How did you get into Electronic music?

> Manu le malin - fighting spirit (atm MLM is more know under his "The Driver" pseudo)

> Howlett williams present the dirtchamber session vol One (howlett william is a guy from prodigy if I remember correctly, this mixtape is EPIC)

at 14yo, took these CD at a library out of curiosity

No coming back, that was like a revelation, stuck in the electronic music trip since.
Began to go to free party (DIY open air rave in France) and clubs at 16/17, began to mix at 19 yo, interested in all kind of stuff especially experimental/ambient/IDM/breakcore, mental hardtek (something very frenchy and NL), industrial techno, acid, acidcore, and taking a ton of different drugs at 25 only (but this is going nowhere I'm abandonning this route)
 
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Its kinda a blur really. Dan Gallagher used to have a music video show on CBC probably around '92 so I probably heard late 80s early 90s Dance around then. I definitely remember seeing Beastie Boys So What Cha Want. Dance music was pretty much everywhere at that point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Hits_(Canadian_TV_series)

I used to go to a Saturday drawing class and the guy there would play Ministry and I think I saw a FLA video Mindphaser: or the movie Gunhed which it was based on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWjBPIbJMzY

I think it generally started when I heard Aphex Twin off of Further Down the Spiral and got a copy of I Care Because You Do, also heard Children of the Bong off of David Wisdom's RadioSonic and ordered their CD thru Sam the Record Man. Had a tape of The Downward Spiral.
I think I randomly bought a copy of FOTL.

I think later with Trainspotting and the soundtrack it was sort of an explosion of the genre. Underworld and Born Slippy was a big video at the time.
 
Noodle said:
...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!
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BEAST of a tune! Yaaaassss!!
 
well as a 15 year old i always enjoyed rap music and even when i was a youth i listened to eminem and 50 cent, and to me rap is technically electronic ;). i did listen enjoy a few of the classic trance & house songs e.g armin van buuren - in & out of love.

but i assume techno, EDM is what is implied by electronic? - without reading the OP

when i began tripping on acid at 17, we would just listen to long mixes of deep house and that's how i got into dancing as well. :D
 
Watching videos on YouTube around 09 and I got into EDM.. hit up a Bassnectar concert in 2010 and was hooked.. been hitting up shows and festivals ever since! Nectar is still my favorite. His live production is insane...best in the game!!..and the bass is so heavy it rattles your entire body.
 
Noodle said:
Herbie Hancock ~ Rockit
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It depends.
Watching this on tv as a kid in the 80s was pretty cool.

But i got into psytrance and such going to "bush doofs" and listenening to electronic music in the forest on high doses of LSD all night.
Beautiful.
 
I was hooked on Terry Lee Brown Junior and Terry Francis via candyflippin'

I'm pretty sure my very early tastes are dated, but I like a little bit of it all really

I'm stuck on watching the endless permutations of that electronic sample soup at this point.
 
Also gotta say that my appreciation for electronic music increased immensely when i
a) started making it myself (analog synths, drum machines - very primitive, as i like that sound)
and
b) that "electronic music" covers a scope far wider than dance music with a disco beat.
The early electronic psychedlia and minimalism of German "krautrock" and the sort of "atmospheric" music produced by the likes of Eno exemplify this to me.
 
I always loved Metal where most of my friends were Trance people, my first Goa party when I was 18 or so, pushed me over the edge completely...

Now I'm continually exploring the endless wealth of electronic stimuli (and psychedelia of all genres) elaborately and it's truly endless once you've stopped labeling yourself in a subgroup....
 
I'm 38 and when I was about 8 years old there was this place called "Circus Town" which had a dance party for kids. Strobe lights, loud soundsystem, a proper dj and the works. They played early mid 80's HiNrg and stuff like "Don't Go" by Yaz. That was my first exposure to clubbing. In the 90's I listened to everything from hip hop, rock and roll, freestyle and club music. But the moment that really converted me was getting stoned and hearing "Witch Doktor" by Armand Van Helden when I was about 17. That's the moment where dance or electronic music relly caught my attention.
 
^^^^ I'm from the US. I just looked up Shoom and apparently it is/was in London, correct? My screen name is taken from the nightclub Fabric, and their mix series which I've always loved. I was listening to one of those mixes as I was joining Bluelight.

I've always considered Fabric a Mecca of sorts, because I love the music and dj's they present there. I went to another one of my Mecca's , Jamaica and that was great. All the reggae and dancehall I loved over the years...and I was right in the thick of it.

I Met Elephant Man and Wayne Wonder at our hotel in Montego Bay. My friends and I were asked to be in a promo video Wayne was shooting at our hotel. We were dressed for the club and I had diamond jewelry on (wouldn't wear that stuff now, it was 2005 and I was young!), and they thought we looked cool so they asked us to be in the video. Wayne gets out of his limo and I give him a "dap" (it's a handshake of sorts) as he walks by.

Sorry I went off on a tangent there! I'm just a music junkie so I love those types of stories.
 
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