what got you into dance music?

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― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Harthouse: Point of No Return.

― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

for me it was local pirates playing belgian hardcore in 91 (frank de wulf, cj bolland, joey beltram, loads of stuff i still dont know what it was:( ) for someone still at mundane school this was an amazing new window

nate, you heard tb resucitation (the best hardfloor tracks are acperience, trancescript, into the nature, lost in the silver box - and possibly fish&chips)

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

chalk another one up for "pump up the volume".

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:13 (10 years ago) Permalink

Nothing specific; like the Beatles, it just always seems to have been around me.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

oh, I don't really dig much dance music.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:32 (10 years ago) Permalink

Depeche Mode or Prince, probably.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

the beat. no, not the band.

― kephm, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:37 (10 years ago) Permalink

disco

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:46 (10 years ago) Permalink

Gino Soccio 'Dancer'

― David (David), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

Indie-dance! (sort of) i.e. The Shamen and The Orb in Peel's Festive Fifty, and then the KLF, and then just sort of waking up to the general cultural osmosis of it all.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

Colourbox

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

snap Colourbox (5/5 review in Sounds magazine for their 4ad debut), Yello, New Order, Cabaret Voltaire, Mantronix - in 1985 plus the electro Peel played at the time.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:23 (10 years ago) Permalink

[that's snap for Stewart mentioning Colourbox, not Snap the euro-pop-dance band !]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim at 14 or 15 and then three things after that. Jon Carter's Live 7 mix.

The Kitchen Nightclub.

My friend Phil who was DJ there and began letting me in free to gigs everywhere when he was promoting them.

And finally drugs.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:27 (10 years ago) Permalink

big beat

― vic (vicc13), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'm afraid it was drum 'n' bass, and the wonkier end of things too-- Photek and so on. I quickly fanned out from there.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

That's 4 things really but I should have put carter's mix before the 3 things sentence.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:47 (10 years ago) Permalink

Shirley and Co's Shame, Shame, Shame. George Macrae - Rock Your Baby,
Heatwave - Boogie Nights. Bee Gees - Jive Talkin' Donna Summer - I Feel Love.....get the idea?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:54 (10 years ago) Permalink

They're still playing I Feel Love Dr C, all the time actually.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

They should play the others two. And Hot Butter.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

being a child in the 80s

― blueski, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:13 (10 years ago) Permalink

In my musical infancy I defined myself by not liking dance music- whenever some friend told me about a group and I thought they were shit but didn't wanna hurt their feelings, I just went "well, at least it's not dance music".

I've gradually learned to dig a lot of it, but until very recently I still had to use the excuse that it wasn't *really* Dance music, as in:

Afrika Bambaata- well, that's Hip-Hop!

The Madchester scene- well, that's Indie!

Human League- well, that's New Wave!

I started running out of excuses at about the time that I started to get into Basement Jaxx ("well, that's...uhm...Prince type stuff!"), Aphex Twin ("well, you..err...can't dance to that, so it can't be dance!") and Tricky ("that's, uhhm, mumbling Brit-Hop!")...the first dance track that I learned to love without denying that it belongs to the genre was a version of "Boy/Girl Song" by Aphex Twin, closely followed by "Groove Is In The Heart".

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

S-Express and MARRS are the first I can remember, as far as "modern" dance music goes (obviously, disco before that). Acid rather quickly after that...

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:27 (10 years ago) Permalink

thing is, just as i was old enough to recognise how sounds and music were being made synthpop was dominating the charts so to like that and the rap that was emerging followed by house just seemed totally logical and natural to me - i didnt even have to think about it...i've always thought that if you didnt like that stuff if you were a kid when it was goin on then you'd been effectively brainwashed by your rock-lovin luddite parents, HA

― blueski, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

late 70's and early 80's pop.... dude... donna summer's "i feel love"...

― msp, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

Chubby Checker. I dug how he used vocals.

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

gareth, how are you defining dance music? I assume you would exclude something like salsa from this narrower definition, but would you include disco, or do you mean to start with rave (or early industrial dance?).

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:54 (10 years ago) Permalink

Because the weird thing is that before I was exposed to acid house and techno in around 1988, I had been hearing a lot of electronic dance stuff with samples, and I'm not even sure what it would be called, but I suspect it was industrial dance music? I was already not very keen on it.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

All those crappy songs with Ronal Reagan samples.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:59 (10 years ago) Permalink

Tim F.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

Goth?

