretty much every genre of EDM excluding hardcore.

Hmmm.. let see.. well I think it started in 98.. whatever the year was when Zombie Nation came out.. I was basically oblivious to EDM at the time but when I would go into my older brother's car he had this cassette mixtape and it got me really interested about this music... the only songs I remember from the tape are Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 and Sarah Mclachlan - I Love You (BT Mix).. there was also another song with a guy saying something like "YOURE 5000 MILES AWAY ON A JET PLANE!!! GO INSANE!!!" something like that lol...

then when Napster came around and the eruption of P2P programs I just started downloading basically anything that I knew was EDM.. it was mainly trance and cheesy stuff such as Eurodance.. some of the first songs I remember were Gouryella - Gouryella, Ayla - Ayla, Ayla - Liebe, ATB - Killer, DJ Sakin - Protect Your Mind... also started to download whatever was uploaded on homeofmusic.com at the time. Would take forever to download on my 28k modem

then as the years progressed I focused mainly on trance music.. keep fast forwarding and fast forwarding to my first year of college i met a good friend tony who was really into house music and that began to sort of expand my horizons.. he also showed me mixmeister and that amazed me that anyone could make a mix with this program.. but he liked a lot of funky fruity house and it was too funky and gay for me at the time.

started listening to his mixes and checking out house music now.. got more into it but still didnt interest me as much as trance.. discovered gabriel & dresden and loved how their tracks blended certain elements of trance and house together..

lets see im getting tired of typing now so we'll just fast forward to say the first quarter of 2004... i was really getting tired of trance at this time, started making fewer trance mixes and began to look into the prog house, prog trance, and house genres much more. Albums such as Fundacion, Howells GU27, Nick Warren GU28, Hernan Cattaneo's Master Series Volume 2 really began to interest me. After albums like these I was basically looking for albums where I didn't know tracks, rather than albums where i knew almost all of the tracks in a cd... was also a year where I got more into older tracks of all genres, got all the sets of Oakey's 99 Essential Mixes.

Now I don't really listen to trance all that much except for the occasional new songs that interest me... I still listen to and love older trance songs.. I cant get tired of those epic trance anthems but nowadays I am more open-minded and will listen to anything.. just as long as it's good and keeps me interested

DJ Sammy

I used to listen, still listen and will probably for the rest of my life be listening to shit music.

According to my parents.

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Lessee. As a child, my mom would always sing to me a particular Doris Day tune. I guess that sort of lo-fi folkish soul music is what truly hits me, all in the likes of Tina Turner, Bette Midler, lofi staticy gospel, Chuck Berry, that bebop!. Well, it was all in black root. Then, in my angsty teen years, of course it was the rock and rap. Now, at 21, I've dwelved into classical, EDM, folk, experimental, IDM, flamenco, chamber, quartets, quintets, bowiepattiesmith pj harvey bjork pulp pixies instrumental jazz blues indie with the DIY aesthetic ALL of it. Nothing gets more toe ticks or heel claps than the likes of the music of my child roots. last night I twisted to Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell"

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Originally posted by paranoik0 long time since i've last heard this one.. but it's still great! pretty good one, ID please

My Winamp says Rhythim is Rhythim - Icon.

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i started out buying tranceport 1 and now when i hear it there are way too many drumrolls now i like uplifting trance and prog and i hate drumrolls

I'm gonna post a little update since I already posted a fairly complete history a few months back. In general I just follow curiosity, I'll stumble upon something serendipitously and explore it further until something else grabs my attention. I had alot of fun with the demoscene stuff everal months ago, I've been given all kinds of recomendations for different things since then.

But overal I have just tried an increasingly wide variety of things, I find myself exploring this "electronic art music" a bit more these days. It was kinda an accident, I started taking a class thinking they would teach production techniques and instead are giving me this giant history of the artsy side of electronic music, and I must say that I had no friggin idea this stuff could be so interesting. I'm starting to interperet music in a different way and things are sounding interesting again, I've grown to accept things that I don't immediately find pleasurable listening to, taking time to try and understand or learn something about a song really makes it alot more fun. No longer requiring songs to sound a cetrain way definately makes good music easier to find, you take a song and just throw all your pre-existing assumptions about music out the window, you listen intently trying to undertand what is the goal of the music and what does the musician do to reach that goal, if you have enough clues then the songs can actually teach you intresting things, tell you interesting messages, give you all sorts of crazy ideas. I've started going back through my old colection, listening to songs this way and it has made me enjoy my music again.

I don't think I can say I have evolved from trance and into some other style, I feel like I have just added more things in addition to the trance, learned how to like more than I used to like, and found a way to think of music that allows me to enjoy a much wider variety and enjoy it much more strongly than before.

I suggest you guys talk to music makers, ask them alot of "why" qustions, try and understand what they are about and why they make their songs the way that they do, I met this really deep guy on IRC one day that kinda started me along this path im on right now.

To evolve is to suggest that I have grown out of a certain style of music. For example 90's dance to progressive trance. I don't think I ever evolved. In fact, my music tastes are expanding rather than evolving. When I first started getting into EDM I was around 9 years old and admired music from artists such as Technotronic, Real McCoy, Amber, La Bouche and so on. I have not grown out of that because I still love listening to their music every now and then. Those artists opened other doors for me that I never knew existed especially their remixes. Some of the remixes associated with those artists had bits and pieces of trance and house elements that were new to me and it was not until this millenium where my tastes started expanding. Right now I find myself listening to a lot Frank Sinatra stuff recently. It was often classified by me as music for old people, but after listening to his catalogue a lot of it is very good. Of course Frank Sinatra is not edm, but I'm just enforcing my point that for me my tastes expand, not evolve.

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