How did you first get into techno?

It's a pretty long story.
Well, when I first started to listen to electronic Music, I got into trance. Then, all of a sudden, I went into club house because I was living in country, away from any other form of decent electronic music. I started to go rave at 16 y/o and caught the Electro wave heading the way to Canada.

Then, I spun tech-house like Sebastien Leger, Booka Shade and generic stuff like this. Then, when I saw everyone was mixing stuff like me, I went into Tribal House. 3-4 months later, I got interested into Tribal Tech stuff like Carl Falk and Subcult record but then I was still mixing Tribal House.
And then I talked with a friend whom saw the beginning of the rave parties in Quebec city and told me : "Hey, you're good with Techno when you insert some tracks in your sets....why don't you spin it?"

And that's when I started being in love with Techno. Peer pressure loving haha

I was making tehno before i even knew anything about the scene, got into techno when i bought Fuse Presents Dave Clarke and a Carl Cox mix cd i can't remember the name of it, had two disks a blue one and a red one.

My friends dad used to go when I was about 15, after much hassling we got him to take us and have never looked back!

Was always into acid techno from the start, although went off on hard house buzz for a couple of years, but now its all about the techno :)

Illegal raves up a barn in the middle of knowhere, started getting out of hand though, folk from all round Scotland were hearing about it on the radio etc and it weren't long till the Police brought an end to it! :hissyfit:

After that it was the Rez for me and still go to events these days! :tongue:

i'm a bit tipsy rith now so dont' mind my rambling but i've always been around electronic type music. from having parents listening to drumming from middle-eastern songs to older siblings who were into dance beats. but i'd say my defining moment that opened my eyes to electronic beats and sound manipulations was back in '89 with razormaid and on-u sound bootleg/megamixes of depeche mode. particularly one remix. razormaid's remix of sea of sin by depeche mode. it combined sea of sin with enya's orcano flow. it really blew my mind how two totally different songs fit so well with each other.

it really made me want to explore the concepts of mixing and sound manipulation and how they managed to accomplish it (this was before modern day computers and ableton of course), the rest is history i guess. but that's what first got me into remixes, and eventually techno.

here's mud in your eye! cheers,
-p.

somewhere around my 17th birthday at a Club called Loco, (little sister club of Lakota at the time) and a techno night called Shimmy. Bless those folk and especially Simmer and Stuart..

it was industrial sounds that lured my ear. then '90 in serbia listening to house and some bloke thought i was havin a seizure when i started breakin' to snap...

came back to canada a changed man. now, after all these years i'm sequencing again. i have all the patience. now i wanna write the future.

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Originally Posted by Izz

Could take or leave techno until I first went to the Orbit in Morley. The atmosphere and energy of the sounds just sucked me right in.

Never looked back.

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Same. Was into hardcore/rave early 90's

Saw Claude Young & Colin Dale kicking the shit out of Morley, then started going there every month and buying techno records.

My brothers/sisters all listened to indie and rock/pop when I was growing up, and I liked electronic sounds. I had no-one to learn from, so ended up with the obvious chart stuff like 2 Unlimited, Capella etc, then a bit faster with Westbam (Wizards of the Sonic - lovely tune!!) and Van Basten, then into happy hardcore/old skool hardcore, then happy gabba, then darker gabba. Got into Hardcore techno, and then Speedcore and kind of hit a brick wall. For years I'd been getting faster and harder all the time, but then finally started to get a bit bored of speedcore and I'd reached the end of the faster/harder spectrum so couldn't just continue that path any more.

Came across a Techno mix cd in a music shop and listened to it out of curiosity. It was Jeff Mills Liquid Room Tokyo mix, and it blew my mind. Starts so weird and eerie, and then the fat heavy drums kick in and it just goes off. It was a h*ll of a lot slower than what I had been listening to at the time, and I had always imagined that 140BPM techno would sound weak and wussy compared to 220+BPM hardcore, but it really didn't! Bought the CD there and then, and within the next week I'd bought Dave Clarke's FUSE mix cd, Richie Hawtin - Dex EFX and 909, and also DE:9 Closer to the edit.
That was me converted!!! :biggrin:

i was into metal and rock when me mate got me listening to trance we then started raving every week till i heard musik with a kik that nearlly made my teeth fall out i was told thats techno great !!!

well for me i grew up as a small kid in the late 70's/early 80's liking commercial human league, OMD etc and futuristic synthy music... which went on to discovering electro in the early 80's, then hearing juan atkins cybotron. that led me to following everything he did with a passion, so i discovered chicago house (through compilation albums that featured him like Streetsounds stuff, Jack Trax etc) and then .. TECHNO! and then finding out about derrick may, transmat etc etc. from there it was no looking back.. new york, joey beltram, then belgium etc. what an insane journey it's been :)

i inveted it.

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Originally Posted by gunjack

i inveted it.

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You cant spell.

;)

damNed "n" button, he is a slippery son of a gun

i liked getting twatted off my face so got into acid house and it evolved:lol: