Stage 1; rock like offspring, bad religion. "techno" stuff like scooter, but very rarely.

Stage 2; Eurotrashaddict...scooter and his whole euro "posse" etc.

Stage 3; Still listened to the Europop beats, but my tastes started to branch into happy hardcore and cheese "trance" (aquagen, warp brothers)

Stage 4; Got addicted to real trance. Realized that the Euro beats, aquagen and whatever was complete crap and not music. System F - Out of the Blue, Ascension - Someone (Thrillseekers mix) and Gouryella - Tenshi tided me over to the light side...while the Loveparade 2000 cd and Tiesto's Innercity Megamix were my first experiences of the "light" side

Stage 5; Started getting bored of the "anthem" trance music and noticed that the stuff coming out now isn't as great as the tunes from 97-2000. On occasion (once a month) a tune comes out that I really like. From the present-trance, I only really consider Tranzy State of Mind, Second Wave and a couple of others to be great tunes. Paul van Dyk and Armin van Buuren are the only ones that are managing to keep my focus on this genre (althought PvD can't be classified as a "trance" DJ...he's got his own unique style, which is why I have so much respect for him and why he's my favourite DJ). Purchased 'Politics of Dancing'...best $34 I ever spent in my life. Anyone who says this album is shit obviously doesn't know anything about the electronic dance music scene.

Stage 6; Bought Hybrid's Wider Angle cd...OMG!! PvD and Hybrid are now the 2 producers/group of producers that I respect the most...Wider Angle and PoD are the best albums/compiliations I've heard so far (if anyone knows anything better, then please tell me!!! I'm hurting for some GOOD music). Right now I'm into Nu-Breaks, along with the purer form of Nu-Breaks, Break Beats (there's a difference ) and progressive and house...although I'm a complete noobie to the last 2. Feels so nice to have discovered quality music outside the "umc umc umc umc umc" box. I still listen to anything by PvD and Armin though...and the occasional typical trance tune too. I haven't turned my back on that form completely...and PvD will always be at the top for me...along with the boys from Hybrid, hehe

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only the russian's will really understand what got me addicted to electronic music first, but yeah I really got into "CARMAN" & "RUSSKI RAZMER" at about the age of 11-12 and there was this other group, fuck I can't remember. They had this hybrid song it was like a mix of dance music and rap, and they had this one amazing line about music or something like that, and how it's the only thing that really carries the person through life, and it's truly the only thing with that person for the rest of their lives. Or something like that. I remember I got really upset about something and listened to that song and from that day on I decided that music is my life. Well that's how I got into music first, ofcourse not considering the fact of my classical music education which began when I was like 6 or 7 can't remember now!

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Originally posted by Mandrick_v Stage 4: Europian Hip Hop: Down Low, Black Attack, Trey D, Rappers Against Racism (!!!!) - especially the song - Key to yout heart...

funny I actually remember that stuff, I used to really like it back in the day, I used to love french hip-hop too! MC Solar, and there were a bunch of other ones too. I remember all those vids from "VIVA" on video tapes distributed all over Russia.

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH Purchased 'Politics of Dancing'...best $34 I ever spent in my life. Anyone who says this album is shit obviously doesn't know anything about the electronic dance music scene.

yeah i agree absolutely! The best CD of the year. Best mix CD of the year for sure, since all the tracks were individually selected for the CD, and edited and so on and so forth, I am sure you all know the story!

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Originally posted by trancearmada yeah i agree absolutely! The best CD of the year. Best mix CD of the year for sure, since all the tracks were individually selected for the CD, and edited and so on and so forth, I am sure you all know the story!

Damn fuckin straight!!

There's maybe....1 track that I dislike on each CD...but, I can still stand them. The mixing is damn good (it should be! considering it's PvD and he had time to work on the mixing of this)...and re-working of each track...thats what makes this cd so amazing. The fact that it's not a simple mix cd, like say....Magik 7, for instance. I mean, I could just as easily look at the tracklisting of Macik 7, get all the songs and mix them myself (and $30 says I'd do just as good of a job in beatmatching/mixing as Tiesto did that guy should stop his mind from going on them "magikal" journeys while spinning sometimes...the man WAS amazing, and now he's lost it IMO). But anyways, enough about Tiesto...Politics of Dancing is incredible, the whole concept of the way it was made in ingenius...I pray that PvD gives us another one...hmmm, Politics of Raving, maybe?

