What Got You Into EDM

[mattus123]

So after having a convo with mr GREMM1S about your first introduction/transformation into EDM, i thought i'd be interesting to hear about how you guys all got into it.

For me, i was always a metal head and into rock right from an early age. When everyone else was into scribe, i was into System Of A Down, when everyone was into the killers, i was into Trivium.

My uncle was (and still is) a big EDM junkie, so i always heard trance and house tracks from him, but it wasn't until Pendulum - Tarantula that i started to be converted.

From there it became my itunes started filling with all the commercial classics (basshunter), into the MOS compilations and then pretty much full immersion \:D/

[Mitch]

Got into the prodigy at an early age, when I was around 9/10. Was into that sorta stuff for a few years, then got given the MOS 2007 Annual when I was 12 (I think).

MOS compilations nowadays are nowhere near as good as they were, and I've dug my way into loving a wide range of electronic music, but (deep) house has cemented itself as my favourite.

[Mitch]

[russell]

Growing up in the UK during the house movement listening to The Grid, The KLF, The Prodigy, Inner City, Soul II Soul, M People ect...

Good times (the best times) in terms of the style of music available in the mainstream.

[GREMM1S]

Great idea for a thread.

I randomly started listening to euro trance, hard style and techno around age 16 or so after having listened to Hip hop since i was young.

Darude - sandstorm is the main track i remember getting me into it, also tiestos stuff like adagio and lethal industry got me.

Eventually moved onto electro and house which is where im still more or less at bar trance being my main love and a few trends along the way like dub and trap etc.

[eggssell]

I don't think it was any real epiphany for me. im way old school though. most twelve inches always had a dance-ish mix, be it a pop or a hip hop track. I will always remember the shep pettibone mixes. hip-house scene was pretty bigg too by the late 80's when i was about 12.

soul 2 soul, technotronic, snap, bomb the bass, blackbox were kind of the commercial breakthrough artists that come to mind. pet shop boys 12 inches were always awesome too. my domino dancing 12 inch is still one of my faves

but yeh back then you didn't really care to know what the dj was playing, as long as it was good. in fact DJs were the tastemakers, you were not meant to know the most of what they were playing. that was their aim to always have new shit. at our house parties we'd always want to ask the dude playing what a particular track was. then go into town to find it at disco city. ahh the good ol days.

by 91 dance music was everywhere. the charts, radio, tv commercials, on every story line of every tv show.

[GREMM1S]

I don't think it was any real epiphany for me. im way old school though. most twelve inches always had a dance-ish mix, be it a pop or a hip hop track. I will always remember the shep pettibone mixes. hip-house scene was pretty bigg too by the late 80's when i was about 12.

soul 2 soul, technotronic, snap, bomb the bass, blackbox were kind of the commercial breakthrough artists that come to mind. pet shop boys 12 inches were always awesome too. my domino dancing 12 inch is still one of my faves

but yeh back then you didn't really care to know what the dj was playing, as long as it was good. in fact DJs were the tastemakers, you were not meant to know the most of what they were playing. that was their aim to always have new shit. at our house parties we'd always want to ask the dude playing what a particular track was. then go into town to find it at disco city. ahh the good ol days.

by 91 dance music was everywhere. the charts, radio, tv commercials, on every story line of every tv show.

Nothing beats a good tune hunt.

[legunner]

Daft Punk and Justice got me into it.

[OxyKon]

Dope track there ^

I was a lot like Mattus, was a major Metal fiend, Trivium, Deftones (Earlier stuff), Unearth, Tool, etc. but i always had an interest in The Crystal Method, always hearing some of their earlier tracks in movies and shit, i'd always go right to the credits and find out what the tracks were, then would go out and get the albums, and this is in the days of dial up internet, actually had to go to the music stores

But again, it wasnt until i saw this particular show that i started taking EDM more seriously

It was at this moment, at the very start of the concert, that my life changed forever

[GREMM1S]

Fuuuark, what the new album could have been

[yizzle]

like mattus & oxy, lots of metal growing up.

went to a mates house long ago, we drank shroom tea and he played me infected mushroom.

[middle of story]

now im here.

[djbater]

I'd say ministry of sound, proablably 2002 and 2003. I used to be into rock, played guitar and only listened to that sort of stuff. Probably a late starter as I only converted when i started going out in 2003. Still though, a lot of my favourite songs are rock tracks from the 90s.

[styga]

i use to be a huge hip-hop/rap head with bit of rock and commercial shit here and there.

then i remember being shown some basshunter by a spanish friend of mine back when i was about 14/15

then at about 15/16 i started look for remixes of commercial tunes that i liked,

was really into electro house at first while the rest of my friends were all listening to dubstep

and now im here enjoying pretty much every genre

[Kodiak]

Was a combo of things happening about the same time for me....

Come from the Rock/blues background. Studied music at school right through to grade 12. At around this age, in 1995 I was very much an avid user of my Amiga computer. One of the big things from this period was called the Demo Scene where programmers would try and out-do each other with technically challenging music and videos. These demos used a 4 track "mod" for their music as used very little space and videos completely made up of code.

One demo I can remember that was the first purely "EDM" style is this "State of the Art" demo from 1992. This is all code, not video. Playing live on a 14.4Mhz CPU with 1mb ram off a single 880kb floppy disc.

So with my music studies I started getting into writing music with mod software. As it is a sample and pattern based production platform it lends itself to dance music

Not long after this I got my license and started driving my own car. One of the first things I did was install an Alpine stereo with CD player, splits and some sik by nines in the back. And I discovered how cool EDM sounds on loud systems. So started my collection of EDM CD's about then. Prodigy, Crystal Method, Chemical Bros, Ultra Sonic plus so much more I can't think of right now got a lot of airplay in my car.

Then as I grew into my 20's I started getting interested in the clubbing scene. I was reading Mixmag religiously (pre-internet days). Early MoS albums... In particular the Clubber's Guide to Ibiza Summer 99 mixed by Judge Jules and Clubbers Guide to Trance (mixed by ATB) were exceptionally good. My friends were not really into EDM but put up with me listening to these CD's. They were kind of an anthem to our summer in about 2000. Drinking by the pool, having fun while these CD's played are clear memories to me. Also very much got into the Gatecrasher albums and was mesmerized by the images of the "rave kids" and hypnotised by the trance music.

Unfortunately by this stage I was living in Gladstone. And the EDM scene was particularly non-existent. DJ's at the club were just queuing up NightLife videos. Did manage to make it to a few System 6 Raves in Brisbane. But not long after hooked up with my future (ex)wife and settled down.