how did you start listening to trance

[Tim]

friends??

you were into electronic music...?

what??

[Ian]

I was into the original 'old skool' stuff from the early 90s, and I went through phases on hardcore & techno and found trance in 97ish with some tunnel trance sets, acid stuff, and not the uplifting stuff until the 98ish with cafe del mar, blue fear & seven days & 1 week, and I've been totally addicted since

[Tiny]

Friends got me into it. Quite a few years ago, I had a friend that listened to Techno alot, and I can't say I liked it. Too hard for me. But when a friend introduced me to Trance a while ago, I got hooked

So the story goes...

[Stream]

After listening to the popular dance-acts around in the early 90's (Capella, 2 Unlimited etc.) I came over a song that started my interest:

Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke

This was a really smashing song, and I listened to the single over and over for several months actually

Then I started getting into other types of electronic music, from Prodigy to various norwegian acts (amongst others the guys who are now known as Røyksopp) and further trough the Ravermeister compilations, before I settled for trance in 96-97...after that I have almost only bought trance-music

[Mathew]

I can't remember exactly ... I think I heard tracks like 'Robert Miles - Children' and 'BBE - Seven Days And One Week' and liked them, obviously makin me aware of this totally new scene of music but I think I was too young to appreciate it. Few years later, I heard 'Gouryella - Gouryella' on an advert, and I just went out and bought 'MoS - Dance Nation 6' just for that track and therefore having access to 35 other tracks of clubland essentials.

Starting off with anything that you can class as dance I've worked my style down to a melodic/progressive type of trance or even a more tech-trance sound when I'm in the mood ...

[White_Lightning]

around 94-2002 rave....trance around 97 been in an out of it since ie from uplifting, to hard, to prog, to tech, then to proggy house- but i will always go back to trance

dunno if makes sense...

i really cannot be arsed to write properly

[((-&E-))]

the first "trance nation" CD (the black and orange one) and by listening to GALAXY 105 fm / KISS as it used to be called....

[Ian]

[Spherix]

hmm Started to listen to Scooter in 96 when they did Happy Hardcore in 98-99 I started to listen to traaaance

[DJ XYZ]

It got me hooked the first tym I listen to it. I was actually in my friend's car n he put in a cd. Then there was like an electric shock that awaked my soul n got me completely addicted to it. I listened to the tone for tyms n told myself that this genre of musik was whut I had been lookin for. I still remember the name of that tone: DJ Mystik - Save Me. Umm...Whaaat else I can say, trance is like HIV, OMG im infected. It will be wit me till da day that I die.

[DJScudge]

I am going to show my age a bit here but it all started for me like this....

I will never forget the bus trip on a school excursion back in 1984 when my friend said he had a tape of Jean Michell Jarres Concerts in China.

I listenened to the tape on a walkman and I remember being totally knocked out and mesmerised at the age of 14 by this wonderfully hypnotic and melodic music. That day completely changed my attitude towards music.

I managed to get hold of further tapes of his and I was utterly hooked. I then had to find further electronic music artists and found myself listening to the likes of Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk.

My interest was revitalised in about 1995 when Perfecto Records introduced me to a whole new world of electronic music with artists such as BT, Tilt and Man with no Name.

The trance genre, whether club trance or progressive, still has not lost its magic whatever anyone might tell you because you cannot beat that feeling when you discover one of those awesome tracks that bring you out in major goosebumps and puts tears in your eyes.

I love rock music and classical also but nothing comes close to the magic that we all share. Music that knows no boundaries and never stops evolving.

Agreed?????

Those who have not listened to Jean Michell Jarre should check him out as he is, arguably, the godfather of trance.

Listen to Oxygene, Equinoxe, Magnetic Field, Zoolook and Oxygene 2.

Thanks for reading

DJScudge

[kuRtis248]

ye somthing like that, 70's electronic music 8)

[fREAKYjUNGLIST]

"those illegal rave parties!"

[euphoria]

i was born in europe and my dad always used to play jean michelle jarre to me, i loved it, i was only about 6 or so that was it for me been listening to every kind of electronic music since

jean michelle jarre is the master i still listen to oxygene even after all these years

[docsavage]

Back when MP3 had just just come out and everyone was still using Frauenhauffer's WinPlay3, there was a site called the MP3 Temple which had page long descriptions of every track you could grab. It was mostly psy - I ended up getting a bunch of Man with No Name and was just hooked from there.

Went out and bought Tetsuo Technoclub Germany - Talla 2XLC, and was hooked. Started partying 6 months later, started throwing raves another 6 months later, and here I am 5 years later still throwing raves :-p

[Hi-Voltage]

I stared with gabber and went to gabber parties,then I asked one friend about psytrance...he showed me Man with no name and Astral.Psy enchanted me
After that he gave me a TTF compilation,which was da 10th as I remember
Now I love nearly all kinds of electronic music...
VIVA LA ELECTRONICA!!!