age 0-11: listened to whatever stuff my older bro listened to. listened to a lot of radio... AM 640 and 680 was where all the HITS were, =P (i KNOW ALL of you listened to that stuff too! =P). i miss those days...

age 12-17: went through the, "my music is the most superior genre on earth, and everything else is crap" phase of my life. punk rock was everything, and anything that wasn't punk rock was utter garbage. i'd go around knocking every other genre with ignorant and biased arguments. what a fool i was.

age 18-now: grew up and started listening to more hip hop, jazz, asian pop, =P. pretty much started listening to everything. then one fateful day after commencement, i was on my way to a party when my friend started playing, binary finary - 1998 in the car.... i was HOOKED. quddha showed me some more trance stuff and there was no turning back from then on.

i'm still into everything i was into before, punk, hip hop, asian pop, but trance was probably the biggest leap for me in terms of developing a taste for a single genre so quickly... its kind of weird that i got into trance through "real" trance and not through the cheese route, =P.

and that is my life story, =P.

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In short,

Stage 1: didn't care, listened to anything uncountry-like

Stage 2: receives some mp3 mixes from distant friend, got persuaded to go to WG2001, sees Tiesto, gets addicted...

end of story

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Hahahaa, Bizz, good one!

Ok, here is what I've been thru:

Stage 1: Listened to anything that was on the radio, rock, dance, what not, and the only thing I remember getting me hooked on music was 2 Unlimited (funny shit)... (I was like 10 years old at a time)

Stage 2: EuroDance followed that 2 Unlimited era, and anything from Scooter, Sash, Cappella, I dunno what else...

Stage 3: (occured in the beginning of 2001) --> I heard Tiesto's remix of Silence for the first time, and immediately gave up on everything I've heard up to that point! Right after that downloaded Tiesto's Magik 6 and that was it... addiction was born!

Stage 4: still in progress...

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1. Early 90's - Commericial rap/hip-hop (Maestro, Kris Kross, Vanilla Ice). I was an impressionable youth, what can I say.

2. Mid-90's - Alt-rock (Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam). I also like the occasional industrial music (Nine Inch Nails and the like) but nothing serious.

3. In 1998 I discovered the world of MP3. Got into EBM which is sort of "industrial-techno", stuff like Apoptygma Berzerk, Frontline Assembly. Very dark electronic stuff.

4. A friend of mine introduced me to a German group called "Dune". I was fascinated with the energy of Happy Hardcore, which became a small obsession. I didn't really know much about it, and it was hard to find anything on the internet. I built a large collection of songs by Dune and Blumchen.

5. By this point I had my FTP up, so I started to get all sorts of different music sent to me. At this point I was into the standard cheese dance phase, grooving to stuff by the Vengaboys, La Cream, and Sash, blissfully unaware that there was anything better out there.

6. One day in mid-1999 someone uploaded an album called "DJ Tiesto - Live at Innercity". I had no idea who this guy was, but I was blown away by the music. It was catchy, energetic, emotional, and gave me goose bumps.

7. Massive attempt to get more of this "DJ Tiesto". Discovered the world of trance music through Napster. Found songs like Binary Finary - 1999, Gouryella - Walhalla, and Black and Jones - After Love.

8. Fast forward to this year - already a Trance Addict, I finally discover the TA forums and become a trancEaddict!

1. My uncle's oldschool 70's and 80's records - michael jackson, stevie wonder, lionel richie, beegees, beatles etc.

2. MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Ace of Base, all that YTV hitlist stuff with tarzan dan. lol.

3. Mainstream alternative, Offspring, Greenday. Then stuff like radio rap like Coolio and rnb like boyz ii men.

4. Found love in hiphop, with wu-tang, biggie smalls, the roots, nas, mos def... all the good stuff.

5. started actually getting into dj'ing. going into club hiphop/commercial house/trance (modjo, daft punk, arman van helden, atb, alice deejay, darude)

6. discovered rank 1 - airwave, and dj tiesto's rmx of silence. I was like, woah. Then couldn't stop downloading trance.

Now I like raw melodic sounds like flutlicht, or mat silver, and the polished sounds of PVD, and hybrid and stuff.

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