At first I started off with Oakenfold, Tiesto, PVD, etc, but, in the words of sander kleinenberg: "everyone grows up eventually."

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I started in the mid 90's with my brother having me listen to a pleathora of different kinds of music. Including gangasta rap, classics rock almost anything and everything which was quite hard for a young teenager to comprehend.

My first taste of dance music was when i heard KLF - The White Room. OF course we all know its blend of trance/techno riffs and ambient music made it a classic. Up there with Underworld and Orbital's early work. That facinated where people listened and danced to this kind of music. I got into 1999 trance when i started going clubbing. But due to uni i ended up goin cheesy clubbing so got back into my bands and went cheesy clubbing for a good year or two.

When i went back proper clubbing around 2001-2002 i found my favoutire genre which is still my fav and thats euphoric trance. Its what i love to dance to and listen to although ill listen to anything that sumone puts in front of me. Im still into my bands etc but just not quite as much but im sure ill go back to that ie where i started after i stop clubbing. I like techno in small doses but far prefer it in a club enviornement than at home. The psy/goa thing ive never been into and for that a lot of tranceaddicts probably think im unevolved. Thats your opinion.

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Originally posted by gizzymcg When i went back proper clubbing around 2001-2002 i found my favoutire genre which is still my fav and thats euphoric trance. Its what i love to dance to and listen to although ill listen to anything that sumone puts in front of me. Im still into my bands etc but just not quite as much but im sure ill go back to that ie where i started after i stop clubbing. I like techno in small doses but far prefer it in a club enviornement than at home. The psy/goa thing ive never been into and for that a lot of tranceaddicts probably think im unevolved. Thats your opinion.

Yeah I think some people look at this music from a dance music or club scene perspective, like how it goes down in a club. I think some people, well for me at least, as I mentioned in my last post, look at it through is something enjoyable to listen to AND to dance to as well. I mean I've never been into techno (the most stereotypical, commonly played stuff) because of the fact that it's unlistenable to me, the same to me about hard, tech and psy trance. That stuff sure would go down great on the dancefloor, but is this something that you can enjoy just listening to with your headphones on, or on a CD in your car, in your house wherever? I mean trance HAS potential, I've gone over and over this. And no I don't mean potential as the next pop music, but potential as being more than just dance or club music. I think of trance as more "conceptual" or "visceral", as putting images in my mind and giving me different feelings and emotions from it. It is almost IMO like "soundtrack" music, because one of my first exposures to stuff similar to this was with the computer game called "Unreal" back in 1997/1998. I just hope more people on TA agree, don't wanna be left in the dark on this

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Originally posted by Phortastic When i was about 12 years old my idol was Michael Jackson and i bought all his albums over the years. It was my idol and i didnt listen to anything else really. After that i started listening to commercial Rap like Eminem, DMX, Ja Rule... shit like that. When i was into rap i was really against anything 'house' (thats how i basicly called EDM back then, but i thought hardcore was the only 'house' music) related. Then i began listening to EDM because i was bored with rap pretty soon tbh. I began listening to hardhouse/hardtrance/retro then i went on to trance and now im more into progressive, house, elektro, ambient. Basicly anything that sounds good. So you could say i made quite an evolution But I still like good hardtrance, good trance and stuff. I still even like Michael Jackson his work. Anything up to 1995 anyway, what he made after that is pretty much crap. I dont listen to commercial rap anymore though. I really hate it even. And i dont like to listen to hardhouse anymore. But all the other genres i was really into when i was younger i still like now (if it is good)...

I have ahd a very similar evolution with a few differences.

From the time I was born till a few years ago when I moved out of the house, my father would have music playing pretty much all the time. In the morning he'd play classical of various sorts...on a rainy day he would play some Phil Glass pianio works, on Saturdays he would play Jazz from the likes of pretty much every great Jazz Musician to have recorded something. Thelonius Monk, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and i could keep going for about a page. His CD collection which is in our Garage at the moment counts about 7,500, from all different genres.

So baisically I was introduced to tons of music from all different styles that was just constantly playing. He got me into Moby when I was in high school. I loved Play, and he also introduced me to St. Germain, Vangelis, etc. I really liked the more repetetive but melody focused electronic music. For awhile in high school I listened to Rap, mostly because everyone else did and thats what I had to hear at parties...so I figured I might as well make the best of it.

