Who were your influences?

[The Overfiend]

Where Who Or What
Bought you into techno.
Who were your favorite producers.
Favorite venues.
Songs that just still to this day tickle your ears.
What producer did it for you for years??
Dj's as well.
Did you dj produce trainspot?

[dan the acid man]

started off slowly getting into dance music by the usual routes of the chemical brothers, prodigy etc.

then after listening to john peel a few times, i discovered the joys of plastikmans artefakts bc album, i love the whole feel of that album, especially the beautiful acid lines.
i then needed more acid lines and discovered hardfloor
I then ended up getting dragged along to the orbit a couple of times in leeds, this is when the power of techno really started to suck me in.

Not long after this, i ended up at a music college, a fellow student on the course was a local sheffiled dj who played acid techno, i then ended up going to the arches in sheffield where he played at, and the rest was history, been in love with all kinds of techno since then :techno:

i've not really carved out any kind of career in techno, i've dj'ed a bit, written a few tunes in my time, but nothing really serious, i've just been happy listening to great music really.

I do miss writing music now though, even though i was never happy with the results, it gave me a release to do something artistic.

time to start again i think

[marginmaster]

tanith@universe.
billy nasty mix tapes.
free parties.
house of god.
dance factory.
paul damage.

[rhythmtech]

bands:
new order
hardfloor

places:
fusion @ the 13th floor (dublin)
technosis (dublin)
trancentral @ tysenn st

mixes:
fukin avin it (first liberators album)
billy nasty (race data)

[Sunil]

The Prodigy, The KLF, Messiah, Ramirez, Joey Beltram, jungle, MC Magika, pirate radio, Lenny Dee, Hellraiser tapes, Ed Case tapes, Aphex Twin, Transglobal Underground, MCs, The Orb, Orbital, good trance (Platipus, Eye Q, Frankfurt Beat, Harthouse, Cosmic Cubes compilations), The Party Zone on MTV, BPM on ITV, Eternity magazine, New York techno, Chicago techno, 303s, Mills, Surgeon, Cluster (Liberators), Swedish techno, Tresor, Missile etc.

DJs : DJ Dag, Easygroove, Carl Cox, a friend of mine Mark Gormley, Frankie Bones, Billy Nasty, and probably a few more...

[basslinejunkie]

bands:
new order
hardfloor

places:
fusion @ the 13th floor (dublin)
technosis (dublin)
trancentral @ tysenn st

mixes:
fukin avin it (first liberators album)
billy nasty (race data)

if that billy nasty cd is the one im thinking of its ****in wicked,mit try an dig it out actually!

i got into it through the rave scene really,always been into electronic music sinc ei can remember.was into hardocre originally,then hard trance,then i got hold of an old aggressor tape,been hooked ever since.:)

[The Overfiend]

Came from the house route.
My mother always had disco in the house.
Back in the 90's there was a fine thin line with techno and house
especially with the Dutch producers like
H.p. Vince (Check out Vinny's Magic Trip on Groove Alert)
Laidback Luke
Dobre & Jamez
Dubbing Double
Even the Dj Sneak Vs. Armand Van Helden Psychic Bounty Killers on Relief was the shit!

[drift9]

plastikman/sheet one is what brought me in and turned my ears onto it.

as far as getting into the harder side of things, i have to say it was a dj named Murat from NJ. Used to play in detroit in the mid '90s. blistering sets. had no idea techno could be aggressive like that until i heard him play out. forever in debt to the man...

[The Overfiend]

plastikman/sheet one is what brought me in and turned my ears onto it.

as far as getting into the harder side of things, i have to say it was a dj named Murat from NJ. Used to play in detroit in the mid '90s. blistering sets. had no idea techno could be aggressive like that until i heard him play out. forever in debt to the man...

Murat that had those tracks on the Thomas Schumacher cd?

[Sunil]

Thanks Tony. I've needed to come up with a small list of "influences" for a bio, so you helped me kill two birds with the one stone! That list above relates to 1992-1996, at which point I became a purist :)

[drift9]

plastikman/sheet one is what brought me in and turned my ears onto it.

as far as getting into the harder side of things, i have to say it was a dj named Murat from NJ. Used to play in detroit in the mid '90s. blistering sets. had no idea techno could be aggressive like that until i heard him play out. forever in debt to the man...

Murat that had those tracks on the Thomas Schumacher cd?

yep. this guy: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Murat
guy's had some killer releases--shame he's slowed up as of late...

