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What led you to trance?
I grew up with a lot of electronic/new age music in the house. I was and still am a huge fan of Vangelis, for example. As I got older, college-aged you might say, techno/trance just seemed like the logical progression. While at college I became friends with a DJ who introduced me to the club scene in Atlanta, so it continued.
But I would say it began in childhood with new age.
How did it begin for you?
Playing video and computer games for many years led me to it. I became interested in the soundtracks and from there I wanted to find similar music, especially with the computer game "Unreal". I also was into some new age and grew up with a combination of Enya, Classic Rock and some Disco. My dad liked a lot of different music. I listened to net-radio in my early teens (around 13) and discovered trance, with music by PvD (For An Angel, Words, Forbidden Fruit) and BT (Flaming June, Remember, Embracing The Future). Actually a guy who was a producer/DJ gave me the recommendation of BT at a RecordTown store (now FYE) after I told him that really repeptitive techno music wasn't really what interested me. I told him I liked more melodic music.
The internet back when MP2's were all the rage.
The yellow brick road.
I started of liking all the early/mid 90s Euro stuff like 2Unlimited, Snap and Sash. I moved on to liking big beat stuff like the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy around 1995 or so, and slightly different stuff like Massive Attack. Then I heard some trance around 1998 and liked it for a good few years. I still do, but I haven't seen that much new stuff that is inspiring to me, so I now listen to a lot of Breaks/Prog Breaks.
Or anything, really 
Scooter, goa trance, teh computer, teh internet, mp3.com, fasttracker 2. All at once, the big bang.
I'm a nerd, I like electronic beats, repetetive but progressive music.
All along I'd been looking for music like trance/house/prog/techno...just growing up in the states and going to a regular school, its not something that comes up so much.
Moby was the closest I got as a kid. Then my english friend was blasting some Ferry set in the car when I went to visit him. I was hooked since then. Still exploring and still finding exciting music to this day.
being a damn damn china...
I spent a summer taking classes, and my roomate and I went to a record store. I bought the new Chili Peppers album, and he bought the Xpander EP. He was so excited about finally having it, that I thought I'd give it a listen. What an auralgasm.
http://www.discogs.com/release/364090
club ibiza 2000...good times listening to that...cds a bit scratched now but it still plays. 
Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, and Mike Oldfield I would say laid the foundation
Was introduced to prog house through John Digweed and started exploring from there.
i'd been into the electronica acts since 95.
Prodigy, Chem Brothers, Fluke, FSOL, some french guy with blue hair. well pretty much everyone on the Astralwerks.com website.
Then Alice Deejay came to town, blew my socks.
Borrowed Tranceport 1 (oakie), fell in love with trance.
Downloaded Trance Nation 2 (ferry corsten), fell in love with epic.
Stole Paul Van Dyk, fell in love with REAALLLLL TRANCE BY A REALLL ARTIST, HE DON"T DODOO NO BULLSHIT.
NIN back at Woodstock 94 was the first thing to really get me into electronic sounds.
What a long, strange trip this has been...
Circa 1985:
Always been fond of electronic dance music. Synthpop bands ruled me, but so did early techno sounds. Since these were a bit more underground, I really never could find them in normal realms. I grew a fondness for freestyle breakbeats and early Nu-NRG house.
1990-1992:
Europop intrigrigued me with it's high energy beats and it's synthesized noises. I was a regular clubber by this point. Then in 1992, I stumbled on my first warehouse rave. MTV had a show called AMP that would play after 120 Minutes featuring electronic music videos. I studied feaverously. For my senior year, you could hear me cranking out "James Brown is Dead" in my car on the way to the beach.
1996:
Well into clubbing/raving, my tastes for music orientated towards chemical breaks and big beat. I also began my adventure as a dj at this point. Two soundtracks that changed my outlook forever - The Saint & Lost in Space. Landing my first "big gig" opening up for The Crystal Method and I was hooked.
Circa 1998:
Robert Miles - One and One found it's way into cd case. Followed by the even more popular Children. I have officially embarked on my trance journey. Juno Reactor and Orbital were already favorites of mine. Faithless - God is a DJ rocked my world (being a full-fledged dj now) and I was truly on hook. I started exploring more progressive house and trance. I found myself gyrating towards labels like Flying Rhino, Platipus, and Eve. Mainstream Goa sounds that were beautiful and stimulating.
1999-2001:
Progressive began shifting at the turn of the century. By the new millennium, trance had become a staple of electronic dance music. The genre became chastised among the community. The days of the anthem lay wayside as the masses flocked like sheep to huge arenas. A guilty pleasure for most. Trance became the bastard child of EDM. Many were dj's jumping ship. Those that stayed were pushing tin.
2001:
I'm at the Movement Party in San Diego. I find myself in one of the side rooms. Alice in Wonderland is playing in the video loop and I find myself engulfed in some of the most wicked trance sounds I've ever heard. Dark, twisted, acidy, and just downright insane. A San Diego local dj named Hidroponik was on the decks. When he got off the decks, I asked him what that was he was playing. His answer... Acidtrance and Psytrance. The rest is history.
In My Memory got me started, my friend had it playing in his car. fuck i was impressed so then i started getting alot of the obvious producer's and dj's stuff mainly dutch trance but then i started to just keep on exploring more and more of the genre until i had pretty much learned about every type of trance. psy, goa, prog, epic/uplifting and melodic trance were all my favourites but nothing beats the stuff before 96 imo still
when i first started high school in 1992, everyone was into oasis/blur britpop rock music but i coundt stand it. i started listening to "everything but the girl" and got a few of the old "rave" tape packs and always seemed to go for the tunes with this particular sound which trance tends to have.
it just felt right and listening to uplifting or floaty tunes really did get me through the nightmare of highschool and exams haha
My brother was into Gabba and later Handbag House in the mid 90s, but it was when he made me listen to PvD's remix of 1998 that I was sold
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boredom, the same thing that led me away from it
I blame 2 Unlimited.
i have never heard the n-bomb used in a trance song, also, you never hear a song produced by tiesto, ferry, pvd, anyone where there is talk of shooting up people...its a very relaxing music, but when you are in the club, you can just unleash!
however, when you are at home, you can sit and just relax, and listen to pretty well any trance genre (be it, trance, techno, prgressive, psy...etc). i can remember listening to the magik series doing homework from highschool...my first actual cd was Paul van Dyks Politics of dancing, i had no idea that imported cds were so expensive...
but now here we are, attending events, and listening to pretty much nothing but trance (or any of the others genres listed)
my first few artists that i really enjoyed that got me into the scene: Scooter, tiesto, armin, alice deejay(lol), DJ Jean.
back in the day, i listened to a lot of House music more so, just because it was more Energy 108 oriented, but now its ASOT and TATW
thanks for listening.
well my hometown is 30 mins east of tampa, so those of you who know about tampa's music scene is that florida breaks is really prominent there. so i always heard it on the radio (baby anne, icey, tony faline, huda hudia, etc), got really into it in '98, from there i heard fragma - toca's miracle in 2000 and that's when i started a transition from florida breaks to trance... and that's how it happened...
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