How did you first get into techno?

**terious** · 19-06-2009, 10:15 AM

listening to it through a nice function 1 rig......... :hissyfit:

**djfilthmonger** · 19-06-2009, 10:38 AM

all the cool kids were doing.. now they listen to hip hop sad bstards ha ha!

but seriously id started listening to hardhouse when i was about 16 r 17 for about 3 months then I heard techno and got loan of an Adam Beyer CD , Billy Nasty torture Chamber and Chris Liberator CL01 and then a speedy J loudboxer cd and that was that.

**djfilthmonger** · 19-06-2009, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by DannyBlack

. Filthmonger used to call around every saturday for a day of mixing and smoking and the rest is history.

Techno is beautiful.

Banging out the choons and recording on to a tape. I cant believe we learned to play decks on belt drives. I cud never use them again ha ha! How did we keep a mix going?

**basslinejunkie** · 19-06-2009, 11:10 AM

same path as alot, loved hardcore techno,then hard trance then techno when i was about 16. loved it ever since.

**MITA** · 19-06-2009, 11:42 AM

i aint tellin' you :)

**Si the Sigh** · 19-06-2009, 11:50 AM

2 Unlimited...

Nah, not really. Pawlett Manor, Country Club, Free Partys, etc.

**Woksaus** · 19-06-2009, 03:40 PM

Good question... I think it was a set from Mauro Picotto at Sensation Black 2002 that made me interested.

**morbid** · 19-06-2009, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by Si the Sigh

Pawlett Manor, Country Club,

hear me now!!!!!!!!!!!

**curly** · 20-06-2009, 12:24 AM

Hmmm... not sure really what to credit with my love of techno. May be Colin Dale and Colin Favor on kiss, when i was 15, or was it 5 years later when finally went to my first techno party, got off it, rest is history.

**Nukie** · 20-06-2009, 02:25 AM

In my mothers womb

The end.

**markandrew** · 20-06-2009, 07:35 AM

depeche mode and 808 state then moved into the rave/hardcore and colin dale colin favor tape pack sealed it in 93

**c0luM~R** · 20-06-2009, 10:21 AM

friends were into it. Sets being played at sessions :D

**acidsaturation** · 20-06-2009, 02:02 PM

My boss at the time too me to a DIY soundsystem night in Sheffield, fed me lots of pills... At the same time quite a few of the 'crusty' lot in Leeds were getting into Megadog, and Templehead (which started as a Megadog afterparty, but then moved quite heavily towards acid techno). So really it was via the hippy trance route... I always liked the harder stuff though, and it kind of went from there....

**joker** · 20-06-2009, 06:39 PM

I started off listening to rave - happy hardcore, or oldschool as its now classed. Then got into buying the tape packs from events and started listen to artists like trevor rockliffe producer ribbz t23 alex hazard colin dale colin favour and i was hooked. I started to buy acid techno but never used to really dig the 303 riffs, i just used to love the 135 140 bpm tempo. I soon ****ed acid off when i discovered the swedish mob. That was about 8 years ago.

I ****ing love techno

Cheers!

**The Overfiend** · 21-06-2009, 05:17 PM

Also I would be fronting if I didn't mention these

2 Unlimited Jump For Joy (Armand Van Helden Remix)
Cajual/Relief Records made it such an easy transition to geth into techno when djing house.

**tekara** · 22-06-2009, 06:21 PM

hiphop for most of my life until 1997. Then a lot of the hiphop music i was into started to become more and more rare as the new generation of artists started to take over the industry.

Felt the need to change my taste and expand my horizons. My friend took me to a party in 1996 and he told me some great DJ called "Luke Slater" was going to be playing. The party changed my life in musical ways I would of never believed.

**TechMouse** · 22-06-2009, 08:20 PM

Used to be into Metal and Alternative Rock.

Got into industrial / crossover stuff like Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Pitchshifter, Filter, Front Line Assembly etc.

From there started listening to electronica like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre.

Then there were the big mid-to-late-90s dance acts like Underworld, Leftfield, Chemical Brothers, and the whole Big Beat thing.

Went to university in 99/2000, started going raving.

Really liked progressive house and breaks first off. Then started going to the odd techno night. Started learning how to DJ and my friends had loads of everything except techno, so I started buying lots of that. Got more and more obsessed with it, and there you go.

**davethedrummer** · 23-06-2009, 04:35 PM

never really got the acid house thing
cos I was into bands and festivals at the time.
the jungle / hardcore breaks thing never did it for me
I hated all the chipmunk vocals

got into orbital and underworld first really ( I was a bit behind )
and the old react compilations ( energy flash was on one )
aphex twins ambient works, loved that, and sun electric and things like that more ambient really
then harthouse and hardfloor and german stuff came along
then I found colin favor and colin dale with more underground stuff on the radio
jeff mills waveform transmissions and belgium rave stuff etc etc ....
and I was always a fan of John Peel so his show was always fun.

all a bit arse about face really
but I got there in the end

**Fusion** · 23-06-2009, 06:08 PM

KMFDM - What Do You Know, Deutschland?

**clubsynthetic** · 19-07-2009, 01:16 AM

Dogma, closer to the edit, speedy j, Extasy, adam beyer, and mates into it

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