Changing Styles

[DJ Corbzy]

Yo!

Thought I'd put this ere cos its the daddy genre.

Just wondered how everyone else's styles have changed?

Mine was and is like this....

Firstl I was listening to Kiss CD's, commercial stuff like Darude, ATB. Then I got bored of the whole Ibiza, Clubbing and Townie scene and ventured into something a little different, a little less commercial, so I found Hard House, yes I know, but I found myself listening to Fergie, BK and Lisa Lashes, yes I'm ashamed. Boring of Hard House and that samey bubbley bassline I sought something darker, harder....TRANCIER! I found Helter Skelter, I found Mark EG, I found my passion, I have been listening to Hard Trance a while now, starting off by listening to the names you know when you enter the scene, Uberdruck, Scot Project and Hennes and Cold, then I got into Hardstyle, but it quickly bored me and I was introduced to Trancier bits by mainly Jon the B and Cross and Spinout, now I find myself listening and loving and playing trance, proper trance and even some prog, and recently I have been further introduced to Techno by DJ's M.A.T. and Mark EG.

So a wide spectrum of Dance I have been Into, but this is the one! :D

Oh and not to forget, HAPPY HARDCORE! but lets not go into that :lol:

[djfase]

I started off listening to acid house at about the start of the 90s. A mate of me old mans was a dj and he gave me tape from a rave he played. I wasnt to sure at first but after a couple of listens i was hooked.

I then started listening to carl cox and sl2 at places like the old peace festival, and slowly moved onto the sound of trevor rockcliffe who was a god. Needed summin different after a while and started listening to D+B, but that changed when i went to my first rave at 16. It was Dreamscape at Shepton mallet, and in the so called back room i heard these banging techno trance sounds. After pushing to the front i see this nutter dj giving it all, screaming and shouting and jumping all over the place. it was markeg. I loved it. Since then i havent looked back, but have been partial to a bit of the dj producer sound.

If you like trance theres a slight chance u r gonna like techno, and i do, mainly the purist form and also the aving it acid sound.

I wouldnt listen to anything else now

[djjaym]

acid house to early rave stuff to hardcore and hardtrance to hard house (in the good days of proper stuff)and trance/hardtrance,to what i play now (Trance/hardtrance/hardstyle)

[Carl]

By passion for dance music started back in the good old days of happy Hardcore & Old Skool.
I was intregued by the likes of Dougal, Slipmatt, Hixxy, Vibes, Top Buzz, Phantasy ect ect....
Then I started listening to a lot of the commercial trance and house after going to Ibiza for the first time back in '99, but things were about to change.I discovered the Country Club in Dorchester the same year, and my deep love for the underground sound started to develop strongly.
I was interested by the hardhouse scene, DJS like Tony De Vit, Chris C, Madam Zu, Andy Farley, Nick Rafferty & Lisa Pin Up grabbed my attention, if only for a reletively short period of time.
I'm not quite sure how or when, but my mind started to open to the hardtrance sound which was being hammered downstairs in t he C.C. It took a hold of me and hasn't let go! take! me! higher! ... :D

(Sorry that was brief, I gotta run! laters 8) )

[sean.demaine]

I was into hip hop - then the acid house in the eighties was just so huge ....

then I got into the rave scene for a few years and spent the entire time totaly out of my tree..

started learning to mix (with hardcore) ... soon got bored with the sound as I got a little older & started playing hard trance around 97/8

adding a bit of hardstyle over the last year or 2

[Hakka.]

For me it was acid house & rave of back in 92... prodigy, altern8 etc... this led to the world of old skool and hardcore through Dreamscapes & Helter Skelter. This led to Happy Hardcore & Hardcore Techno! Over years of this Hard Trance became more and more interesting to me until now. Hard House I never really became a big fan of... in the clubs it was ok but I couldn't listen to it much.

[wenna]

i started off listening to micheal jackson and belinda carlise when i was about 5-6 . by the time i was 7-10 i was listening to heavy metal, like pantera, metallica stuff like that. when i was 10-11 my brother came home from a mates house with a helter-skelter tape. i cant remember wether it was scorpio or the producer, but i know it was a hardcore techno dj. i related that to the speed of heavy metal and started to love gabba techno. over the next couple of years i got into acid techno, all forms of techno and finally in 1997 i started buying trance. and in 2002 i started buying hardstyle!

[DJ Backlash]

My older bro went through a phase of hardcore when it was big in the uk.and he quikly was converted into drum n bass and he still is now,anyway he gave me som old hardcore tapes with the likes of billy bunter and Mark E.g.I listend to M.zone to and I was like......."wooo this stuff is shit hot!"ever since then Ive loved hard trance and hardcore!

[Addict]

Used to listen to jungle tapes and other hand me downs from my cousin including tape packs from helta skelta and dreamscape, never used to listen to the trance ones to be honest, it was always mickey pussy fin and nicky blackmarket (those were the days :roll: ). During all this I'd always had a taste for Hip Hop and R&B going on in the background and still do now. Moved to Bournmouth nearly 5 years ago and started gong to Cheeky Little Monkeys and doing a lot of pills which sort of got me into hard music, then we discovered the Country Club about a year later and I'd never heard anything like that before Instantly hooked! saw mr EG up there for the first time ever aswell I honestly believed when someone told me that he was a bloke who'd done way to many drugs in his life and that he lived up there and they only let him out on Saturdays to play and during the week they'd lock him in a cage and just poke him with a stick to make him nuts.