In 2003 a friend from the UK introduced me to trance, Ferry Corsten - Punk to be exact, and I was hooked. I got heavily into trance, but mostly just listened to it on my own since no one in the US has a clue what it is or any ability to appreciate it. I started out a n00b liking Armin Tiesto & Co, simply because they were all I knew since they were the most talked about.

Slowly through TA I started hearing different music, progressive mixes from the amateur forum interested me, and I found a copy of Involver in September of 04'.

I didnt know who the fuck Sasha was but the relaxing and deep qualities of Involver rally did it for me...and I realised how great this music is when stoned

So I still was mostly into trance but I listened to alot of prog house too...and baisically anything...my UK friend had since gotten into happy hardcore, which I enjoyed for about 5 minutes before deleting most of it from my computer.

After seeing a very dull trance set from Johan Gielen in Feb 05' (even on drugs), I had an interesting experience listening to John Digweed - Fabric 20, while coming down, and it was a turning point...I had just never heard such a variation and creativity in the sounds used, in trance compared to this.

Right now I've been into more minimal and techy stuff but if you see my last mix my tastes are all over the board, since I like stuff from pretty much every genre of EDM excluding hardcore.

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Hmmm.. let see.. well I think it started in 98.. whatever the year was when Zombie Nation came out.. I was basically oblivious to EDM at the time but when I would go into my older brother's car he had this cassette mixtape and it got me really interested about this music... the only songs I remember from the tape are Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 and Sarah Mclachlan - I Love You (BT Mix).. there was also another song with a guy saying something like "YOURE 5000 MILES AWAY ON A JET PLANE!!! GO INSANE!!!" something like that lol...

then when Napster came around and the eruption of P2P programs I just started downloading basically anything that I knew was EDM.. it was mainly trance and cheesy stuff such as Eurodance.. some of the first songs I remember were Gouryella - Gouryella, Ayla - Ayla, Ayla - Liebe, ATB - Killer, DJ Sakin - Protect Your Mind... also started to download whatever was uploaded on homeofmusic.com at the time. Would take forever to download on my 28k modem

then as the years progressed I focused mainly on trance music.. keep fast forwarding and fast forwarding to my first year of college i met a good friend tony who was really into house music and that began to sort of expand my horizons.. he also showed me mixmeister and that amazed me that anyone could make a mix with this program.. but he liked a lot of funky fruity house and it was too funky and gay for me at the time.

started listening to his mixes and checking out house music now.. got more into it but still didnt interest me as much as trance.. discovered gabriel & dresden and loved how their tracks blended certain elements of trance and house together..

lets see im getting tired of typing now so we'll just fast forward to say the first quarter of 2004... i was really getting tired of trance at this time, started making fewer trance mixes and began to look into the prog house, prog trance, and house genres much more. Albums such as Fundacion, Howells GU27, Nick Warren GU28, Hernan Cattaneo's Master Series Volume 2 really began to interest me. After albums like these I was basically looking for albums where I didn't know tracks, rather than albums where i knew almost all of the tracks in a cd... was also a year where I got more into older tracks of all genres, got all the sets of Oakey's 99 Essential Mixes.

Now I don't really listen to trance all that much except for the occasional new songs that interest me... I still listen to and love older trance songs.. I cant get tired of those epic trance anthems but nowadays I am more open-minded and will listen to anything.. just as long as it's good and keeps me interested

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I used to listen, still listen and will probably for the rest of my life be listening to shit music.

According to my parents.

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Originally posted by Radagast 2. Click Click <------

long time since i've last heard this one.. but it's still great!

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4. Click Click <------

pretty good one, ID please

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Lessee. As a child, my mom would always sing to me a particular Doris Day tune. I guess that sort of lo-fi folkish soul music is what truly hits me, all in the likes of Tina Turner, Bette Midler, lofi staticy gospel, Chuck Berry, that bebop!. Well, it was all in black root. Then, in my angsty teen years, of course it was the rock and rap. Now, at 21, I've dwelved into classical, EDM, folk, experimental, IDM, flamenco, chamber, quartets, quintets, bowiepattiesmith pj harvey bjork pulp pixies instrumental jazz blues indie with the DIY aesthetic ALL of it. Nothing gets more toe ticks or heel claps than the likes of the music of my child roots. last night I twisted to Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell"

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Originally posted by paranoik0 long time since i've last heard this one.. but it's still great! pretty good one, ID please

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i started out buying tranceport 1 and now when i hear it there are way too many drumrolls now i like uplifting trance and prog and i hate drumrolls