How did you get into Electronic music?

i was tripping hard on 2c-e while listening to the justice live cd with some friends. fucking blew my mind, especially the segue from "stress" to "we are your friends." now it seems like electronic music is all i listen to.
 
K, don't laugh.....

All the way up to high school, I had next to no direct electronic music influences. It just wasn't represented where I lived, just rock and alternative, so that's what I listened to. I was always into anime (spent much of my early childhood in Japan) and loved arcade games, so I got into anime soundtracks and DDR. I found one of the many PC emulators for DDR and began amassing tracks for it, as well as getting further into J-Pop.

In college, my dorm roommate was into happy hardcore, J-Pop AND DDR, so we had mini-tournaments and shared our music. At this point I was expanding my music horizons in all directions, and started listening to literally every genre. This is around when I discovered The Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers, and from then on 90% of my music has been electronic.

I know, DDR is a LAME way to get into the EDM. But hey, it's a fun arcade game, and the tracks for the emulators include songs from many well-respected artists. Also, most of the J-Pop I listened to has an electronic influence, so the transition was natural.

These days I can't stand happy hardcore. I like trance, psytrance, electropop and house. The other 10% of my library is Korn, Tool, Incubus, and various hip hop. And yes, I have recovered from my DDR days and can now actually dance. :)
 
I got into it kinda late.

First year of college at a huge public university, I met a really cool chick and we were both into each other. After hanging out and stuff for a week or so, she invited me back to her dorm room (her roommate was gone for the weekend and it was her and her best friend) and introduced me to this wonderful drug called ecstasy. :)

Anyway, all three of us rolled and listened to Delirium and Enigma. Really sexy, sultry music. Naked hi-jinks ensued which I won't get into here.

Needless to say, after that night I was hooked and really got into electronic music. Now it's almost all I listen to.
 
Daft Punk's Homework got me interested in electronic music when I was 16 all those years ago....then I listened to Jeff Mills live at The Liquid Room Tokyo....and that was me hooked.
 
Hmm, mostly big beat artists like Crystal Method and Fatboy Slim. I've since expanded my palette greatly.
 
It was the 2006 Venetian Snares EP "Pink and Green" that did it for me, that glorious 20 minute romp of odd timed breakbeat glory. I was always into death metal and grind and such, so I took to breakcore with great voracity. Venetian comes from a punk background and his music is laced with enough aggression to keep that vein in me pumping. Mmm... Getting all nostaligic just thinking about it.

Oh, and LSD of course :D
 
Some great stuff here, keep it coming.

ChemicalSmile, you and I had similar tastes back then... dope house spun by RHV... one of my best memories is of being at a massive rave in seattle in 2001 or 2002 in the house room when he was spinning. I was high as a kite on e or acid, and smoking weed with like 20 people (we had smuggled in a pipe, everyone else seemed to have smuggled in weed but no pipe, so we made a lot of friends :) ). I just remember watching him spin and going "HOLY FUCK" this is awesome, watching the waves of response in the huge crowd as he dropped a sick beat and everyone went crazy.

Damien, this cracks me up:
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lol I remember when I was younger I was always saying "I just can't see how if you like EMD, you can not like trance."
I get it now.
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Gamemaster was probably my first favorite trance track.
 
yucatanboy2 said:
ChemicalSmile, you and I had similar tastes back then... dope house spun by RHV... one of my best memories is of being at a massive rave in seattle in 2001 or 2002 in the house room when he was spinning.
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Richard Humpty Vission was my first DJ that I followed with a passion. Shut the fuck up and dance was such a great mix cd... it not only had what I consider a good chi town house vibe, and a lot of vocal, disco style house. (And not any cheesy shit) Plus he dropped like 70 tracks in 1 hour, every fucking 50 or 60 seconds he was bringing in another track. I saw him twice. The first time was in 2001 in Kenosha, Wisconsin at a venue that held like 400 people and it was sold out basically. He threw down an epic set and dropped the house that jack built, shut the fuck up and dance, and all the tracks with the MLK speech samples. I met him after his set and he was the nicest guy. I saw him again in 2002 at a larger venue and that underground vibe had already started to dissapear... It wasn't a bad set or anything, and no trainwrecks... but it wasn't mind blowing like it was in 01. At the end of 01 I picked up the junglist habit and threw away the candy kid from the past. I got into teebee, nosia, dieselboy, ak1200, dara, pendulum, phantom 45, 3d and many more

