What tune(s) or events led to your musical tastes now?

Trailer_trash · Post by **Trailer_trash** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:46 pm

Okies peoples... tell us about your first party or the first time you heard THAT particular style of tune that got your attention....

For me it was studying late and having the radio goin background ....breaky stuff on PBS & RRR. Dave Carbone had his program on RRR(??), a long time ago as did ILC on PBS and others I can't remmeber and it just wore off on me. To tell you the truth if it was 1995 and you asked me what Drum n Bass was I couldn't tell you...i neva went to parties or had one tune that got my attention but i knew if I tuned in on certain nites there would be some cool tunes to listen to...

B0mBjAcK · Post by **B0mBjAcK** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:58 pm

Was commercial dance/trance/crap on commercial radio for me *cringe* then I found RRR n PBS and I was saved!

b4 that I used to listen to punk rock.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:41 pm

Guns N Roses => Metal => Fear Factory => Nine Inch Nails => Psy Trance => DnB => Everything else.

Basically, it all comes back to when my cousin gave me Appetite For Destruction at age 9. I would say Nine Inch Nails has had the greatest influence though.

Post by **lynt** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:14 am

Bukem @ Aurora 3 was my first "rave". Though had been a fan of Bukem for years prior.

Rage Against the Machine (all or nothing) -> Indi -> Folk -> D&B -> Breaks.

Probably not in that order, but they have been my standout musical loves as far as I can remember.

Don't know how to fill in the gaps really. Bizzare musical trail.

LÃ³s Kasinoâ€” · Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:09 am

spanning my life..starting from age 6 ..

Michael Jackson -> ABBA (fuck you! those chicks were hot to a 10 year old!) -> The Beatles -> Soundgarden -> Beasties -> Proper HipHop -> Freestylers/Breaks -> DnB !!!

Early Freestylers mixes like Rough Technique, FSUK, etc drew me into breaks..

"John B - Half now, Half later".. feel in love we dnb...

Hatsudai · Post by **Hatsudai** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:55 am

I like too many styles of music so it would take about 4 pages to list the progression but drum and bass was the last one I have gotten into (so far) so.....

I got into d and b in 96 after being handed a tape of SS playing at a rave that year in Melbourne (can't think of the name now but I'm sure many on the board know which one I'm talking about). I was pretty hooked straight away. Incidentally some bugger nicked that tape along with a bunch of other wicked tapes I had from my painting studio in 2000- BASTARD!!!

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:03 am

It's funny looking back at what I once listened to and how influential certain bands are for me to this day, even though I don't listen to them now and some I can't stand (these should be obvious).

My older bro's friends got me into The Meters, James Brown, etc. Dirty, sharp, dry, snappy funk was the order of the day, not smooth or polished. They also played me 70s fusion such as Miles Davis' electric albums and Mahavishnu, which to me despite its excesses is some of the boldest and most imaginative music ever.

My first tastes of hip hop were Run DMC, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill, but the Beastie Boys album Check Your Head was the big revelation for me - it had everything I wanted to hear.

Hearing Angelo Badalamenti's score for Twin Peaks got me paying more attention to cinematic music. This led me to the film soundtracks of Michael Nyman and Philip Glass, which in turn led me to a love of contemporary composition.

Come 96/97, the likes of Chemical Brothers, Propellorheads and Fatboy Slim (come on, y'all loved it back then) drew me to dance music, as they mostly used breakbeats instead of doof beats, which I hated at the time. I first heard Roni Size Newforms around this time, too. But there weren't no d&b to be found until I moved back to the big city in late 2000.

The rest is history, though I keep discovering new and different sounds all the time. I hope it never stops.

Rob M · Post by **Rob M** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:58 am

The year was 1993. It was a cold winters morning one Sunday. Mum and I drove down to the Lions Club Camberwell boot sale market. There was an Anglo-African dude with a boombox blaring music I had otherwise never heard before, and seemed to awe and inspire me as I was walking through the stalls with mum.

The dude had about 20 assorted 'dubbed' TDK tapes strewn across a rickety poker table that looked like it could easily collapse from the sheer weight of his boombox -- There was artwork on each mixtape that was seemingly created by the guy selling the tapes with a cartoon-like dog sitting next to a flower and a thought bubble coming from the dogs head.

The thought bubble said "Jungle"...

So I parted my $20 pocket money which was absolutely ridicuolous at that time for a 13 year old; considering I was going to buy that latest Nintendo Australia magazine and E3 Magazine (which was on import) at the time from a nearby newsagency. But my urge to have this tape playing in my very own SHARP portable (lame) stereo player was undeniable.

