How were you introduced to electronic music?

think first piece of electronic / sample based type of thing i remember was paul mccartneys frog chorus from rupert the bear. i'd of been about 3 or 4 at the time

rocked my world

i remember Nine Inch Nails - Broken being a turning point. There is a secret track at the end (#99) with a bleepy sound that got me interested in more synthy sounds. Then the remix ep, Fixed, got me further into techno.

I forgot to mention The Prodigy I think. I listened to Fat of the Land and then later downloaded some of their other stuff. I also really liked Poison when I first heard it.

Through the last track on a Handsome Boy Modelling School's tape. The distorted beats by Alec Empire blew my 13 year old mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OGYSwgFJqE

Living in India during the days of 28.8k dial up connection it was pretty much impossible to dig deeper. I had to wait a few months before my aunt came down from the US with Alec Empire & Techno Animal - Curse of the Golden Vampire. That record was the one that got me hooked. My older cousin sister also introduced me to goa trance and spliffs around the same time. There's been no looking back since.

Nine Inch Nails-> Ministry-> Skinny Puppy-> AFX

Electronic production got me to really listen to rap/hip hop production a few years later. Now I love rap.

Future Sound of London , AIR (moon safari) ---> Photek ,DnB stuff ----> Warp, Aphex, Squrepusher -----> Minimal techno, kompact stuff -----> City centre office, Morr ------> dskjfydsfbdsf mess period -------------------------------------> AUTECHRE!

Must admit though that Daft Punk's music had a large part to do with how I got into a lot of electronic stuff, too.

Shit.

Come to think of it, it might have been Ace of Base.

I had liked stuff with electronic elements in it before, or even bits of electronic music here and there without really consciously thinking of it as electronic music, but the first time I ever heard Mt Saint Michel + St Michael's Mount was the turning point for it becoming what I really enjoyed listening to most. In fact, I would say it was an almost immediate conversion

also it's worth mentioning that I made electronic music before I even knew what it was, so that's probably why it started appealing to me so much

  On 11/29/2012 at 9:12 AM, ganus said:

I had liked stuff with electronic elements in it before, or even bits of electronic music here and there without really consciously thinking of it as electronic music

Me too. Snap - "The Power" comes to mind. I was maybe 10 years old.

  On 11/28/2012 at 9:22 AM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

I also really liked Poison when I first heard it.

Whenever I practice new jack swing stuff (on the drums) I always play that intro.

found this mini-disc on a flight to cornwall.....

There was a light switch that didn't have a cover at a house of someone who was baby sitting me when I was very young. I reached up to switch the light and felt a badass sawtooth bass go through my body when I missed the switch and touched some exposed wires.

The earliest memory might be Pink Floyd and Jean Michel Jarre played by my parents. Also Laura Branigan's synth song "Self Control" which was my most favorite song when I was perhaps 5 or 6.

Then it's the theme of "The Tripods" and "Formel Eins" (a German music TV show, which at that time used "The Race" by Yello for the opening theme).

Then it's 1988 with my brother bringing home Public Enemy, L.L. Cool J, Run DMC etc. Until 1993 it was mainly good old Rap music, the Golden Age including the Acid House-heavy Miami Bass by Two Live Crew but also the Jazz and Funk influenced NWA and Beastie Boys and Digable Planets.

1993 introduced me to Thunderdome, the Love Parade in Berlin gave me my life-long tinitus (ever since listening to the pure form of electronic music: a sinus wave ).

1994 was The Prodigy "Music For The Gilted Generation", Future Sound Of London "Lifeforms EP", Aphex Twin "On" (which i hated at first glance, became intrigued with at second glance and fell in love with at the third glance) and Orbital (the live performance broadcasted on MTV) as well as some Trance by Eye Q Records all brought to me via MTV's Party Zone & Chill Out Zone.

The next few years it was all about IDM (Warp, Rephlex, Skam, DIN etc.) plus Goldie's "Timeless" which still gives me goosebumps.

1997 brought just another sound exploration with Mogwai and later on Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Fast forward, today it's the past at once. All styles and artists have been remaining in my heart and record collection

Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, U96, Das Modul, RMB and on and on...

Chemical Bros from a friend ---> an old drum instructor of mine showed me Aphex ---> world of discovery.

I used to say, when I was a little metal-head boy, that any dick with a midi keyboard and software could make quality tunes. Boy was I wrong...

Rammstein fan, which led to being a general Krautrock fan, which led to discovering Kraftwerk.

Would have to say The Man Machine was the first electronic album I truly appreciated for what it was, and not because I was high off my tits at a club.

pretty hate machine when i was in 3rd or 4th grade or so. Also discovered kmfdm around that time. I think i learned about plaid and squarepusher through the "nothing records" label at the time,

unless we're talking video game music, apparently

My parents always tell me there was house music all around me ever since I was a baby, because of my 2 older brothers who were into chicago/acid house, gabber, marc arcadipane stuff, later prodigy, detroit and deephouse stuff. I was exposed to Speedy J - Pullover and Ruffneck (Rules the artcore scene, terrible song) when they came out and I was dancing to them like an idiot. My first English word/sentence I ever learnt was "I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter". The first things I myself liked were the Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk (first album) and Moby, later Speedy J (his late 90's experiments and Loudboxer) and Aphex Twin when I heard Classics and On when I was 9 or 10. I was a lucky child I tell myself.

I also really remember vividly how I liked hiphop beats as a child (around the time of LL Cool J's Doin it, I've Got Five On It and The Fugees, I was about 6/7), the only thing I didn't really like were the vocals. I always imagined and searched for music that would be just 'dreamy' hiphop like that but without vocals... first time I heard Boards of Canada (Rue the Whirl) everything fell into place.