Prior to 97' I was driving around town blasting Pink Floyd's - The Wall and slinging 8balls so its kinda of a blur but if my memory is right, I started listening to Ayla and Orbital..
Dec-03-2011 19:38
meriter
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Registered: May 2009
Location:
DJ RYAN: Slangin' yayo since 1997.
Dec-03-2011 19:43
DJRYAN™
www.djryan.com
Registered: Aug 2009
Location: Atlanta, USA
cause I'll be smokin chokin rollin blunts sippin on 40oz's =)
Dec-03-2011 20:14
ultra82
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Genčve
quote:
Originally posted by Vector A
The first one I ever heard? No idea, but the first one I liked enough to remember was probably either "Children" by Robert Miles, or Orbital's "Halcyon + On + On," when I was maybe eleven years old. Didn't learn who did either of those tracks until five or six years later, though.
I had probably heard some eurodance stuff even earlier than that on the radio (Haddaway, Deee Lite, etc.), but I don't remember loving any of it like I did Robert Miles and Orbital.
Same story here bro'
Dec-03-2011 20:39
chaossock
tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: Los Angeles
I had heard EDM-ish tracks incidentally in my life starting around age 10 or 11. My future trance addiction was not yet known, of course, so I wasn't really conscious or aware of how I felt about them. I just know that I was like.. cool with them.
A couple of years later, around age 13, I had realized that I liked the poppy-dance stuf, but again not a passion. I finally encountered an EDM song while watching MTV that just flicked a switch in my head--it was like, THAT'S IT, that's the sound I need. It was Madonna's Right Of Light, and it was great because I could actually see the track info on the TV and finally have a fucking clue about something.
I went to the computer and did my first-ever internet search for trance (I didn't even know that term). Of course I had no idea how to find music, and I only downloaded one sorry thing in all my fumbling around with our 28k modem: Martin Eyerer - Euphoria (Planet Trax Remix). That's the first true EDM track I heard.
I didn't really expand my knowledge of it though; I had no idea how. No commercial radio outlet represented trance where I lived. It wasn't until 2 years later, at age 15, when my older brother, a college freshman at the time, came back home to visit. He brought with him shit tons of early BT that some guy in his dorm gave to him. Needless to say, that music changed my life forever.
TL;DR - Madonna's Ray of Light was the unofficial first song and then Martin Eyerer - Euphoria (Planet Trax Remix) was the official one:
Dec-04-2011 03:23
Zharen
Put down the plate
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: On a spit of sand we call Earth
First heard this on the radio in 95 or 96. Remember getting chills for the first time due to a song. However, it wouldn't be for another 5 years before I actually got into EDM. And the song responsible for that was Basement Jaxx-Red Alert. And even then, it took another 4 more years just to be able to ID and collect the tune, cuz no one in my town knew what it was called.
Dec-04-2011 04:15
mishu.edm
tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2011
Location: Bucharest, Romania
maybe... ATB - Till I come
Dec-05-2011 21:46
Lews
Platipus And Prog Addict
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Hugging Whales And Saving Trees
No clue, because the first time I heard EDM I was 11 and at a live event. I was at a big music festival with my dad and he dragged me away from something stupid to go check out the "electronica" event happening in an awesome place ( http://www.empsfm.org/inc/pano.asp?...o_skychurch.swf ).
Couple months later he bought me John Digweed's MMII and Oakenfold's Tranceport for my birthday, so Pollon's Lonely Planet is the first song I knew the name of.
Originally posted by Lews
Couple months later he bought me John Digweed's MMII and Oakenfold's Tranceport for my birthday, so Pollon's Lonely Planet is the first song I knew the name of.
Haha, so basically you just have the same tastes as your Dad?
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Hugging Whales And Saving Trees
quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Haha, so basically you just have the same tastes as your Dad?
Nah, he doesn't know anything about EDM (or didn't, the last time I talked to him). He just thought I'd like it because I was (and still am) a complete nerd about electronic/futuristic shit. But the DJ playing the night at the festival was someone on Bedrock's roster (according to the MC; I don't remember the name) so he got MMII, and then did did a little searching on what people considered good albums for people to first get into the music and came up with Tranceport.
Btw Gibson is amazing. I'm almost done with Mona Lisa Overdrive, will probably need to buy the Bridge trilogy soon.
Same as Vector A, basically. I heard and liked all of the 90s freestyle stuff like La Bouche, Haddaway, etc., but the first true EDM songs were:
Orbital - Halycon On & On
Robert Miles - Children
Libra presents Taylor - Anomaly (Calling Your Name) [Granny's 7" Edit]
In that order. 2 of the 3 were from Mortal Kombat film soundtracks. I was in middle school at the time (96-97).
Shortly thereafter (around 99), I discovered Tiesto's Magik series after a friend showed me the song "Ice Rain" from Magik 3, found out the genre was named "trance", and the rest is history.
Originally posted by Sushipunk
At least last time you Brits got pissed off, we got punk music out of it. This time, it'll probably just end up being embers breaks
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Dec-06-2011 08:00
Blue Neptune
tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2011
Location: Toronto, Canada
show me love by robin s
fell in love with edm since
