heheh - seems I got into it much later than most of you. I grew up in a town of 4000 on the east coast of Canada, pretty much zero electronic music except for big-name "Electronica" compilations. I heard those and knew I wanted more, but had no idea where to find it.

Flash-forward a few years to 2000... I've done the candy-raver thing in Calgary, decided I needed to become a live-PA, spent all my cash for a couple of years on equipment, moved to Vancouver, and then travelled back to Calgary for my first ever live-PA show with a friend of mine.

Well, we sucked. We played at 11:30pm and *cleared the floor*. We totally stunk up the place. I was trying to be Orbital while my friend was trying to be Spiral Tribe. We slunk off the stage in utter disgrace. Then we took a bunch of pills.

One of the other guys spinning that night was GIJody - he spun proper London acid techno and blew the ****ing roof right off the place - it went from 150 people at the back of the dancefloor, leaning/sitting on the walls, to 150 people up against the speakers, hands in the air. I had an epiphany - I knew right then that *that* was the real goal of it all, and started producing music to put peoples' hands in the air at 3am. It's been five years since, and I'm finally getting to the point where it's happening. :)