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Greenlighter
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So, I know this a very general question. And it may have very well been asked before as a new thread, but if so, I suck at searching (and if so, by all means, merge it with an existing thread).
How did you get into electronic music. The majority of people I've ever known have referred to all electronic as "techno" and nowadays, everything that isn't made with live instruments gets lumped in together as "EDM." I've always been frustrated by those generalizations because as everyone who loves electronic music knows... there's a plethora of genres and subgenres. it's never ending. So with that being said, what was your introductory to electronic music. Genre, artist, whatever.
Mine was Daft Punk, circa 1995. I was on vacation with a friend and his family and watching MTV (which at the time, the town I lived in didn't offer MTV on their cable package) and I saw the video for Da Funk, by Daft Punk. After that, I found out a friend of mine was into Daft Punk. He let me have a cd of his, which was the Around The World single (with other versions on it). From there I found other friends who were into similar things and found out about Aphex Twin, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy (the stuff they put out before Fat Of The Land), and a few other artists. I started looking through the album sleeves and found a few artists through the "Thank You" section. While I still loved Daft Punk, my taste started gravitating toward artists like Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, Autechre, and other glitchier types.
I ended up subscribing to URB magazine and searching through each edition (which I still have every one of them) and finding new songs and artists. Suddenly, I found myself fully immersed in electronic music. From trance to IDM to DnB. I picked up Dieselboy's A Soldier's Story. Where I started to learn of drum and bass artists like Tech Itch, Decoder, Kosheen, etc. From there, I was hooked on glitchy IDM and darker dnb. The two kind of combined when Evol Intent came around. Then Ewun, Exile, etc. the darker and glitchier, the better.
Now here I am, all these years later and I'm still seeking dark, glitchy, and well produced electronic music. Squarepusher is still always a great artist. The Flashbulb is constantly putting out new music that I can't tear myself away from. I love electronic music just as much now as I did when I first found out about it, but the production quality has gotten better. It's a love that'll never die, I have no doubts.
How did you get into electronic music. The majority of people I've ever known have referred to all electronic as "techno" and nowadays, everything that isn't made with live instruments gets lumped in together as "EDM." I've always been frustrated by those generalizations because as everyone who loves electronic music knows... there's a plethora of genres and subgenres. it's never ending. So with that being said, what was your introductory to electronic music. Genre, artist, whatever.
Mine was Daft Punk, circa 1995. I was on vacation with a friend and his family and watching MTV (which at the time, the town I lived in didn't offer MTV on their cable package) and I saw the video for Da Funk, by Daft Punk. After that, I found out a friend of mine was into Daft Punk. He let me have a cd of his, which was the Around The World single (with other versions on it). From there I found other friends who were into similar things and found out about Aphex Twin, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy (the stuff they put out before Fat Of The Land), and a few other artists. I started looking through the album sleeves and found a few artists through the "Thank You" section. While I still loved Daft Punk, my taste started gravitating toward artists like Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, Autechre, and other glitchier types.
I ended up subscribing to URB magazine and searching through each edition (which I still have every one of them) and finding new songs and artists. Suddenly, I found myself fully immersed in electronic music. From trance to IDM to DnB. I picked up Dieselboy's A Soldier's Story. Where I started to learn of drum and bass artists like Tech Itch, Decoder, Kosheen, etc. From there, I was hooked on glitchy IDM and darker dnb. The two kind of combined when Evol Intent came around. Then Ewun, Exile, etc. the darker and glitchier, the better.
Now here I am, all these years later and I'm still seeking dark, glitchy, and well produced electronic music. Squarepusher is still always a great artist. The Flashbulb is constantly putting out new music that I can't tear myself away from. I love electronic music just as much now as I did when I first found out about it, but the production quality has gotten better. It's a love that'll never die, I have no doubts.