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Began with rave & the whole oldskool phenomena.
Bought some commercial releases, euro, rave, jungle, whatever was out there to buy really
Found DJs, roughly 1993. Everyone would buy a mixtape from nights like the edge, helter skelter, raindance, fantazia, dreamscape etc and then everyone would borrow everyone elses tapes. Guys like carl cox, digweed, lenny dee, slipmatt, vibes, dj hype, fabio, grooverider, mickey finn, ratpack, top buzz, tony de vit, trevor rockliffe
Began buying whole tape packs, hardcore, 4beat, oldskool, drum&bass
Discovered gabber, trancecore, hard techno, speedcore via the odd tapes on those 4-6-8-12 packs.
Found trance roughly 1996. Most sets I'd buy would be harder trance though, faster, those that weren't included earlier works from cosmic baby, dance2trance, humate amongst a plethora of swiss stuff and uk stuff too.
Moved mnore from hardcore to trance amongst 1998, fully switching over in 99. finally got some ids for the older trance i'd heard from guys like andy cocup, qattara, salt tank, vincent de moor etc.
since then i've been addicted to trance (pre 2004) and in 2004 i got into loop techno, some funky techno & moved onto psychedelic/progpsy/progtrance of today.
Mashed in amongst it all were house, breaks, bigbeat, and garage, mostly what we could hear on the radio or on those tape packs.
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