The rest was history, and I still have the tape to this day in mint condition.

Btw, the tape had "Scottie" (dubplate at the time), and I soon later found out it was a mix recorded off a pirate radio station in UK. The DJ was DJ L and he mc'ed over his own tracks. It was pure jungle tracks as it was when it was in full swing over in UK, and this was my first experience to the sound that would forever sway me in my future choice of music admiration.

I started out like this.

80's > Technotronic (And other Euro/dance) > Hip Hop (Ice Cube, NWA, Arrested Development) > RnB > Jungle > D'n'B > Downtempo > Eclectic

So i've been through the whole gamet now, and i love everything. The only thing i haven't found a fondness for is thrash metal and the like...But I was never going to except inchorent ramblings of an insane band anyway. I've been 'intelligent' all the way

Oh and don't get my wrong, I still like rock and metal. Listening to Filter, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Gunners...it's all been good. And it's always nice to go back to what you loved when you were younger

But D'n'B in all forms still owns me and I wouldn't have it any other way. So that's my story, and i'm sure it's possibly the most influential event that ever happend to me in my life and look back on it fondly.

Long live jungle!

Zerotonine · Post by **Zerotonine** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:58 am

Yeah, I find it hard to find a link between all my varying tastes. Currently I like (in terms of dance music) Breaks mostly, Progressive, liquid DnB, slower less bangin' trance cousins, and house (not handbag!). My love of electronic sounds of course was sparked by breakthrough bands such as the Shamen, Pop Will Eat Istelf, Jesus Jones, Depeche Mode, New Order, Ministry, Fear Factory and most importantly Nine Inch Nails. Then after that, Crystal Method, Apollo Four Forty, Prodigy, Junkie XL, Arkana, Lofidelty allstars.

Then for some godawful reason, only by association, and subsequently get dragged into the hard dance/trance stuff. I never really liked it, but hey, my friends at the time were into it, so I was a little sheepish in that respect. But secretly I was listening to Stabbing Westward and VAST

Got burned out by the scene and returned almost 9 months later to go see JXL play at Room. And since being a fan of his since 96-97, I just had to see him. After hooking up with a bunch of the best people I know, and are still friends with to this day, they introduced me to a wide range of stuff...and most importantly breakbeat. Also being a fan of old school hip hop, it was a natural progression really. My tastes are still varied, but at least I found a solid group to share it with!

ukime · Post by **ukime** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:37 pm

Random crap > Heavy Metal > Punk > Alternative > gabber (dont ask) > tekz > breakbeats.

I blame Teriakianakisaki for getting me into my tek, then I blame 33 1/3 for their awesome gigs back in the day for getting me into breakbeats. Can't really pinpoint it down to artists and tracks - it's been one hell of a journey

sweetcheeks · Post by **sweetcheeks** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:54 pm

ukime wrote:Random crap > Heavy Metal > Punk > Alternative > gabber (dont ask)

the gabber phase was funny. i still have a great picture of you in a trenchcoat and lots o mesh next to a massive motobike out the front of off ya tree

.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:45 pm

Underage "time" at metro.

Went to Ash's house and he had dlyers for raves, he was starting out at Big Bamboo. got into jungle.

Friends took me to Carl Cox at dome. (96?)
Went to Global Village and then docks for parties.

Went to parties every weekend for 2 years or so.
listening to mainly acid techno although loved my jungle still- sl2 and then goldie etc.
got into more big beat / breaks through perveyors at lounge.

Got a vouchure for HMV weekend before nye 98/99 and saw that a group called "freestylers" were playing at gig, so picked up album with vouchure to check it out. Was really going to party to see Derrick May i think.
Loved the album "we rock hard" so went in to check it out on night.

THey dropped a break version of "going to party like it is 1999" never looked back.

still listen to a broad range of electronic music from techno to downbeat, dub breaks, dnb and on and on...

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:07 pm

Mine were,

soul 2 soul-funky house-garage-dubstep-drum and bass

eskay · Post by **eskay** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:02 pm

Rough order:

random stuff (inluding a brief boy band stint

) > grunge > punk > alternative > folk > tek > dnb + breaks

Recently rediscovered classical - Handel, Mozart, Vivaldi etc (what mum brought me up on

)

TimmyG · Post by **TimmyG** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:27 am

The earliest stuff I can remember listening to that stood out to me was Kraftwerk and Eurythmics, which led to me getting into indy/alternative, which led to stuff like NIN, Frontline Assembly and Prodigy, which led to Bukem, CJ Boland, Jeff Mills & the like. And then, I saw Dom & Roland play live. End of story.

