I've been into techno and jungle since the early 90s and didn't even like trance when I first experienced it in the late 90s. Things have changed and even though I'm into trance and prog now techno still holds the #1 spot for me. The prodigy, chemical brothers & chris sheppard's early stuff were a big influence.

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I think I always "liked" techno for as long as I've liked EDM, but only started to "love" it when I finally heard a real techno set at the club, which I believe was a System party with Adam Beyer, Marco Carola and Valentino Kanzyani. It was Beyer's set that really blew the roof off, and I realized how a good techno set can get you totally pumped unlike any other genre and how friggin' fun it was to dance to that kind of music.

Having said that, I've always been more partial to funky or trippy techno and have never really been into the minimal stuff. I think it was the funky side of ALL genres that got me most into it - Erick Morillo for house, Chris & James for trance, Cave/Beyer/MB for techno...

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my taste for techno evolved from my love of idm. stuff like aphex twin's hangable auto bulb, the analogue bubblebath series, and the hard stuff he made really makes me love the composure of techno. also, for some really subtle underlying melodies, autechre's mechanical-sounding stuff is great for trying to pick out a progression in the chaos

i did like trance first tho.

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I basically first got exposed to Techno around '95, when my sister was living in Dublin and getting me to listen stuff from Billy Nasty, Prodigy, Richie & Sven, Misjah, Carl etc.
Went through my househead phase for a few years after that before I started listening mostly to Techno.

I still listen to house and some trance, but techno is definitely what got me wanting to mix!! no turning back.

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Originally posted by Crazy Serb Prodigy...

'nuff said!

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nothing pumps a crowd more than techno! NOTHING!!! its mayham!


its funny cause Nu-NRG were first big techno heads before they moved into hard-trance! as for me i wasnt really a big trance fan (and NO i dont consider mauro's early stuff as trance)

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Originally posted by Jayx1 House and techno is where it all started. I got into it back around 90-91. I must admit that Chris sheppard's techno trip CDs were a big influence on me back then. You have to remember that at one time, Shep actually played underground music. My "starter" music was definately stuff like C&C Music factory back in 1989. LOL! Other big influences were Terry Kelly for progressive (back then prog was a very different sound). Mark Oliver for breaks and house on CFNY's Deadley Hedly show. Matt C for House music (live to air from the Pheonix on CFNY 102).

I feel soooo old when people on here say there first experiences with "real" (non-radio) music was after 2000

"WHEEEEEEEELS!" Chris Sheppard and Deadly Headly kicked ass for a while...C+C Music Factory was fun, lol...how about KLF, Technotronic, etc...all mainstream, but they were all "influences", I suppose

I went through a bit of an industrial phase too thanks to a high school friend...Nitzer Ebb, KMFDM, Front 242 ("Headhunter" was an incredible track for it's time...club dance floors went CRAZY). A lot of early industrial heavily influenced many today's techno DJs, I'm sure.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL AND COME AGAIN!!

I still have those shows on tape too! Also live from the phoenix, i have a tape somewhere where matt c drops jestofunk and you hear the crowd go nuts....

Sometimes I really miss 1992!!

started with jeff mills back in june '01, prolly gonna end with dave clarke at the guv..

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Originally posted by MarkT ...C+C Music Factory was fun, lol...how about KLF, Technotronic, etc...all mainstream, but they were all "influences", I suppose

go back even earlier, 1993/94 with chris shepards techno trip and still trippin and all those...now that was some crazy music...
some of the tracks i was kickin to on those included the poing song, closer to all my dreams, he never lost his hardcore, ohumbratta, there was a crazy mix of phantom of the opera, and SO many others!!!! I loved it!!! "Its the NEWWWWWWW style!"

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i think those chris sheppard tapes were 91-92. By the time 94 hit he was well into his "pirate sessions" and playing tony debart.

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Originally posted by MarkT ...Nitzer Ebb,

Just bought a Nitzer record. a new one even!