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What got you into EDM? (pg. 4)
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| Eric Martinez |
Thanks for posting those youtubes man that brings back some memories!
I know this thread is about "getting into EDM" but just to share a major transitioning moment within that journey for me....
I used to love Eddie Baez and all of that type of Plasmic Honey (Take me to the Top, etc) stuff because it was so twisted and dark.
At least I thought I knew what dark was, until I went to hear Sasha & Digweed at Twilo, and saw Digweed play a 3 hour vortex that went slowly and patiently deeper and harder, more angry and then, just when you couldn't remember where you were are where this whole set started, BAM.
Man that night, they were still playing to 400 people at 11am. The lights went up at 12, Diggers put his arms up and then back down to the lighting guy. An hour later, again. I walked out of there at 2pm and have never looked back. The NYC DJ's, w/ the exception of DT and JV, were not really focused on programming or more complicated mixing at that time, I guess the music wasn't conducive to it.
Sorry for the rant! |
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| vtec junkie |
| quote: | 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."
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LOL great story, Eric.
Oh and the movie Hackers was the .....still one of my favs. The soundtrack series from that movie were all awesome!! |
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| jerZ07002 |
wow.....real McCoy, i used to love that b4 i was really into EDM.
thanks for the videos. The last two bring me back to the old, NYC underground type , plasmic honey, robby tranco, sal dano, johny vicious, "it began in africa," and my favorite 'ascension - someone.' I can't believe i used to listen to louie devito. |
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| DJ Eddie Lee |
Wow....What got me interested in house music was going to the Limelight in 1993 to hear Keoki's Disco 2000 night. That lead to investing in mix CDs by guys like Carl Cox, Oakey, Danny Tenaglia and Sasha and Digweed. But I've mentioned this before: The mix CD that really changed my outlook on edm was Sasha and Digweed's original "Renaissance" compliation. After that, Sasha's Global Underground "San Francisco" totally blew my mind. It was so insipiring that I actually bought every single record on Sasha's SF and learned to mix it almost exactly as Sasha did! (I wonder if those records might be worth any $$$). And I hope there are others out there that heard these two compliations.....
But it takes more than a few clubbing experiences and mix compilations to really be immersed into edm. Electronica acts like The Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Moby, The Prodigy, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, EBTG and especially Underworld brought edm creativity to the forefront in my day. "To this day the synths in "Born Slippy" send shivers down my spine. Many of these artists were even featured on MTV!
I was lucky enough to land 2 college radio shows in 1995. One was dedicated to hip hop, the other house music. By my senior year of college, I was DJing all the local clubs in Boston like The Modern, Embassy, Venue, and Avalon and having the best time of my life. I would trade ANYTHING to go back to those wonderful days.
And like I mentioned before, my first "clubbing" experience was at the limelight in 1993 to hear Keoki. Ironically a decade later, it was me who graced those decks for a 3 year residency. Talk about coming around full circle! |
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| pyro264jb |
My little sis and Tom (enigma) used to hit up goth clubs togethor for when we were in highschool. They mistakingly walked into the tunnel one night (they thought it was banktun) and had the time of there lives. They invited me the next weekend for there anual winterrave with tenegla and some other djs (circa 97 or 98)
toms will have my head for this story ....
The bad thing about the tunnel in those days was that it was so popular. We were waiting up to 2 hours some nights. Tom came up with the idea of us to pretend we were dating and go in the shorter curfew line (aka the gay line). The gay dude at the door said that I didnt look gay but since tom was(GOOD) we could go in on the gay side hahahahha! :disbelief
Twilo started the same way tunnel did for us. Tunnel was closed by the police one night and the cabby drove us to twilo and said we would have a better time there
I guess he was right ;) |
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| pyro264jb |
| quote: | Originally posted by 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 |
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| vtec junkie |
| quote: | Originally posted by pyro264jb
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That night was ing mental bro.....first time I heard Expander.....I creamed my pants.... |
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| Swamper |
Great thread. :D
I was heavily influenced at the start of the 80s with the likes of Jean Michel Jarre, Depeche Mode and New Order. My older brother was to blame for all of that - much the same as my introduction to computers (Commodore Vic-20/64/Amiga) and the music on them. Around 1986-1989 I would exchange 5 1/4" diskettes with people from Norway, Denmark, UK and Germany containing "demos" which were basically graphical eye candy done to somewhat cheesy/repetitive electronic beats. (Example (60k file))
I left that all behind for a few years and around 1993 the Eurodance sound got me hooked - I stuck with that pretty heavily until as recently as 1998. Enter late 1995/early 1996 - while lingering around on #eurodance on efnet IRC I was sent my first .MP2 music file (yes MP2) - it sounded like but it was a fraction of the size of a wav file and impressive nonetheless. My european friends sent me stuff like X-Perience - "Neverending Dream" /Dune - "Million Miles Away From Home" and I really hadn't heard anything like that. Next up was the CD release of Robert Miles - "Children" and that was played nonstop for weeks. Soon after that came Chicane and the first release of "Tranceport" series. I loved it all but didn't know of any local parties that played this kind of music... In summer 1998 I went to Portugal and heard some crazy sets on the radio late at night - d&b/techno/trance and this opened my eyes a bit more. When Napster showed up on the scene in '98 I was all over it -- trying to listen to as much of this music as I could since I really had very limited knowledge of what was what. One track I'll always remember getting was simply called "DJ Armin-blue fear.mp3" - I had no clue who that was for about 4 months. It was around this time, coincidentally, that I met your now NYC moderator (Redeye) and started chatting him up about this music.
Enter 1999 - a year of intense partying and eating up all the Trance that was being dished out by the big DJs coming through town... that pretty much made the year fly by until one weekend in Jan 2000 when I finally came up with a good .com name that wasn't already taken. |
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| pyro264jb |
| quote: | Originally posted by vtec junkie
That night was ing mental bro.....first time I heard Expander.....I creamed my pants.... |
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good times! |
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| vtec junkie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Swamper
Enter 1999 - a year of intense partying and eating up all the Trance that was being dished out by the big DJs coming through town... that pretty much made the year fly by until one weekend in Jan 2000 when I finally came up with a good .com name that wasn't already taken. |
History in the making!:toothless |
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| fr0st |
| quote: | Originally posted by vtec junkie
That night was ing mental bro.....first time I heard Expander.....I creamed my pants.... |
I was there aswell 6hr drive from jupiter ;) |
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| vtec junkie |
| quote: | Originally posted by fr0st
I was there aswell 6hr drive from jupiter ;) |
Yeah I drove up from Panama City with two of my best friends from high school after partying our asses off for a week during spring break. They had no idea what they were in store for (this was their first party) and I'm proud to say one of them is a up and coming house producer in Cali right now holding down a very successful monthly party called "Gravy." I love introducing people to this scene.:toothless |
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