Ag3nT[]0raNg3 · Post by **Ag3nT[]0raNg3** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:40 am

80's metal and rock, Iron Maiden, Rush, Van Halen > not so 80's metal > then a whole heap of different music at once while i was at boarding school.
Stone temple pilots, pearl jam, RATM (i rinsed my Evil Empire CD literally to death). more metal, Metallica, Pantera, Sepultura and so on. Ben Harper, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, NIN, Faith No More, Bungle, Aphex Twin, heaps of Jazz, Herbie, Miles Davis, Coltrane. bit of a Funk stage too, George Clinton, Bootsie etc. and oh so much more.

heard an early Bukem & Conrad set from around 96/97ish so then it was dnb.

now into all things dnb but i doubt hardly any of the dnb i like would even have been played by any of the local DJ's, so most 'commercial' dancefloor/anthem stuff doesnt interest me in the slightest and im slowly but surely getting sick of it all.

been listening to lots of IDM/glitch, Downtempo, Dub/Reggae and Psy lately. Aphex, Squarepusher, edIT, L'usine, Bola, Boards of Canada, Talvin Singh, Polska, Autechre, Freq, Sun Control Species, Sensient, Julian fane, Son Kite etc.

Breaks has to be minimal, dark and evil otherwise it seems to bore me to tears.

thats my story.

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:58 am

Doc Scott @ Groovetherapy Hi Fi Bar 1999...

Before that was Stone Temple ^^^, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.

JulesPLees · Post by **JulesPLees** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:44 am

Same as Dabedo - Time @ the metro, discovered so much, about women and music :p

Turned 18, wasted a year or 2 at Tatoo, then discovered proper like dance music. My tastes tend to change with the wind a bit (to my detriment sometimes I think).

Post by **lucas** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:58 am

Hrm. Chronologically it went something like this:

Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea
Sebadoh - Careful
Dom & Roland - Killa Bullet @ Groove Therapy (11? - DJ Bailey)
Unkle - Unreal
Space Manoeuvres - Stage One
Prince Quick Mix - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Phil K vs NuBreed Pass)

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:01 pm

JulesPLees wrote:Same as Dabedo - Time @ the metro, discovered so much, about women and music :p

(note Dboy=Dabedo)

Time was funny shit- stussy pants and shirts...!!! Cross Colours!
Inner Circle/ Warren G/ Westies/ EYC/ house of pain/ 2unlimited/ ebenezza good/ and so on.

shepherd · Post by **shepherd** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:15 pm

RIP time - don't think it's going to be reborn.

for me i got into hiphop around 89 cos a guy who lived across the road had tapes of PE, Run DMC and KRS 1 from around that time ... pretty much listened to NWA, LL Cool J and the above stuff for the next few years ... would also tape stuff off RRR and PBS and try and work out who the artists were.

got into dance music around 96 when i started uni ... had a friend who was right into the stuff on warp as well as some techno and drum&bass. Started going to Groove Therapy parties and really liked drum&bass ... still kept buying hip hop and then fell into breaks around the bigbeat stage which I was and still am into.

Post by **lynt** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:20 pm

lucas_chan wrote:Space Manoeuvres - Stage One

you still play that every week. TUNE TUNE TUNE!

Post by **lucas** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:24 pm

It changed my life.

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:56 pm

lucas_chan wrote: Dom & Roland - Killa Bullet @ Groove Therapy (11? - DJ Bailey)

Was that @ Tattoo? If so what a fucking gig!

Post by **lucas** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:05 pm

Fents wrote:
lucas_chan wrote: Dom & Roland - Killa Bullet @ Groove Therapy (11? - DJ Bailey)
Was that @ Tattoo? If so what a fucking gig!

That's the one. =)

shepherd · Post by **shepherd** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:31 pm

that show was fucking CRAZY!

GT peaked around then ... i think Doggs did that party with Steve ... Motive?

Post by **lucas** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:47 pm

shepherd wrote:that show was fucking CRAZY!

GT peaked around then ... i think Doggs did that party with Steve ... Motive?

Yeah, it was pretty mental. The first party I ever went to.

