Tranced
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I never had anybody around me who listened to electronic music, so it's something that I very much found for myself. My dad was always into rock/blues/guitars, but I never liked it at all and just didn't pay any attention to music until I eventually heard something that resonated.
It started when I was on holiday somewhere in Europe in the early-mid nineties and probably about eight, and I kept hearing Robert Miles - Children around the pool. I can remember thinking it must be a remix of the x-files theme (!?) and going into HMV (a now defunct highstreet CD/record retailer), and asking somebody who worked there if they knew what it was... and walking out with a copy of the actual x-files theme. So that put things on hold for a while, because that definitely wasn't what I was after.
When I was about 11/12 I kept hearing trance CD's advertised on TV, and there were three tracks that I instantly fell in love with, but I didn't know what they were. I had them in my head for a long time and was determined to find the name of each one of them. They were:
Planet Perfecto - Not Over Yet (Matt Darey Remix)
Signum - Coming On Strong
CRW - I Feel Love
I remember hearing CRW - I Feel Love blasting out of a tinny speaker at a computer show, and the guy on the stall correctly ID'd it for me. One of the others was ID'd by a guy in HMV going off very little information.
When I was about 13/14 I managed to download and play my first mp3 from a website. Then came Napster, which shut down within a few weeks of me finding it. The real fun started when AudioGalaxy came out, and I really got into trance. My friends started getting into it via me.
I was doing a school project on drugs and had to do a presentation on the dangers on ecstasy, and had a moment of revelation when reading the junk propaganda saying how dangerous MDMA was, whilst at the same time citing a very small contradictory number of people who had died from it as evidence (in very stark contrast to alcohol, I noticed).
I announced to my friends that I was going to take ecstasy and start going to trance clubs. They agreed, and when we were sixteen and had just finished our GCSE's we did exactly that. That was back in September 2002 when I had my first pills at a Godskitchen arena event. Then I started going to Foundation which was the local club for underground electronic music. I started reading bluelight, joined up a few months later, and now, here I am.
Happy to announce that I became fully obsessed with electronic music, and still am today.
It started when I was on holiday somewhere in Europe in the early-mid nineties and probably about eight, and I kept hearing Robert Miles - Children around the pool. I can remember thinking it must be a remix of the x-files theme (!?) and going into HMV (a now defunct highstreet CD/record retailer), and asking somebody who worked there if they knew what it was... and walking out with a copy of the actual x-files theme. So that put things on hold for a while, because that definitely wasn't what I was after.
When I was about 11/12 I kept hearing trance CD's advertised on TV, and there were three tracks that I instantly fell in love with, but I didn't know what they were. I had them in my head for a long time and was determined to find the name of each one of them. They were:
Planet Perfecto - Not Over Yet (Matt Darey Remix)
Signum - Coming On Strong
CRW - I Feel Love
I remember hearing CRW - I Feel Love blasting out of a tinny speaker at a computer show, and the guy on the stall correctly ID'd it for me. One of the others was ID'd by a guy in HMV going off very little information.
When I was about 13/14 I managed to download and play my first mp3 from a website. Then came Napster, which shut down within a few weeks of me finding it. The real fun started when AudioGalaxy came out, and I really got into trance. My friends started getting into it via me.
I was doing a school project on drugs and had to do a presentation on the dangers on ecstasy, and had a moment of revelation when reading the junk propaganda saying how dangerous MDMA was, whilst at the same time citing a very small contradictory number of people who had died from it as evidence (in very stark contrast to alcohol, I noticed).
I announced to my friends that I was going to take ecstasy and start going to trance clubs. They agreed, and when we were sixteen and had just finished our GCSE's we did exactly that. That was back in September 2002 when I had my first pills at a Godskitchen arena event. Then I started going to Foundation which was the local club for underground electronic music. I started reading bluelight, joined up a few months later, and now, here I am.
Happy to announce that I became fully obsessed with electronic music, and still am today.