How did you get into Electronic music?

Im 25 now, but ive been listening to the likes of the Orb, Orbital, LTJ Bukem, Squarepusher and Aphex Twin (they actually went to school with each other i believe). Some of my most endearing childhood memories are listening to Snivilization by Orbital as i was going to sleep in 3rd grade. How i got into it? I owe 100% of my music taste to my brother. Hes a producer and musician and has been making electronic music for a good 10 to 15 years now, and when i was little i remember asking him for some "techno" to listen to. Orbital and The Orb is whyat i got. Now today, I will choose The Orb's Adventures Beyond the UltraWorld over almost any album to trip to. Its a perfect one. By the time i was 18 i was going to see squarepusher pull off some of the most ridiculous drum and bass that has ever graced the planet. I mean some schizophrenic shit. What sucks is that, even though i had been listening for years, i was still too young to truly appreciate what i had seen. Thats why i got a shirt and and autograph...yea we met him somehow. Tom Jenkingson was just walking around the audience and nobody knew who he was?!
 
when i was 16 my parents were getting tired of my teenage antics and decided to make me move in with my sister and her boyfriend (both more than 10 years older than i am) and her boyfriend was into ambient and techno pretty heavily, so he always had it playing while he was cooking or whatever, and i'd ask/he'd give me little playlists with stuff like Global Communication, Thomas Newman, Aphex Twin, and from there i just kept exploring into electronica like the knife and then into dubstep with Burial, before i changed houses i was listening to almost all alternative/indie, but its good to have both genre types to listen to now
 
About two years ago on a Friday night some friends told me about a show I must go see. I had never been to a DJ show so I figured what did I have to lose. I was just getting into MDMA at the time so I wanted to see what the big deal was about going to a club while rolling. I went with a really good friend of mine and we met the other people who recommended the show at the venue. The venue was the Smart Bar in Chicago, for those of you who haven't been it's a bar/club that is under a bigger venue (the Metro) There is a large flight of stairs going down, literally feels like your walking into a dungeon, as I'm walking down I hear the wonderful sounds of D&B. At that point I had just started to feel my roll and I was taking in everything I could. I went into the main dance area and was blown away by what I was hearing. So after a while of soaking up my environment the main act came on. DIESELBOY!!! the second he came on my mouth dropped! I was blown away. I don't think I even danced, I spent probably all of his set to the left of his booth just watching him in awe. I am a huge jazz fan and I immediately saw the connection between D&B and jazz. Needless to say that night changed my life in a positive way forever! I am a D&B fan for life!!!!
 
I first heard "Everything starts with an E" by Ezzee Possee (more techno rather than EBM), and it progressed from there. Nachmahr, Psyborg Corp and Zeromancer are up there now.
 
I looking for hardcore and hard dance for such a long time, all my life basically. Experimenting with different kinds of music but nothing would satisfy me. Now that I found it, which happened over two years ago, I must admit these are the happiest moments of my life. Hardcore til I die (HTID) now I totally understand why they say that.
 
Usually story I guess. Grew up with 80s indie / goth and metal, and despised House and techno at first. Then started working behind the bar at the Gallery in Leeds about 1990, which was one of the first big clubs locally along with SOAK / KAOS at the Warehouse. Knew how it was and why all these kids were working up a sweat till it dripped off the walls, roof, rose up through the bottom of yer jeans, obviously, and had been listening and tripping to dance tinged stuff like Primals, Roses, Mondays for a while. Decided to go out to a Blues in Chapeltown with some of the other staff after work, dropped my first E, and suddenly it all made sense, like it tends to do! :lol: Was well into decent techno / ambient / progressive stuff from then on.

Mostly into the textures of things these days, and how well they're put together and produced, rather than the stuff I'd probably want more if I was still rocking my tits off in clubs, ripped to the tits on drink and drugs. It's all about how good their ears are, and how good they are at achieving something novel and unexpected with whatever palette of sound they care to use. Lots of post-rock / alt / psyche stuff as well as the strictly electronic.
 
I got into it slightly a year or so ago from my little brother, went to Bonnaroo this summer and caught Bassnectar, Pretty Lights and STS9. Went to the Electric Forest Festival a month later and it was all over. Can't get enough.
 
My friend went to school in Michigan for a year, and acquired a taste for it as I guess he went to a few shows. I'm sure I enjoyed it before but he blasted it. Got us all into E, and lights.

Er... I listened to aphex twin and whatnot before though. All introduced by drug friends.
 
