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	The New Rave Order :: View topic - So what did YOU discover first, the parties or the music? Just curious as to how many of you discovered electronic music by going to your first rave, or discovered raves by discovering electronic music. oh and by electronic music I mean the stuff that's usually played at raves, not the fat boy slim, moby or other MTV stuff so Chicken or the egg? Tell your story


	The music of course. Thats why im still here after six years.


	^ yes same here.. The music led me to the parties.. And has kept me coming back


	Tell your story!! when did you first hear? what genres became your favorite? what artists/producers? since real underground music is pretty much never on the public radio or music channels how did you discover it?


	I found some underground radio station one day by chance many a year back (in good ol' high school), and they were playing "tekno" of some sort... I was like, WOW WHAT IS THIS?! Hahaha, and my younger brother said, "Ewww, it's tekno! This is so stupid, change the station!!!"... (which is funny 'cuz now he loves it 'n comes 2 parties with me sometimes) And I've been hooked ever since, hehe!!!... Oh, and DJ Tiesto was my first true love


	For me it was honestly the party and the atmosphere. I didn't know anything about the music, who madeit, how it was made, where it came from, or anything about rave culture. I was just really bored on a summer night without anything to do. I saw a small advertisement in the news paper for an event called "Awareness" in Salem NH. They weren't calling it a rave due to the stigma of drugs, but it was a 'celebration of electronic music' while there were tables for the Green Party, Libertariansts, other environmental groups, Dancesafe, etc. I couldn't convince any of my friends to go to a "rave".. So in my curiosity I drove out by myself without a clue as what to expect. It was at this giant ice arena in Salem and all I know is that Electric Skychurch was there.. Based on what I know now about them. The experience of the vibe was really neat... It was something I couldn't get from going to punk shows and concerts. I was hooked from that point on and read and learned everything I could find about 'raves'. My appreciation and learning about the music and everything tech came after that. I was big into jungle and drum and bass when I first started going to parties. It wasn't the typical "BOOM BOOM BOOM" sound that I wasn't so fond of when I first got into electronic music. But I got more into house and techno shortly after. Now I'm more into (happy) hardcore, NRG, and the hardstyle.


	My friends were heavy into the music and partying, but i was never or even wanted to go out be4 then out of no where i fell in love with the music and all its wonderous sounds.... Started clubbing which eventually led me into the rave scene... And here i am today


	Quote: : not the fat boy slim, moby Both of them have played at raves since the beginning... Moby wrote some of the biggest rave tracks ever put out...Go, Next is the E, Drug Fits the Face, etc...He has not spun recently but he is one of the NYC originators... Fat Boy Slim (Norman Cook) is very similar in the UK...he has worked on many projects and has been active in playing/producing in the rave scene for 10+ years... Groups like the Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Underworld, Orbital, all started out playing raves...and many still do now (just not in this country). They have all always been a major part of the rave scene... Industrial was also a major part of early raves...Meat Beat Manifesto, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Front Line Assembly... ambient was the same way...Groups like the Orb, FSOL, Space Time Continuum, etc have been playing at raves since the early 90's event he late 80's. There is no reason to discount any of these....they have all been around doing this at raves longer than mose people here have been going to raves... Tom


	For me it was the music...I started listening to chillout such as The Orb, FSOL, Pete Namlook, Coldcut, Kruder and Dorfmeister, DJ Krush, then I later got into Moby, Lords of Acid, Orbital, etc. Before I had ever gone to a rave I already owned a good number of mix CD's including Josh Winks "United DJs of America", a few from Keoki, a few from plastikman (Live obviously), and more... Tom


