mmm... good stuff in this thread...

27 now. grew up in poland up to age 7, moved to SF, and then would go back to visit family every couple summers, where i would be surrounded by eurodance kind of stuff, not yet appreciating all the other genres at age 10-12.

here in the US, the most i could find on my own on the radio was freestyle, electro, and old afrika bambatta kind of beats (i would listen more to hip hop stations rather than rock).

then summer vacation in europe at age 14 (around 1995), it all came together! i discovered so many sub-genres of edm and loved them all, especially the stuff coming out of berlin. it was all so different and refreshing than the "rave music" that i had heard back in the US.

then finally i found a source for some of this in the US with wild 107's "nocturnal transmissions/house nation" and live 105's "subsonic" (i'd get up at midnight to tape record them; i still have some of the tapes). but it was difficult finding any friends my age into the stuff.

a couple summers later, went clubbing and partying in europe at age 16 and and came back to US to discover the rave scene which i just didn't care for. went a few times, and still totally kept up with the music, but mostly waited around to hit age 18 and 21...

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im with Starboy...

just 2 years ahead.. circa 1994..

I'm 30 years old now. I grew up listening all types of electronic music in the 80s from synthpop (Depeche Mode (my fave band of all time), Cetu Javu, Erasure, Red Flag, Pet Shop Boys etc.) to Italo Disco or Asian New Wave (Den Harrow, Savage, Gazebo, Modern Talking, Bad Boys Blue) to New Beat (Robotiko Rejekto, Public Relations, Moskwa TV) and in the 90s I got into freestlye (Stevie B, Johnny O, Noel, Information Society) and Eurodance (Fun Factory, 2Unlimited, Captain Hollywood Project) and also industrial dance/EBM (Front 242, A Split Second, Apoptygma Berzerk, VNV Nation). So it wasn't a hard transition to get into trance and other edm styles in early 2000. First clubbing experience was Gabriel & Dresden at 1015 in I believe 2003 or 2004.

Im 22 and I have been listening EDM since '99 back in Peru. Djs: Oakenfold, sandra collins, hernan cattaneo, slacker, three, dave ralph, mauro picotto. My first party was in 2001 with Mauro Picotto, Voyager and Luke Brancaccio in Peru.

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Originally posted by Direct Ive been smoking weed since I was 12. Drank my first beer at age 8.

Too cool for school.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On OOKA-OOKA ME NACHOS ME PRESS KEYS ON COMPUTER GOOD

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Originally posted by Direct Ive been smoking weed since I was 12. Drank my first beer at age 8.

HELLL MUTHA FUCK'N YEAHHHHH!!!!!

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Jaded, old fart is me.

Started out buying "Techno" CD's from the Asian Garden Mall back in 96ish....I finally turned 18 and went to my first club that played "Happy Hardcore" in '98 at a club in Irvine called Metropolis.....Unfortunately they closed Metropolis down...Then started going out to the FunHaus on Thursday nights at the Circus...Didn't pop my first candy until '99 (Nordic Trac days) at Masterdome...I definitely miss those dance battles at Masterdome and MASSIVES from '99 to early '00s....I'm now 28 and still following edm closely but not going out as much anymore....

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Originally posted by DJ RANN But nightcrawlers? Maison de Fromage....

Disagree

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got my 1st taste of House back in 88. my friends older brother had just come back from a trip to England, he walks into his room sayin "they got this thing in England called House Music, its so amazing, you guys gotta hear this tape"

we must've listened to that tape like 100 times the very first week, it was so new, so different, especially since Gangsta Rap had just become the hottest thing @ the time. i was instantly hooked, in the early 90's i went to some raves, but no parties. i remember going to the DMC record store on Melrose, hearing DJ's spinning sick ass House on the patio & thinking to myself "wow, this is so amazing"

Danny Tenaglia's "Mix This Pussy", Keoki's 1st album "Journey's By DJ" & Junior Vasquez' "Future Sound Of New York" were instant classics for me, those were the last Mix CD's i listened to for a long, long time since i enrolled in college in the fall of 94 (@ 19) & put EDM on the back burner

i did nothing but HH for 10yrs straight until one glorious weekend back in Apr 2005. was planning a bday wknd in Vegas & invited my ex gf w/a bunch of friends to go. my ex said "hey, since we're gona be in Vegas, do u wanna roll?" i said "what's that?" "roll, take x" i said "we're gona be in Vegas, why not?"

so of all places we go to Body English & DJ AM is spinning. now granted he wasnt playing House, but the mash-ups that night were good & it was my first time. but the craziest thing happened, it was like a light bulb went off, somehow, someway, i became subconsciously drawn back to House. so before the wknd was over i knew what i had to do... dump HH & head over to Avalon

so the next wknd rolls around (4.16.05) & all my HH friends are calling me to go out, i had to tell them that i wouldnt be going w/them for a while and when they asked why, i told them "that i was going back to House" so i went to Avalon by myself, dropped again, seen Hybrid spin a wicked wicked set & met a grip of cool peeps who are still my friends to this day

ive never looked back, becoming more obsessed & more passionate about the scene ever since...

In the scene about 7 years, when I started I was an event planner for a mayor company while attending school, left that, fell in love with the music, and have been treated like shit ever since(LOL). I would not change a thing cuz I've learned powerful lessons that will stay with me till the day I die, I believe everything happens for a reason and the love for this music has honestly shown me the goodness and the evil in people and has given me hope in some really dark moments in the past 6 months.

I'm 24 and grew up in Houston. I started listening to electronic music on MTV in 8th grade with friends from school, which got the sounds into my ear but I didn't get really into it until a couple years later. When I was 17 (2001) I was re-introduced to late-90's trance by a friend and loved it. Independently I started liking breaks but none of my friends shared my enthusiasm, and there is no breaks scene I know of in Houston. My first show was Sasha & Digweed's Delta Heavy show. I was still underage at the time (all age event) but once I turned 18 I started going to Hyperia, which was simultaneously the best club (best sound, music, and people) and the only 18+ club that played electronic music in town. until they closed 3 months after my birthday. Around that time I bought technics and a mixer and started bedroom DJ'ing progressive house. Then after high school I disappeared from the scene almost entirely for the 2 years I spent at the US Naval Academy trying to become a fighter pilot. An injury put an end to that, and military life wasn't for me anyway.

Spent a year back in Houston, which is one of the least happening cities on the planet. There is never more than 1 venue at a time that promotes famous electronic acts (and it is never a good venue) and attaching the word "talent" to any of the locals I've heard (except Randall Jones) would be a huge mistake. If you do go out, the crowds are incredibly uptight and basically nobody dances. Started spinning tech house and techno around the end of that year.

I've been living in Palo Alto, CA for two and a half years now, consider San Francisco my real home, and I'm a burner. Got fed up with mainstream trance/prog clubbing very quickly and started going to undergrounds and breaks parties. Started hanging out with burners about a year and a half ago, went to burning man for the first time this year and it was the best experience of my life. I'm a burner now and that's my scene. And now I'm spinning breaks.