Originally posted by Miss Bliss
Raversurge introduced me to it in 9th grade of high school - 7-8 years ago. We listened to Scooter and these corny "hard trance" compilations with stuff like PPK - Resurrection on them. Serge, Yan, and I would around with glowsticks in the schoolyard or in the woods behind my house... well I'd around, Serge was very good at it. Listen to the in my room and stuff.. good times good times
Heheh Yes scooter is corny, but i had good times listening to him back in the day.
Also RMB-Spring in 96
fr0st
bought misc. cd since i was young pre 1994; lords of acid, skinny puppy, front 242, banco de gaia, orbital, prodigy, kmfdm etc. Got into the dancier stuff through a gay friend of mine 1996+, djs like hex hector, victor calderone etc. Got a car and drove to raves in cow pastures in 1998, from there on it was djs like chris fortier, three, sasha and digweed.
partyhopper
My high school classmate blasting in his car, this new kind of music called "techno". Some of the first songs I remember hearing were Robin S - Show Me Love, and LA Style - James Brown is Dead (RIP to James Brown, btw). At around that time, I gained more interest in new wave like New Order and Erasure, which I initially didn't like too much.
Soon after that, I went to college, started to going to parties and clubs and raves, loved seeing what the DJ's were doing, joined the radio station at school, and went on to do a whole bunch of spinning myself. Boston Beat was one of my favorite hangouts, where lots of my time and money went.
Does anyone remember when Hot 97 played house music on Saturday nights?
I had a renaissance of sorts in Dec. 2000, when I went to Twilo for the first time, then Tunnel the next night, then the Centro-Fly anti-New Year party the night after that (taking advantage of the gf at the time being away :toothless ). Soon after, I came across the clubbing message boards, like CP, the Twilo board/Naughty Booth/Rhythmism, and eventually TA. Life as I knew it changed even more after meeting Daniela at Exit. :p
tranceaddict991
daft punk - homework........money in the bank right there
vtec junkie
When Daft Punk - Around the World came out in 97 I heard it on the radio a few times and bought the CD. Then started hearing it out at clubs in Texas where I was in Tech School for the Air Force. Once Tech School was over I got stationed in Ft. Walton Beach Florida and this kid that lived down the hall from me (he was actually from Long Island and used to be an old Factory/Twilo head) heard me playing music in my room and introduced himself to me. I started going out to clubs with him and originally got into breaks. Then I saw Sasha and Digweed in Atlanta in 01 at this huge ass rave....like 15,000 people and I was hooked from there. My main influences were Sasha & Digweed, BT, Tiesto, Micro & X-Dream (believe it or not....those guys used to rock the house.):toothless
chi6me8ra
Heard Robert Miles - Children in ~1998, momentarily forgot about EDM then started hanging out with Euro trash and spent much of 1999-2000 in Avalon Boston. Oakenfold's essential mixes were what got me hooked though :)
Eric Martinez
Being *dragged* to Tunnel by Sean, bitching the whole way in. (I was a big metal head)
He gives me a bomb, I hit the dancefloor 2 hours later Insomnia comes on, the place goes insane. He looks at me and goes "now do you ing understand?"
"Yes."
:-)
chi6me8ra
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Originally posted by Eric Martinez
Being *dragged* to Tunnel by Sean, bitching the whole way in. (I was a big metal head)
He gives me a bomb, I hit the dancefloor 2 hours later Insomnia comes on, the place goes insane. He looks at me and goes "now do you ing understand?"
"Yes."
:-)
There is an old bombshelter left over from Soviet times in St. Petersburg which is now a club called Tunnel...hanging out there in 2005 got me really back into EDM.
Sushipunk
Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack and the Prodigy back in the mid 90s did it for me :D
Scoops
so its 1996 and i'm a metal head but at this time alot of the good bands like Crue, Maiden, Priest all sound like . No good Metal albums have come out in recent years so i figure its time find something new. I'm switchin through the channels and I come across Much Music and this video catches my eye. The Video is pretty cheesey but the song is dope
went out and bought the album on cassette. Don't remeber taking it out of the stereo in my car. Loved that album.
Then it was in 1997 and it was my senior prom weeknd. Now most peeps go to wildwood for the senior prom weeknd but my friend had a house in seaside so a bunch of us went there. I don't remember how, but some of us ended up in Temptations. This was the 1st time I remeber hearing the name; DENNY TSETTOS. That nite was pretty much a blur to me expect the part when Denny mixed these 2 tracks. Never heard anything like it and I was in love
INTO.........
From that point on, Club Music was pretty much embeded into my system. I used to hang out wit this girl who would sneek me into all the seaside clubs, when seaside was the spot to be at: Xs, Bermuda, temptations.
Another fav of mine to this day:
As years went on, my taste has varied but i still remain very open minded.
But there are some DJs that i've enjoyed listening to from the time i got int club music back in 97 to now
Victor Calderone
Denny Tsettos
Richie Santana
Peter Bailey
ADV
Danny Tenaglia
phoenixBEBE
it was definitely a FEW things...
one, an old college friend back in 1999 who had come back to NYC from working in London (he worked at Excite Europe at the time and had been transferred to London a year ago. I was 26 at the time). Over lunch one day he told me about much working and living in London had changed him...how he went clubbing at the Ministry of Sound and how he went to Ibiza and met these ppl from Australia -- the ironic thing is that back in school he was this straight-laced Korean kid who did well in school and was very religious. Later that day, we went to Virgin Megastore, he picked up a few trance cds -- one of them being Tranceport - Paul Oakenfold. He was going to give it to another friend as a gift but i mistakenly thought he had bought it for himself. So when we got to my apt, i asked him to play it. He hesitated for only one second before he tore it open and put the disc in my cd player. That cd played for hours on end after that...and let me tell you, from there on my perceptions regarding music were forever changed. lol.
going to EXIT for the first time with my sister shortly after that...and noticing how NO ONE tried to grab us throughout the whole night, even though we were both girls (not like Webster Hall or some crappy hiphop club). And even the music on a regular night was bearable/good...
then PVD's last party at the legendary Twilo...still not IN the scene yet but goddamns what an awesome show, that line was f0ckin wrapped AROUND the block...inside he threw down tracks from OTAB..."We are Alive" on that system...in awesome!!! :crazy:
well of course back in the day, some other friends were getting into those old TranzWorld cds from Webster Hall, that was actually aiite back then... so that was kinda the start of it all as well...
and of course...NEW WAVE...DM, New Order...cannot EVER forget them...my high school years were centered around them...
lonelywolfy
man too many factors for me to really pinpoint anything.
i used to listen to daft punk and aphex twin in high school.
then ive always been into 80's synth electro type .
then i used to play DDR. :tongue3
but a little over a year ago my roomates started playing music from a state of trance and coerced me to goto an armin show. ive been kinda hooked since then and my roomate still is influencing my tastes and intoducing me into new types and new sounds.
man a year ago i never thought id be going to all these shows and clubs i was such a stick in the mud back then. =)