[BloodStar]

I mostly listened to hiphop, before i get into techno. I love hiphop, but it started to be boring at the times, so I moved to more dance/elctronic stuff,like Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, and then to techno. There was lot of great parties in Boby centrum (local venue) and many great artists played there. Just to mention DJs like Mhonolink, Johan Bacto, Mark EG, James Ruskin, Headroom, Mark Williams, Paul Mac, oliver Ho, Marc Broom, Ben Sims,Jel Ford, Dylan Drazen, and many great live performances like Alexander Kowalski feat Raz o Hara (awesome closing set at 6AM), Christian Wunsch, Makaton, User, 65D Mavericks, Function, and so on.

[Si the Sigh]

The Producer and Chris Liberator.

[rotten]

95 on party. some dude played early downwards stuff (regis' lino05 and surgeons' dynamic tension ep). i still know that feeling to hear something new, other and outstanding stuff. great! the good thing was that nobody in germany did know downwards at this time. so you had to educate yourself on your own. from that point on everything was clear for me. later there came names like ho, outline, ruskin, landstrumm, gaetek etc. and especially the name tresor who was a big influence as well. still remember advents !breathtaking! pa in tresor garden to the love parade 98. wow! integrale muzique was massively moving for me too. actually the whole uk stuff made my way. could never be patriotical and getting into german stuff..

[Fusion]

my father was a disco dj :cheese:

[Mucky Beats]

i grew up on guns and roses and the prodigy, then came helter skelter tape packs !!! brisk / loftgoover / producer / mark eg / carl cox / trevor rockcliffe ... around 99 i got into techno thro a new bunch of freinds who showed me this stuff that was what i had been listening to and dancing to without knowing it was techno and within a year i was hooked on glen wilson / green velvet / ben sims stuff.
over the following few years i found analog techno and realy got blown away by dave the drummer stuff hydraulix is still for me one of the best labels out there.
djs that most infulenced me are dave clarke / ben simms / mark eg / dave the drummer / carl cox.
Now thanks to all these diffrent styles i find myself playing anything from surgon to ant to OBI ... one of the best tracks of all time for me is freaks on hubbard (dave clarke remix)

[stjohn]

hardcore: prodigy, slipmatt, sy, brisk, druid, sharkey, hixxy, Thunderdome, Clarkee, Scorpio. Rave: Sequential One, Bonzai Records, Source T10, Union Jack. have to say Digweed and Sasha too.

Techno wise... iwas shopping in the wrong places, and never knew places like selectah and spindizzy existed, so unfortunately for me, i never picked up too much techno, only if Mauro Picotto branched out, or there was the odd techno 12" showing up in a hardhouse shipment for Abbey Discs.

Then i bought a cd called Techno Classics in New York in 1999-ish which had all of the usuals, beltram, mills, green velvet etc, so that got me hooked on the not so bangin shit as well as a Mark EG mix calleld " This is techno" for some magazine. i remebered thinkin thats not techno, coz it wasnt bang bang bang from start to finish :roll: but i thought it was deadly all the same.

barry dempsey and dean sherry @ Phunk'd Up for gettin me hooked on the proper Dublin CLubbin Buzz. big repect to those 2 lads!

and pretty much every technobrain on this board that pound us with the plethora of techno, coz id never have heard of 70% of it otherwise! ;)

[audioinjection]

i grew up on chicago house and hardcore at first.......then discovered techno around 95/96, dj misjah, jeff mills, surgeon, sonic groove, synewave stuff, etc.......for me it was hard to find techno around here, since the rave scene was mostly house, trance, hardcore, hard house, but yeah thats how i started out

i heard very little techno on the radio, only way to find it was buying tapes off of 'pure acid mixtapes' catalogs haha

[massplanck]

ok. I'd say it was ecstacy & billy nasty race data eta that got me into techno

[dirty_bass]

What got me into techno?
Well I was always into electronic music and techno from a young age.
I used to breakdance and used to pick up break tapes from Southend Market, from some B-Boy bootleg stall.
The tapes were 45 minutes a side of continous 909 and 808 rythms. So I guess, that`s what initially got me into dance beats.
Then I went through rock and industrial, was in some industrial bands, slowly eliminating members and replacing them with electronics, till there was 2 of us left.
Had a record deal, got ****ed, freaked out, decided to sink myself into the underground as far away from the commercial biz as possible.
Fell into the squat party scene of london, all the music got me inspired, mostly London Acid to start, then the wider world of techno in general.
Joined a rig.
Ran a rig.
Did the whole anti establishment, breaking into warehouses, dealing with coppers, mixing for hours and playing pa`s in empty buildings thing for a bit.
Got dissapointed with it, focused back on producing.
And ended up here. Confused, in love with all music, with not enough time to make it all.