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

Maybe it was. It was included in a show that played a mix of other things, so it wasn't as though I could identify if because it was played during the "genre [x]" show.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

Rockist Scientist, maybe it was something like Front 242?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

The radio. TV. Being a child in the '60s. Like Marcello, I can't think of anything specific, it was everywhere.

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

Front 242 would have been an example. I didn't want to mention them because I can never remember the right number. :) Aren't they "industrial dance"?

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 19:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

Daniel_Rf's dance-denial protests sound freakily close to the arguments 90s indie conservatives used to prove that they *did* like dance music (or am I foolishly missing the irony? I'm new here). Used to make me want to pull a gun on them and order them to dance to Tricky NOW! But I was English (still am).

"Being a child int he 80s" sums it up - everything we heard growing up was "synthetically"-produced pop designed for clubs, like the Madonna and Scritti me and the other cubs boogied to in 86 (everybody thought we were crazy!). When acid house kicked in, the tartrazine kids weren't going to say no - Bomb the Bass did it for me with "Beat Dis".

― Leo Lonergan (Leo), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 19:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

My feet.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 19:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

Front 242: yes industrial music you can dance to, however Front 242 refer to themselves as "Electronic Body Music". Back in the Autumn of 1988 they were front cover stars of Melody Maker.

--<[ FRONT 242 ]>--
Description: The official website for the fathers of Electronic Body Music.
Category: Arts > Music > ... > Industrial > Bands and Artists > Front 242
www.front242.com/ - 3k - Cached - Similar pages

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 19:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

Well, EBM *is* industrial dance music.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 20:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

i've always thought that if you didnt like that stuff if you were a kid when it was goin on then you'd been effectively brainwashed by your rock-lovin luddite parents, HA

Well yes, but y'see, I LIKED my parents, and everyone my age pretty much sucked- they were all about soccer and beating each other, and none of them had any appreciation whatsoever for Greek mythology or Che Guevara (I was an odd kid)

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 20:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

Saturday Night Fever. Also my first Rated R movie.

Either "Stayin' Alive" or Star Wars was my first 45.

As for house music (birth of modern dance music?), clubbing in D.C. in '88. My first 12-inch: "It Takes Two"

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:47 (10 years ago) Permalink

Coldcut "Doctorin' the House"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:53 (10 years ago) Permalink

Woody McBride at the Glasgow Art School and then Ege Bam Yasi at the QM Union a few weeks later.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:19 (10 years ago) Permalink

haha another vote for Fatboy Slim at 14 or 15. then going to Bath St, talking with M., & drugz. big epiphanies - Shapeshifter & Concord Dawn live @ Fuel.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:48 (10 years ago) Permalink

Bomb The Bass - "Beat Dis" and LFO - "LFO".

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

The first dance music I liked and danced to would have been 2 Limited when I was 9. But really it was Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers & Roni Size.

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Thursday, 17 October 2002 03:53 (10 years ago) Permalink

The pop preamble: MARRS, New Order, Jak Your Body, S-Express, Acieeed House, followed up by lost weekends in Leeds (with my school uniform still in my bag).

― nick.K (nick.K), Thursday, 17 October 2002 06:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

orbital - satan

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 17 October 2002 06:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

I go generally with Arthur and Marcello's answers...just hearing the radio when young in the late seventies/early eighties, all that fun stuff.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 15:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

Got in with acid house and new beat when I was a little thing, sort of faded in and out when I later got into music seriously (The Chemical Bros, The Prodigy, Aphex Twin etc. were what I limited myself to), then I got into jungle and house in '99 and simultaneously started going out to clubs and raves. From there it was all downhill...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 October 2002 15:07 (10 years ago) Permalink

definitely the drugs

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 17 October 2002 15:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

the pointer sisters

― Amedee Archambault (Amedee), Thursday, 17 October 2002 22:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

Soul Train!

I already said TV, I know, but this was a very important show for me.

― Banjee Realness (Arthur), Thursday, 17 October 2002 22:21 (10 years ago) Permalink

oh my god Amedee I went and found this thread again JUST so I say that I take back my previous answers - it's "Neutron Dance" by the Pointer Sisters - kosmik!!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 19 October 2002 21:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

Is Electronic Dance Music?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 19 October 2002 21:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

bjork remixes

― Honda, Saturday, 19 October 2002 21:20 (10 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

Revive and broaden.

