How did you get into Electronic music?

It was a miracle. All my life all I heard growing up was KTU [radio station, tragedy] and its predecessors....so I thought I'm all hoighty-toighty with my knowledge of 'real music', and then one day I get my "ID" and go into Arc and hear Danny T, and I'm mighty confused because I like the music but can't understand why. Then I complete puberty and all and I know I appreciate electronic boom boom music, knowing nothing about it otherwise...comes the prom, and after the whole limo scene to EXIT [whorehouse opium den of the gatien empire? i believe so] and VIP and corpses lying about [that was 'back in the day']....and i hear something play and i really love it, again, i don't get it. Then I hear the same thing when my ex loveress invited me to Limelight, subsequently branded Avalon, subsequently and currently a posh boutique for the braindead elite of Grammerchelsea......and there I heard the same thing I heard in EXIT, so I started to listen...and listen

then i realized...holy shit, this is amazing. then i started going OCD style until the gatien empire folded. And 2.5 years ago we had a little techno revival in NYC which of course drifted right back into tech-house where it belongs, as they say [i don't mind now that i'm multi-genred]. This is when I went into the depths, literally underground, to explore and cling to the dregs of the NYC music scene, focusing on techno. Still love techno. Loved drumandbass at the Sully, loved LOVE because heard dubstep there for the first time ever and almost fell over backwards from the overwhelming wonder. Then saw a few artist abroad, outside the US, and in one Moscow club, the insane old woman from Cio D'Or recognized me and we had a little New York hug and squeal thing.

But I really got into it when i REALIZED, my love for music is founded in the work of JSB, and that I am in love with bass and rhythm, which is the foundation of all his work [arguments welcome], and how I actually started to link his music [the rhythmic aspect of it] to RnB and Soul and house and techno and everything spiraling outward therefrom. I thought...now I am beginning to understand music. And I have a lifetime ahead of me, and am sorry for those who never 'tried' to listen, but dismissed electronica as bleep-blop-bloop garbage devoid of soul and emotion.

yea. anytime I link something to Bach it becomes holy in my book. I'm glad I got the opportunity to be exposed against my will to electronica back in the day. It took so many years to process, had I heard it any later, I most likely would have dismissed it or gone beyond the point where I'd be capable of perceiving it as a musical form.

FIN
 
I was into dance music, and somehow discovered Fatboy Slim. That was the end of it for years, for me - I couldn't stop listening to it! It went from being an obsession - to looking into and discovering every electronic music style and sound that I could - to eventually starting an entire production company releasing tutorials and sample packs (bassadelic.com) and running an electronic record label (dynastyshit.com) and making tunes of my own! I've been on a footwork jungle kick lately, which combines jungle/dnb with chicago juke/footwork ! :)
 
I remember being a kid maybe 10 or something, and watching rage (a top 50 type video hit count down)
I recall hating the RnB, but then some kind of cheesy dance would come on and I would like it.

This one sticks in my memory for some reason Hocus Pocus - Here's Johnny! from 94 when I was exactly 10!

I also remember this one DJ Darren Briais V.S. DJ Peewee Ferris- I Feel It

and playing games like extreme g and loving the sound track. (ouch this has not aged so well)

In my early to mid teens I sort of followed what my mates listened to which was a fair bit of metal and other rock. But in my late teens I was drawn back to electronic music. Mostly trance / hard trance. Then I tried a pill and listened to it... Havn't ever stopped listening to electronic since, although my tastes have changed to mostly favour breaks now, still like trance/progressive and DnB.
 
Industrial acts such as: KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly. From there I found Aphex Twin which helped me gain a new fondness for electronic music,
 
The talking heads and early electro music. To this day one of my fav records is mantronix music madness. The tracks are so timeless for me. But the more stuff i listened to, the deeper i got. I think my guitar teacher cried a little when i told him i wanted to get a moog lmao...when i first heard dnb i was hooked, the tempo and sounds, and the baaaassss. To this day when i get a new dieselboy mix i rock it out for like a month. Still one of my fav djs tho he doesnt produce many tracks these days it seems.

Also the other day i saw a live fatboyslim set in ibeefa on tv and i was taken back to when i first heard his stuff. Also atari teenage riot, which is kinda obscure but really hard sounding. Dnb is about all i listen to these days. So much evolution, its great.
 
I loved Enigma when I was younger (and still do), but it wasn't until I bought the soundtrack to Hackers that I really delved into it. From there it went to Daft Punk and after my first rave in 99 I got Bad Boy Bill and Frankie Bones albums.

Now I love breaks, minimal and dubstep (J Kenzo, Matty G) and some other stuff I wouldn't even know how to classify.

I find it strange when acquaintances of mine stop listening to the music just because they aren't actively in the scene anymore. You couldn't pry it from my cold, dead hands:)
 
Roose said:
What sparked your interested in Electronic music?

