I thought this would be a pretty cool thread to start.. tell me when and what you have been listening to over the years and if your answer is electronica your whole life well thats just bull shit. ill start it off

Ages 1-7 ---
pretty much anything my parents played...or my brother, both my parents listening to pretty much everything from classical to classic rock...my brother was a Miami Bass head with his tricked out mini-truck
ages 8-10 ---
i started defining my self and "playing with the buttons in the car" as my grandfather put it..i ever got some of my first tapes....Phil Collins tape with the song "In the air of the night" Guns and Roses November Rain David Bowey labrinth sound track..I also start playing saxaphone at this time sooo i like kenny G.
ages 11-13---
continued to play sax till i was 13....and begin to enjoy a larger variety of music Tech-master PEB(miami bass) Cynthia- Change on me(80's freestyle), pink floyd, Orbital(my first ever techno CD) and i still listening to a shit load of rock i went to my first concert at 13 to see spacehog.
ages 14-16
I changed what instrument i played at 14 to bassoon and began to enjoy atlot of classical music.. but rock was my mainstay Chilli peppers, Sponge, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, pretty much all new rock.
age 17----
I began to play guitar quiting bassoon to form a band....yet i have refound techno angelmoon- hes all i wanted, grace not over - yet, La rissa -jay and jane, and i dug out my orbital tape that i have had since 92 and began to listen to it, it was da fuqin bomb Halcyon jumps to my Number 1 track..soo i buy the cd..
ages 18-20---
This brings me to my current state of music taste I still play regulary in a rock band with my friends....but in 2000 upon the release of Sasha's GU13 Cd inspires me to start DJing sooo within about 6 months of getting the cd i purchase turntables and a mixer and buy as many of the records on the GU13 album as i can and began to try and mix like him...pretty much been a prossive fan ever since that cd. Nowadays i dj at a few local clubs for fun here in west palm but school prevents me from doing anything serious with it.
peace,

Ages 1-12---
Mainly listened to pop, commercial radio, thats sort of stuff; Fox FM mainly (for those people in Melbourne)

Ages 13-16--
Took the leap into alternative, heavy stuff; Looking back these would have to be the worst years I listened to music, although I thought otherwise at the time. Pantera, Metallica, RATM, Sepultura, you name it, chances are I listened to it. I will never become a constant listener of such rubbish again in my life.

Age 17
Swearing seemed to be "cool" around this time in my life, and ghetto-style rap was the "in" music at my school, so I jumped from the alternative scene to the rap scene. Soon realised that it was mainly tripe so didnt listen to it that much.

Ages 18-Present
Stumbled upon Trance/Dance/House through Darude .. My friends were still stuck in the above genre's, so I went at it alone, much to their disgust ("it sounds the same, doof, doof etc...")
Still here after 18 months, and I will never look back. I have never found such beautiful music, and I hope that I never will. Trance is harmony to my ears , I love it.

Still find time to listen to some old-skool hip-hop, Jurassic 5, DJ Shadow, that sorta stuff, and occasionally classical music (soundtrack stuff), but my heart belongs to trance, and that is where it will stay!

A friend showed me this website in my first year at UNI, and ive been hooked on it since, ehhe

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Ages 1-5: rock a bye baby, whatever my mom sang to me at night

Ages 6-9: nothing...

Ages 10-14: pop on the radio, however my first favourite song was a dance track

Ages 15-17: Alternative, our lady peace, weezer, green day type stuff

Ages 18-present: trance trance and more trance I never listen to anything else anymore and I don't feel like i'm missing anything.

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Tunes that'll kick your azz:

Tony Walker - Field of Joy (Original Mix)
DJ Centaury & Wavetraxx - Dark Angel (Original Club Mix)
Flutlicht - Icarus (Original Daedalus Mix)

ages 1-7 : whatever my mom listened to (mainly alot of 80's garbage).

ages 8-15 : discovered & fell in love with hip-hop. Mortal Kombat the movie came out around this time I believe. I went and bought the soundtrack, which set in motion my love for electronic music.

ages 16-20 : Still listening to hip-hop, and my interest in electronic music grew. Listened to a classmates cd one day called fat of the land & became a huge prodigy fan. I then got my first computer. I started downloading techno and trance songs off of mp3.com. Then I somehow discovered the djs john digweed and sasha which sealed my love for trance and other similar genres. Came across photek the same year which introduced me to dnb. Heard my first jungle track from a movie called groove, which blew my mind. Rather than switching between musical styles like most I've accumulated a number of tastes over the years.

ah this is fun...

born 1976...

early 80's listened to my parents stuff... Carole King, The Police, The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran ///"Syncronicity was my favorite album in my youth.

mid 80s dad moved out of the house, and took all the music with him, I started listening to country radio, something about country that just made me feel in touch with nature.

88-92 The Amiga Computer is released, the Turrican game came out and had the first synth tunes that truly moved me. I think the pop songs that stood out in this era were, Nu Shooz - I cant wait, & When in Rome - The Promise... both beautiful tunes. Well the ones that I remember having heard, I only listened to country radio at the time, so I never got too much Top40 exposure. Being a loner for the most part helped distance me away from mainstream music...

92-96 just listened to computer game music/country music.

97 started buying records after hearing some silly anime theme songs.
first record I truly loved was the Pet Shop Boys "Singles Collection" album.. From there I bought all the synth tunes I could find, some I like, some I dont. Discovered the genre trance in 2000 by buying a couple of mixes that I didn't like much, although it had a beat I liked at the time, so I asked this dude online to give me some trance recommendations and he recommended...