My mates were almost fascistic about disliking dance and electronic music. When I got into Orbital it was like a an epiphany.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 25 July 2003 22:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

The *gasp* Sneaker Pimps.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

Europop... growing up, my favourite band was 2 Unlimited. From there, it was but a short step into the murky worlds of trip-hop, then the logical progression to dance music which was a) not Europop and b) danceable. Indie and other evil guitar-based music was pretty much the last genre I got into.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

Actually, looking back, I seem to remember hearing "Pump up the Volume" for the first time at about age 11-12 and thinking "Oh man this is so cool". I think everyone needs to listen to that song when they're that age.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

Mine sort of comes and goes.

(circa four)

(circa 10, [Temptation] b/c it was on the "Something Wild" soundtrack (cassette version, stayed in parents' car for years) and I thought I'd lost my mind when "Trainspotting" came out with a different version)

(circa 12, along with "James Brown is Still Alive", Marc et Claude's "I Need Your Lovin' (Like the Sunshine)", Human Resource's "Dominator" ("there is no other") and various other gems from a friend who was getting into DJing)

― Elliott Brennan (ebb), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

sorry those pics are so large. nate, you're right on..

― elliott (ebb), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

you can only be an obsessive smiths fan for so long before something gives. i was even vaguely goth too. then acid house happened. though i did have mickey mouse disco too when i was 4 (and both saturday night and sesame street fever)

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Saturday, 26 July 2003 03:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

not reading all the other answers, sorry if I'm being repetitive

When I was a little kid I was really into Go-Bots. They were the tiny cheap precursors to Transformers - matchbox-scale vehicles that could be rotated and tweaked until they resembled a big robot. They fascinated me for hours. They had a TV series for a short while and it was fairly fucking horrendous.

However! At the same time I was obsessed with Go-Bots, the film Beverly Hills Cop came out. The Axel F Theme, completely synthesized and driven by machinery, became the song for all Go-Bot battles ever. Synth music and its compressed-reverb trappings became my ultimate pleasure on the radio. By the time I was 12 I was already scouring shelves anywhere that music was sold for anything that seemed 'Techno.' I once purchased the picture disc CD of the Akira OST!!

I didn't get into dance music. Dance music got into me. And it has YET TO LEAVE, the money-grubbing bitch that it is.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 26 July 2003 06:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

Big beat (fatboy slim, chemicals, bentley rhythm ace, propellerheads) and that mainstrema remix of Mokolo's "Sing it back.

― Sami (Sami), Saturday, 26 July 2003 10:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

My older brother listening to disco and soul in the Eighties.

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 26 July 2003 11:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

I think it all goes back to Keith Flint's crazy dancing in the "Everybody in the place" video. Or maybe "Ride on time" by Black Box. There was some Italo-house track that was in the charts around the same time that I used to love too but I completely forget what it was now. Taking E. Hearing "Da Funk" and "Cowgirl" in a club. Going to see Slam at Sir Henry's in Cork. Big Beat and esp. Fatboy Slim's "Better living through chemistry". Friends giving me Laurent Garnier and Dave Clarke mix tapes. "Music sounds better with U".

― Michael B, Saturday, 26 July 2003 13:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

I must be the first (and only) person who got in to dance music through The Shamen. I loved them as an indie band and followed them through their transformation. The first dance record I bought was by Bass-o-matic. I then got into Network, Vinyl Solution and Kickin records. E-E-E-E-E-EONNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!

― Kim Tortoise, Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

If disco counts, of course, then I was into disco when was 11 or 12 or 13, right before I became a (somewhat inconsistent) college radio snob. I still like disco, but was never won over by, etc. etc. Feel deprived not having had Mickey Mouse Disco, but I guess I would have felt too old for it by the point it came out.

― Al Andalous, Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

punk

― s woods, Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

It was all a big accident. I had just come home from Cappadoccia, Turkey. Spotted a copy of Autechre's Amber. Had no idea what it was, but figured that if it was using images of that amazing place, it must be good. Purchased. And while it wasn't "dance music," it launched me down the slippery slope.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

i had mickey mouse disco!! also, i just saw it in the olympia thrift store the other day! i should go back and see if its there...

also, if i didn't answer this before: blah blah mom & disco, blah blah raves as teenager, blah blah hip-hop

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 26 July 2003 15:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

Actually, punk was the first thing that led me on the path, but just as crucial were some early '80s Pazz & Jop polls--probably '81 was the first one I saw, or anyway, actually read, and the idea that punk could co-exist with other types of music (especially the disco and r&b I was hearing on the radio--Rick James, Diana Ross, etc.) was a fairly mindblowing concept at the time. Christgau, if I'm to be completely honest, opened my mind in a huge way (as did the Clash, Talking Heads, et al). By the time of the "second British Invasion" (which I lapped up big time), it was all over.

