Your very 1st night at a techno club?

[Frank Dogshit]

Where was it?Who was playing?Who took you there?

And was it the 1st time that had you hooked?

[dan the acid man]

at a club called the arches in sheffield, it was mostly residents playing, with ddr as the special guest ( they meant to book D.A.V.E th drummer, they asked for dave and got dave ddr, not realising D.A.V.E the drummer was actually called henry :lol: )

Anway, i knew it was going to be a good night, once i saw people swinging from the light fittings

[Traxx]

Bugged out about 5 years ago. I know dave clarke was on & justin robertson, cant remember who else was on i was only 17. Went nearly every month after that for years until it went shit. Goin there got me out of a life of cheese bars/clubs & even cheesier music.

[Frank Dogshit]

i first went to voodoo think it was 1999 an allnighter at the soundfactory anyway....took me a while to get into it as my friends at the time were into to other shite forms of dance music so was difficult to get to the techno nights. didnt have a clue who was on at the time,but i do remember a dj blowing my brains out with some of the best technical shit id seen. about a year later found out it was ben sims. :lol:

many more trips to voodoo after that and i was hooked.

[Tony]

i was organisinig various free parties and pub do's from the age of thirteen. then slipped into house of gods 3rd birthday after an angel with dreads told me it was what i was looking for, but i got chucked out for being clearly far too young a techno punk! then after tons of other free parties, jeff mills at atomic jam with decks and a 909 blew all the other parties i'd previously been to away. i had been to many other clubs previously, despite being too young and not drinking or taking drugs, but that one FELT like the first cos it was the relentlessness that i had been searching for.

[ds2]

went to all the local techno/jungle/hardcore clubs for a few years before trying out the very shadey sounding orbit in 92. it was sven vath the first night followed by richard james the week after. game over...

[Fordy]

Atomic Jam 30th November 2002 @ Code. Still have the ticket for some reason, which is why I know the exact date :roll: ;)

Jeff Mills, Funk D'Void, Ade Fenton, Tony Work.

Was 16, brother took me. Had been going to hard house events and godskitchen alot, so he wanted to show me some real music. Had listened to techno at home or whatever and never really got it untill I walked into the club I turned to my mate and just fcuking hell this is the dogs bollox.

Up untill this point, although I was getting into hard house and buying it as my mates I went out with were into it, I wasnt really into any form of dance music, was more into hip hop before but this night turned me onto techno.

[maily]

Orbit 1999, Surgeon & Billy Nasty.

nuff said

[Frank Dogshit]

i find it funny how you cant really get someone into techno by just giving them a mix to listen to....they have to be there and experience it for it to have any effect.

first few times i heard techno on tapes i thought it was gash.

[Tony]

Atomic Jam 30th November 2002 @ Code. Still have the ticket for some reason, which is why I know the exact date :roll: ;)

Jeff Mills, Funk D'Void, Ade Fenton, Tony Work.

Was 16, brother took me. Had been going to hard house events and godskitchen alot, so he wanted to show me some real music. Had listened to techno at home or whatever and never really got it untill I walked into the club I turned to my mate and just flippin hell this is the dogs bollox.

Up untill this point, although I was getting into hard house and buying it as my mates I went out with were into it, I wasnt really into any form of dance music, was more into hip hop before but this night turned me onto techno.

shucks, i feel old. ya young whipper snapper :)

[Mirsha]

Five years ago at a club called Subtle Logic in Edinburgh, their second last ever night. I hadn't been planning on going there, I was actually going to go to a trance club called Sublime down the road but by the time I arrived there were riot vans outside the place so I skipped it and headed to the only other club I knew that was on.

When I got there I discovered there were ten people who all knew each other there and that was it for the night (I did say it was their second last night for a reason!), I knew no one so I was feeling really feeling as an odd man out. I got a drink and prayed that the place would get busier so I could hide in the crowd, my prayers were not answered, I contemplated leaving but was enjoying the music so got on the dancefloor amongst the four other people dancing and just went for it for the remainder of the night. Had a good time, really enjoyed the music and everything so I went back the next month for the last night where it was rammed to the gills!

