Industrial music got me into dance music. MINISTRY, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, and The Lords of Acid, got me into The Prodogy, Orbital, etc, etc... It was a long beautiful journey.

I listened to Trance when it was good so it got me into the whole drugs and dance scene. A colleague one day gave me a Dave Seamen mix tap and I fucking loved it - from there I got hold of some Sasha stuff and the rest is history.

House got me first

I started at 14 with real shitty house , then techno then i heard john digweed gu los angeles and ended here

Re: House got me first

[quote=Sablet]I started at 14 with real shitty house , then techno then i heard john digweed gu los angeles and ended here[/quote]

The first time I heard Diggers was at the Viper room in 96?. I didn't know who he was, my friend took me. It was amazing.

I progressed through the new wave / goth / industrial genres. Then one night I witnessed Sasha & Digweed live.

And then I realized...like I was shot...Like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead...And I thought: My God...the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure.

• Col. Kurtz. Apocalypse Now :twisted:

My best friend was going to this rave club in Orlando in early 2000...well it wasn't really a club as much as it was a rave on ice. Anyways he used to see Fortier and Sanger. So I was dragged to a show one night and on the way home I heard Xpander for the first time. I was hooked. Not long after that I was into BT- Ima and ESCM, PVD- 7 words, Oakenfold- Tranceport, Voyage into Trance, Kimball Collins- Generation Trance 2000, and anything by RITM. Basically lots of trance and a little bit of breaks. Finally I started progressing to Sasha, Digweed, and any GU/Nubreed comp. Over the years my style has started to shift towards darker and techier stuff. Now I have a broader range of electronic musical tastes.

I know music for a friend in my school in 1986: New Orden, Depeche Mode, Visage, Ultravox. After i listen Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Daf ...new beat...house music (marrs, mr lee, maurice)....

i used to start off with happy house / disco music, moved ot trance after my first visit to ibiza 8 years ago and ended up here :wink:

michael jackson duran duran smiths new order depeche mode the orb orbital underworld chemical brothers prodigy oakenfold sasha digweed and now: cp, pole, shic, fair, dekay, chable, avb, pappa, brp, micali, g-pal, cattaneo, hybrid, infusion, todd, talk, zabiela, jvm, taylor, kazell, L8, lex. ave., m. graham, quivver, migs, parks & wilson, pig & dan, blades, lake, sander, lawler, porter, sultan, greek, tone, tyrant, yunus, etc.

and in exactly that order.

I went to sleep ... and I woke up the next day addicted ... Damn! You never know when it will hit ya... :RockOn:

Well, a friend in record shop told me that Northern Exposure is a must... And now I tell everyone it is a must... 8 long and beautifull years of dance music...

Re: How did you get here? MUSIC WISE.

[quote=hypoluxxa]Industrial music got me into dance music. MINISTRY, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, and The Lords of Acid, got me into The Prodogy, Orbital, etc, etc... It was a long beautiful journey.[/quote] Yep, that's exactly how I got to where I am now. Was huge into the Wax Trax Sound around '91. Had always been a huge fan of Meat Beat Manifesto and when I heard the Aphex Twin Remix of Mindstream and the Orbital remix of Edge of No Control (in '93), it was all over. I had never heard anything by either one but loved it so much I got everything both did that I could get my hands on. From there I got into the whole warp catalog etc, and finally discovered Sasha/Digweed in '96. Meat Beat Manifesto was the bridge that brought the two worlds together (Thanx Jack Dangers). 11 years strong and it's still the reason I get out of bed in the morning. Could not live without it!!!

A long time ago I listened to an Armand van Helden CD my roommate at camp had. I guess that's how I got hooked to EDM.

i had a few trance tracks but never got into it till i listed to a m8s funk/hard house then i found proggressive so now i listen to trance/progressive/hard style

Having a proudhistory of trashy pop, i was forced to sit and listen to Tenaglia's GU London disk, then Lawler's Dark Drums, haven't heard pop since!

It started in 1991. I went to Belgium on a student exchange, and everyone was listening to LA Style?s "James Brown Is Dead". I was into stuff like Metallica, Ministry, Front 242, Einsturzende Neubauten, and I guess I liked the beat. When I came back to Portugal I bought a single by Gary Clail, "Human Nature", remixed by Paul Oakenfold. I loved it.

Then Nirvana came along and I got interested in heavy rock and grunge again, until 1994, when "So Get Up" by Underground Sound of Lisbon came out, That track started the big bom of Dance Music in Portugal. Then I saw Rob DiStefano at the Kremlin Club, Danny Tenaglia at a rave in Coimbra, all through that year of 1994.

