Which track has inspired you to listen to electronic music?

For me it was:
1.James Brown is dead
2.U-96
3.Dominator

not tracks but:

NIN
a shed load of stuff i heard on John Peel :notworthy:

it started with tunes like "pump up the jam" and this lead on to early rave tunes, but one tune inparticular i remember was "urban breakdown" by micky finn, it was also the first record i bought (from woolworths with my dinner money) another tune around the same time was "power pill" i cant remember who it was by but had the pac man samples in there "eat them up yum yum" i heard carl cox play this and i loved it, i also purchased this from woolwroths aswel...hehehe bloody hell that goin back a bit :oops:

this lead on to tunes like dominator and james brown is dead etc...

Front 242 - Headhunter & Sheep on Drugs - Motorbike ..

that technotronic megamix :cool:

I cant remember the very first tune I heard that really got me interested, but I suppose hearing NIN - Sin for the first time probably helped, and the first dance music purchase I made was the Lords of Acid album Voodoo U.

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another tune around the same time was "power pill" i cant remember who it was by but had the pac man samples in there "eat them up yum yum" i heard carl cox play this and i loved it, i also purchased this from woolwroths aswel...hehehe bloody hell that goin back a bit :oops:

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Its by aphex twin, worth a little bit too if you still have it (vinyl)

Sourmash - Pilgramage to paradise. ****ING AMAZING TRACK!

I strongly remember a track by Utah Saints called "Somthing good"
Also a 808 state track with a sample in that was somthing like out of a western?? violins etc....?? not sure what it was called. & a track call "Das Boot" im sure all of these tracks had somthing to do with me getting into it all, i remember them giving me a rite buzz at the time!!

i suppose my first ever electronic song i liked was MARS pump up the volume.

i remember asking for that song for a christmas present, my unlce bought me one of those chart hit tapes with it on, there was also a track on there with the sample "Put the needle on the record, and the drum beat goes like this".
i had to play mars, then fast forward all the way to the end to listen to the other track :lol:

cant remember who did that though :oops:

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i suppose my first ever electronic song i liked was MARS pump up the volume.

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Found this in a charity shop the other week, on vinyl, on NOW 10 or something.

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Originally Posted by dan the acid man

i suppose my first ever electronic song i liked was MARS pump up the volume.
there was also a track on there with the sample "Put the needle on the record, and the drum beat goes like this"

cant remember who did that though :oops:

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Its Criminal Element Orchestra

Can i have my spotters gold medal now please ;)

Prodigy

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Originally Posted by dan the acid man

i suppose my first ever electronic song i liked was MARS pump up the volume.
there was also a track on there with the sample "Put the needle on the record, and the drum beat goes like this"

cant remember who did that though :oops:

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Its Criminal Element Orchestra

Can i have my spotters gold medal now please ;)

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thats them :cool:

i can thank daft punks homework for getting me into it, along with prodigy's music for the jilted generation

as well as countless pirate radio sessions
yes i know they were lame, and so is chris sheppard, but gimme a break, i was 15

Axel F.


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depeche mode
new order
the klf
s-express
sunscreem

around that time period for me and any other cassette i could steal from my brother.

bambatta
breakdancing to electro early 80's

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I strongly remember a track by Utah Saints called "Somthing good"
Also a 808 state track with a sample in that was somthing like out of a western?? violins etc....?? not sure what it was called. & a track call "Das Boot" im sure all of these tracks had somthing to do with me getting into it all, i remember them giving me a rite buzz at the time!!

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Yeah, "Das Boot" was by U 96, that was a nice tune. "I Wanna Be A Kennedy" was another good one of theirs too!

Too much music I had on tapes and stuff, but didn't always know the names. I think the radio was still the major place I'd hear stuff and record it if I liked it.

Rave wise I guess Messiah, Prodigy, KLF and others... The whole visual/ psychedelic aspect of rave or electronic music videos on TV really buzzed me, the music seemed to have so much depth, it was the ultimate package both sonically and visually. I guess my path into techno came from German and Dutch hardcore techno, as well as UK hardcore and jungle.

Adam Beyer lured me into techno but Tube Jerk stole my soul with Eight. Which I just got yesterday on vinyl.

I think the synth pop basis to so many songs of the 80s could certainly be the first electronic influence for many people. I had put Human League, Soft Cell, Ultravox, Gary Numan or whoever in the same bracket as Kraftwerk even though in later times I found out it was more correct for people to namecheck Kraftwerk head and shoulders above everyone else. For me the others had more songs that I liked though :clap: That said, the only Kraftwerk song I ever really remember from back then was "The Model".

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That said, the only Kraftwerk song I ever really remember from back then was "The Model".