[Fordy]

i find it funny how you cant really get someone into techno by just giving them a mix to listen to....they have to be there and experience it for it to have any effect.

first few times i heard techno on tapes i thought it was gash.

I know man, when I heard it on tape for the first time (adam beyer essential mix 2002, which admittedly was on a car stereo), I did like it but it just didnt grab me but the minute you hear it on a proper system you understand.

Then you go back to that mix and realise how fcuking great it is, this mix is still my favourite ever recorded mix.

[Fordy]

Atomic Jam 30th November 2002 @ Code. Still have the ticket for some reason, which is why I know the exact date :roll: ;)

Jeff Mills, Funk D'Void, Ade Fenton, Tony Work.

Was 16, brother took me. Had been going to hard house events and godskitchen alot, so he wanted to show me some real music. Had listened to techno at home or whatever and never really got it untill I walked into the club I turned to my mate and just flippin hell this is the dogs bollox.

Up untill this point, although I was getting into hard house and buying it as my mates I went out with were into it, I wasnt really into any form of dance music, was more into hip hop before but this night turned me onto techno.

shucks, i feel old. ya young whipper snapper :)

Lol :lol:

[g]

you feel old huh... ;)

1989
Derrick May
The Music Institute
1315 Broadway, Detroit, MI.

I was 18.

[dirty_bass]

At a dive in hackney called the four aces
years ago
I was blown away.
Bunch of squat DJ`s playing filthy techno.

[Dabble]

First techno party for me was a Mutant Dance free party in a Bristol warehouse in 1995. That was when you'd get up to a 1000 munters all on the same vibe with vertually the whole place dancing. I loved it so much I started going to free parties every weekend. My first club night came a few months later which was Shimmy, at the now defunct Club Loco. Shimmy was an awesome night, packed to the rafters with sweat dripping off the ceiling. The Shimmy boys, Simmer & Stuart (well known on the free party scene), were fantastic DJ's & to this day I hold Shimmy as one of the most exciting & enjoyable club nights I've ever been to. Some may remember that Shimmy set up there own label, but it didn't really do too well & then they stopped their club nights in about 2001. A great club night when Bristol back then, bar London, was the best place for techno with a whole range of techno clubs & free parties week in, week out.

[audioinjection]

my first techno party was in 1997 if i remember correctly, but it was in this warehouse..............mainly local djs spinning that night, forgot who they were haha, but yeah it was a fun night

[Mucky Beats]

wired in the george bar.... all local talent... only about 20 of us in there and it closed at 12..... but it was great ! those where the days :love:

[Stella Boy]

About '92 I spent 3 hours in the bottom floor of Basics at the old Music Factory in Leeds listening to the best music I'd ever heard, the time flew by and found out on the way home i'd be listening to billy nasty. A few weeks later I was at the orbit for the first time listening to Sven Vath and went every week for nearly 5 years after that.

[ampassasinbirmingham]

Atomic Jam 30th November 2002 @ Code. Still have the ticket for some reason, which is why I know the exact date :roll: ;)

Jeff Mills, Funk D'Void, Ade Fenton, Tony Work.

Was 16, brother took me. Had been going to hard house events and godskitchen alot, so he wanted to show me some real music. Had listened to techno at home or whatever and never really got it untill I walked into the club I turned to my mate and just flippin hell this is the dogs bollox.

Up untill this point, although I was getting into hard house and buying it as my mates I went out with were into it, I wasnt really into any form of dance music, was more into hip hop before but this night turned me onto techno.

I was 16 and went to speedy j and ritchie hawtin at the jam in feb 2002. My mates took me and said i would love it. I was into old skool and mellow, i thought id hate techno, i thought it would be far to hard.

After a speedy j meltdown and a 3hr hawtin set i was converted forever.

I then went to the record shop and bought my first two techno records

Drumcode 3
Midnight club trax 2.

I then started going to many parties an meeting many people. One of whom was tony from this board. I went to a party and chatted to him about techno (of which i knew **** all about) and he actually listened, which i thought was very kind, cus if some kid came up to me and ranted about techno and didnt know anything id like to think id chat but id probarbly just make my excuses and head to the bar.

Rant over (the good old days :roll: :roll: