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Since I'm 18 and a tad younger than most of you, there's been a lot more electronic (dance) music around when I've been young. You know, eurodance stuff like Captain Jack is nostalgic for me... My interest in electronic music really began, when I got my hands on this new thing called the "internet" in the mid-nineties and started searching and downloading MOD-files. Most of them were very ravey and I loved listening to them over and over again. Then I got into Scooter and Sash!, since that was probably the most popular electronic music Finland at the moment... Also a new fileformat called MP3 had made it's way into the World Wide Web. I downloaded a bunch of trance, but soon realized that it was too poppy and formulaic for my tastes. Then came the changing moment when I heard Smack My Bitchup by the Prodigy on MTV. The beat just blew my mind and in just a few days I bought all their albums and realized that I loved pretty much every song they had made. I needed to know if there was more music like this out there, so I browsed the web and found a site that listed all the biggest "electronica" artists at the time. The list included: The Prodigy, Orbital, The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Orb, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, Fluke, FSOL and Astral Projection for some matter. When I discovered the aforementioned musicmakers, I've never looked back since. BTW, MoN was probably the first album I got my hands on after the Prodge albums and it's one of those albums that really showed me how diverse the music could be.

I used to like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Motorhead in my youth, but always had a fondness for synth sounds, generally from TV themes like Knight Rider, Miami Vice and Airwolf, but also from hearing LPs my Dad played - especially Mike Oldfield's 'Incantations'.

I was still into Heavy Metal when I received my first stereo-cassette player for Christmas 1989, along with a compilation tape, 'Deep Heat 90'. This, combined with access to Kiss FM when it used to be good, threw me into my 15 year love affair with electronic dance music!

Dome wrote: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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Technically Mount Universe on NYE was 1996 BTW, those who haven't seen Jamie Lidell live really ought to! Incredible!

In very global lines it went like this:

Frankie Goes To Hollywood --> Depeche Mode --> Front 242 --> Kraftwerk --> Eric B & Rakim --> Public Enemy --> De La Soul --> Portishead --> Orb --> Orbital --> Aphex Twin

So I am mainly at an IDM fase right now, shifting towards more accesible things like folktronica (i.e. Four Tet), but still love every bit of music I ever was "into".

Which makes me wonder: do you still like all music (styles) you have been into or are there some things you cannot stand to hear anymore?

Weakling wrote: Which makes me wonder: do you still like all music (styles) you have been into or are there some things you cannot stand to hear anymore?

i think that if your really like something, that sticks.. if only to feel that feeling again from back in the days.. even tho your main taste can shift, or better, widen..

of course this doesn't count for the: "I listen to dr alban because all my friends think it's cool" kinda things

Timbob wrote:of course this doesn't count for the: "I listen to dr alban because all my friends think it's cool" kinda things

LOL. Luckily I never followed any hype and didn't care what my friends said I should or should not do. Always went my own way in developing my taste (as much as that is possible). Although Dr Alban was cool ... no not really

Weakling wrote:

Timbob wrote:of course this doesn't count for the: "I listen to dr alban because all my friends think it's cool" kinda things

LOL. Luckily I never followed any hype and didn't care what my friends said I should or should not do. Always went my own way in developing my taste (as much as that is possible). Although Dr Alban was cool ... no not really

well hey.. "it's your life"
i was very stubborn in the beginning.. ooh, that's top40? then it must suck!
later i got more relaxed.. (but still most top40 songs suck)

i think i have my dad and brother to thank for all the new styles of music they brought me.. like Lamb (my brother) and Stereo Mc's (my dad) and lots more

Timbob wrote: well hey.. "it's your life"
i was very stubborn in the beginning.. ooh, that's top40? then it must suck!
later i got more relaxed.. (but still most top40 songs suck)

i think i have my dad and brother to thank for all the new styles of music they brought me.. like Lamb (my brother) and Stereo Mc's (my dad) and lots more

If my mother and father taught me anything, it was which music I don't like to listen to. I never really disliked the top40, it was just not my thing most of the time. Strangely enough I now get nostalgic feelings when hearing some corny 80's hit.