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SPOOX
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 2009/08/23 : 22:16:26
I got into the rave scene in 1990 through my older cousin. Before that i just used to listen to anything really.
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Citrick
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Ireland
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Joined: Jan, 2009
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Posted - 2009/08/23 : 22:31:51
@ DjTriquatra
Wow 
You guys have it good in England. Dance music is seriously hated here in Ireland. I'm the only person I know that's really into it  People are always like... Uhh you don't need any talent to make that crappy music, or, where are all the guitars? Or why isn't this music making me depressed? 
But on topic... I was into top 40 music (Like all the other Irish kids) when I was young. Got into trance then as I got older. Drifted into hip hop for a little while. Then found hardcore 
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Jackol
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United States
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Posted - 2009/08/24 : 05:52:45
For the most part I grew up listening to godawful music, aside from bob marley which my dad regularly blasted. Ironically, he is a strong advocate against the ganja  . For the most part, the only music I heard in very early childhood was children's music tapes like raffi and other nonsense. Then as I started elementary school, my parents got me a digital clock radio for my room. This object was my messiah. I would blast pop and hip-hop stations through the 4-inch speaker at all times of day. Unfortunately, I still listened to garbage music. Backstreet boys, N-Sync, Ricky Martin, all of the boy-band pop ********. Then I got in to Junior high (7th & 8th grade). I finally realized I just wasn't like all the popular kids, so **** all them. I unsuccesfully tried to become a punk rocker/metal head but I was still a bit too nerdy and nice, though I still love the music and sport the clothing. Highschool rolled around and I finally sort of realized that even being a punk kid was too clique-y. I just decided to do my own thing and whatever, I didn't really need labels. I made some new friends, one of which I still owe my love of everything electronic to. A young fellow by the name of Bill Boyle showed me trance and happy hardcore. I instantly fell in love with the sounds. It was what I had been looking for all these years, and I knew this was something I would hold on to very dearly. I copied all his music on to cds, most of it random things he had gotten from his older brother and cousin. Aura the source of trance, hixxy, paul oakenfold, tiesto, eddie haliwell, happy 2b hardcore, special d, children of the night. It was a new dawn for me. I promptly ordered various compilations from amazon like hardcore nation 2, clubland xtreme hardcore 2, bonkers 2 (strange that i ordered all things with 2s, didnt notice that til now). I've been hooked ever since, and it's also largely thanks to the happyhardcore.com radio station as well. I tuned in all the time with shoutcast radio on winamp, streaming mixes and tracks until my mom would yell at me to turn that weird music off.
So that's my story.
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Jester MC
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Canada
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Joined: May, 2008
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Posted - 2009/08/24 : 07:41:31
i love this question...
thing is, for me, i litterally have always been really into music of all kinds, but wasn't aware of it until i got into raving, and among other things, hardcore. I deffinetly had that parent (dad) who was into music, which was rock and roll. Like picture a guy who was in a band, and a high school senior in 1969, and went to collage from 70-74 kind of rock, lots and lots of stones, and beatles, but everything else in between. He was always playing guitar around the house. My parents split up when i was 6, and one of the most vivid memories of back then is him always playing music. later he started recording music and buying different instruments, until now, he play's guitar, bass (both accoustic and electric..and steal grand[my favorite!!]) mandolin, keyboard(s), dables in drums but usually uses a drum machine, harmonica, tin flute, uses a sampler, and has like 8 "studio" albums just for fun:P
Also I had an older brother who was into music as much as any other slightly depressed child growing up in the late 80's/early 90's, so fairly. this is where i got shown your greenday's, your nirvana's, your Bush's, your offsprings, no doubts, olps, limp biskits, metalicas, chili peppers ect. in hind sight i remember daily waiting until my brother went out to steal and listen to his cd's (Even then i was already stealing music! lol jks) i remember about the same time my stereo breaking and going crazy for 2 weeks until i got a new one. still oblivious to why it drove me so nuts.
elementary school saw the progression of this taste with blink and sum 41 and korn, and manson, blah blah blah. then in high school i ****in new eeeeverybody. not being conceded, like its not cool that i hung with the nerds at the wierd table sometimes at lunch, but the next day was at the hockey team lunch around the corner, the next day at the skate park with the stoners, the next in the stairwell with the hip hop guys, the next in the drama room with art-ies... i can chill with anyone. sorta why i love raves, or one reason. anyway, through this i got exposed to rap (old school ooold like grand master flash, naw, like africa bambaataa oold oh all electronica owes bambaataa too btw. then through your nwa, to pac, to biggie, to jay, to em, to 50..wait..i hate 50. but anyway, luda, wheezy, drake, love it all.) allll types of rock, metal through psycadelic, classic, to classic canadian pop rock. Electronic music came in here too. first jungle then trance then hardcore all in quick succession, followed by hardstyle which im happy i found early in my ravin days so i have seen it progress, so sick. House music kinda came last actually:P wierd but i love it now too.
i even took violin after in wasnt manditory in school. from 9 until 16
it never occurd to me though until i found electronic music, and started to dive deep into it in the early days (as we all do) i started realizing all my other musical influences, and how much i actually love all music.
....now my heads all over and i cant decide what to listen to damn it!!
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