How did you become the acid freak that you are?

[Si the Sigh]

I'd say 90% of people into Techno / Acid Techno used to be well into rock music at some point in their life. Thats a fact!

[fils_here]

I'd say 90% of people into Techno / Acid Techno used to be well into rock music at some point in their life. Thats a fact!

was into metal, hardcore, punky, crusty stuff before getting into techno aye. well got into early trance type stuff before leading onto techno, banco di gia, eat static, herbal teaparties etc...

[christian wagner]

I used to be into the hardcore scene in a big way, but with it becoming far tooo commercial with all the club trance influences, all producers started making the same stuff, so it became so boring.

one day in HMV there was a promo rack and in it were loadsa techno white labels, stay up forever, bang on, subsonix, clusters, and allsorts, so i bought the lot, was a bargain at £4 each!

it sounded a lot less "serious" than the hardcore did, was a more sensible tempo, ad most off all, the scene doesnt have the snobbish attitude like hardcore!

Loadsa people thought it was stupid but i stuck to my guns, and iv never been happier playin and makin the stuff!!!

[Electrictribe]

I'd say 90% of people into Techno / Acid Techno used to be well into rock music at some point in their life. Thats a fact!

that is defo true.

got into from going to squat parties around london in the early to mid nineties and generally being off it. Loves those 303's

[TiagoTechnoHead]

i´ve heard to much Hydraulix , SUF , RAW , Powertools, Yolk and many others ...

here i am , it happened that way

[rhythmtech]

started goin to fusion in dublin about 96 or so.. the resident dj (derek f) was playin early suf and cluster.. that was that. hooked.

[Athar]

Ive started listening techno around 94 in poland, lot influences coming from germany so i been big fan minimal/techno/acid/hard trance (old school) include labels like: tresor, harthouse, noom, labworks, force inc. IST, important, djungle fever, drop bass network, dos or die or made in frankfurt etc.
Then around 1998 ive going to london for 2 weeks to visit my freinds, they bring me to squat party where i met acid techno.
There i got acid techno infected :)
After this i bought my first vinyl rec,
it was suf 37 and after more and more, more ....
now its 2007 and i cant stop.
Totally addicted.

[acidguru]

It actually started way back in 87/88 when the first Acid House releases came over here.Hearing the 303 i went totally crazy over those lovely sounds,and i still am after all these years

[APC]

Was bang into early rave in 1989-1992, between the ages of 9-12 (mates sister used to bring back tapes and lend em to us from wherever she had been). Was into stuff like N-Joi, The Product and loads and loads of other stuff that I can't remember. Then went into The Metal Phase til the age of 18, although started listening to jungle when in around 1995-1996 when I was just listening to the radio on a Friday night and gettin tuned into One In The Jungle. Then learned about jungle then got into tape packs. Occasionally I would branch out into the techno/hardcore helter skelter packs, but was mainly into jungle/D+B until I went to a party by an unknown system in middle of Dorset after gettin invited by a mate of a mate. Then danced to what I just called techno (in around 1999 I think) all night on green playstation pills.

Then a year or two later I decided to research raves on Mr Internet. I found a forum called Dirty Circus (RIP) and got chatting to some guys from Tribe of Locust who invited me out to one of their parties in the woods near my house. Turned up and it was properly well good acid techno. All the people who I met were properly well friendly and welcoming and I started going to all their parties over the course of a few years. After a few local parties I began going to London, Wales and the Midlands in search of more acid techno. Had absolutely loads of fun, never had a shit night EVER and was building up a **** load of mixes that I was downloading from wherever, as well as mix cds from parties etc. Then just over a year ago I decided I wanted to mix and got me some decks with change that I had been saving for about 4 years (had just over £100 and supplemented this with a few extra quids).

Now everything I do has techno in the background, whether I'm driving to college, making dinner, waking up, coursework, walking, relaxing...........

I'm still only buying what some people think of as the "cliched" labels of acid techno i.e. stuff under the SUF umbrella, but that's what I ****ing love. Once I'm working again I'll start looking further afield for other labels but til then I'm happy blasting out SUF/Highwire/Smitten and the like til the (mad) cows (on acid) come home!!!!

[illegal_audio]

Hi everyone :)

I originally caught the 303 bug thru listening to & spinning hard trance & hard house. Quite a few of the tracks I spun had acid lines & I absolutely loved them. Over time I started looking for more 303 dominated tracks. I started noticing names like D.A.V.E the Drummer , Chris Liberator & Geezer & really dug their sound. About 6 months ago I heard a few mixes from D.A.V.E the Drummer & Chris Liberator online & the rest is history.

To answer the question about acid techno fans originally being into rock... I was into metal & a bit of rock.