How did you first get into techno?

[SlavikSvensk]

for me, it started with acid house and ambient, but these were always secondary interests to indie rock. then the radio station i interned for switched formats from "alternative" to "urban." the interns and djs got to take anything they wanted home from the old collection. among other things, i picked up pastkman's "sheet one" album. it blew my mind away. a year later i moved to michigan, and was exposed to the detroit scene. at that time, detroit parties were almost all techno, with some chicago house and booty bass sets thrown in. changed my musical life.

[force]

Energy Flash...

Simple as that really.
Used to listen to Colin Dale and Colin favor on kiss as well...

Then it was onto megadogs and the squat party scene around the time of the M11 link road being built.
Bloody good (messy) times they were..

But it was Energy Flash that said to me ' Right, you're gonna try and make techno from now on matey..

[-LETHAL-ONE-]

In the early 90's i was into doing graffiti with some older cats. They were the ones responsible for getting me into techno. Every time we hung out we would have mix tapes playing with some of the guys break dancing and pop locking. Good times!!!

[xes]

I was detained in guintanimo bay, they used it as a form or torture on me. It kind of grows on you after a while. :)


(heard about raves, thought it sounded like fun. It was.)

[DannyBlack]

Thats cool, so you got to see it right when it was booming.

This is my way in.

I was a Grunge kid that turned into a Punk teenager. My friends all listened to Dreamscape and Thunderdome stuff- I listened to it but never really paid much attention.
Fast forward to me at 21- bored to death with my musical choices was introduced to Dave Clarke World service 1 whilst eating some speckled lovelies.

The next day I bought Carl Cox' Fact 1 and other stuff. I saw Dereck Carter in the forum and then UMEK etc etc. Started to bloody love this music, so I saved a little cash and bought a set of belt drive Kams. Filthmonger used to call around every saturday for a day of mixing and smoking and the rest is history.

Techno is beautiful.

[drift9]

[xes]

mmmmmmmm acid techno *drools*

That's one side of techno that I've never gotten tired of. F*cking love the stuff. 303s give me a big stonking hardon.

[-LETHAL-ONE-]

mmmmmmmm acid techno *drools*

That's one side of techno that I've never gotten tired of. F*cking love the stuff. 303s give me a big stonking hardon.

+1. HELL YEA!!!!! :angry:

[tonyc2002]

My mate let me borrow a DJ Vibes tape from Dreamscape 14 in school and then over the years I started listening to hardcore and then the techno tape packs....

He then got some decks and started buying loads of trance and techno which I got to listen too and have a little mix with from time to time.

Basically, its my mates fault :lol:

[DJ Asylum]

Not really into techno in a big way as such, but it was Carl Cox & F.A.C.T. that moved me away from hardcore. The tracks on it just blew me away!

[Izz]

Could take or leave techno until I first went to the Orbit in Morley. The atmosphere and energy of the sounds just sucked me right in.

Never looked back.

[snooch]

I was into ebm in the early 90s and was open to most things electronic. A friend invited me to a rave. I had heard of raves but this was '91 and raves were just starting to get big in the states. I was bored by most of the music (trance and house) but when Adam X played, I was hooked(plus the acid started to work). I was hooked. I checked out some more techno after that and was thrilled. The next techno jock I saw was T-1000. I bought tables and records the next day after seeing him wreck shit. The rest is history.

[Jay Pace]

Seeing jeff mills at the lighthouse sometime in the late 90s clinched it.
Just a perfect combo of crowd, venue, soundsystem and music.

[morbid]

stu allen on key 103 radio when I lived up north, early 90's was the start of it - not really techno as such but a lot of old acid stuff, was only 11 or 12 and not really into music but had never heard anything like it - blew my mind though didnt even understand it, just liked the repetition.

then ratty, mickey finn, tanith, clarkee etc

then dreamscapes and helter skelters, drome and the country club

then squats and outdoors

but yeah Sheet One had quite a big part in it all

[The Overfiend]

Was clubbin heavy in NYC with Cm and RFC
Started hittin the Storm Raves and Limelight and that was that.
Techno... the first time I heard Laidback Luke Act The Fool
That was it lights out game over.

[The_Laughing_Man]

When I was in my late 0`s and early teens I was into breakdance, and used to go out down town with a gang of us that used to go breaking with a bit of lino and a boom box.
We used to buy our music for breakin in this big market in town. There was a proper B-Boy stall, sold vinyl, some clothes and we bought cassettes from there for our breakdance needs.
I bought this one tape that we all just went nuts over. It was 100 times more jackin than any other tapes anyone had.
It was just a C90 cassette, with a very basic inlay, obviously independantly produced, and it was just 45 mins a side of nothing but raw 909 and 808 beats straight out the machines.
I was hooked on electronic beats from then on.

[Numeric]

i was exposed to 'jungle techno' at the age of twelve, around '92

started listening to hardcore and also developed a love for house, techno, and drum n bass

laurent garnier's laboratoire mix and carl cox's f.a.c.t album were early faves

[DarkYoung]

i was exposed to 'jungle techno' at the age of twelve, around '92

exposed? sounds like you were the victim of something dodgy.

[dan the acid man]

Heard the late, great John Peel play a Ritchie Hawtin track and i've been in love with it ever since.

[DarkYoung]

been obsessed with it since human resources/beltram/frank de wulf's the tape especially.