I'm lazy so I am copying what I wrote in another thread that started to discuss something very similar.


I listened to various EDM starting in the early 90's. I honestly couldn't tell you which songs got me tuned into EDM.

I still remember the first time that I heard music like Papau New Guinea, Out of Body Experience, Flaming June. I remember that feeling of "wtf is that"? All of this breakbeat music around me and here was this sound that I wasn't used to. I really think that me listening to music like that in the mid to late 90's was the gateway to me getting involved with trance. The song that did me in...I mean really did me in...was Paul van Dyk's remix of 1998. I had heard other trance music that peaked my interest that year (or I probably wouldn't have sought out music like 1998), but that song just got under my skin. I don't know what it was about it, but I was hooked after that. 1998 was the defining year for me. Between then and 1999 I had became a bonafide trance addict. Some of the other trance that I had heard around that time period still had some form of vocals in it...like the Gamemaster...which of course is a classic. But when I heard songs like Cafe del Mar, Cream, Greece 2000, Gouryella, Xpander, Carte Blanche, Out of the Blue, Universal Nation, Madagascar, Saltwater, Godspeed, etc...I knew that this was the kind of music...the kind of trance that my ears had been craving.

pet shop boys ... skip a decade ... starparty - i'm in love, and rythm of life - heaven with your touch ... oh, and and tori amos/bt blue skies.


then onto tiesto, ferry, and everyone elts.

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My EDM Time Line

Nov. 2001 :: Started using Ecstasy
Jan. 2002 - June 2002 :: Listened to DJ Encore, Ian van Dahl and all that commercialized euro-dance music.
June 2002 - December 2002 :: Read a Rolling Stone article about the best DJ's in the world...Paul Oakenfold was listed as the biggest in the world and that his "Tranceport" album was an essential mix to own so I went out and bought it along with John Digweed's Global Underground 19: Los Angeles.
December 2002 - May 2003 :: Discovered Psy-Trance and went mad crazy buying import psy-trance CDs which in turn started my massive CD collection. I was addicted to artists like Infected Mushroom, Hallucinogen and Doof. Stopped using Ecstasy.
May 2003 - Now :: Transitioned back to trance, progressive and the likes...now I am addicted to Tiesto, Marco V, Armin, James Holden and many many more, not to mention I own over 100 EDM Cd's and my collection grows each weekend.

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Infected Mushroom

"Dancing With Kadafi"
"Symphonatic"

'Nuff Said...

Going back to my sophmore year in high school, William Orbit was the reason trance came into my life. I forgot what the song was however.

Darude I guess came second once I heard Sandstorm and then Delirium.

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Where has the time gone??????

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Originally posted by DjJoker_bliss I was always into Trance and such things. I was first into freestye through my sisters influence. Then It went into everything else. I like trance but its not limited to it. I am into dance, techno, happy hardcore, and Italo Dance. Plus this is the best kind of music around.

Freestyle? When I think of freestyle I think of music by Stevie B and TKA. Maybe that's because I am from Florida. What is freestyle for you?

In 2000 I was downloading Oakys essential sets from Napster. That is what got me into it.

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Major Johnson - February Progressive Mix

Download Other Mixes

Sunbeam - Outside World combined with Blank and Jones - The Nightfly(hearing this on a Luftansa flight to Germany), Green Court - Moonflight ... there was no turning back

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Originally posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 Mortal Kombat Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 01. A Taste of Things to Come 02. Gravity Kills - Goodbye (Demo) 03. KMFDM - Juke-Joint Jezebel (Giorgio Moroder Metropolis Mix) 04. Psykosonik - Unlearn (Josh Wink's Live Mix) 05. Traci Lords - Control (Juno Reactor Instrumental) 06. Orbital - Halcyon + On + On 07. Utah Saints - Utah Saints Take on the Theme from Mortal Kombat 08. Geezer (GZR) - The Invisible 09. Fear Factory - Zero Signal 10. Sister Machine Gun - Burn 11. Type O Negative - Blood & Fire (Out of the Ashes Mix) 12. Bile - I Reject 13. Napalm Death - Twist the Knife (Slowly) 14. Mutha's Day Out - What U See/We All Bleed Red 15. The Immortals - Techno-Syndrome 7" Mix 16. Goro vs. Art (Featuring Buckethead) 17. Demon Warriors/Final Kombat

KICK ASS thanks bro

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I started with things like Sarina Paris, Vengaboys, Alice Deejay, etc. before hearing of PvD, Armin, Ferry, etc.

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All-Time Favorites:
1.) Gouryella - Tenshi (Transa Remix)
2.) Paul van Dyk feat. Hemstock & Jennings - Nothing But You (PvD Original Mix)
3.) Andain - Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Unplugged Mix)
4.) Matt Hardwick vs. Smith & Pledger - Day One (Above & Beyond Remix)

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Originally posted by trancebrat Freestyle? When I think of freestyle I think of music by Stevie B and TKA. Maybe that's because I am from Florida. What is freestyle for you?

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Yep thats what it was well it started with that. Then I went into something totally different. But if it wasn't for that I don't thing i would have gone to trance and techno

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Originally posted by DjJoker_bliss \ Yep thats what it was well it started with that. Then I went into something totally different. But if it wasn't for that I don't thing i would have gone to trance and techno

Same here. Only two other people that I know went down the same path. Interesting. I used to love Freestyle...I grew up on it. Stevie B, TKA, Coro, Johnny O, Tolga, Tonasia, George LaMond, K7, Trinere, Cynthia, Trilogy, etc.