what got you into dance music?

"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".

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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)

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"

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

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

(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)

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.

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

ILM, which I found in 2005, when there was a much stronger dance presence (ILM first pointed me to Tessio!)

i had this exact same experience--ILM, luomo, 2005

"I don't care what you say, I will defend microhouse to the death because that made it all possible for me."

dude, i don't know who you are but i really like your post and i thank ILM in my head all the time for turning me on to Kompakt because that became one of the ruling forces in my life for a long time in the 2000's in a big way. and it totally gave me hope for the future. or it felt like the future was now when i first heard that stuff and completely reinvigorated me as far as electronic music goes.

daft punk. 97 = moved in a big city for the first time = access to college radio so musically i was all over the place but daft punk, and chemical bros too i guess, made me realize i had preferences in dance music. acid/house/techno over trance/jungle/drum n bass hehe. don't particularly have awesome memories about the stuff that i ran into live back then, whatever, and being poor and ill informed i was stucked , really got into it when i installed soulseek shortly after napster died: it seems electronic music (especially idm) was the most shared genre in there so that helped.

screamadelica pointed me towards both dance music and the rolling stones. then digeridoo and selected ambient works changed my life.

I think it was Orbital 2 or Underworld - dubnobasswithmyhedman

another really formative song for me was "lookout weekend" by debbie deb, that was a much bigger thing than shannon where i grew up

and new order too, of course

the klf

I addressed this upthread a bit, but I really had this break at about the end of May 1999 where I went into hospital with a collapsed lung and a copy of Remedy and when I came out I basically only bought dance music for the rest of that year.

What's keeping me into dance music. (One of the things anyway.) For which I mostly have the previous poster on this thread to thank. I can't stop listening to the most recent mix on his site. I listened to it over and over getting ready for work, and it's the first thing I put on once I got home.

Awww, this thread's making me feel all warm inside :)

So many people I know got into dance music through

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odQgfUUegQI

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_5IJRXoKQE

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIXqmt0zw3Y

That stuff pretty much tore a bunch of my friends away from me. I was all like "Nooooooo, you can't listen to techno! Come back to earth and listen to punk and grunge with me!"

A few years later, one of those friends would smoke me down and we'd listen to trance and stuff. I wasn't too down with it, but he gave me a tape that said "Tribal" on it. I was all like liberal guilt "I guess it can't be bad if it's tribal." Then around the same time, I got Deee-Lite's "Dancefloor Oddities & Sampladelic Relics".

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fQKYhEuBL.jpg

I felt a little weird buying that tape, but it was the real breakthrough. It allowed me to hear a bunch of different styles of dance music.

Around the same time I bought Strictly the Best 17, which was a direct result of listening to tons of Sublime and wanting to learn more about dancehall.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bE7Fk1PSL.jpg

lol. don't know why I posted those giant album covers.

That Deee-Lite remix disc was also one of the first dance CDs I was exposed to shortly before I started going to raves.

herbie's "rocket", "axel f", john carpenter, wendy carlos, etc absorbed as a young child translated into a lifelong love of synthesized sound

Hard to underestimate how stuff like the weird science fiction/ 80s soundtracks & Doctor Who themes, really laid the foundations for a love of electronic sound when I was under 10.

to me the future was cool and it sounded like a synthesiser arpeggio.