Really i have no idea how i got into it. My life has been, well, rediulously random. electronic music is actually the sole consistent thing in my life. i remember listening to whatever eletronic music i could ever get my hands on, went from crystal method, to armin vanbuuren and tiesto, now i listen to alot of showtek. i went to my first show last year, and loooved it. hooked for life for sure. I wonder if ppl will laugh when they see me just lovin the electronic while im 90 in a wheel chair
 
When i used to lurk bl i read about something called 'psytrance.' I was attracted to the genre for superficial reasons, but grew to love it....also around the same time an old friend introduced me to Ratatat. my love for electronic slowly grew for a few years, and then kind of went nuts in a the past 3 years.
 
I'd always listened to just top 40 type stuff until I started dating my bf, he is a house/techno DJ, I was like woow this stuff is amazing, and I haven't looked back. <3
 
twentysix said:
My friend went to school in Michigan for a year, and acquired a taste for it as I guess he went to a few shows. I'm sure I enjoyed it before but he blasted it. Got us all into E, and lights.

Er... I listened to aphex twin and whatnot before though. All introduced by drug friends.
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I am kinda surprised about that. In my experience, Michigan isn't really a hotspot for EDM culture - it's mostly frat music and top 40. But then again, I don't live in Detroit. :)

llama112 said:
I'd always listened to just top 40 type stuff until I started dating my bf, he is a house/techno DJ, I was like woow this stuff is amazing, and I haven't looked back. <3
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This seems to be a common thing among chicks. I know several girls who used to listen to top 40 type stuff exclusively and then they started dating/hanging out with EDM heads who "helped" them try E and the rest is history. :)
 
My parents gave me a fat cap of molly for my 21st birthday, and my dad blasted the crystal method and the chemical brothers all night. It was pretty much down hill from there.
 
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Samurai jack, no shit.

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i went to the vancouver art gallery on canada day and if youre from here you know that on canada day/420 theres thousands of ppl at the art gallery smoking weed and tons of stands with medicinal kush being sold/ baked goods/paraphenelia ect ect. They were blasting some dub at the time and I was so baked and it just sounded fucking amazing,.... then that dub led me to dubstep and the whole bass communty in vancouver. I experimented with mdma for the first time and then in october I went to see steve aoki and calvin harris. With it being my first show and me being so naive to the whole scene it blew me away (probably because i was ridiculously high as well lol) and then after that...well lets say I defnitely lost some of the magic.
 
Getting stoned and watching videos of joyriders on Youtube. Well, they always whack out the dance classics in them.
 
I enjoyed a few electronic songs and artists over the years.
But what really drove me into Electronic music was when I first moved to Germany. I met my best friend over here who was really into Minimal and Drum & Bass. He also took me to my first DnB show. I was hooked the first time I listened to all of that stuff.

It's kind of disappointing going back to the US when I do, because the lack of a big Electronic music following. Of course you have places like Detroit, Miami, LA, or certain other areas. But nothing compares to Europe.
 
The year was 1994. I was 11 years old. My tastes at that time ran toward the harder end of rock like Korn, Pantera and White Zombie, along with staples like Nirvana and Soundgarden. I was away at camp and became pretty good friends with one of the counselors, who was an Israeli guy from NY. All it took was playing this track for me.

Negrosex - Dance You Bastards (Droppin' Bombs Remix)

That was really it. After that I got a minidisc recorder and used to record Mutant Dance Party/Trancemissions on WHFS 99.1 every weekend. It ran really late so I would listen to the rest of the broadcast the next day, taking notes on what I liked. I actually used to call into the show sometimes at the beginning when it wasn't way way past my bedtime and the host thought it was awesome that a 12 year-old kid was calling in that late at night. My uncle spent some time in the clubs of Hollywood in the late 80's/90's and gave me two CD's. Moby - Everything Is Wrong, and Kraftwerk - Computer World. I lapped up all that music like a rabid honey badger. I found my style.

17 years later, I've done the full progression. Danced in warehouses to happy hardcore in kandy and UFO's. Worn dark hoodies in stood in the corners of DnB parties, bobbing my head. Danced my ass off in forest clearings to psytrance. Been to Ibiza, to both Space and Amnesia. Worked for one of the most famous house music labels in the world. Thrown my own parties. The DJ's that played the most pivotal nights of my life are now my friends and peers. It's a hell of a progression and I'm still at it. Electronic music is really one of the biggest driving factors in my life.

Love it

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