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Before you liked dance music...
...what did you listen to? And do you still enjoy any of it?
When I was a young kid I mostly liked '80s and early '90s pop and rock, probably because that was what my parents listened to. Ace of Base, B52s, Talking Heads, New Order, Midnight Oil, UB40, REM, etc.
During middle school and early high school I listened to metal like Metallica and Megadeth, newer hard rock like Tool, Korn, Limp Bizkit, System of a Down, and a little classic rock like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
It was in early high school that I discovered dance music, mostly via mp3.com and Napster around 1999, when I was in ninth grade. Once that happened I mostly abandoned non-dance stuff for a while, only to bring some of it back in later during college.
Mike Oldfield. Peter Gabriel. Billy Joel. Paula Abdul.
other shit that was on B96 in Chicago.
still occasionally listen to some Mike Oldfield. after all, that's how i got my screen name anyways. so yeah.
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Rnb/Hip hop like Nelly, 50 Cent, R.Kelly and Pop Punk Rock like Blink 182/Yellowcard and Filipino Rock.
Jam bands. Widespread Panic, String Cheese Incident, Galactic, North Mississippi All-Stars, some mish-mash of 70's and 80's rock.
Simply Red and Top-40 radio broadcasts.
Ummm...I went though a lot of different phases of music over a few years in early high school including rap, 80's pop, 90's dance, punk, rock, alternative, a bit of hardcore rock, the current top 40 tunes,, and all the while I was enjoying cheesy dance music. From there I phased out all non-edm and went into strictly trance/house for a few years. Just recently I've started branching out again.
Oh, and to answer your question if I still enjoy any of it? For the most part no. I had very shallow music tastes and just made one random burnt cd after another.
When i was 15, i remember i started buying metal records (started with heavy than proceeded to black and atmospheric, these genres were at their peek in the 90s) but i had a "guilty pleasure". The "quilty pleasure" was, "secretly" buying EDM records by Orbital, underworld, Leftfield, FSOL, Salt Tank etc. (and these were also at their peek at the 90s so it was a great time really!) and compilations (such as Trancemaster) because you know, if you were a metaller you were not supossed to buy "electronic records", this music was for gay fluorescent kids and so it was kind of a taboo lol.
As the years passed, my taste matured from the harshness of black and goth/doom metal (etc.), towards more elegant-but still-dark sounds. When i was 18 i started buying darkwave, post-punk, goth, post-apocalyptic folk and industrial records from the 80s and 90s, from Joy Division, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, The Chameleons,Sad Lovers And Giants, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance,Bauhaus, Clan Of Xymox,Killing Joke, Mephisto Walz, Death In June, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA to even more underground stuff like Fields of the Nephilim, Garden of Delight, Age Of Heaven, Corpus Delicti,Secret Discovery, Vendemmian, This Burning Effigy and many others (quite underground). To tell you the truth,i still listen to some of this stuff from time to time-mainly the classic 80s stuff because this music is really good and full of quality.
During these "dark years" though (in...1998-99...) i remember this mainstream radio station of my town playing these very melodic dance records which i liked a lot. I rememeber listening to the En-Mass mix of Synaesthesia and El-Nino among others and being very impressed by the atmospheric, ethereal qualities as well as the energy of the sound. I thought that this type of "trance" was the evolution of the trance compilations i used to buy a few years back in the mid-90s and i liked it a lot, so i remember "secretly" buying a few records again from Oakenfold and Sasha. To confuse matters even more, "epic-trance" never got famous in Greece, in contrast to "Psy-Trance" which was the sound of choice by the vast majority-Astral Projection, MFG, Transwave and Juno Reactor were famous names in Greece back in 99! i even remember going to a lot of open-air psy-trance parties with my friends, visiting Ololiuqui, Total Eclipse, Transwave, Atmos etc. So i thought that this type of north-european "melodic trance" sound that i "secretly" liked and admired was a very underground thing or something! Who would guess that after a few years this phenomenally "underground sound" would be accused of everything cheese, cheap, derivative and stupid.
Whilst all these musical genres seemed to be radically different to each other, i thought that they were common auditory patterns in all of them, even with the atmospheric black-metal records i use to buy when i was 15. All these had epic, atmospheric synths, the feeling of soundscapes and "richness/vastness" in sound. These are qualities i always liked in music, and these are some of the qualities that i like in my "post-EDM" years of post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, IDM and neo-classical. 
My dad always had music playing at home when I was a kid, his collection spanned pretty much everything, strongly anchored in jazz and blues. I listened mostly to what other people did mixed with what I heard at home when I was younger, lots of alternative rock and then more hip hop into middle school. In high school in france I got really into Moby, lots of french rap, and more jazz. When I finished school here I was all over the map, some trance, some hip hop, didn't really know what I liked. I always liked abstract and sort of subtle electronic stuff, trance led me to discover "dance music" in the broad sense, I never really knew it existed until then.
I still like a lot of the french rap I was into, almost all the jazz (always loved anything with fun percussion). Been trying to discover more classical and more obscure jazz in my dad's CD collection recently when not listening to dance music.
