Back in 1996, two well know songs: Robert Miles - Children & Chicane - Offshore started the ball rolling for me

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Activa - Perception (Original Mix)
Coast 2 Coast - Cut Me
Icaria - Onwards (Original Mix)
Hiroyuki Oda - Transmigration
Shadowrider - Blue Horizon (Luke Terry Remix)

Well most of my life I've always been into Hip Hop, I've never really heard Electronic Music except for some of the popular dance anthems that were played on the radio in the mid 90's. I first started getting into trance around 2001. That's when I heard a trance tune played on a weird Coca-Cola commercial. Still don't even know what that tune is called, just remembered some guys in the woods drinking coke and trying to dance. I never heard anything like that before, and I thought it was interesting. Nobody else seemed to know what it was either, and my interest slowly faded away. It was rekindled after hearing Dirty Vegas-Days go By play in that infamous Mitsubishi commercial. I recognized that sound again and I knew I had to explore this strange technoey genre some more. I then heard it was called trance. So, without knowing a thing about it, I went to my local Best Buy and bought a couple of trance compilations. Hearing songs by X-Cabs, DJ Scot Project, Paul van Dyk and Sasha just made me want more. And I kept buying more trance albums.

I never really had a guide to the genre though, I just kept absently buying albums and hoping the tracks were to my liking. Sure I had managed to find tranceaddict.com in 2003 but I only did some lurking. Never really posted. I just kept doing that til just around this year when I went to Skills Electro Techno Disco Love on February 14, my first massive, and it just changed me. Since then, I went on an all out trance crusade. I hunted down people in my area who loved the music (which was a scant few btw), I joined more message boards, found resources to download, finally became an active member of TA, and now I finally have a better understanding of this crazy music. It's been a helluva ride, and so far, I've only plummeted down the first hill. The rest of the ride awaits.

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Originally posted by [mart] BTW this is my first post on the TA forums, and I hope I haven't broken anything due to my incompetence.

Impressive.

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My first contact with trance music was 1994 and the record was named


Paul van Dyk - The Green Valley E.P.



for me one of his best records ever, besides for an angel.

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1993 for me

good ol' Platipus

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How can sound exist if there's no one there to hear it?

Ummmmmm around 2001?

My brother was listening to some oakenfold set.. And I kinda liked it.I was already liked big beat bands like Fatboy slim,chemical bros and prodigy years before and I decided to venture into this new genre.

Then I stumbled upon a PVD concert.. and I WAS LIKE WOW! The atmosphere..the massive tunes..

The rest is history

around 1997.. my private tutor told me to go hang out with him and his friends and they brought me to a rave. they said i'd enjoy it. i was instantly blown away. then him and his friends guided me through my early days of trance : ) now im hooked forever

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tech house/techno addict

Muzik's (Dance) has been in my blood since birth!
Was into all kinds and grew up w/Disco(ya I'll admit it), club and Techno. I was into underground R&B for a while.

Then I got drawn back in, around 87 with "New Order"

In 88 I went to Europe and completely missed it. EDM was supposed to hit me there bcuz I was on an express bus to Algeciras(spain) for Morocco, and actually passed by the fireworks coming from ibiza. I was like AMAZED and I could feel the NrG coming off the island. Boy do I feel like kicking myself for not getting off It's strange for me to miss out, i mean i started my Euro trek from Amsterdam. Ah, if only I could travel back in time.....things wud'v been done different

Orbital's music hit me in 95 followed by Robert Miles "Children" an then Chem Bros and Prodigy. Those were confusing years for me. I still liked dance but every radio station I turned to was pushing the hip hop

In 1999 Napster Opened my eyes !
In 2k I dl'ed Gatecrasher (by accident) and the rest is history. I've been a trancer ever since. Whatever they have to say about Nap and AG is BS--They were the best! I bought more CD's when I dl'd from Nap than I ever had before.
In 2001 I burned some crasher CD's and gave it away. But it was like a wall--People didn't want to understand it.
Imagine my surprise when I heard DJ FuZion at Bpmtv (TO, CA) and then I was hooked for life. That led me here to TA
I will forever be a noob bcuz I keep discovering old and new stuff that just blows my mind. I'm the one lonely sheep in my flock that get's it. Oh well, atleast I got TA's with me

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Peace, Unity, Luv and Havin Fun!!

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

I don't know excactly.
First song was System F- Out of the blue if i remember correctly

talk about a thread that instills nostalgia... Despite my lowly tit status, I first got into trance in late 2000 through a friend's friend.. first set was ferry - trance energy 2000.. to this day still one of my fav sets.

I started to listenin' EDM (mostly cheese, eurodance and gabber) when I was 15 (2000). I started to like trance more and more when I was 17 I believe. Tranceaddict has teached me many things about trance and EDM in general.

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