Wuzzel
No one listened to Europop? :O I'm sure someone out here liked Aqua at some point in time!!!! How about Alice Deejay? Vengaboys?
sweatdrop gonk
You know I did.
razz
Anyway since everyone else is doing this like detailedly, I guess I will too.
Before and up to 1994 I didn't pay much attention to music, I remember listening to alot of REM, Indigo Girls, David Bowie aswell as alot of poppy s**t. However in 1994 I met a kid that would change my life. We hung out alot, he was a hacker[at 8 years old! Scary!]. He introduced me to Fatboy Slim, and I fell in love. I immediately went out and bought many many CDs, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Prodigy etc. I also managed to find alot of Mp3s of singles by poridgy and a few years later by basement jaxx. My view of what I called techno, at this point was very limited but the seed had been planted. After about 96 my obsession died down about, every play list I ever made afterwards had Acid 8000 aswell as alot of other good tracks, but it also consited of alot college rock crap and alterternative rock[punk, indie etc]. Fast forward to March 8th, 2001: I decided I wanted to go to a rave. I had always hated ravers, seeing them as dirty and wierd[which they are], so I figured I go to a rave to see what, exactly, I was hating. My friend's brother who was a jungle DJ took me to a rave in Ottawa, I didn't know it was jungle, and I wouldn't know it was jungle until a year and half later. I did love the music anyway. I was shy, but I was accepted because I knew a DJ[how typical]. A year later, I had been to aobut 7 parties and had moved to Toronto. I asked a friend where the raves were at, and subsequently met a girl who introduced me to happy hardcore before my first REAL rave[my first larger then 60 people rave] I downloaded some happy hardcore and I fell in love with it. I listened to solely happy hardcore for about 7 months then I couldn't take it anymore. At this point my knowledge expanded vastly as I devoured information like I was being executed the next day and it was the best tasting food on the planet. I learned to distinguish happy hardcore from cheesy normal hardcore, I learned how to distinguish florida breaks from funky breaks. I learned alot. So I started getting really into trance, which is wierd because toronto has the worst trance scene ever, unless you know the right people. I threw a trance party, which bombed. I listened to alot of Lady Dana, John Doe, Chris Liberator, Armand Van Bueran, Quicksilver, Kid Epic and Dyloot. I loved trance. In december '03 I quit doing ecstacy and as a result learned that almost all trance blows. I realised alot about raving and alot about ravers and became what most people would call the most jaded a*****e for about 3 months. During this 3 months, I cut out every single person who couldn't handle drugs, who didn't know anything about their "favourite" music and who was remotely unintelligent. So I lost ALOT of my friends, and of the few that were left was a boy. A boy who I would come to love dearly as one of the few few few few people in the world I trust. He showed me the magic of breaks. My love for breaks expanded to my love for house, then booty and since then it's been almost nothing but BREAKS, house and booty.
However, last year sometime my friend Hilary single-handedly brought Euro into the Rave scene. I had always secretly adored euro, but now it was safe to say I loved it without fear of ridicule. I got alot more into it when I was able to hear it every weekend. Dee-lite, Alice Deejay, Capital Sound, Emjay, CORONA<3333, Reset, Maxx, Vengaboys. I <333 it.
I also love Electroclash, Eastside Hiphop, Darkstep, Minimal Techno, Minimal DnB, Hard Techno, Funky Techno, IDM, what Ishkuer would call breaktrance, but I prefer to call Trancey breaks
razz , Morning Trance, Psytrance, Goa.
I would have put those genres in my little history thingy, but I don't know where my fondness of them came from
razz .
