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i used to be into madonna when i was little, then when i was 12/13 i really liked pearl jam, smashing pumpkins, nirvana etc.. i think then i got into moby (everytime you touche me & feeling so real) prodigy and a song 'set u free' by n-trance and 'right in the night'by jam & spoon. when i was 14 (it was early '95) a friend played me halcyon on a birthdayparty.. and as soon as i heard it i turned round to him and said: "what is this.. i NEED to have this" and he actually gave me the ep (but i had to give him 'right in the night' ) not much later i bought sniv.... rest is history..
and i have to 'blame' poo and some others here to tell me about idm artists like jega etc and some other friends of mine who told me about plaid, ae and a lot more...

and the leytonstone pubs for my interest in urban, grime hahaha

*insert rolling smiley here*
LMAO

Back in the early nineties I was a big industrial fan (still am somewhat today too). In those days all the greats (Ministry, Front 242, KMFDM, Meatbeat, MLWTKK, Sister Machine gun etc.) we're on a small Chicago record label call Wax Trax. In '94 Wax Trax went bankrupt & was bought out by TVT Records. When that happened they released a huge collection of back catalog stuff in a box set called the Black Box, which I ordered. Black Box came with a bonus CD called Afterburn - Wax Trax '94 & beyond & Underworld's Dirty Epic was on it. As soon as I heard it I knew I had to have more. So I went out & snatched up all the UW I could find. Once I had that I still wanted more so that led to Orbital & Prodigy & more. Thus began my love affair with electronic tunes. I had heard some of it before (Halcyon & such) but had never really given it much time before Dirty Epic.
Then I started visiting the Loopz forums & that led to so much more quality electronic music & still does all the time these days. Electronic music probably makes up about 75% of the music I listen to now.

hmmm i like loads of stuff but if its orbital related..that has to be 1989/90/91 ... all the electronic dancey rave acieeeeeeeed

In hidesight, it must be in the 80s with sound of the crowd - human league. Luved all the clank cling, ding gong, boink ... noises lmao

I think the earliest influence i had was computer game music from machines like the Amstrad and Amiga. I still love chiptunes to this day. For a while i wasn't sure what i was into, then when i was about 13 or 14 i heard a few songs by The Prodigy and The Box by Orbital (although at the time i didn't realise what it was). I decided i liked stuff like that a lot, but didn't really know where to go from there until a couple of years later when i really started listening to Orbital for the first time, when The Middle Of Nowhere came out. I was about 16. That was the turning point for me, i bought as much Orbital as i could and just went from there.

When I went and bought a Howard Jones 12", Like To Get To Know You Well in 1984. From then on I loved the music from Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Mantronix (Bassline 12") Depeche Mode and Electronic. Then thankfully I started listening to the John Peel Show, and hearing music from some Cornish wizkid

Which blew me away, that was when I fell in love with Electronica, Techno, Ambient, etc..

The music in the three Matrix movies introduced me to electronica...now i am a huge listener of it.

New Order-Blue Monday,1983.

Lots of drums and stupid noises.

Been liking variations on that theme ever since.

'Mouldy Old Dough' by Lieutenant Pigeon.

You told me that you preferred Captain and Tenille, you scamp.

1995/1996 was when I started listening to music. I remember liking a lot of the britpop stuff, and then I saw the video for The Box on TOTP and bought the single - my first CD. I got into Underworld, FSOL and Apollo 440 that year too. Which is where most of the stuff I listen to these days stems from. I was 10/11 at the time.

OK, serious answer.

I remember liking 'Son of My Father' by Chicory Tip (1972?) for having a great synth riff - probably the first 'electronic' music I heard. It got to number one as well! And 'Popcorn' was out at around that time as well of course.

There followed years of RAWK, then punk, then indie, etc.

Unitil Orbital at Glastonbury '95, which was a bit of a revelation to me to say the least, and hooked me into 'modern' electronic dance music. I was completely sober at the time as well...

My dad would play the likes of Hot Butter, Isao Tomita and Walter Carlos when I was 5, but I didn't really take an interest until seeing Mike Oldfield on 'Blue Peter'... Then I listened to his analogue synth stuff and was well into buying Kraftwerk and Jarre for myself and it kinda went from there... My cousin was very much into Tangerine Dream, Yes etc. and then synthpop hit and I was hooked... By the time New Order released 'Blue Monday' in 1983, I was well on my way!

Got into the hardcore/rave scene and then in 1990 when I was a student in Portsmouth, I bought an interseting looking CD single sitting in the New Release section at HMV. It was a grey/black sleeved CD called 'Chime'.

Tangerine Dream - forgot aboot them!

Bizarrely, at one point they were the official 'loudest band in the world' (subsqeuently overtaken by more obvious candidates like The Who and Motorhead) - on a couple of tunes, one of them would get out a guitar, which was FERKIN LOUD!

For me it was hearing 'tour de france' by Kraftwerk on Radio Caroline, and then a few months later seeing Turbo dance with his broom to the same in 'Breakdance'. That spurned an entire electro feast for me (especially loving Streetsounds Electro 3), and the Beasties.

And yes, I was a B-Boy, popping, locking, spinnin' and....freeze!

Then funnily enough, would you believe it, a band called Orbital played at a night where my school friend was celebrating his 18th Birthday (Adam). It was 1989 or 1990, cant remember exactly, at the grasshopper inn in westerham. I don't remember seeing them, I don't even think I was there. But didn't stop hearing chime after that! Best Orbital gigs (for me): MTV Dance launch @ Ocean (mainly cos I was so supprised!), Ally Pally NYE 1997 ('Somewhere out There' MY GOD!), and Glastonbury 2001 .

And then, on its own...LFO by LFO. A new direction.

Other epiphanies: Metalheadz turned my world upside down (blue note), Underworld live (always), Radiohead live for the 1st time after they went 'exerimental' - suddenly I understood where they were coming from!

Recently: Jamie Lidell... sometimes a bit confusing, but mind blowing!

Dom
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