How did you get into Electronic music?

dead cities made me realize that there was quality in electronic music

then i first started to listen to "soft" electro like mezzanine and some "fusion / breaks / whatever" (fat of the land, fatboy slim, propeller heads)

then one day i randomly went to a psy-trance party... and i was home
 
Well, I remember hearing Sandstorm and being blown away when i was like 14-15. I started downloading alot of really shitty remixes of popular songs cause I didnt know any better. Kinda got away from that until I came down here. Went to my first rave when i was almost 20 (yeah, im a late bloomer) and fell in love. Picked up a vintage hard trance album (circa 1996) and the rest is history.
 
from about age 14 i grew up listening to uk hardcore/freeform on old uprising tapes that belonged to my brother or friends and my love only grew with age. over the years i have noticed my tolerence for music is somewhat like my tolerence for drugs

i started off listening to dance music - and worked my way up harder and faster....happy hardcore > freeform > hardstyle > gabba.
just as one usually would with drugs - cigs > beer > weed > speed etc....
 
i got given a cd full of classic trance, and loved it as soon as i heard it. i also remember hearing prodigy - no good for the first time back when i was 13/14 and thinking it was awesome. these triggered off a huge passion for electronic music which ive been exploring ever since. i love music
 
Grown up with it in a way, since house music arrived with the smiley facey in the 80's after the new wave pop/synthpop generation still remember that first news report about it , seeing the first illegal rave on tv and wanting to try that one out.
Used to love Steve mason on bfbs london in the early 90's , same as teknoville /bonzai records/ cherrymoon trax/montini trax/rotterdam hardcore.
Started going to clubs(proper techno one's not dance one's) around '94.
The first cd I ever bought was of The Orb Blue room and still got it.
 
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vegan said:
dead cities made me realize that there was quality in electronic music

then i first started to listen to "soft" electro like mezzanine and some "fusion / breaks / whatever" (fat of the land, fatboy slim, propeller heads)

then one day i randomly went to a psy-trance party... and i was home
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If you liked "dead cities" you need to hear all of FSOL's library, they never try to do the same thing twice and each album is unique. I didn't even know "The Isness" existed (which is the latest release I know of) untill a frind played it for me. It is an amazing album but more of a throwback to Pink Floyd and the very blossoming of electronic music in the seventies. I live near Detroit so I have been able to see major influences in the electronic music industry live but of all of them FSOL is the biggest one I have not gotten to see.
 
Arnold said:
Grown up with it in a way, since house music arrived with the smiley facey in the 80's after the new wave pop/synthpop generation still remember that first news report about it , seeing the first illegal rave on tv and wanting to try that one out.
Used to love Steve mason on bfbs london in the early 90's , same as teknoville /bonzai records/ cherrymoon trax/montini trax/rotterdam hardcore.
Started going to clubs(proper techno one's not dance one's) around '94.
The first cd I ever bought was of The Orb Blue room and still got it.
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I have seen The Orb live in 1997 and it was amazing. Orb's Adventure's Beyond Ultrworld was the second electronic cd I bought and still listen to it today. I also love Bicycles and Tricycles.
 
My first experience after hearing many stuff from friends was Selected Ambient Works II. Like the most of the music I love it took me awhile to grow into it but its one of my favorite all time albums. I got to see Aphex llive in Detroit right before the come to daddy ep came out and he played almost all of it but I had never heard it before. I was on LSD and it was one of the highlights of my life but the best part of the performance was when he played a track from SAW II. Can't remember which one it was though...
 