It?s been all the way since then. I think A LOT of people in Portugal got into dance music thanks to "So Get Up".

When I was younger I always listened more to the instrumental mixes of songs rather then the original versions.

So i guess for that reason I had to end in dance music sometime. I have been listening to dance music since the late 80?s.

Hybrex

I started in the 80?s with Italo Disco. After that I had hear the early ClubSound like Hip House , Acts like Beatmasters , S-Express & Bomb the Bass with labels like Rhythm King & Cooltempo. In the early 90?s the Sound of Frankfurt explode & the early Techno records came. Stuff from R & S , Warp , Plus 8 , Harthouse aso..... Now I?m here.....................

Well, I myself I'm a late bloomer. I didn't get into EDM until 2002. Before that, I listened strictly to hip-hop. That being I lived in Queens, NYC, and thats all I grew up listening to. I was introduced into EDM when I had move down to Miami for college. My friend introduced me to Deep Dish, and ever since I've been hooked. And thanks to EDM, I've had the best nights of my life partyin' and made some great memories with my friends. :mrgreen:

I used to listen to Motown then I decided Sasha was better.

My first contacts with EDM date to 1998, when I started to develop a likening for euro house. After a year, I got interested in techno, which is still my favourite music, although it's getting harder and harder to find good techno. Because a lot of my friends listened to progressive I started visiting prog parties and in a while I started to like progressive. It was probably the drive and the basslines that got me addicted.

Since i was a young kid, i was into strickly hip hop. Then in 98 i went to the record store looking for something different and as i was cruising a section, i saw this cool cover of GU009. Bought it thinking i could play it at a party i my friend was having that weekend. That night i listened to it on my sterio, the next day went back to the record store and bough a shitload of cds. Been hooked ever since.

My mom bought me Northern Exposure. Just on a whim she thought that I might like it. And it turns out I did. But, I must admit i am kinda shying away from the whole EDM scene and getting more into Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson...that sort of stuff. I wish they had like a bubblegumserver.com. Could one of you admins maybe look into that for me? :RockOn: :lol:

I start to know this kind of music ,2 or 3 years ago, in a club and I said What is this? I like it

Depeche mode --> Front242 --> Orbital/BT --> PVD --> Oaky :oops: --> Sasha --> Barney and friends :RockOn:

my mother used to bang wooden spoons on her stomach when i was still in there. so that was my first experience to the drums.

Gatecrasher cds when they were good Wet,RED,Black then i moved to the shittyies muisc why i liked it i don't know why Happy Hardcore Then Drum&Bass

Faithless,Pi Soundtrack, House music Jungle again then Prog house but I've always loved Digweed i remember when i first got my hands on that independance night 2 part set so good.

hip hop & cheesy mainstream early electro stuff. then trance & house.

Hip-Hop, Trance, Oakenfold then saw Sasha and Digweed live. Never been the same after that.

went to UMASS and lived in steve porters hall. pretty much sucked me right in. also, i bought nick warrens GU and listened to it while ripped,. and now here i am

Rush -> Pink Floyd -> Bob Marley -> Burning Spear/Marcus Garvey DUB -> The Cure Mixes -> Shamen -> Orbital -> Nine Inch Nails -> Ministry -> Skinny Puppy -> Aphex Twin -> Autechre -> ?-Ziq -> Sasha+Digweed -> Digweed -> ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _?) -> Hernan

I started with Oakenfold - Tranceport and then Digweed GU Hong Kong. There was no turning back after that!

How I got here...music wise

Interesting question...my dad has had his mobile dj service since before I was born ('71) and always had music around. My first recollection of music is, believe it or not, The Bee Gees and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Through the years, nothing on the radio really interested me, but I still listened to groups like Journey, Foreigner, etc...Then in the early to mid 80's, "breakdance music" came out since breaking was catching on. That was my first experience with electronic music, and it hit me. I listened to groups like Afrika Bambaata, Shannon, Kraftwerk, etc....Then freestyle, Stevie B., The Cover Girls, Sweet Sensation, etc....It's always been dance music for me. Fast forward to '93 when the electronic music scene in Orlando, Fl. got huge. I liked Florida breaks but quickly wisened up and got into Trance. The first big name dj I saw was Sasha. After that it was full steam ahead. Now, Prog. House is it for me. Less predictable than Trance, yet still "Trancey", deep and dark, and exciting since it can go in so many different directions....great question...

Gokada

Started to get bored with hip hop around 92/93