Influences

**The Overfiend** · 09-02-2005, 07:06 PM

Who bought you into techno music wise?
Believe it or not a combination of stuff did for me,
from Green Velvet to the Touche Label
Dj Sneak Vs. Armand Van Helden Psychic Bounty Hunters and The Relief Label. Laidback Luke was my fav and still is. Not his new stuff though, I could punch him for his newer stuff.

**gary_human** · 09-02-2005, 07:20 PM

If you mean DJs aswell then Kiss FM DJs - Colin Dale and Colin Favor, the Liberator DJs, Eelesy and Toebee (DJ Kunta) from DFM, House Junkie (whatever happened to him?), Lenny Dee and DJ Dag were the DJs who's stuff used to turn me on to the sound of techno music . . .

**audioinjection** · 09-02-2005, 07:22 PM

i got into techno listening to gabber/hardcore techno actually, also jeff mills, derrick may, hyperactive, djax stuff, and local djs here

**SlavikSvensk** · 09-02-2005, 07:46 PM

first true techno dj i saw play was a local detroit guy named twonz back in 1996. then richie hawtin and speedy j a week after. before that i was mostly into aphex and the like...

**drift9** · 09-02-2005, 07:56 PM

got into techno via the heavy metal (maiden, slayer, etc.) to industrial (ministry, nin, thrill kill kult, etc.) route.

hawtin's sheet one was the first legit techno album/cd i got. this kind of led me to the whole detroit scene. grew into it from there.

**The Overfiend** · 09-02-2005, 07:59 PM

Ahhh Fond memories of Kerry King

**conflict** · 09-02-2005, 08:01 PM

dj-ing wise adam beyer and marco caola converted me from my acid techno days around 98

back in the day tho i used to listed to trevor rockliffe colin dale colin favour dave angel tanith easygroove carl cox poducer but was too busy buying.....ahem......other forms of 'rave'

**ampassasinbirmingham** · 09-02-2005, 08:11 PM

i got into techno thru old school mellow and hardcore.

my friends took me to a techno event and i didnt want to go. I saw speedy j live followed by hawtin doing a dex fx set.

From that day on i was hooked.

In my early days my influences wer dave clarke,mills, surgeon, speedy j, leibing, beltram and a few of the detroit heavy weights.

at this point in time i take influence from a lot of warp/rephlex type stuff, from plaid to auetchre. surgeon, regis and mills are one of my main influences on my music.

i think prehaps the biggest influence on my music is this board at the moment. I read get ideas, tips on records.

**dan the acid man** · 09-02-2005, 08:29 PM

started off loving ritchie hawtin and also his plastikman releases, i then started loving green velvet, then a local dj got me into acid techno

**SlavikSvensk** · 09-02-2005, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by drift9

hawtin's sheet one was the first legit techno album/cd i got. this kind of led me to the whole detroit scene. grew into it from there.

it was for me as well, though at the time i didn't realize it was techno!

**fresh_an_funky_design** · 09-02-2005, 08:37 PM

was originally into drum n bass, but went to a few drum n bass nights which had some techno in the back room, really buzzed off the music, then a friend gave me an adam beyer an marco corrolla mix, which properly started it all off for me

**xfive** · 09-02-2005, 08:41 PM

For me I was into house at the time (got there from other things).. and I'd say releases from Carl Cox, Smith & Selway, Angel Alanis, Olav Basoski, and Bryan Zentz really got me into the more techy sound. My local record store of that time also did not really carry any techno (cept for the more tech-housey borderline stuff above).. so I then had to start buying online, where I really discovered the good stuff.
I had been listening to Plastikman for years before all that though.. I just didn't really attribute much of that to being dancefloor capable, because I had never heard it in that context.

**Evil G** · 09-02-2005, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by drift9

got into techno via the heavy metal (maiden, slayer, etc.) to industrial (ministry, nin, thrill kill kult, etc.) route.

hawtin's sheet one was the first legit techno album/cd i got. this kind of led me to the whole detroit scene. grew into it from there.

hey, that's my story exactly! (reaches for tin foil hat...)

**romelpotter** · 09-02-2005, 11:51 PM

i got into techno through the back room @ cream and voodoo from 94 onwards, carl cox never failed to rock it in the back room and the zoo bar, though once that had started to go downhill me and my mates chanced apon voodoo and never looked back, coupling that with teh release of the liquid rooms in 96 my traqnsfer to the darkside was complete

before that i was into metallica/slayer etc .... Rock on ;)

**Stella Boy** · 10-02-2005, 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by SummerOfSam

Who brought you into techno music wise?

My brother - a man obessed with the scene since day one. Showed me what techno is all about and put me onto some of the best producers and dj's known / unknown the scene has ever produced. He introduced me to labels, dj's, clubnights I'd never heard about and showed me what techno really was.

**Honeey** · 10-02-2005, 02:00 AM

Overall, Plastikman Iv'e seen him play here so many times since 94 and have never been disappointed and always wrecked from dancing so hard.

I think the Misjah & Groovehead track Funky Drive really got me into playing the harder techno and still kicks my ass to this day.

**heavy beats** · 10-02-2005, 09:39 AM

for me.... off the top of my head
tracks by adam beyer, advent, jeff mills, carola, morant..
djing wise, it would have to be andrei morant, hawtin, carl cox

**gunjack** · 10-02-2005, 10:57 AM

magic juan.

**DJ Becka** · 10-02-2005, 01:42 PM

Personally, I've been listening to some form of electronic music or another for many years-I can remember back in like 91-92 picking up tapes that had the big 'techno' songs at the time, and not really realizing what I was listening to. I've also been buying records since like the mid-late 80's-all different stuff including dance music-pretty much anything that had a beat to it....again not realizing what an impact some of this stuff would really have on the industry.
As for the realization of techno and what it REALLY was, I met these crazy kids from New Brunswick, NJ that worked at a little record shop called Planet X (now known as Planet X USA on the web) in my early days of djing, and 2 of them kept going on and on about Jeff Mills....they were always like 'Mills Mills.....check this shit out' and handing me records....his album Waveform Transmission Vol. 1 changed my life ;)

**gumpy green** · 10-02-2005, 01:57 PM

the local under 18s discos around 92 got me into rave/old skool/acid house..

was into that till 96 or so when hardcore sort of took over up here and i lost intrest, basically cos the scen went wak as fuk.

got into my hiphop around 96 but then then likes of car cox, dave clarke, dave angel, chris liebing got me into techno at the start but now i dont really care too much for them...

now im a techno snobs and hate the commercial fukers trying to rape the scene for money...free partyz is wher its @ now for me...roll on the summer.

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