― s woods, Saturday, 26 July 2003 15:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

I forgot to mention Breakin' the movie.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 26 July 2003 15:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Humanoid! Buc-buc-bow!"

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 26 July 2003 23:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

my parents' 'Saturday Night Fever' 8-track!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 26 July 2003 23:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

My drum machine.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

Also, my dad's Korg Triton-based cover/bar band and the 'Around The World' video by Daft Punk

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

(I liked this gareth series.)

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 02:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

the fact that open-minded college-age girls don't care about non-exclusive genres unless they're punks or fat indie girls or like country music.

― killa bee, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 03:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

The Matrix soundtrack, and later KMFDM & Propellerheads. And later Kraftwerk and 808 State

I'd like to say it was something cooler, like, uh, not KMFDM or Propellerheads, but I'd be lying. But Decksandrumsandrockandroll sure is fukken rad and "Take California" is one of my fave songs eva.

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 05:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

NO NO I lied--it was listening to Q102 (Philadelphia) exclusively when I was 8, which at that time played nothing but early 90's dance-pop club music (e.g. "Jellyhead", "100% Pure Love", "Be My Lover", "Rhythm is a Dancer", etc).

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 06:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think the earliest music I can remember dancing to over and over is the Mortal Kombat Soundtrack.
Man. I remember thinking that was the greatest thing in the world.

― mox twelve, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

No, I take that back, it's not the earliest thing I can remember dancing to. It just sticks out in my memory.

― mox twelve, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

Early nineties teen discos + MTV Europe. Remember when you could hear stuff like "Poing" on MTV?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

NO NO I lied--

hahh, yeah memory lapsing.

it was listening to Q102 (Philadelphia) exclusively when I was 8, which at that time played nothing but early 90's dance-pop club music (e.g. "Jellyhead", "100% Pure Love", "Be My Lover", "Rhythm is a Dancer", etc).

yeah, probably stuff like this too. and Yaz. and I had this record player from a garage sale that came with "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "The Hockey Sock Rock" which I remember being a little too dirty for my ears.

― mox twelve, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh yeah, there was also this older friend who was into it before me. I remember listening to the first two Kaos Theory compilations on cassette with him.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

There were also a couple of influential radio shows in Finland that had a lot to do with popularizing electronic dance music, but that was later on, in 1993 I think.

Those were also the days when people could still say stuff like, "It's not even proper music, they just press the computer button and the music comes out". I remember having big fights about this in elementary school.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

MTV/AMP/Big Beat (yo mtv raps/tha basement/etc) and a friend's brother's techno CDs...i go to college and am infected with indie...i discover ILM

― artdamages, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

moroder

― fies, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

Those were also the days when people could still say stuff like, "It's not even proper music, they just press the computer button and the music comes out". I remember having big fights about this in elementary school.

Mmm yeah I still have those fights with people. Like my roommate last year who'd get mad when I'd play Aphex Twin or ADULT. And then he'd blare "Jack and Diane" really loud.....

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's easy to forget those people exist sometimes... or at least it seems to me that people are more tolerant of electronic music these days?

House music was the first music I really got into as a 12/13 year old. Before that I didn't really have a music collection outside of a few Madness records. So I guess first it was chart stuff like MARRS, S'Express, Coldcut, Bomb The Bass, then compilations with Todd Terry, Fast Eddie, DJ Pierre etc. I don't really keep up with proper dance music but I still listen to the odd bit here and there.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Chic & the Saturday Night Fever OST

― blunt, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 02:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

the honest (and possibly embarrassing) answer is "all on you (perfume) by the paris angels which i heard on Peel. although that was more of a rebirth after an adolescent period of internalised homophobia duriing which i listened to the noisiest guitar music i could get my hands on.

i always loved disco dancing as a kid though.

― jed_, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 02:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

which is precisely how I won that S.N.F. OST record.

― blunt, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 02:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

my big sister!!! bumping lipps inc. and mary jane girls and slave and prince, et al when i was a wee one.
so i also loved disco by osmosis but it was on the wane by the time i was cognizant of popular music(had a bee gees lunchbox without knowing who they were, thought they were superheroes of some sort not far off the mark amirite). michael jackson got me dancing in earnest, i guess, not counting synth pop. skip to mid-90's -- for every good 'electronica' song i heard I would buy a shitty trance cd with a pretty cover looking for the good stuff, putting me off """proper""" dance music for years until stumbling on ILM pretty much. Been getting my bearings, trying to dodge the burnouts, cynics, and gatekeepers, which is fun. That 'sandstorm' tune is a pip!

