I've just expanded my listening tastes over the years. I don't think there was ever a time when I just listened to one style.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I've just expanded my listening tastes over the years. I don't think there was ever a time when I just listened to one style.

Examples! What did you start with? What came after that?

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I've always listened to shitty music. The degree of the shittiness,however, has decreased over time.


For example, I used to listen to really shitty music back-in-the-day. I now just listen to shit music( thats why I am on this forum ).

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I started off trance listening to gouryella, rank 1, blank & jones, greece 2000, planet perfecto etc etc back in the old days and i can still listen to them now. But i have also evolved to psytrance and goa, and what turned it all around for me was airdrawndagger.

From there i now listen to alot of techno and trance.

I still stick to the mainstream trance like "ASOT" and listen to stuff like "marco bailey - 160 minutes of"

Its all about my mood, when im happy ill listen to trance, when im moody ill listen to abit of psytrance/ techno.

When im optomistic ill listen to progg/minimal techno

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Originally posted by DJ Cinos Examples! What did you start with? What came after that?

Anthem house > trance, house, NRG, techno > anything break-beat > hell, anything.

Things just happened. I can't remember what order I found genres out. Every time I discovered a new genre I basically got into it.

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> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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I always listened to a wide range of music. If anything it is becoming narrower, as I am listening to less classical, rock, and folk etc. And focusing more on different types of electronic music as of late.

i seem to be de evolving my musical tastes


im listening to italo disco now



but its just a phaze.. i see my self getting into electro stuff like miss kittin and rex the dog

Well, if I count the first years of my life - I started with the commercial, Israeli full on.

Artists like Holymen, Eyal & Oren Barkan, early Infected Mushroom work and such was the key for me to the trance music.

We then called it "Acid", I think we were 8 or 9 y\o

Afterwards I discovered the internet, so I started to download songs off Napster and Kazaa, and after a couple of months I also discoverd the "Scouse-House", probably nowadays called uk cheese.

I think it was late 2002 when I joined a couple of Scouse-House forums, started to listen to Rez Q, Ultrabeat,Shelly and such.

In Feb. 2003 I joined TA, after searching for tracks in Kazaa and seeing the address on there.

Was pretty much a newbie (and still is) in everthing that was related to the good 99'-02' era of trance.

One of my first posts was a praising one for Carte Blanche, which I still think is amzing

In a couple of months I got to know another geners and sub geners, and got totally addicted to Uplifting, Epic and sometimes the more clubbish Hard Trance.

I was all into AvB, Tiesto, G&D [ old Summer Calling days ] and such..

After a year or so I also got to know Prog Trance and Prog House, and the related subgeners.

Now I'm still more into the Prog scene.
Artists like James Holden, Nathan Fake, Chab, Chus & Ceballos and many more influence me, but I never reject listening to other geners like Techno, Hardtrance and such.

mm, that's it I guess

When i was about 12 years old my idol was Michael Jackson and i bought all his albums over the years. It was my idol and i didnt listen to anything else really. After that i started listening to commercial Rap like Eminem, DMX, Ja Rule... shit like that.
When i was into rap i was really against anything 'house' (thats how i basicly called EDM back then, but i thought hardcore was the only 'house' music) related.
Then i began listening to EDM because i was bored with rap pretty soon tbh.
I began listening to hardhouse/hardtrance/retro then i went on to trance and now im more into progressive, house, elektro, ambient. Basicly anything that sounds good.

So you could say i made quite an evolution

But I still like good hardtrance, good trance and stuff. I still even like Michael Jackson his work. Anything up to 1995 anyway, what he made after that is pretty much crap. I dont listen to commercial rap anymore though. I really hate it even. And i dont like to listen to hardhouse anymore. But all the other genres i was really into when i was younger i still like now (if it is good)...

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7. Boogybytes Vol. 01 (Mixed By Kiki)
8. Addicted 1 (Mixed By Kosmas Epsilon)

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In EDM (techno, trance, house, breaks) I went from Music Instructor and Scooter to DJ Icey and Dj X. From Dj Icey and Dj X I went into Astral Projection and Yahel. From Yahel to Tiesto and Oakenfold. From those two i moved into Sasha and Deep Dish. From Sasha and Deep Dish into Chris Liebing and Hawtin. Now i listen to everything that is quality.

When it comes to hip-hop I went from Tupac to early Snoop Dogg. From Snoop to early Southern Rap (97-99 era). From Southern Rap to Biggie's first album (Ready To Die.) From Ready To Die to Masta Ace, Atmosphere, Vakill, Brother Ali (all underground acts.) From these underground acts I got into KRS-One, Rakim, and the old school. And old school led me to my present favorite hip-hop group.. The Roots.

I listen to The Roots because they are the best hip-hop "band" out there and quite frankly, they are geniuses.

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This is a pretty typical case for anyone around in Canada back in the early 90's...

Anthem house/Euro House like 2 Unlimited, Snap!, The KLF, Haddaway, Ice MC, etc.: Mainy because it was the most popular back then. Think trance at the turn of the century, only faaar more so.

Euro Trance like Dance 2 Trance, Jam & Spoon, and trancier remixes of euro house: A lot of early trance did cross over to the mainstream back then, so it was a natural progression into it as I was enjoying a lot of the spacey sounds coming from it.

German Trance from labels like EyeQ, Suck Me Plasma, and Influence: A lot of the early crossover trance was produced by Germans. Naturally, I started digging deeper.

Everything Else All At Once: Say what you will about how 'Electronica' was nothing more than a corporate-generated hype machine -it also brought every single other genre ('side from hardcore) into the limelight. Probably the best crossover compilation that I stumbled across was the soundtrack to WipEout XL, as it contained FSOL, Chemical Bros., Daft Punk, Underworld, Photek, Fluke, Leftfield, and The Prodigy (amongst a couple others).

Pretty much enjoy whatever comes my way ever since to varying degrees. Obviously some more than others but I don't discount anything else (unless it gets overplayed to redundency; then I'll just ignore it for a year or two).


Oh, yeah. Along side those more upbeat tunes, there was also my delving into downtempo right along side it, more or less going in this route: Enigma/Deep Forest ---> Beyond/Waveform Ambient Dub series ---> Eno-esque ambient ----> Everything Else All At Once

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