I'm gonna post a little update since I already posted a fairly complete history a few months back. In general I just follow curiosity, I'll stumble upon something serendipitously and explore it further until something else grabs my attention. I had alot of fun with the demoscene stuff everal months ago, I've been given all kinds of recomendations for different things since then.

But overal I have just tried an increasingly wide variety of things, I find myself exploring this "electronic art music" a bit more these days. It was kinda an accident, I started taking a class thinking they would teach production techniques and instead are giving me this giant history of the artsy side of electronic music, and I must say that I had no friggin idea this stuff could be so interesting. I'm starting to interperet music in a different way and things are sounding interesting again, I've grown to accept things that I don't immediately find pleasurable listening to, taking time to try and understand or learn something about a song really makes it alot more fun. No longer requiring songs to sound a cetrain way definately makes good music easier to find, you take a song and just throw all your pre-existing assumptions about music out the window, you listen intently trying to undertand what is the goal of the music and what does the musician do to reach that goal, if you have enough clues then the songs can actually teach you intresting things, tell you interesting messages, give you all sorts of crazy ideas. I've started going back through my old colection, listening to songs this way and it has made me enjoy my music again.

I don't think I can say I have evolved from trance and into some other style, I feel like I have just added more things in addition to the trance, learned how to like more than I used to like, and found a way to think of music that allows me to enjoy a much wider variety and enjoy it much more strongly than before.

I suggest you guys talk to music makers, ask them alot of "why" qustions, try and understand what they are about and why they make their songs the way that they do, I met this really deep guy on IRC one day that kinda started me along this path im on right now.

To evolve is to suggest that I have grown out of a certain style of music. For example 90's dance to progressive trance. I don't think I ever evolved. In fact, my music tastes are expanding rather than evolving. When I first started getting into EDM I was around 9 years old and admired music from artists such as Technotronic, Real McCoy, Amber, La Bouche and so on. I have not grown out of that because I still love listening to their music every now and then. Those artists opened other doors for me that I never knew existed especially their remixes. Some of the remixes associated with those artists had bits and pieces of trance and house elements that were new to me and it was not until this millenium where my tastes started expanding. Right now I find myself listening to a lot Frank Sinatra stuff recently. It was often classified by me as music for old people, but after listening to his catalogue a lot of it is very good. Of course Frank Sinatra is not edm, but I'm just enforcing my point that for me my tastes expand, not evolve.

1999 - Transition from Hip-Hop to EDM through Moby's Play
2000 - Kept with Moby, and a mix of popular MTV stuff
2001 - Started listening to Top-40 EDM, eventually heard artists such as Moonman and Gouryella, both of which were the main reason for me liking Trance. Also went through a DnB phase.
2002 - Trance, DnB
2003 - Trance. Listened to some Sasha & Digweed stuff, thought it was boring.
2004 - Transition from Trance to House towards the end of the year. Started to enjoy all facets of EDM, often listening to Techno, Chillout, and DnB.
2005 - House primarily, although I still enjoyed a lot of varying sub-genres.

timeline order
-rock, oldies
-hip hop, cheezy trance and cheezy house
-trance, cheezy house
-trance, house, drum&bass, breaks
-prog trance, prog house
-prog house, trance
-now: house: proggy, electro, tribal, acid.... trance: prog, tech-trance.... techno
but i still listen oldies ( depeche mode, nirvana,60s, 70s, 80s music ....)

when i first got into EDM, it was around 2002. but most of the music i started listening to was stuff from '99/'00 to '02. i was huge into the Magik Series, and i guess pretty much anything Tiesto spun.

but over the years, i've shifted to more of an "Armin" sound. i'm no ASOT Whore [mainly because i just forget on thursdays], but Armin's livesets are usually cool. but then again i'm a fan of blank & jones, perry o'neil, peter martin, and matthew dekay.

so i don't really know if my music listening has "evolved" considering i'm really just all over the place. oh well. i guess nowadays i'm looking for stuff that is really more along the lines you'd hear in a nightclub or something [big bass, big buildups, etc...]. trance/prog that has more emotion to it. damn is any of this making sense?