In 07 I started listening to electro, fidget, minimal, and dubstep. And thats where im @ now :D

yucatanboy2 said:
Gamemaster was probably my first favorite trance track.
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Gamemaster was my favorite trance track to listen to while rolling....or sober tbh (not sure if you read me mention it before on here) Even when I hear it now.... I get chills and all my hairs stand on end... it almost induces feelings of ecstasy! I fucking swear!!

We have followed a very similar path in music!
 
I'm excited to see so many people who's roots go back to Chicago. That's partially where it started for me. The first jungle album I heard was a bootlegged copy of "Law of the Jungle." It blew my mind. I had never heard drums like that. I was hooked but had few resources to pursue my interests until I ventured further into the world via college.

Actually, my full-on appreciation for all things EDM started in a Ft Wayne, IN roller rink with a pink panther, DJ's Mazi (sic?), DJ Chocolate, Hurricane and a few others iirc. At that time I listened to a lot of h/c punk, powerviolence, and Industrial (Skinny Puppy, Nitzer Ebb, NIN, KMFDM, Ministry, Gristle) but that party and all the "love" that came from the experience permanently turned me from a misanthrope to a PLURry in a hurry.

After returning to the Chi I fell in with a party crew that did Fri's, Sat's, and Sunday mornings at Belmont/Montrose/moved further north every couple of weeks/ beach. Shade Free, Drop Bass, Vibe Alive, and some smaller companies oversaw the scene and the vibe and attitude at these parties was better than any h'core/punk show by orders of magnitude.

From there I developed an appreciation for jungle, funky house, and IDM and the rest is history.
 
well I listened to ambient, and instrumental hip hop. got into other EDM (hardstyle, house, electro, etc etc) after my first rave.
 
General Patton said:
It was the 2006 Venetian Snares EP "Pink and Green" that did it for me, that glorious 20 minute romp of odd timed breakbeat glory. I was always into death metal and grind and such, so I took to breakcore with great voracity. Venetian comes from a punk background and his music is laced with enough aggression to keep that vein in me pumping. Mmm... Getting all nostaligic just thinking about it.

Oh, and LSD of course :D
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Venetian snares is awesome. I've seen him a couple of times, his sets are always <3

I love breakcore but my main love is gabba. Controversial I know, and there is a lot of shit gabba out there, but UK artists such as dolphin and producer make the best music I have ever heard %)

Also got a thing for jungle and dnb, but I first got into electronic music going to Glade festival for the psy trance...
 
As soon as I entered the club scene, a line that took a little shy of an hour to get through and I could hear the bass through the wall and I stood and waited. I got in and the strobe lights were going crazy, lasers everywhere, sirens going off every minute. I was loving every minute of it, some sick dj's...Dj Markski, Dj caffiene, Dj rozz, Dj bizerk.

Yes, Chicago electro scene is where it's at. Lake and Mannheim Thursdays!
 
I went to Europe for 3 months and hit more than a few clubs in Germany, NL, and Poland. Enough said.
 
It's weird, and also wonderful, how it was electronic music that made me explore other genres that aren't particularly electronic.. Well, I'm really into Electronic-post-production-Orchestral-type-stuff at the moment :) Like Sora, RF (Ryan Francesconi), Mitchell Akiyama, Kazumasa Hashimoto.
Steve Reich is a f-u-c-k-i-n-g--a-m-a-z-i-n-g composer!!! ^_^
This is what I mean, I go through an array of electronic music only to find amazing musicians that aren't necessarily electronic orientated :)

Yay for music in general =D
 
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