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| Originally posted by PETRAN All these had epic, atmospheric synths, the feeling of soundscapes and "richness/vastness" in sound. These are qualities i always liked in music, and these are some of the qualities that i like in my "post-EDM" years of post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, IDM and neo-classical. |
In high school I was a "thug"... wore baggy pants, walked like a penguin, and listened to thug gangsta rap
then I woke up one day and said to myself "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU????"
that was about the time I started college, discovered the cure, EDM, new romantics, new wave, shoegaze, GARY FUCKING NUMAN, and my whole world changed for the better
PS> PETRAN... I think you are my clone or something... 
i was in the hip hop scene, but also listened to the vengaboys and the police.
Boney M was one of the very first groups I ever listened to. Does that count as dance music?
But, if you mean prior to my 'big plunge' after hearing 2 Unlimited for the first time in '92, most of my listening habits were influenced by what my father would play in bands and for mobile DJing gigs. Stuff like Steve Miller Band, Dire Straits, The Police, Northern Pikes, Roxette, Loverboy, Yes... a lot of the sort of music you'd hear on a JACK.FM radio station, really.
I also developed a fondness for The Beach Boys during that time.
Not too sure Tool are hard rock.
I don't think there was a before iirc I was listening to trance, tribal ambient, synth classical and god knows what else at 3.
i hated all kind of music until i heard the prodigy for the first time in 91. i was 9
I was into mallcore rock like Korn and System of a Down and Rage Against the Machine. At that point in time I was rather stuck on that. Since getting into electronic I've branched out into folk, jazz, neo-classical, indie rock, and more leftfield electronic as well as occasionally listening to house and techno and sometimes plurtrance.
Not to say that electronic is the best and most diverse phylum of music, it did certainly help me branch out.
Erm... nothing. The first track I ever liked was 2 Unlimited's "No Limit" when I was about six years old, and my first big musical love was glowstick trance around 2000. Looking back at the odd tracks I did like as a kid between 1994 and 2000, they were all poppy dance records that were in the charts. I can trace my entire love of electronic music back to 2 Unlimited.
The only exceptions when I was a kid were Simon & Garfunkel and Jeff Wayne's "War of The Worlds" concept album, which were bizarre exceptions indeed.
70's rock mostly. Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Hendrix, Emerson Lake & Palmer etc.
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I'm 34 now, so maybe I shouldn't go back to far....
In the 80's A-ha, Pet Shop Boys, Level42, Simple Minds, Talk Talk, U2, UB40, Queen, Duran Duran, Toto, Culture Club, Wham and not to forget Propaganda and Franky Goes To Hollywood.
Late 80's my love for Synthesizers came with Axel F, Vangelis, J.M.J., Jan Hammer.
Begin 90's next to above (Acid) House started taking attention: Technotronic, Tony Scott, FPI Project, Blackbox, M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy and many more.
Also Eurodance started to submerge with Twenty4Seven, 2Unlimited, Culture Beat, Capella, 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor, C + C Music Factory.
Also KLF, The Ultimate Seduction, Westbam, The Shamen and Nomad I need to mention.
Trance started for me around 1993/1994 with: Dance2Trance, Scooter(yes Scooter),The Age Of Love and so many more.
Next and at the same time I listend to Rave, (German)Techno and Happy Hardcore. A bit Hardcore, because I thought it was ridiculous hard, but also interesting and funny. Happy Hardcore with more melody was hard enough to me.
I was a Faithless, Jam&Spoon and Scooter fan.
Bought lots of trance compilations like Trance Nation and Trancemaster. Bought many cd's in Germany and Belgium. Both borders are with 15 km
Hardtrance also was nice and Belgium Bonzai stuff (Yves DeRuyter, The Mackenzie) really was awesome.
Around 2000 I also went to clubs and enjoyed (Club)Techno like King of my Castle, Plastic Dreams, Olav Basoski.
Looking at the uplifting (cheesy) stuff I like now compared to the synthesizer tracks of the late 80's does make some sense to me.
I guess I listened all a lot of EDM although there still was much more to listen....enough for serveral lifes I guess....
Metal:
W.A.S.P
Iron Maiden
Anthrax
Metallica
PanterA
Slayer
HardCore:
Biohazard
Life of Agony
Clutch
Orange 9mm
Sick of it All
Basically anything that came out of the TV and radio. I didn't really listen to any genre or anything, I just listened to everything, I think.
i've always had exposure to dance music (my uncle was a house dj in chicago when he was a student at Columbia), and i would say my musical tastes still are as broad as they have ever been.
I still listen to rock and all sub genres (although less and less of the newer stuff because i just don't have that teen angst)
still listen to hip/rnb (same as rock, although once in awhile the newer stuff is good)
same with almost any other genre. I am pretty lucky that i have a big record collection that i have collected from a young age (either bought, donated from my uncle (man i have some old house gems), or through trades.) Every now and then i will pick one crate or shelf and just go through listening to the records i have in them regardless of genre with a glass of wine. This is one of my favorite things to do when i get the house to myself. Good music is good music, and it is rare i grow out of it completely. (heck i even listen to trance sometimes believe it or not...although i did give my little cousin a lot of the records to practice with, kinda like his dad did for me...he doesn't really like them haha, so i gave him some hip hop and some of the cheesier house stuff i bought around 2005)
rock & metal at early adolescence, musicals and classical music at childhood.
mostly cool jazz and classical stuff like mussorgsky, prokofiev, rimsky-korsakov, bartuc, holst, elgar, tchaikovsky, etc
i never listened to anything else except that my mom used to always play new age music, new wave, celtic, and they played some new age electronic like jean michel jarre, tangerine dream, and mike oldfield
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