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 04:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

i'm glad that q102 got some love on here-- that shit was blastin out my babysitters' car windows for most of my young childhood.

i'd say that it was new order. got the best of collection when i was in eighth grade or so... had some awkward years where i loved it but didn't know enough/was too young/was intimidated. then it resurfaced, with much thanks to 'deep cuts.'

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 04:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

primal scream. heh.

― haitch, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 06:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

hearing robin s - "show me love" on the radio (among other top 40 dance hits) was pretty instrumental for developing my interest in dahhhhnce. i have an especially strong attachment to that song, though, probably because of the pleasant memories i associate it with. cf. also new order, snap!, and cece peniston

― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 06:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

I just gave XTRMNTR it's first solid run-through yesterday and I think Primal Scream is re-getting me into dance music

― Stevie D, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

Slowdive's In-Mind remixes probably. Bandulu / Reload was both a small enough step to be tempting and different enough to be interesting. from there to seefeel and onto disjecta. from there to Blech cassette etc and warp in general. and buying Autechre's Envane EP (largely because liked the cover) was another turning point.

the drum and bass thing was hearing Photek's Two Sword Technique and Technical Itch's Hidden Sound (possibly the remix) on Peel. (both 97). Wormhole in '98...

― koogs, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

Nine Inch Nails eased the transition from metal to dance by making me realise that strange beepy wooshy noises weren't neccessarily lame. Ecstacy did the rest (though my first pill was at a psytrance night which I now hate).

― chap, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 18:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

electronic music, 1996: I read a Rolling Stone review of ...i care because you do, remember it when I see a promo cd in a used record store in Dinkytown - six tracks from icbyd, six tracks from Black Dog's Spanners.

hip-hop, 1997: drive from Boston to New York with a friend who has only 1 cd in his car: Doggystyle.

electronic dance music, 1998: "Homework", Redlight parties in Boston. I buy Tranceport the same year and my interest in proper electronic dance music dead-ends for a couple years in trance.

electronic dance music, 2000: Vocalcity begins to eclipse all other recorded music I own.

― lukas, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

grew up a disco 70s/synthpop 80s kid, but they were just pop as far as i was concerned. yeah, we "danced" to them at the roller skating rink, but it wasn't DANCE music to me at that point. through my older sister got into New order around 1985, which really did start to stick out as capital-D Dance (i mean there's just no denying the booty shaking appeal of "Blue Monday") and from there it grew through DM, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Propaganda, Arthur Baker, Section 25, electro, ebm, remember getting into early stuff coming stateside (which ironically was domestic, but had to filter through my euro/anglo goggles) around 88, 89, etc stuff like the Detroit remix of those Technique singles, cure singles, bjork and barney singing with 808 state, the shamen, altern8, orb, indie dance, soup dragons, happy mondays, "it's time for the percolator", eon, prodigy, al starts to blur together, etc
went to my first raves around 91 in downtown atlanta, bought some great mixtapes - the first one that really turned me onto DJing as a journey were the Oakenfold JDJ and that XL American Chapter cassette continuous mix (holy glorious mixtape of an era)

i would say though my first track i really recall thinking "this makes me want to dance" was probably "shellshock" or "blue monday"

― rentboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://www.discogs.com/release/155475 is the mixtape i most remember making me go "WHOAH DANCE MUSIC IS THA FUTURE!"

― rentboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

My parents' 8-track Saturday Night Fever OST.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

I can pinpoint pretty much the exact moment - summer of 1992, I was at University and my brother had come down to visit. We were driving about and he stuck on a tape labelled "DJ Pilgrim - Sunset FM" which he'd got a few weeks earlier. I'd always had a liking for stuff like 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald etc, but this was probably the first time I ever heard *proper* hardcore. About half way through Pilgrim mixed into Egyptian Empire's "Horn Track" and when the first breakdown came, with the breakbeat and bassline coming back in like the end of the world I instantly knew that this was something I wanted to hear more of. Much more. It was as close to an epiphany as I've ever had and almost overnight I went from indie-obsessive to hunting out as much jungle/drum'n'bass/hardcore as I could.

― Bill A, Monday, 26 March 2007 09:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

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