How were you introduced to electronic music?

I searched through the forums and noticed this wasn't a topic posted!

 

So how did you come about listening/creating electronic music?

 

for me it was the electronics from sky eats airplane and horse the band.

When I was 11 or 12 I was listening to a lot of trance and drum and bass music. I was searching for music by the artist "Massif" back then and instead of music by the artist Massif showing up, I downloaded Massif - Squarepusher (mislabelled).

 

From there, I started using discogs to find "like artists" and then bought RDJ album from A & B sound (a small scale electronics store in Canada).

 

Before that, I don't really remember... I always listened to drum and bass as far back as I remember...

I was walking down the street and a bearded man approached me and said "your whole life is a lie" then I felt a sudden urge to go home and type idm on google.

  On 10/22/2012 at 2:15 AM, Kanakori said:

I was walking down the street and a bearded man approached me and said "your whole life is a lie" then I felt a sudden urge to go home and type idm on google.

 

That's intense. You sure the bearded man didn't rape you and then you lived for years with trauma becoming more and more reclusive until naturally you just started listening to the IDM's in the dark corner of your basement while your friends listened to happy pop music and ate corn-dogs and lollipops and did kids stuff?

When my parents bought an IMAC in 2000 it came with a bunch of itunes sampler musics, one of which was this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnYms-4BKP8

also me and my friend played midnight club 2 a lot and it had lots of stuff by felix da housecat, golden boy, art of trance, thomas bangalter....

damn that one has a really tight soundtrack.

thats because apple knows whats up salvatorin

I was introduced to Brian Eno and Kraftwerk in junior high school by my awesome design and technology teacher, which would eventually lead me astray from the classic rock radio obsession I had had. Computer World was the second CD I ever bought after Black Sabbath's s/t.

orbital - halcyon from the mortal kombat ost album

Hearing Fatboy Slim's - "Rockafeller Skank" on the radio in the 90's and eventually acquiring Prodigy's Fat of the Land album off a friend who had bought it for "Breathe" and "Firestarter" then moving my way through the whole big beat scene until I was introduced to Aphex Twin through a friend while listening to SAW 2 during a smoke sesh. Eventually looking for more like Aphex, I downloaded a few BoC tracks off the internet fell in love with them and thus began the whole venture into IDM and other styles of electronic music.

When I was like under 10 years old I remember listening to tons of Michael Jackson which was sort of a primer for electronic driven music. Then it was MTV Amp that introduced me to classics like White Town - Your Woman.

I saw Herbie Hancock, Break Machine and Rock Steady Crew on TV during the breakdance craze in 83/84. Then Blue Monday on one of my dad's tapes.

Edited October 22, 2012 by psn

There was this electronic music guide I found online: http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/ that guide started it all I guess

Around 8 I'd listen to some rave songs from my sister (who at the age of 15-16 was into the whole rave scene) then around 9-10 I'd listen to some tool, NIN more rave electronic type music like Paul Okenfold or Tiesto then Prodigy thanks to my sister and her cool European friends from Greece who introduced her to them.

 

Then around 11 my mind really got blown. I was looking for a certain NIN track and saw this CD with children on the front cover who all had the face of some oddly smiling man. My lack of concern or bravery led me to listen to its content whereby I heard the amazingness that is Come to Daddy. I was struck with such energy and could feel the music translate to emotional excitement I was thrilled. Needless to say, I could not stop listening to it.

 

From then on the rest is history.

 

(The contents of this story may be 1-2 years off)

Edited October 22, 2012 by ZiggomaticV17

being a white-gloved, pilled-up raver throughout the 90s

 

also been into acid house since 1989 when I was 12 and got "The Greatest Hits Of House" on double-cassette...featured Adonis, Farley Jackmaster Funk, Humanoid, Hithouse and the like.

Edited October 22, 2012 by BCM

Found a 2 cassette Hardbag compilation up the fields while bunking off games in 2008. Slapped it straight in my Personal stereo cassette player and never looked back (or did games again). Got expelled and saved up pocket money and sold a few pokemon cards until I could afford a MC303 then basically started laying down next level beats.

I recorded the Knight Rider theme to a C-cassette and played it over and over again.

 

'puter games, aged around 6ish. More specifically stuff like this:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1stW0J7Myew

The first music I remember hearing with synths/drum machines must've been either Roxy Music (with Eno) or Primal Scream's Screamadelica, in my dad's car stereo and I quite enjoyed it even though I had no idea it was partly electronic. Then in the early 90's things like this, this and

became huge, making me think electronic music was vapid and cheap. Eventually I came across NIN, Prodigy and Depeche Mode and I started changing my mind. After that I got curious about Kraftwerk despite most people warning me it was cold and difficult; when I first heard Man Machine I was both amazed and hooked. The first IDM I came across was LFO (Sheath), Mouse On Mars (Idiology) and Clark (Totems Flare).

Around 2007 (17 years old) I heard Pulsewidth, Xtal, Windowlicker, Ptolemy and Z-Twig. Which got me hooked. Later I discovered 'MHTRTC', and that was when I decided I was really into electronic music. So I'm actually pretty new to electronic music, even though I feel like I've listened to it my whole life for some reason.

 

Before that I exclusively listened to old school 80's and 90's east coast hip hop. DJ Premier was my hero. It's kind of embarassing how short-minded I was back then. But I actually first got internet very late in my life, I blame that on my limited music knowledge outside of hip hop at the time. But I sure did know everything about hip hop.

Edited October 22, 2012 by Npoess

I have listened to electronic music my whole life because the time when only acoustic instruments were used in pop music ended long before my birth.

  On 10/22/2012 at 2:07 PM, Npoess said:

Around 2007 I heard Pulsewidth, Ptolemy and Z-Twig. Which got me hooked. So I'm actually pretty new to electronic music, even though I feel like I've listened to it my whole life for some reason.

 

Before that I exclusively listened to old school/90's east coast hip hop. It's kind of embarassing how short-minded I was back then.

Now that you say that I recall hearing some bleeps and bloops in my mothers womb, maybe it was the placenta mixed with the voices from outside but damn was it fun

  On 10/22/2012 at 2:05 PM, kokeboka said:

After that I got curious about Kraftwerk despite most people warning me it was cold and difficult; when I first heard Man Machine I was both amazed and hooked.

 

Lol, I can understand the cold part but not the difficult. Kraftwerk is one of the most accessible bands ever for me. It just clicked instantly.

Hmmm. Pre-Acid house era I think it was. Todd Terry Project stuff, but I'm not sure. Listening to a radio programme called "Disco Night" (on german WDR2) was the holy grail for me, must have been in late 80s.

Amon Tobin, through his splinter cell soundtrack