Why did you get into techno in the first place?

[SlavikSvensk]

it's been a while since we had an abstract discussion...so i'm curious. what was it about techno that drew everyone in that first time it hit you?

[Traxx]

Bugged out.

[Mindful]

To keep my answer short for now.
I was drawn to its abstract nature and the deep level you can listen to it if you want to.
Also as a dj theres nothing like it if you want to dj like a musician rather than just playing tracks.

Also the freedom it alows you as a producer you can be an arty c*nt with it if you are that way inclined.
And of course you can rock a party with it if you prefere it that way.

[JohnnySideways]

Rez by Underworld :clap: never looked back :lol:
(used to be a rocker/punk)

[Aratron]

well to be honest it was at a time when i was doing a lot of ecstasy and my life was in a mess.
some of the techno beats ( esp acid techno ), i heard at squat parties just stayed in my head, and i became obsessed with it.
for a while it was the only thing keeping me going.
techno

[V..]

It was just a natural progression from the music which I have always listened to, I have always listened to techno really, only know, people tend to pidgeon hole techno as 140bpm-ish 4 to the floor percussive music made for dancing to.
My love for techno has always been in it`s diversity, and it`s change over the years, and it`s undefineable nature.

Technological based music of the future has always been my best attempt at explaining it.

Even now when people ask me about techno, I have to say, "are you asking out of interest, or is this a flippant question? because if you really want me to explain techno, I could be here for ages"

For me the real attraction is the untapped potential. You can just keep diving into it, pushing it in different directions, seeing how far you can take it, or it can take you. It`s an endless journey for me, with no destination, just beautiful scenery along the way.
"see how far the rabbit hole goes"
as some shades wearing fool pontificated in some film from a ruined trilogy.

[RDR]

The chance of a Shag with a bird who didnt like take that.

and it worked.

[Mirsha]

Well I was on my way to this really good trance club (non cheesy style) and I saw the whole place was surrrounded by rozzers (twas the night Billy Nasty was playing). Quite pissed and wondering what to do I remembed that Subtle Logic was on round the corner playing techno so I went there and had 'one of those' club expereicnes.

I mean how many of you can claim your first ever night in a techno club there were 11 people there. Yourself, four of the promoters and six of their mates in a club that can hold 500 people? Even being completely shy and inhibited I just lost it on the dancefloor without chemical stimtulation and thought to myself at the end of the night "You know that's the kind of place I've always wanted to go to".

And a life attitude was born.

[detfella]

a dolly mixture of orbit, house, trance, tuneinn,megablast

[Mindful]

It was just a natural progression from the music which I have always listened to, I have always listened to techno really, only know, people tend to pidgeon hole techno as 140bpm-ish 4 to the floor percussive music made for dancing to.
My love for techno has always been in it`s diversity, and it`s change over the years, and it`s undefineable nature.

Technological based music of the future has always been my best attempt at explaining it.

Even now when people ask me about techno, I have to say, "are you asking out of interest, or is this a flippant question? because if you really want me to explain techno, I could be here for ages"

For me the real attraction is the untapped potential. You can just keep diving into it, pushing it in different directions, seeing how far you can take it, or it can take you. It`s an endless journey for me, with no destination, just beautiful scenery along the way.
"see how far the rabbit hole goes"
as some shades wearing fool pontificated in some film from a ruined trilogy.

Good call V

[dan the acid man]

a simple answer from me, i'd never heard of anything like it before, i loved the power and excitement of it all

[Mindful]

You see how fast people respond to a decent disscussion

[SlavikSvensk]

You see how fast people respond to a decent disscussion

yup...i think we do need more of these types of threads

[SlavikSvensk]

i was into idm and ninja tune, etc. then i got plastikman sheet one and it blew my mind. i listened to it all the time in my car at night. then i moved to michigan, and decided one night to go to a warehouse party in detroit with some friends (incuding two hot chicks, hahaha). a guy named twonz was spinning...sort of a poor man's jeff mills, but i didn't know the difference at the time...he was spinning all purpose maker, black nation, sugeon, etc. this was in 1995. i sat on the speaker, the place was dark and dingy, the lights flashing, the drums just f***ing hard as hell, and it just hit me. and i never turned back.

[Jay Pace]

You see how fast people respond to a decent disscussion

Damm straight.

I was done with teenage jungle rudeness, had enough of mdma fuelled trancefests and was looking for something with more bones to it, that was less faddy.

Bugged out sealed the deal though. I loved those parties.

