Wooooaaaa, Almost the same as me!! hahahaha. It was my older half Brother (10yrs older) got me into some early what you call hardcore then, it was all the prodigy, altern, 8 starker humaniod stuff. Went to the helter skelter energy 97 outdoor event when i was 16. I was mainly into the technodrome side of things. Saw a purist set by mark eg that nite too. After I started getting a bit too old to be dancing to music at 200 bpm got more into techno Dj ribz and producer sets (and some mark eg and mzone hard trance sets) and going out about every other weekend. After about 3-4 years couldnt be arsed with going to the 12 hour milton keynes events (and it shut down) and only went to the Orbit in Morley and the I love techno festival in Belguim :D