For me it all started with 80-ties pop music and as I grew up I got facinated with synthesizer music, then I enter my dance-phase in the early 90-ties to go over in a shortlived hardcore period halfway through the 90-ties.
Somewhere around 1998 I got in touch with trance music as a whole and began to mainly focus myself onto it. Along the way I picked up a good deal of psy and goa.
In 2001-02 I first heard industrial and electro and it took until near the end of 2002 before I finally went into it and developed my taste alongside my trance(addiction), I also picked up metal along the way and by 2003 i started to head back into hardcore (more specificly frencecore/darkcore/ industrial hardcore). In 2004 I got finally hooked on the raunchiness of industrial and all I have now is an empty wallet and far to much music that I like

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Was always in Depeche Mode, Soft Cell & New Order. I kind of started when my friend gave me some cheese CD's like Scooter and ATB and stuff. I usually liked the rare occassions when cheesy tracks topped the pop charts. Eventually I just started looking for different trance cd's. Got into things like ASOT and the essential mixes but then tried to explore more and delved into things like techno, electro, progressive, break beat and the right back into pure uplifting trance and have kind of started to get into psy now.

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Top 5:
1.Yahel Feat. A-Force - Behind Silence
2.Phynn - Lucid
3.Fred Baker Vs. Keyboards Kids - All Of Us (Fred Baker Mix)
4.Perry O'Neil - Wave Force (Özgür Can Vs. Yilmaz Remix)
5.Evolve - Safe To Dream (Thrillseekers Remix)

Old favourites:
Marco Bailey & Redhead - Watch Out
Matt Darey Presents Li Kwan - Point Zero 2004
Fictivision Vs. C-Quence - Symbols (Original Mix)

hmm

back when i was younger it was always rock/grunge ex: nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, stone temple pilots, smashing pumpkins


then when i hit uni in 98 something changed. i met a group of people that introduced me to electronic music. then it was trance and hardhouse. i fell in love with the music, being there, dancing, just letting go of everythign that had been superimposed on me all those years.


from there i grew

eventually found my way to idm and acid techno in about 2001, and have never looked back. it is still my fave stuff

mmm...D.A.V.E. the Drummer and rdj being my fave

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started in Euro in the mid 90's, moved to jungle then trance in 2000 and I loved Tiesto, Armin and PvD for a while then my tastes just expanded into sasha and digweed, kleinenberg, lawler and others. My tastes continue to evolve like mad, my CD collection is so varied and I can't say I like one genre the best, I like them all, I am really an EDM lover and you just move out to experience other music and I have so many genres now, I don't know what to play at times.

then:
Trance - Ferry Corsten, Armin Van Buuren

now:
Portishead, Massive Attack, Spook, The Beatles, Sarah Blasko, KT Tunstall

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• TRACKS FOR GRAPE PICKING
• TRACKS WHEN YOU HAVE GLITTER STUCK ALL OVER YOU

Call me a moleass if this wasn't a huge endeavour in necromantic practives.

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TranceCritic ftw!

As a young kid, i.e. around 8 years old, I fell in love with the Prodigy, and my mum bought me The Fat Of The Land for my birthday. A few years later, around the 98-00 trance boom my Mum was going out to the local club 'The Crystal Rooms', where Judge Jules was resident, and even PvD would make the occasional visit. I asked her what kinda music it was thinking it would be stuff similar to the Prodigy, so I asked her to get me a couple of CD's of the stuff she was listening to. I got a couple of early Matt Darey Euphoria compilations, and from about the age of 12 I loved it. I would listen to trance all the time, but I didn't really follow it, per se.

While about 14/15 I fell in love with Drum & Bass (Roni Size in particular), but got pretty bored of listening to the same stuff over and over again, and so I started listening to trance again and started paying more attention to the scene. It wasn't until about a year, maybe a year and a half ago that I branched from the sterotypical Tiesto/PvD big anthem trance into other genres, and now I listen to pretty much everything from Prog to Techno to DnB to Electro to Trance to House...

I've been brought up listening to stuff like The Smiths, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Joy Division etc from my Mum's side, by then my Dad's taste varies from Iron Maiden to The Jam/The Clash/Sex Pisols to Madness, and I still listen to 95% of what my parent's do. My music taste is seeeriously varied, but I'd get bored of music pretty quick if it wasn't!