:shock:

[mek]

I played trance until 2000 when I started getting into techno. It just seemed a deeper and more mature form of music, while rocking harder at the same time. I kindof transitioned from trance to techno through older oliver lieb and the prolekult label. Now I don't know why I liked trance so much.

[tocsin]

it's been a while since we had an abstract discussion...so i'm curious. what was it about techno that drew everyone in that first time it hit you?

Summer boredom. Right place, right time. In a nutshell form at least. ;)

[anx]

generally because it sounds better than all the other genres of electronic music.

[schlongfingers]

About 11 years ago I was fifteen and a bunch of mates and I had got into taking speed and acid, listening to stuff like Fugazi, Operation Ivy, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana and the usual stuff the wierd kids listen to at 15. A friends older sister told us about a party that was going on that night somewhere near the train station. So we went to the train station and it was dead, then a guy drove past in a transit van, and stopped for some reason, so we asked if he knew of a party.. he says yeah i'm on my way there now, jump in the back. Turns out it was the wrong party :D he took us about 20 miles away to an old police training ground (shooting mound) and there were about 30 real dodgy looking people, small rig, and a ****ing giant rottweiler prowling.. Asmodeus was his name. We were kinda stuck, so we just met everyone, found acid in the end, and then worked out the techno thing :D

I'll never forget that night, serendipity at it's finest! That crew still going well strong as well

That rottweiler was trained to bite people in hats as well, the coppers loved that hahaha

[EmotionComplex]

For me it was discovering steve shiels Voodoo hours on Crash fm back in my high school days.

Id never heard music like it before, it was exciting to listen to as it was all new to me, a totally differnt sound.

naturally after listening to the radio show through school the first event i started to goto once id left school was voodoo, then syndicate also.

[stjohn]

generally because it sounds better than all the other genres of electronic music.

that makes it sound like your made to listen to it!! ;)

i think i always loved it... as sideways said..Rez from Underworld got those shivers going and Ive been chasing that Dragon since!!!!!!

[djshiva]

britpop>british punk>full-on punk>industrial (i like weird noises)>the acid sound>farkin full-on techno!

there's the progression. i wanted something that had the aggression of punk, the smoothness of britpop, the weird noises of industrial (minus the sometimes overdone vocals), and a bit o' funk on the bottom end.

it's cathartic and moving and driving and weird and sounds great when my head is buried in the speaker!

[Si the Sigh]

I fell over and banged my head.

[Jay Pace]

I fell over and banged my head.
:lol:

[alsynthe]

through clubs like north as i was into hardcore. gabebr, then realised i was spending more time in the techno room than in the main room.

[Tremor]

I didn't really have a choice in the matter.. it was like :love: at first listen..

I had always embraced the harder and darker side of music. I grew up listening to rock, but always wondered why every band employed the same instuments.. Were there no other viable instruments available in the 20th century? I got into industrial when I was about 14.. It was different and new and not the same thing everyone else listened to.. I loved how it strayed from the norm.. I always liked the rhythms and sampled sounds of hip hop.. and I loved the sub bass.. One day in '96 while trying to make a home and friends in a new city, a coworker put in a tape called "Energy Force" by Frankie Bones.. It's a kick ass tape I still love to this day (wish I still had it), lots of X-Sub, Groovehead, Hyperactive type trax.. 15 mins into it I was bouncing around like a mad person. I had never been to a rave and had always been given the impression they were full on homosexual orgies (fair play, but just not my thing..lol.) I told my coworker, "Damn.. this is fukn badass, I would totally go see this guy.." He said Frankie was going to be in Denver 2 weeks later and invited me to do.. I went and my life hasn't been the same since.. Techno combines everything I've ever enjoyed about music into 1 genre.. The weird sounds, the relentless rhythms.. and the bass.. my gawd the bass..

[Analog.1]

I first got into house music by accidently tuning into centre force fm / london back in 88 and been hooked ever since, i then went through different stages of being hooked on one particular style, i went through the early house phase in 88 / 89, then the hardcore phase in 90-92, then got right into acid/techno in about 94, then i went through a gabber phase in 95, then got sick of gabber and got into the minimal techno phase. Today i mainly listen to good funky techno.. who knows what might happen next..

[kai]

Strangely enough - going to Ibiza in 2001.

Before then I had been into hard trance, hardcore and gabba. Went out to Ibiza and by the third night was starting to really crave a harder sound. Met a lad who was selling tickets for Dance Valley at Amnesia, with Billy Nasty and Riccardo Villalobos on, and he convinced me that although it was't the hardcore techno I was into, that I would love it - and love it I did. Came back from there, and started going over to The Orbit as often as possible with a crew of lads I was just getting to know around the time who had been going there for a few years, and it all came from there really.

