96-97 I'd say. Listened to oldschool jungle, techno and then eventually came across trance via the media exposure the Hyperstate parties that took place in Oslo back then got.

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"Wenn du dich zum Untergrund zählst, reicht es nicht, es nur zu sagen. Du musst auch viel graben, um es zu werden."

couldnt vote cause i started listening
IN 1998, too bad it wasnt earlier

For me, it was around 1999. That my introduction to the Trance scene was introduced. Been a happier person Ever Since ...

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~PFUNK~

2000ish

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-tom

after 1998 trance started to get much better and new styles started forming. not to say that before 1998 trance sucked.

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"The 'soul' of the machines has always been a part of our music. Trance always belongs to repetition, and everybody is looking for trance in life... in sex, in the emotional, in pleasure, in anything... so, the machines produce an absolutely perfect trance."
--Ralf Hütter, 1991, quoted in Kraftwerk: Man Machine and Music

About half a year ago...so after '98

hmm..for about 3-4years i have been listening to EDM, since my bro' was playing Fatboyslim, i began to like trance since I've heard we'r alive and for an angel, but got deep in trance only 'bout a year ago.

I wish it was earlier then 98.. but glad im listening to it now

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-In Dust We Trust-

I am great.

I started listening to Trance in 2002, I guess. I randomly checked out some of Tiesto's work on Kazaa (for sampling purposes only, of course) due to somebody just randomly recommending it to me. I absolutely loved it!

Some of my first Trance faves:

Orbital - Halcyon and On and On (of course first heard this track in 1995 or so with the release of the Mortal Kombat soundtrack - been a fan of it ever since, but it's more ambient techno than trance, so we'll disregard this single in terms of this thread's consideration)

Ayla - Ayla

Tiesto - Theme From Norefjell

Delerium - Silence (Tiesto's ISOS Remix)

Push - The Anthem (Universal Nation, really)

It was all just so energizing, I came to fanatically listen to Oakenfold's radio broadcast each Saturday night on a Colorado Radio Station (93.3's The Eleven ) and decided to pick up Tranceport one day. Music has never been the same since

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

in 1998!
One of the first tracks I had was Rank1 - Airwave

but I even remember I liked Brainbug - Nightmare .. (old old track...)


BTW - there is another poll like this..