I was in an IRC channel circa 1994 and was talking to a gent from the Czech Republic. He sent me some tunes, which had to be played in a certain player. He produced mostly gabber, and it all started from there. :)
 
I was really into punk and indie rock as a teenager, it was my lifeblood. I never really liked electronic music, but I had heard it around and at some point I heard some things that intrigued me, what they were exactly I don't remember. I decided to give Aphex Twin a try at some point as a little introduction... Selected Ambient Works 85-92. It was all I could listen to for like a month, it just blew me away. After that came Boards of Canada, then things like LCD Soundsystem, Ladytron, etc.. That was about six years ago and now electronic music is my genre of choice definitely, I love it all but especially IDM/ambient/experimental stuff (that first impression from Aphex never left me really) but also house, techno, electro, psytrance... but I can get into at least something from all subgenres.
 
ELVIS made me a raver

I owe it all to ELVIS, believe it or not!

I used to collect not just Elvis music but tribute and novelty songs ABOUT The King. One day back in 1994 I was flipping through the big yellow book in a local record shop (anyone remember that? It was basically a listing of every record and song title in print. Massive.) so I was looking for song titles with the word "Elvis" in them.

I came across an intriguing title "Elvis On the Radio, Steel Guitar in my Soul," by some band I never heard of called The KLF :-)

It was on their ambient record called "Chill Out" and I really liked it. It wasn't really techno at all, just a lot of atmospheric sounds and some ambient music, but I thought it was pretty cool so I decided to see what else these KLF folks had done

That's when I discovered "The White Room" and it totally opened up my world to EDM.

In hindsight I'm really glad it worked out that way, because The KLF played a major role in popularizing techno and they introduced a LOT of people to this new style of music. So, from a historical perspective, I ended up truly starting with the roots of techno, even through it was a total accident.

Ironically, the KLF were in many ways the Elvis of techno; Elvis didn't invent rock and roll, but he popularized it and introduced it to the masses. The same can very easily be said about techno and The KLF.

And come on, Elvis was totally the world's first raver! He wore outrageous outfits, danced like a mofo and always had a handful of pills.

And what letter does his name begin with?

I rest my case :-)
 
Putingrad said:
I was really into punk and indie rock as a teenager, it was my lifeblood. I never really liked electronic music
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substitute punk and indie rock for metal and hard rock, and that's me back then :)

then came weed and with it interest in psychedelic sounds, but still no interest in edm.
i've actually been to like 3 or so parties with psytrance or drumnbass back then, but always was there with friends who didn't dance and were talking about how shit the music was (i honestly have to idea why we went there anyway...). psy sounded inriguing, but i couldn't stand the 4-on-the-floor kick. later i went to another dnb party, but with different people who'd dance, so i practically had no choice but to do the same :). when the club closed at 6am i still didn't want to go home (while being completely sober the whole time).
i still listened to mostly psy-rock at home until i really got into goa/psy a few years later. now it's 99.5% edm :D
 
heard the mortal kombat theme, looked it up and downloaded craploads of electronic music on my 56k modem lol

then became a much bigger fan about 14 when i heard some on a decent system in someones car, then moreso after my first rave
 
i had heard songs here and there before, like the mainstream stuff, like fat boy slim, prodigey, chemical brothers that shit,
but in grade 10, so when i was 15 i stumbled upon this video
http://thequality.com/people/michela/weblog/archives/mirror/flashback.swf
then i found out the band who made the song, shpongle, which is now my favourite band of all time,

the first time i got interested in glitch and break core is when i started liking venitian snares, aroudn the same time my friend introduced me to flashbulb, even though i had already heard alot of aphex twin, something stands out about flashbulb, so i think its worth mentioning, and whats coool is i actually was tripping on 6 tabs of acid when i first heard, it now everytime i listen to flashbulb it reminds me of lsd,
 
I had always liked fast, energetic hiphop and stuff like NIN (and the MK theme song as mentioned above!) but didn't really know what electronic music had to offer until somehow I ended up with this Armin van Buuren State of Trance 2004 year end mix downloaded on my computer. I think I may have been looking for some electronic song I heard on one of the directv music channels drunk one night... well once I listened to the ASOT mix I couldn't get enough. Then a few years later I found a lasting MDMA hookup and well you all know how that goes...
 
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