I was probably around 10 or 11 when my brother's friend gave him a cd that was a techno mix. Without him knowing I took it and started listening to it lol. It was full of Dune, Darude, Prodigy, DJ Mystik things like that and ever since I have always enjoyed techno/electro more then any other style of music. Then a few years later the same friend found out I enjoyed techno and turned me onto Digitally Imported Radio and that's where my love for electronic really started to grow.

If you enjoy any genre of Electronic music I highly highly recommend checking out Digitally Imported Radio.
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I was around 12/13 years old in 1992 and my brother had a few tapes. One being the Prodigy Experience material - specifically 'Everybody In The Place'. His Hit The Decks 3 cd compilation and a couple of tapes from The Eclipse Club Coventry, One was Slipmatt, one was Grooverider. The rest is history ;)
 
circa 2000
mdma
speed
chemical brothers
crystal method
fatboy slim
the prodigy
moby
daft punk
<3 & positive vibes
 
Late August 2009 an opportunity was presented to me to attend my first Defqon 1 festival (also the first one in Aus), which triggered me to look into this scene and associated genres. More or less after hearing the anthem for the event, I was absolutely sold into my new found love for EDM, particularly hardstyle ^_^
 
Went to Zapp in Brighton as a young'un, then Club UK and Camden Palace in London. Realised that I liked house and trance music. Have now mostly renounced the cheese and love psytrance, techno and a bit of prog. Can usually be found in 414 these days.
 
I think it was Aphex Twin- Come to Daddy. Probably saw it on MTV when they still played music. :P
 
Well, I used to listen to ChroniX Aggression (metal station) on the Winamp player, but eventually played around on more stations. I eventually found Digitally Imported and their various trance and electronica stations. This is where I first heard Trance Around The World by Above and Beyond, and ever since I have been to shows of theirs and downloaded their weekly podcast.

<3 I'm a trancer for life. :)
 
My twin brother is super into producing and mixing edm. We started going to shows with our older bro and its beens a major part of my life since.
Now I travel to hit festivals and go to everythimg I can local.
 
My first time clicking over to this part of Bluelight..

Back in '91 I was into the Industrial scene pretty hardcore and a couple of my friends would spin it at a nightclub in Tampa (Club 911)

Well one of those guys was DJ Dave Seaburn.. he introduced me to Electronic Dance Music.. next thing I knew it was everywhere.. any late night that is what was playing.. As soon as the clubs stopped serving alcohol the glowsticks would come out and the beats would start pumping.. that mixed with the incredible MDMA that was going around Florida back then is why I personally fell in love with it..

I still like the old music I used to listen to.. but Electronic Dance Music is definitely my main favorite music ever since about 1991-1992.
 
...haven't reviewed this entire thread in a while, but I remember being intrigued by this sound:



I didn't realize until much later in life that this tune had me instantly hooked on sample based loud speaker music.

...still enjoy oldschool b-boy breaks. That 80's sound works for me!
 
No one judge me, but I found Levels - Avicii on Spotify which made me browse, which is when I found Kaskade, Alesso, Armin, Tiesto, Porter and other DJ's/Producers
 
I was about 24 or 25 (33 now) and I was going thru a coke phase I discovered that I very much enjoyed Trance when I was using amps. But the moment that resonates with me more do is the first time I tried X I was at a sort of party and someone that listened to Trance had left the tv on the Dance music channel and it sounded really good and fit the mood.

Slowly, from that point on, I started borrowing albums and purchasing, then downloading DJ weekly podcasts.

I went thru a long phase where I stopped listening to the genre, then picked it back up again fairly recently. Now, I keep up with a half dozen podcasts on a weekly basis.
 
It was around 1997 when I was 17 and a friend lent me a bunch of CD's in different styles, a drum n bass mix, some sort early minimal (which I hated at the time!) and a GOAhead compilation which I loved. Perfect for getting stoned to, though I still mainly listened to metal.

When I was 19, started going to rave and listening to hard trance. hard house, etc for a year or two before stumbling into chill out room and hearing someone playing a little goa/psy set.. I love d it straight up and began producing it immeidately. I was studying sound engineering at that stage, and had a friendstudent make me a mix of some psy and away I went, right at the time when morning psy and fullon was emerging. Awesome doof scene at the time, still kicking too pretty much. Lots of good drugs and inhaled dirt. This lead me to more chilled out stuff, then back into the whole gamut of different electronic. I happily still listen to some psy (mainly suomi or prog/minimal), psy-ambient, etc but can just as easily enjoy minimal techno, IDM like Boards of Canada, Autechre, Squarepusher, Biosphere, preogressive house, dubstep, breaks, so on. Went through a huge reggae phase that died slowly.

Also metal fuck you all. :D
 
Man takes me back, anyone remember DJ Irene? Yeah started with House, then Hardstyle, and now Hardcore. Love Hardstlye still, wish i could shuffle or even Jump, but that Hardcore got me hooked. Masters of Hardcore since the first release, sadly never been though.
 
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