In 2003/04 started to stop listening to techno a bit, or rather listening to less of it, and listening to more and more hardstyle. However, since getting Techno Prisoners up and running at the beginning of this year I've been re-acquanting myself with my love for techno and spending more and more time in the techno clubs, which has led to me realising just how foolish I was in taking eighteen months out from listening to it!

[*Nancy*]

Because listening to it makes me smile and gives me butterflies in the stomach and goosebumps all over. I think that's Love.

[jos]

Interesting question... I started listening to gabba and oldskool when I was about 12 after me and my mate knicked her brothers tapes. That continued for a few years then started going to clubs like North in Stoke. Then I discovered techno a few years later when I was about 17 and started going to The Orbit, Bugged Out etc.

[jos]

Interesting question... I started listening to gabba and oldskool when I was about 12 after me and my mate knicked her brothers tapes. That continued for a few years then started going to clubs like North in Stoke. Then I discovered techno a few years later when I was about 17 and started going to The Orbit, Bugged Out etc.

[jon connor]

i had the choice of the red microdot or the purple microdot , about 13 years ago , i took the purple microdot at my first free party at the age of 16 and have been in trip wonderland eversince :lol: and hooked on techno hahahahaha ive the disease man im infested with techno to the maximum hehehehehehehehehehehehe!!!!! :cool:

[Fordy]

My brothers utter devotion to something I didnt get untill I walked into atomic jam.

[slacker]

it was when I saw the liberators and DAVE in about, oh, 2001. walked in and the poundingness most impressed me, compared to the psy trance next door...

what really got me into it though was the fact that it's driving, innovative, varied, changeable by a dj, and alot of the time seems to be about love not money-something I deeply respect.

Also it still has the full ability to make me giggle with joy/have the musical equivalent of a multiple orgasm. ;)

[rhythmtech]

first time for me was around 96/97. heard "tempreture drop - what is soul?" on cluster @ a club called fusion that used to be on in dublin.

totally blew my mind. next gig was chris liberatot (his first time in ireland if i remember). the night is just a cosmic blur except for one moment when chris dropped "e's are workin" by punk floyd. one minute pounding funky acid then everything goes silent and suddenly there's just a vocal saying "the exctasy is working"..... the place erupted!!!

:lol:

[g]

my answer to this is almost cliche these days, or at least it's oft-repeated. but it's the truth regardless: detroit.

i grew up 20 minutes away and was (probably not a good idea) hanging out there from when i was 15. in 1987 i was 16 and suddenly there was this guy on FM98 WJLB everyday called The Wizard... holeeee shiiiit.

before that there was a ton of instrumental music in my life. dad was always a jazz fanatic. i could talk for two hours about non-dance electronic and acoustic instrumental music that's important to me. a little before the Wizard time i was religiously listening to Brave New Waves, a canadian alternative (when that meant something) radio show. and a lot of obscure rock.

soon enough there was Derrick and Kevin's show on WDET. then it wasn't long before my first trip to The Music Institute. i had already been going to Todd's and City Club for a while, but they were just "scenes" (either gay or goth, of which i was neither) and while the music was good once in a while, it just never hit the mark. to say that The Music Institute did is a pretty massive understatement. getting to MI was freaky the first time -- yes, i was one of maybe 5 white people there -- but once you were inside none of that mattered.

then this skinny white kid who dj'd under the name Richie Rich started playing at the Shelter so i'd go there a lot.. although we were both underage. heh. Rich just knew what the hell to do with records even back then.

around that time Blake Baxter and some others started having a thing at the Majestic also.

lots of parties, lots of new records, lots going on. then the "three" ran into Rushton, went to europe, and pretty soon were basically gone. fast forward a little bit past some crazycrazycrazy early Plus 8 parties to August 13, 1994: a party called Spastik and the first ever live Plastikman performance.

you can't even describe it.

by winter 1995 and into 1996, i was working at Transmat. Rich got kicked out of the US for a while, started making obscenely deep and dark music, had some great f'ing parties in Canada. it's another thing that's cliche'd by now, but there are just too many amazing plus8 detroit parties from that era to even talk about.

along the way claude, dbx, rob hood, kenny, stacey, d wynn, bone, tp, john acq, kdj, alton miller... pretty much everyone except Derrick/Kevin/Juan... were in detroit doing their thing. despite the Detroit Police Department shutting down anything that moved there for a while, it was all still a magical time.

then i left b/c while it's my home and the music is the key, detroit is a sh!t place to live. and it's just getting worse. i go back and have been going back frequently for years now, pretty much always for certain parties or events, but the city itself is on that same slow self-destructive path it's been on since 1967.

tangent.

anyway. the earliest days of Jeff Mills on the radio and then all those other guys got me into techno. i'm sure it's why my tastes are all over the board; where i came from there was no difference between house and techno. then there's all this dark twisted beautiful stuff that makes my heart go boom.. and there ya go.