	Moby,Fatboy Slim, and some mtv stuff should be considered w/ the rest of electronic dance music.Just because some of the stuff they get radio/mtv play doesn't mean it doesn't fit into the EDM catergory. I have heard Moby, Dj Rap, and other dj's TEAR shit up at parties playing different shit than their commercial music. They started in this scene, ya know. I personally got into the scene listening to electronic dance music. My love for it can go back as far as early 90's dance music my mother had listened to. As I got older, I came across Dee Lite,Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, and more. Then I had seen my first rave on a tv special. I think I was like 14. I thought wow thats soooo cool!!! I was a freshman in highschool at that point and had seen other students that raved(little did I know they raved, I thought they were skater chicks)My sophmore year, I was brought to my first ever rave which was a night at the muni. Back then friday nights were called Realizations. I was hooked onto it since then. I liked the music, the ppl, going to different places/venues, and the lil adventures I always seemed to get in.


	All I have to say is... Alice DeeJay...yeah thats right hahaha The music definetely came first, probably about 2 years before I ever went to a party. My friends use to listen to stuff like Alice DeeJay and ATB. I was originally hooked by early Crystal Method, espescially when Vegas came out. Even before that I was listening to stuf like Lords of Acid and Prodigy. The first "underground techno" CD I bought was Djmixed.com/Micro. Needless to say I fell in ove with that mix. It had all the greats of the time on it. DJ Tomac-Emotions, Tall Paul-Freebase, Scot Project-Future, Nick Sentience-Digital Dialogue, Goryella-Vimana(which was one of my favorites,not knowing it was Fery Corsten and Tiesto at the time), Paul Van Dyk-Tell Me Why(who became my favorite DJ), The Cleveland Lounge-Drowning, Joshua Ryan-Thunderclap,and BT-Dreaming all classics now. Yeah this made me a Micro fanatic until I learned there was more out there. I still eneded up spinning trance though. Thanks Mike


	Well, Id say I met both around the same time.. Being that I have an older brother who spins I was a young boy around 14 or 15 being snuck into Tunnel and Limelight way back in the day.. (Anyone remember Kurfew?) Those were the good ole' days.. Haha, But in actuality I guess itd be parties first.. I mean, I was going to parties without even knowing I was going to parties.. Being from Europe I was already hooked on hardcore tekno music since i heard it there long ago.. I know this is kinda back and forth between parties and the music first so I'm not really sure which one it would be.. I put down parties but its really around the same time for both..


	Definitely the music. I started listening to electonic music (mostly mainstream) when I was about 12. Then when I hit around 15 I found an underage club and started goin Soon after I wanted to go to raves.... But my paranoid parents would have found out.... So I had to wait... Till I was 17. That was a long two years lemme tell ya. So for a long time I was mostly into just trance and house. They are still my favorite by far. Although I have become a lot pickier in my taste in these genres. I never started really hearing drum n bass and jungle until I started raving tho.... And now I love that too... And hardcore.... Mmm... I found out about happy hardcore from a friend. Thats when I REALLY wanted to go to raves. I had one friend who was a raver and he played me some good stuff that he told me i would probably only hear at raves, including the hhc (although the NE scene doesn't have much). I don't remember who or what it was as i was 15 at the time.... But that made me want to go even more. But I still sometimes like going clubbing over raving... Especially the gay clubs in Boston. I know they play cheesy music but its a great way to just have fun with your friends! Plus I have not yet met a gay man who can't dance well.... Wow I got off topic.... O well...


	Ok here is the Story how i got into the music When i was liek 13 or so years old i lived in East haddam out in the woods went to school in middletown CT no one lived near me and i could not get out at night being the Dork that i am i had my basement set up with my Model Train set/Ham radio rooom. I used to play the radio and listen to the 95.7 to the dance music while workin on the model train late nigth on fridays and sat one night i ws bored with the regular stuff on there so u tuned down the Dial to 88.1 FM and found the Ware house with Mike NYCE and i was liek who this stuff is sick and i always was a hip-hop,dance music fan and it was great then he would talk about partys and stuff i was like humm i am not 18 yet i can not go so i was liek cool then when i was 18 got my drivers licence i met up with some kids at the cofffe shop in middletown town they went to pary and i was liek humm maybe i might go and i did and i loved it for me it has always bine about music and dacning never abotu drugs


	Tha music 1st. It waz either Eon - Void Dweller, with tha "Fear, it haz no beginning, no end" , that tape waz awesome I thought, & I taped some stuff off a college station 1 night. I still have it, its got some classics, like "Mr. Kirk, your son iz dead" & this weird mix that haz "A Clockwork Orange" samplez in it. I didn't go to my 1st rave until like 4 or 5 yearz later.


