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When did you get into electronic music/dance music?
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| Temisan Adoki |
I'll make this short...
It started with Hi-Tek 3 and Ya Kid K's "Spin That Wheel" for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles OST in 1990 when I saw the movie. I actually ended up getting into house and techno from hip-hop cause the hip-house and New Jack Swing sound was popular at that time.
Then there was MTV's "The Grind" and there was always house music on there.
Then I played Wipeout on ps1 and I still regard that as the moment I truly became into this. Still one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard in a video game. It had Daft Punk, Fluke, The Prodigy, Underworld, etc. It was around the same time Hackers came out which was also very inspirational for me.
The moment I became hooked though was in 1997. I bought Aphex Twin's "Come To Daddy EP", Chemical Brother's "Dig Your Own Hole", Daft Punk's "homework", Photek's "Risk vs Reward" and many others.
I then tried to make tracks on my Parents old Compaq Presario using Sound Recorder. Since there were no CD burners back then, I had to record the songs I made on cassette (I still have them BTW).
In 1999, I started buying records and two years later bought my first set of tables. The rest is history. |
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| r2e |
I'll bite: 1996
I grew up in the original Jersey Shore (not in Jersey). Clubbing was huge, it's what everybody did. There were no real house parties or anything, everyone just met downtown Thurs - Sat. Heard the normal top-40 type music there, mixed in with some house and I got hooked. Started raving soon after, and fell in love with the music and vibe. It completely blew the club scene out of the water.
I moved and fell out of the scene for 7 years, give or take, and now I'm back :)
...but I am shocked at how much it's changed. Some for the better, some for the worse - unfortunately. |
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| euphoria |
96 for Trance
88 for House
85 Synth pop
... Now that I think about it I was probably listening to some form of EDM while I was still in my mothers belly :p |
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| AY STAR |
late 80's early 90's
freestyle music is where it all started, then in the mid 90's i stayed up late nights and listened to house mixes on hot 97 and ktu |
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| Sedna |
| I'm a young dude. Mid 90's I heard trance for the first time and fell in love. It wasn't until early 2000's that I even really discovered house and pure techno. Still, trance holds a special place in my heart... it's always been my favorite genre of music. |
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| Jason Jollins |
1988 - House / Freestyle
( bought my first pair of turntables in 1989, still have some epic mixed tapes from this time :) ).
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| DodecaphonicSym |
Since I am much younger than many posters on this thread
first got into it in 2004-2005 when I was 16-17
first rave 2007 |
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| DodecaphonicSym |
2004-2005 was for trance
2006 for progressive house/deep house/ tech house
2007 for pure progressive like Cattaneo spun at the time |
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| ReenTeenTeen |
I was one of the Brooklyn warehouse techno raiders in erly 90's. Frankie Bones had his original record shop few blocks from where I lived.
But my firt taste of electronica was through groups like U2 & Depeche Mode back in the Soviet block. :stongue: |
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| skalariak |
| quote: | Originally posted by DodecaphonicSym
2004-2005 was for trance
2006 for progressive house/deep house/ tech house
2007 for pure progressive like Cattaneo spun at the time |
Am I you? Are you me? That's exactly me timeline.
I started listening to trance ever since I heard "nothing but you" on FIFA 04. to this day that track is my favorite of all time, period. PVD pretty much introduce me to electronic music. I got addicted to his music and later on it made me discover a&b, tiesto, ferry ect. In 06 an Argentinian pal lend me Hernan's Renaissance: The Masters Series 2, and that was it for me, I got hooked into the kind of music that he played. So I thank those bitches for introducing me to musical beauty. |
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| Temisan Adoki |
| quote: | Originally posted by AY STAR
late 80's early 90's
freestyle music is where it all started, then in the mid 90's i stayed up late nights and listened to house mixes on hot 97 and ktu |
This reminded me of something. I used to stay up late and record the local Pittsburgh college radio stations in Pittsburgh. They would have techno mixshows late nights alongside underground hip-hop mixshows. I loved that.
As well, my cousins in Jersey would always have these house mix cds that I loved when I visited them in the mid 90s. That was around the time of the first wave of commercial house music (LaBouche, Funky Green Dogs, etc).
There was this records store near the University of Pittsburgh that was open back in the day called Hypervinyl. It was also a label too that was around from 99-2002. I would cop alot of house vinyl, progressive, trance, breaks, hell really anything electronic from there.
I then did a radio show from 2008-2009 when I was finishing up school on WRCT, and before that one on WPTS. That was around the time I felt comfortable taking the house mixes on the air and out of the clubs I was djing in. |
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