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I hope to be laying into a model tommorrow night whilst they are playing that. ;)

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That said, the only Kraftwerk song I ever really remember from back then was "The Model".

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I hope to be laying into a model tommorrow night whilst they are playing that. ;)

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haha, I'll bring you back to the Assets Modelling agency vip lounge Steve, you'll like it there. Apparantly they're all single and into Mayo men :twisted:

Being an old get of 35 I'd say one of the first electronic tracks I remember hearing & liking must've been The Tornado's with Telstar obviously though a few years after it came out! Then I fell in love with all the 80s new wave stuff as a pre-teenager and the rest is history!

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Also a 808 state track with a sample in that was somthing like out of a western?? violins etc....??

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That'll be MC Tunes v 808 States - The Only Rhyme That Bites with the samples from The Big Country movie ;)

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Then I fell in love with all the 80s new wave stuff as a pre-teenager and the rest is history!

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You're not a Devo fan by any chance? I've only come across them recently and am sorry I had missed out on them for so many years. They're ****in brilliant :clap:

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haha, I'll bring you back to the Assets Modelling agency vip lounge Steve, you'll like it there. Apparantly they're all single and into Mayo men :twisted:

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:love:

Shes a Model and shes looking good
I'd like to take her home its understood.

Asswerk.

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haha, I'll bring you back to the Assets Modelling agency vip lounge Steve, you'll like it there. Apparantly they're all single and into Mayo men :twisted:

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:love:

Shes a Model and shes looking good
I'd like to take her home its understood.

Asswerk.

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You can have Glenda Gilson and I'll have Roberta Rowat, they were looking hot in the paper today :love:

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You're not a Devo fan by any chance? I've only come across them recently and am sorry I had missed out on them for so many years. They're **** brilliant :clap:

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Nah man, but Are We Not Men? No We Are Devo is a top track
it's mostly (especially) Depeche Mode plus Heaven 17, Human League, Numan etc ;)

oh and Whip It too!

Whip it real good! :lol:

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You're not a Devo fan by any chance? I've only come across them recently and am sorry I had missed out on them for so many years. They're **** brilliant :clap:

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Nah man, but Are We Not Men? No We Are Devo is a top track
it's mostly (especially) Depeche Mode plus Heaven 17, Human League, Numan etc ;)

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Yeah it is. If I could get in a time machine I'd go back to 1978 and see them play :love: Would probably pop by to a Gary Numan concert too ;)

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oh and Whip It too!

Whip it real good! :lol:

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Yeah, that's good, their big hit I think... an instant favourite of mine was "Shrivel Up", something really cool about that, haven't felt a connection with a piece of music like that in ages. It actually came into a dream of mine one night and woke me up it had made such an mark.

A bit of Devo trivia... the main opening hook in Layo & Bushwacka's dance smash "Love Story" is taken directly from Devo's "Mongroloid".. they also sampled Beefheart and Nina Simone in that!

poing!!!

and some hardcore track with a japanese girl singing on it

listening to jean michelle jarre's london docklands concert on radio 1 was quite influential for me too

Kraftwerk,The KLF,early Tangerine Dream,early Pink Floyd,Stockhausen (not too much) and probably more if my memory still worked ;)

cannot say that a single track has turned me into techno.
started with jarre productrions,kraftwerk,then technotronic,,
after that some deep trance shite,then the prodigy,and after that mills
after that some psytrance..
well, that was my way to the tech scene.

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1.James Brown is dead

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:love:

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Originally Posted by dis-tek

Also a 808 state track with a sample in that was somthing like out of a western?? violins etc....?? not sure what it was called

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Mc Tunes and 808 state the onley rhyme that bites
:love: wow I love that tune(Manchester boys too)

For me I remember when house became popular over here and there was all that hip house shit and I started listening to some acid house tapes my mate got hold of.
But realy started getting in to it proper via 808 state and the show they used to have on sunset 102 on the radio

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Originally Posted by dis-tek

I strongly remember a track by Utah Saints called "Somthing good"!

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I shoplifted the single of that from a woolworth's discount bin when I was about 12

LOL

That was the 1st cd I ever, errr owened :doh:

I guess I could say that, probably the prodigy more tho :lol:

No good!

Leftfield-Leftism

MC Hammer - Don't touch this!

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STAKKER - HUMANOID

I'll be your friend ;)

zsa zsa la boum - something scary
little little - tickle me
art of noise - close up (or is it close to the edit...can't remember the name)
renegade soundwave - thunder

and too many others to mention

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Can't touch this? :!:

Straight up house brought me into techno.
Relief Records and the likes, Touche Records, then Laidback Luke.
Progression