[Ritzi Lee]

In my beginning of exploring dance music (1991 / 1992) I even didn't knew about techno music. Everything was called "House music"... Anyway as little kid I always liked science fiction movies; always wanted to understand the mystics of mathematics and physics; and more of those stuff.

Before i've discoved housemusic i listened a lot of rap / hip hop. I mean really the oldschoolish hip hop.. Somewhere around 1990 I saw a program on MTV with DJ's battling: Grandmaster Flash, Swift Master K, and more of those legends... Also there where a lot of clips with mix compilations of all the stuff we knew in that time.... So I was really interested about how the hell these guys got that funky good sound!!

So there I went to record stores. And soon enough I've discovered the specialistic record stores where you can get all the rare stuff. "Sweet Lullaby" was my first houserecord I've bought. And after that "Galaxy 2 Galaxy" from Underground Resistance.... In that time the difference between house and techno wasn't there. I was just getting into the thing when the house mania was there.... I liked it. House is a feeling!

And the more I went deeper, the more things you would discover about this special kind of music scene.... Techno was the music I grew into. I never choose to listen techno. It just happened.

[fatcollective]

breakdance > early rave > hardcore > trance > TECHNO !!

[djshiva]

Because listening to it makes me smile and gives me butterflies in the stomach and goosebumps all over. I think that's Love.

:love:

that about sums it up doesn't it? :)

[V..]

I like it as it good music to listen to whilst I am sharpening my knives, and puts me in a good mood to kill some ladies.

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[SlavikSvensk]

by winter 1995 and into 1996, i was working at Transmat.

:hmm: how long were you there before moving?

[g]

by winter 1995 and into 1996, i was working at Transmat.

:hmm: how long were you there before moving?
i think i left in sept 96. started there more like fall.. sept/oct 95

[*Nancy*]

Because listening to it makes me smile and gives me butterflies in the stomach and goosebumps all over. I think that's Love.

:love:

that about sums it up doesn't it? :)

It does indeed ! :notworthy: :cool:

[dan the acid man]

ah, thats what love is, thats where i've been going wrong :oops:

[ANDROID]

Well here is my story, i was a big drum&Bass head before i met Mark EG and Chris Liberator at WEMF 1996, it change complitely my veiw on music till now!!!

TECHNO IS SUPER POWER!!!

[webassassin]

My path to techno was via Chicago house music.

I got into Techno most definitely for its energy. That massive sound, all encompassing, mercy mercy! :love: :::fans herself::: The more primal, the more wild, and the more funky it is, the better.

[curly]

started back in school listening to the abstract dance show with colin dale and colin jackson on kiss FM im guessing 89 90, ath that time I was also listening to Public Enemy and BDP, It wasn't untill a few years later (about 96) that I went to my first techno party, saw all these people AveinIt on the dace floor, and heard it through a rig rather than my home stereo. The energy just jumped out of the speakers and pulled me in. Have been into techno from then on. I have made some very good mates through the techno , it's prob the most infulentual thing on my life.

[keylockd]

joey beltram energy flash/goin to visit my mate mark who moved to london and he brought me to antiworld and such!

[iffi]

Was into Prog house,but it started goin a bit trancey in the
Late 90's. Went to Future Funk in Bristol n heard DJ Jasper...been Techno ever since... ;)

[doc12inch]

got into when i first went to hog bout 5-6 years ago, instantly hooked.


now if i dont goto a night quite regularly i feel like im missing out on sumthing.

[iffi]

got into when i first went to hog bout 5-6 years ago, instantly hooked.


now if i dont goto a night quite regularly i feel like im missing out on sumthing.

Unfortunately there aren't many Techno nights to go to round Brum... :cry:

[doc12inch]

got into when i first went to hog bout 5-6 years ago, instantly hooked.


now if i dont goto a night quite regularly i feel like im missing out on sumthing.

Unfortunately there aren't many Techno nights to go to round Brum... :cry:


yeah i know.

now i goto leeds a bit and wherever there is anything good

[Stodgy]

I got into tha fact that you could lose yourself properly on the dance floor for hours in a way that i cant manage with any other music.

[djbuzzbe]

listened to my m8s cd in 96 or 97 called"jeff mills live at the liquid rooms" i was blown away never looked back