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Originally posted by neogaia Oh hey! Haven't seen your name around in ages. Hope you're doing well.

Yup still kicking and adulting hard! Hope you and the rest of the TA west coast family are doing well!

Mentioned this to Woody a couple years ago, every time I listen to the classics, I still think of all the good times back in the day with this crazy crew .

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Originally posted by Xtracktor Yup still kicking and adulting hard! Hope you and the rest of the TA west coast family are doing well! Mentioned this to Woody a couple years ago, every time I listen to the classics, I still think of all the good times back in the day with this crazy crew .

Yo Paul good to hear from you man! I remember back in '05/'06 when we went to Guitar Center Sherman Oaks and I bought my first Pioneer DJ mixer. I found all the extra spare knobs too recently lol. Have only had to get it serviced once on one channel had some crackling noise on it still sounds pristine going through a Zoom H4n. Remember Groove Riders Records on Ventura Blvd. They used to bring the latest talent and locals play daytime sidewalk parties outside the store on weekends.

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Originally posted by refuge Yo Paul good to hear from you man! I remember back in '05/'06 when we went to Guitar Center Sherman Oaks and I bought my first Pioneer DJ mixer. I found all the extra spare knobs too recently lol. Have only had to get it serviced once on one channel had some crackling noise on it still sounds pristine going through a Zoom H4n. Remember Groove Riders Records on Ventura Blvd. They used to bring the latest talent and locals play daytime sidewalk parties outside the store on weekends.

Hey Rez! Can you believe that was like 14 years ago?! Yea totally remember that experience, I think we even had a great convo about ethnic groups in LA lol! Good Times!

I stopped listening to new EDM at the end of '06 (call me an EDM conservative, after all I'm currently listening to country...but that's another convo lol) so I've got like a time machine of all my experiences with the TAs in my head as if they were yesterday!

Oh and I've been wanting to tell you this for a long time now, I've just recently (in the past 3-4 years) been listening to some classic trance from the early 2000s (which I'd like to add has aged like fine wine!), and you were right all long....Mr. Dierickx is a genius, the quality of his tracks are timeless!

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Originally posted by Xtracktor Hey Rez! Can you believe that was like 14 years ago?! Yea totally remember that experience, I think we even had a great convo about ethnic groups in LA lol! Good Times! I stopped listening to new EDM at the end of '06 (call me an EDM conservative, after all I'm currently listening to country...but that's another convo lol) so I've got like a time machine of all my experiences with the TAs in my head as if they were yesterday! Oh and I've been wanting to tell you this for a long time now, I've just recently (in the past 3-4 years) been listening to some classic trance from the early 2000s (which I'd like to add has aged like fine wine!), and you were right all long....Mr. Dierickx is a genius, the quality of his tracks are timeless!

No I can't believe it's been that long, it's kinda crazy how fast it's gone by, and for the first time feeling like an old timer haha. Wow, going from EDM to country is a massive shift, I always imagined the shift would work the other way around lol. I converted a high school friend of mine from Death metal to EDM purely by coincidence just by letting him listen to some of my mix CDs back in the day. Yeah, the 90s era trance and early 2000s were the best, back when it had a political, social, economic motivation, pushing the envelope and evolving constantly with a more punk edge.

It's gotten way too commercialized the last 14 years, but the good news is, I hear more productions and producers going back to the minimalist trance sound that made it so avant garde and original to begin with techno, acid, house roots. MIKE was amazing back then, but he unfortunately went the way of the pop EDM artists to stay relevant and pay the bills. There's still probably a hundred tracks or so I haven't discovered. The rarer obscure underground stuff is the most interesting. Airwave, JOOF, Digital Blonde, minus the psy influences and a few others, especially in the techno scene, Gregor Tresher, Petar Dundov, are still purveyors of the original sound. You will hear more of that sound in the techno and acid scene than you will anywhere else. Check out HHertzSignal, they focus on the classic sound with a modern touch.