Ferry Corsten - Solar Serenades ///
PVD - Out there & Back & //
Paul Okenfold - A Voyage into Trance, which would set off my love for psytrance.
That dude must love that PVD album too, he said the music on that album is sheer class, and it is. I also liked his eurodance recommendations too, euro/freestyle is the only Top40 music I'll listen to besides the odd country tune. Which reminds me, Riding with Private Malone is a great country song.

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Current fav albums

DNA, kick me up
Protoculture, Circadians

age 1 - 10 = ahaha pop ^_^
age 11- 12 = Rock= korn, rage against the machine
age 13= hip hop= dr dre
age 14= Rock= Tool, a perfect circle and nine inch nails

at the end of 14 my brother introduced me with ayla..fell in love..and now i am 15 almost 16..

.all i listen to is now trance.

0 -6 ------
listened to my dads motown and northern soul stuff, which i still like now

6 - 8 ----
when i was 6 (1988) my dad discovered house music and acid house... my lovestory began right there. i got a few house albums, and was into stuff like stakker - humanoid, fast eddie - i can dance, fast eddie - acid thunder. bomb the bass, beatmasters, yazoo, jungle brothers

8 - 12 ----
by this time, dance music was becoming more breakbeaty, and the RAVE scene emerged... was listening to stuff like ratpack - searchin for my rizla & captain of your ship (name?), a homeboy a hippie and a funky dread, scientist - the bee (scientist is now dj hype), messiah, and early urban takeover stuff, dream frequency - take me to the top, acen - trip to the moon (parts 1 2 & 3) LA Style - james brown is dead, Praga kahn - rave alert, and prodigy stuff

12 - 16 ----
oh yeahhh the hardcore era, lol... started listeing to more underground breakbeat hardcore n jungle.
listening to tracks like rhythm section - dreamworld, sonz of loop da loop era - far out, smd - smd 1,2,3 etc, , then came in hard techno... and i dont mean like picotto techno or cj bolland. im talking 180 bpm plus (which was very fast for the time) then as it progressed upt o speeds like 220bpm the up to 250 bpm+, lol...

i bought my decks at 13 (1995)and i bought my first 12" Nasenbluten - the really nasty violent sex e.p.. and started buying old skool hardcore and uk hard techno records. along with jungle, dutch gabba, and US industrial techno, along with yup. you guessed it. speedcore!...artists include the likes of lenny dee, ruffneck records, cenobyte records, rob gee, delta 9, Disciples of Annihilation (d.o.a), dj skinhead, nasenbluten. then discovered Deathchant records, which i fell in love with, producers like DJ Hellfish, technological terror crew, and DJ Producer

16 - 20 --- now!----
at 16 i got bored bored of ppl hating my music and discovered trance and dance music.... also discovered french disco....i saw stardust - music sounds better with you, on roulé records, and went from there.
then 1998, i bought bought stuff like... gouryella - 1998, veracocha - carte blanch, system f - out of the blue etc etc etc...
then str8 onto the fuck hard shit baby!!!! woooooooooooooot lol discovered thats theres more to trance than girls singing and pianos n stuff, but hard b-lines and acid lines etc etc etc....

now here i am. listening to hard trance, acid trance, acid techno, hardstyle, along with everything else i listened to in the past

all styles that i have listened to and enjoyed and maybe dj'ed too are....

acid house
french disco
old skool break beat hardcore
bouncey techno and cheesey gabber
jungle
big beat
uk hard techno
dutch gabba
industrial techno
trance
acid trance
acid techno
hardstyle

lol quite a list.... also aphex twin... not sure on his style tho lol
peace.

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Bring it on down son, so you can get done, I got more styles than the miles to the sun,
Ninety three million five thousand flows, and heres one more for the HOoOoOoOOO'S!!!

I arrived @ trance 2 years ago from dance & eurodance.
I change trance with dance but yet listen other genres that listened before to know trance.

0-8 : No idea (my first ever single was 'Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini' !!!)
8-12 : Jean-Michel Jarre (we can see where this is leading )
12-15 : Cheezy dance stuff from the charts
15-17and11months : Trance and nothing but trance
17and11months : Mates took me to a rock club and a discovered rock
17and11months-present(19) : Half trance (moved on to more *real* trance and less commercial trance) and half rock.

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Originally posted by fr0st if your answer is electronica your whole life well thats just bull shit.

But it's true... I discovered Eurodance and commercial house when I was 8/9, becuase the kids on my school were allowed to have parties (during the day) in a club in our neighbourhood, it changed my life Over the years, I discovered other genres and that's how I got into trance. Here's my timeline:

0-8: Well... I used to watch cartoons, so I listened to cartoon music, which doesn't really count, does it?

9-13: Most Eurodance, commercial house and all that "dance music" stuff they played in the radios.

14-17: A school teacher gave me a tape with lots of different genres (like breakbeat and industrial), so I started to look for some other genres, and I would listen to lots of big beat, techno, synthpop, hardtrance, blah, blah, blah... it was also the time when I got my internet connection, so I would spend hours on-line looking for new artists and stuff.

17-19: Mostly trance, even though I've been listening to lots of techno and drum'n'bass during the past months.

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hmmm lets see...

as a kid i listened to what my parents liked aka INXS, U2, Classic Rock etc...

in middle school i listened to stuff that my friends big brother liked cause it made us cool hehe aka more u2, pulp, tori amos, bjork, tricky...

i'd say 8th grade i got into electronic and never looked back.

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Originally posted by fr0st if your answer is electronica your whole life well thats just bull shit.

btw i was lieing, thats why i gave track names and stuff for proof

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Bring it on down son, so you can get done, I got more styles than the miles to the sun,
Ninety three million five thousand flows, and heres one more for the HOoOoOoOOO'S!!!