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Is Electronic Dance Music?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 19 October 2002 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

bjork remixes

― Honda, Saturday, 19 October 2002 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

nine 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 (twenty-two years ago)

The *gasp* Sneaker Pimps.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― elliott (ebb), Saturday, 26 July 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 26 July 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

punk

― s woods, Saturday, 26 July 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot to mention Breakin' the movie.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 26 July 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Humanoid! Buc-buc-bow!"

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 26 July 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 26 July 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

My drum machine.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 27 July 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

(I liked this gareth series.)

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

moroder

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Chic & the Saturday Night Fever OST

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

primal scream. heh.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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