I started off listening to classic trance (by that I mean the 98/99 stuff) and just kept collecting the euphoria/gatecrasher/godskitchen cd’s so I had all the main anthems (to me they were anthems for a reason, just straight up good tunes)… and no matter how hard I try I can’t get into today’s ‘trance’ of AVB style, but I really adore the prog house/prog trance out there like Gabriel & Dresden

I also grew to love what I call ‘party breaks’ ie Freestylers, Breakfastaz, Freeland… it was a bit too awkward for me at the start without the four/four beat, but now it’s undoubtedly one of the best genres for me to dance to.

Seeing a Carl Cox set made me realise I don’t mind a bit of tech, so long as it’s party bombs and not that minimal shit.

I have also realised I don’t necessarily hate house, I just hate that cheesy, overplayed vocal stuff that sounds really good first listen and gradually wears incredibly thin after that…

The only thing that has truly evolved for me however is that I now adore progressive Digweed style- that dirty, hard yet minimal sound that traps you on a dancefloor! I can’t get enough of it!

I started off being into real new agey music like Enya as well as more dance based (but still kind of "new agey" i guess) like Enigma and Delerium. I then got into electronic music that was mainstream and a little on the breaks/big beat or eclectic side, like Prodigy, Moby, Crystal Method etc. I moved on from there into early progressive and melodic trance/house from DJs/Producers like Paul Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, BT, Sasha, John Digweed, Nick Warren and all the stuff like that from the later 90s. I then went through a cheese phase, where I enjoyed DJ Sammy (I still don't know why I was into this crap), ATB (his early stuff though was brilliant, Movin' Melodies esp) Ian Van Dahl and Lasgo. I was only into this stuff for less than a year, and then I got into the big, epic trance anthems played and produced by Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, DJ Tiesto, George Acosta, Above & Beyond and stuff like that.

I kind of got tired of the same sounds with this stuff (but still enjoy some of it to this day) and discovered stuff that had similar formula (build, breakdown, build up etc), but deeper and using new sounds from other genres but still keeping the magic that I love with trance. Some of these DJs haved followed suit and played some of this stuff that some may call "McProg" but I think of a lot of it as drawing a fine line between being melodic and epic and also being progressive and deep at the same time, the best of both worlds. This includes my current favorites like Probspot, Mark Otten, Perry O'Neil, Hydroid, Envio, Kalafut & Fygle, Micro de Govia, Jonas Steur/Estuera, Benz & MD, and Peter McCowan/Alucard among others. This stuff uses alot of the stuff I really enjoyed early on with trance, and then the later stuff as well without the cheese that I got into for a little while (still embarrased about that stuff but it was just a stupid phase).

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Robots, machines, mechanical beings
Automatic and synthetic, we have the means
To take control of this planet and the human race
With our electronic rhythms and the Armageddon Bass

Started off listening to Industrial and EBM as an angstfull teenager and then progressed somewhat ironically to a glowstick toting raver after I discovered E. Although I never sucked on a dummy or wore a smiley face on my forehead, the deep desire to do so was always there. I have no idea what music it was they were playing then. Techno, Happy Hard, Jungle.. it all sounded really new anyway. Really popped my EDM cherry with that shit and I still measure the wow factor of today against those innocent memories.

Had a brief flirth with Breakbeat/Drum n Bass during the genre explosions that came during the mid nineties. Until finally I found my true calling one fatefull night back in 98 when I was introduced to GOA. She became the love of my life and together we went to lots of outdoor parties, expanded our minds and generally had a blast. As the relationship progressed, she became an exotic, focussed and intense creature, maturing into Psy.

During that time I had a short affair with a dumb ass blonde with big tits called Uplifting Trance. She was great fuck for about a year or so until I realise it was a big elaborate hoax designed to test my attention span.

Starting to dig techno again too... also getting curious at where DnB is these days...

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my tastes have been mainly epic trance orientated since 1996. tinkered with prog in 2001, prog breaks in 2003, and techtrance 2005, always seem to end back up where i started though and i've always liked the odd indie track and chillout stuff too. evolving tastes is one thing i've never seemed to get