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Just curious as to the first time you liked the sort of stuff you are into?
e.g. For myself I remember 'Pulstar' by Vangelis being used for a T.V. theme back in the seventies. It immediately struck a chord and has stuck with me since even though I have been through every thing from metal to cajun to new romantic ( I used to be a right pretentious twat as a teen ). Then when I was in college I heard it again, and realised their was no point fighting against it, Electronica was really what I was into.

It is still one of my fave tunes

When I heard Mike Oldfield on 'Blue Peter'. I was 7 or 8 at the time.

my mother, my self, and my brother would listen to hearts of space every sunday for years, until i was about 9. it wasen't until 1995, (i was into semi-electronic industrial at the time) that i heard joey beltram on a sampler cd, that's when i knew i loved straight electronic music. i saw meat beat manifesto and alex patterson when i was 13 a year later, and there was no turning back. electronic music defines my life.

tom d

It was all GnR, Nirvana and Pearl Jam until I heard You're Like Magic by The House Crew. Since then it's been repetitive (or not so repetitive) beats all the way...

First obsession was T Rex, but the first electronic tuneage I remember was Popcorn by Hot Butter.

Popcorn by Hot Butter

There's a tune I haven't heard in an age
I once heard that was a mathematical programme transposed to a musical score. Anyone know if there is any veracity to this?

my brother got me into rave music, "experience" started a long love affair with the prodigy. i still bear the tattoo. yes. and dance music generally from there i guess.

Jan Hammer's music for "Miami Vice", particularly "Crockett's Theme". I was probably about 8-9 years old back then, and it showed me something new and fantastic. Then came years of playing computer games and listening to computer music... Ah, the days of the old Commodore 64

Seeing Orbital at Glasto in '94.
Before that point in time I disliked electronic music in most forms
Apart from the Knightrider theme...

heard my older brothers Kraftwerk stuff in 1981-ish i guess. Cos I remember The Model. Didnt stop me diversifying into dodgy metal halfway thru the 80s tho!

davemacfrombath wrote: the first electronic tuneage I remember was Popcorn by Hot Butter.

Wow, I can remember that. Another early one for me was Kraftwerk's Autobahn. Plus, of course, the Dr Who theme.

Well, it has to be 1989, when I discovered a whole host of electronic music via John Peel's shows at the time. From the Peel Sessions and tracks played during that period, I discovered A Guy Called Gerald (of course! ), 808 State, The Orb (loved the 'A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain' Peel Session), The Shamen, Baby Ford, The Shamen, etc.

The first time I heard any Orbital was when I was at Uni and the DJ played 'Belfast', whereupon my mate, Gwyn, went up to the DJ to ask who it was. He then went out and bought the Green album, and the rest is history!

I suppose that, pre-1989, the kind of electronic music that I listened to included Jean Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield (from my Dad, and of course the Blue Peter theme!) and Kraftwerk (when 'The Model' went top 10 back in 1982 ?), but it wasn't until the 1989 acid house movement and the convergence of house into indie music (mainly the Madchester bands), that my music path went into an electronic/dance direction.

Nowadays, I don't tend to listen to that much indie music anymore, apart from the odd band, like New Order... A lot of the current wave of indie bands don't seem to 'do' anything for me, many of whom tend to be third-rate My Bloody Valentine rip-offs... Maybe it's me growing older?

l8rs,


Nick

My story in 50 words or less:

I went from Pet Shop Boys and 80s synth music through KLF to Prodigy (Music for the Jilted Generation) and Chemical Brothers (Dig Your Own Hole), until P.E.T.R.O.L. and The Box made me buy In Sides (which I hated on the first few listens).

I had Blue Peter was my 1st 7" single.

my 1st proper electronic moment was when my mum got me Sounds of Star wars on Tape by the Sonic All Stars.

Electonic versions of the Star wars tunes, I woulda been 6 or 7 I think

loved that tape, wore it out and snapped it from rewinding and playing my favourite bleeps and bloops, but I repiared it.

still have it thou, with all my inlay notes on what time on the counter they were.

I was a b-girl hip hop freak first in the 80's, as a teen the first electronica I heard was probably Kraftwerk's Tour de France in the Breakdance movie! Loved it! Also bought Blue Monday on 12" when it came out late eighties. Dibbled & dabbled after that, liked Prodigy & the Chems from the start, also things like Massive Attack & Portishead. Didn't knowingly hear my 1st Orbital until early 2001 when my mate Naomi told me she'd sung on a record called Funny Break by some band called Orbital ( ), checked them out and the rest has been uphill from there