	I first got exposed to techno when I was at Club Exit (NYC) the night of my high school prom (May 2001). Most of my friends went to and stayed in the hip-hop room, but one random crazy guy who happened to be in our limo took me for a tour. I was most intrigued by the main room because of its enormous size--not to mention all the lights that people were spinning and waving around like whoa. It was as if the whole floor was one living, breathing organism. The only thing I didn't like about it was the generally bad attitude that people carried around. Of course, from that caveat you could probably figure out why I grew to love raves so much. Going to the parties got me more interested in the DJs and the different types of music they played...and, of course, eventually sucked me into the DJ culture as well. :-)


	Was huge into aphex twin around the age of 13 and 14 and discovered drum and bass shortly after. Didn't start partying until I was 18.


	My ex kinda got me into the music.... When i was about 15 or 16. he used to listen to alot of different stuff, and to this day i dont know who it was he listened to, ive never heard it again and i hate him now so i wouldent ask him. he also brought me to the muni around that same time.. And i friggin hated it. I felt so outta place and just didnt know what to do with myself. I didnt know what to expect so i just sat around and was bored. the first partie i went to and liked was YGM. And then electrolicity at the muni, and ever since then ive been partyin every weekend pretty much


	I would have to say the music my first party was YGM2 it was during Miss Lisa's set that I just feel inlove plus most of the night i was sitten' on Bliss's lap and he wrote bliss owns me on my arm the next day my mom is like "who is bliss and why does he own you"..my answer "cuz he wanted to"..haha ok thats my story


	Quote: : oh and by electronic music I mean the stuff that's usually played at raves, not the fat boy slim, moby or other MTV stuff well speaking of MTV i remember I used to be a real insomniac in 7th or 8th grade (still am actually lol) and they used to have that show AMP on real late at night with all the crazy liquid looking videos and they played electronica... That combined with a childhood love for hitting the "demo" button on the casio keyboard, 80s music, listening to KTU, and going to teen nites at this local club in 10th grade -- that summer after which I discovered what "techno" and "house" were.... Not to mention Prodigy's Firestarter & Smack my Bitch Up & I discovered Jungle by accident when trying to look up former ska band Spring Heeled Jack and found Spring HEEL jack instead... around that time I first heard the word "rave" and "raving" and it basically referred to liquiding/playing with glowsticks... Then i read an article in Teen People about raves and they seemed like a lot of fun... Then there was the rave scene in that old 90210 episode, and also in the movie GO! Finally, my friend started going around the fall of 2000, and I wanted to go to but I didnt know where they were and she'd always ask me at the last minute to come & i knew i would'nt have enough time to clear it with my parents... Plus she wanted me to go to places like BROOKLYN and JAMAICA QUEENS!!! (scary to me then but not so much now) so finally, after she went to I have a Dream 3, she had all these flyers on her floor & one was for US-Raves, so I logged on, found the info for Countdown 2001 which I thought would be feasible to go to since it was close and in the Bronx, we rounded up a bunch of people, drove down, paid off the bouncers to let us in (the line was around the block 3 times for those who've been to the key skate you know how long the blocks are) and as soon as they took my ticket and i looked inside, i knew it was meant to be Then I started to do some research to find more parties and the different kinds of music (i used to HATE jungle & drum & bass! But after spending a nite in the grand ballroom at IHAD 4 i had a new respect for it) oh, and the first DJ I ever knew of was Venom

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