I'd just moved to Melbourne and didn't really have any friends. I'm lucky that my work colleagues had such good taste in music and were kind enough to invite me out. =)

quick · Post by **quick** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:50 pm

Old skool rave - Happy Hard - Jungle - Loxy@Fire&Ice99(perth) - BC@Inside the machine release party (perth) - DnB4evaw00ties!!!!!

Ag3nT[]0raNg3 · Post by **Ag3nT[]0raNg3** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:51 pm

quick wrote:Loxy@Fire&Ice99(perth)

wicked set!

TimmyG · Post by **TimmyG** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:07 pm

lucas_chan wrote: Space Manoeuvres - Stage One
Prince Quick Mix - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Phil K vs NuBreed Pass)

2 Extremely influential tracks in my life too. I dig yer taste

quick · Post by **quick** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:15 pm

Classic tracks that shaped my music path...

Wonderful Days - Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo
4am - Orca
Valley of the Shadows - Origin Unknown

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:20 pm

one difinitive track that changed my taste?
SL2 - On a Ragga Tip

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:03 pm

Went from soundgarden/nirvana=>metallica=>punk rock=>punk rock/nrg=>punk rock/dnb/hiphop.

scotty woo hoo · Post by **scotty woo hoo** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:47 pm

Hatsudai wrote:
I got into d and b in 96 after being handed a tape of SS playing at a rave that year in Melbourne (can't think of the name now but I'm sure many on the board know which one I'm talking about). I was pretty hooked straight away. Incidentally some bugger nicked that tape along with a bunch of other wicked tapes I had from my painting studio in 2000- BASTARD!!!

groove therapy with mc warren g. wikid oldskool biz

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:59 pm

scotty woo hoo wrote:
Hatsudai wrote:
I got into d and b in 96 after being handed a tape of SS playing at a rave that year in Melbourne (can't think of the name now but I'm sure many on the board know which one I'm talking about). I was pretty hooked straight away. Incidentally some bugger nicked that tape along with a bunch of other wicked tapes I had from my painting studio in 2000- BASTARD!!!
groove therapy with mc warren g. wikid oldskool biz

possibly best party ever... The POW decided to close at 6.30am and SS was still on the decks and Warren G on the MIC for memory they had to pull the power on SS cause he wouldnt stop.

Those were the days!

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:17 pm

What got me going was Kylie Minogue "Lucky" and... hahaha just kidding

What was hugely fundamental in leading me to basslines was Salt n Pepper more specifically Push It - i lost it that day i heard that song and i never turned back, it still gets me going to this day without fail! Fuck i love that track. Simple yet affective!

A part from them i guess i was a music slut and liked anything, and i mean pretty anything that came on the radio. I hated a lot too but unfortunately i have this annoying ability to remember the words to lots of songs, ones i don't even remember but will sing along with it when it comes on. Weird

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:19 am

lynt wrote: D&B -> Breaks.

Interesting. I'm the same but can't say I know many people who go from DnB to breaks.

Seems to be the other way mostly.

Post by **lucas** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:25 am

lynt wrote: D&B -> Breaks.

Me too.

I'm not sure we're such a rare breed, jbs. =)

Post by **lynt** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:30 am

Aye,

My girlfriend at the time was into liquid D&B ... we went out often to check it all, but it was breakbeat that really caught my ear.

Bless Ransom, Khalil, Brewster, Phil K and Laidback!

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:39 am

lucas_chan wrote:
lynt wrote: D&B -> Breaks.
Me too.

I'm not sure we're such a rare breed, jbs. =)

Maybe I'm just surrounded by the Fitzroy Kiwi Junglist Massive

Trailer_trash · Post by **Trailer_trash** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:43 pm

why is everyone not from melbourne???...who on here was actually born in melb???

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:30 pm

Trailer_trash wrote:why is everyone not from melbourne???...who on here was actually born in melb???

me.....

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:30 pm

Trailer_trash wrote:why is everyone not from melbourne???...who on here was actually born in melb???

me.....

Post by **lynt** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:32 pm

not me

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:38 pm

born here, lives here, loves here.

killeye · Post by **killeye** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:12 pm

born & bred melbs!

as for my own "musical journey"..indie fan at heart, Brit indie(!) verve, oasis, stone roses (etc etc..) kinda just listened around, my tastes kinda evolved in cirlces, eg) had a listen to the chemical bros cos Noel Gallagher sung setting sun, got into UNKLE cos Richard Ashcroft was singing on one of the tracks....I gotta say sibling influence played a MAJOR role in it too!!