John Carpenter, early techno influences, etc.
I was just thinking about all the stuff that kinda lead me down the slippery slope to discovering/falling in love with techno as I was growing up. Gotta say, think my earliest influences were the music from John Carpenter’s films. I remember watching his flicks at grade-school sleepover parties and just being slapped down by the music. I’d go out, buy the soundtracks and just obsess over them. Not exactly what my top-ten listening friends were doing.
Was just wondering what other techno heads were listening to back in their young days that gave a hint as to their future techno obsession.
Re: John Carpenter, early techno influences, etc.
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Originally Posted by drift9
I was just thinking about all the stuff that kinda lead me down the slippery slope to discovering/falling in love with techno as I was growing up. Gotta say, think my earliest influences were the music from John Carpenter’s films. I remember watching his flicks at grade-school sleepover parties and just being slapped down by the music. I’d go out, buy the soundtracks and just obsess over them. Not exactly what my top-ten listening friends were doing.
Was just wondering what other techno heads were listening to back in their young days that gave a hint as to their future techno obsession.
My Journey :)
0-10
The first song I can ever ever remember hearing/liking/becoming in fatuated with was Golden Brown - By The stranglers. When I was 4/5/6 I can remember jumping around to MADNESS. Remember hating my older brothers heavy metal tapes because we used to share a room and I was more into barney or whatever and 5 year olds generally dont appreciate nosebleedmetal with lyrics about ripping priests heads off.
10-17
THE HEAVY METAL YEARS.
oopss it must have rubbed off. I got into metal after a short peaceful break from by brothers 'music' when he ****ed off to college to ride chicks and begin taking e. I had a spectrum 128k computer and discovered that after loading up your games you could throw in a normal tape and let it play whilst you chopped goblins heads off or drove a ferrari around LA with a sexy blonde in the front . Hmmm.. what tapes do we have lying around? Heavy Metal perfect music for blowing the shit out of of stuff.
Cue .. mental haircut, black clothes, drinking cider, puking up cider, grunting and whinging... all to the sounds of Metalica, Megadeth, Slayer, Carcass, Deicide, Emtombed, Cathedral. Thin Lizzy, Samael, and loads sa other delightfull stuff.
17-17.5
The Blip
I think I was playing Oasis songs for a few months on my Guitar.
17.5- now
Someone smashed that guitar over my head and gave me an e.
Cue... thinking that reptitive beats are not repetive at all even though everyone else who has never taken an e (except fitness instructors) thinks that its all repetitive , even more repetitive and repetitive repetitive repetitive.
For two years attened whatever repetitive rave was to hand but tried to steer clear of the cheese. Started playing psy trance :shock:
but it was Billy Nasty's RACE DATA ETA that really turned me onto hard techno. Cue diassapearing up my own arse.... but i'm mutating again I fear!!
Now into Tarrida, Subhead, Bob Brown, framework/automatic/semi automatic records, Fixmer, Tony Rohr, Micheal Foreshaw, Mark Hawkins, Si Begg, Berkovi, Christian Vogel, Paul Birken, Al Ferox, Speedy J, The Mover, DJ Hell, Christain Wunch, Stingrays, BMB, The Hacker, Reeko, The Advent, Vitalic, Neil Landstrumm. Richard Bartz, Female , Regis and anything a bit different.
MY FINGERS HURT.
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