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Originally posted by refuge No I can't believe it's been that long, it's kinda crazy how fast it's gone by, and for the first time feeling like an old timer haha. Wow, going from EDM to country is a massive shift, I always imagined the shift would work the other way around lol. I converted a high school friend of mine from Death metal to EDM purely by coincidence just by letting him listen to some of my mix CDs back in the day. Yeah, the 90s era trance and early 2000s were the best, back when it had a political, social, economic motivation, pushing the envelope and evolving constantly with a more punk edge. It's gotten way too commercialized the last 14 years, but the good news is, I hear more productions and producers going back to the minimalist trance sound that made it so avant garde and original to begin with techno, acid, house roots. MIKE was amazing back then, but he unfortunately went the way of the pop EDM artists to stay relevant and pay the bills. There's still probably a hundred tracks or so I haven't discovered. The rarer obscure underground stuff is the most interesting. Airwave, JOOF, Digital Blonde, minus the psy influences and a few others, especially in the techno scene, Gregor Tresher, Petar Dundov, are still purveyors of the original sound. You will hear more of that sound in the techno and acid scene than you will anywhere else. Check out HHertzSignal, they focus on the classic sound with a modern touch.

Regarding the shift to country, there was alot of other genres in between! After I stopped listening to new EDM in 2006-07, went pretty far down the Electronica hole with Justice, Digtalism, Bonobo and Emancipator leading the way, then 80s music for a long time, Japanese hiphop after, 70s classic rock recently and somehow that lead to country lol.

And totally got my college roommate into EDM back in the day just by osmosis as well!

Oh nice, yea over the years I've been shown new EDM tracks by different people, but they all seem to have this sound that REALLY annoys me, I guess its called a dubstep wobble? (if my memory serves me right, dubstep didn't exist back in 06 ). I'd be happy to checkout some new stuff if it doesn't have that sound in it, but I'm perfectly happy just listening to EDM thats pre 2006 (back in the good ole days), comes with the extra nostalgia after all See told ya I've become an EDM conservative lol

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i haven't been to an edm event in the last 2 years i think.
still love the music tho
now i got into jpop Idols and travel to japan to those events

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Originally posted by shuni i haven't been to an edm event in the last 2 years i think. still love the music tho now i got into jpop Idols and travel to japan to those events

what is up with the huge J/kpop craziness right now? Serious question. It's been around for some time now but I've never been a fan however it's just exploded!

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Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal what is up with the huge J/kpop craziness right now? Serious question. It's been around for some time now but I've never been a fan however it's just exploded!

i knew about Idols from along time ago but never really knew anything about it, i took my first trip to tokyo in 2015 and a friend introduce me to an Idol group and was completely hooked to the point that the following year i had the chance to go to WOMB for sven vath but chose an Idol event instead, but yeah there seems to be a huge following now for asian Idol groups i think mostly because of this korean boy band that's going on now and it's like the new backstreet boys and are known around the world.

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Originally posted by shuni i knew about Idols from along time ago but never really knew anything about it, i took my first trip to tokyo in 2015 and a friend introduce me to an Idol group and was completely hooked to the point that the following year i had the chance to go to WOMB for sven vath but chose an Idol event instead, but yeah there seems to be a huge following now for asian Idol groups i think mostly because of this korean boy band that's going on now and it's like the new backstreet boys and are known around the world.

Haha awesome! Never got into j/kpop, but the stuff I got into was by the japanese hiphop producer called Nujabes, then everything under his label Hydeout Productions, it just exploded after that lol I still think its underground, but highly recommended if you are into hip hop/Jazz (I'd say my favorite album is "Hydeout Productions Second Collection")

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Originally posted by Xtracktor japanese hiphop producer called Nujabes, then everything under his label Hydeout Productions, it just exploded after that lol

I'm going to reload my music library with all of this kind of stuff again.

I was into his stuff prior to his death (RIP). I was into underground hip hop in the 90's and 00's along with "edm" music and naturally got into his stuff. Sucks about his death, dude was serious when it came to beats!!!!

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Originally posted by Nerologic I'm going to reload my music library with all of this kind of stuff again. I was into his stuff prior to his death (RIP). I was into underground hip hop in the 90's and 00's along with "edm" music and naturally got into his stuff. Sucks about his death, dude was serious when it came to beats!!!!

Yea totally RIP, I remember when it happened too! Yea, checkout anything on that label Hydeout productions, some really good stuff!