What music were you into before you got into EDM?

[Genesis]

Right, the only music I listened to was the one that you find on TV. So naturally, I watched clips and listened to whatever they sang. I was 12. I wasn't a listener really, it was there on TV and I just watched. So yea, I lost my musical virginity at 12.

I remember Dr. Alban, his song Look Who's Talking was the first song I ever listened to. Then Sash! made a breakthrough to the Lebanese TV and Ecuador was everywhere on TV (except TeleLiban since the government abandoned them - all their programmes were Elie Kirbej and black & white stuff that brought memories back from my mum's childhood - of course, it meant nothing to me).

Up next came Fatboy Slim, Flying Steps, Bomfunk MCs and I wanted to be a breakdancer. I gave up trying to be one when my boot flew out to smash my mate's vase in the hall of his house (he was my mentor... ihm) I shall breakdance no more.

Discovering trance was a pure accident: no friend begging me to try his music, no CD appearing divinely in my lap, and no one I knew listened to any interesting non-mainstream music to begin with.

It was 2000 or 2001 (I don't remember exactly). I finished work and got back home. I got bored so I decided to take my bicycle for a spin. I never been to downtown Beirut before that day. I knew how to get there (follow the traffic, then follow the lights... it's strange how I never got molested or kidnapped when armed with such Jurassic-style directions).

Anyway, I got to downtown. Roads were closed, and a huge set up was installed. Music was booming out... loud fast music... I can see Virgin Megastore behind all that. I didn't know what was going on until I asked an old man sitting at the road side on a chair.

''Young people's music'' he responded.

I stuck around. I loved it. It was trance. They were having a trance party in the middle of Martyr's Square. And it was only starting: it was 09-ish.
It got harder, louder, and more people came in. I just stood there looking. They were dancing and I thought they looked funny. But I enjoyed the music and that was enough to begin with. I wanted to stay, but I still had to cycle back home (took about 45 mins... without me losing the way) and face an angry dad that didn't know where I was.

From what I listened to (and managed to ID about 3 months later) was:

Members of Mayday - 10 in 01
Ramirez - La Musika Tremenda (Yves Deruyter Remix)
Fifth Entity - Melody of Consolation
Yves Deruyter - Rythmic Bazz
Signum - First Strike

But ultimately, it was the tune I'll never forget, the one that changed my life, and that turned me inside out:





I got addicted to a music store that had so many CDs that you simply can't find anywhere else easily. In the space of a year: I bought over 130 CDs. Mainly Trance. Then I moved on to Progressive Trance, then Progressive House (while staying faithful to Trance), then came another 180 degree detour in my musical journey:

Faithless - God is a DJ (Astral Projection Remix)

Enter Psytrance.

So it goes like that -

1984 - Birth
1995 - Lost musical virginity to Dr. Alban --> Till 1998: Whatever was on TV.
1998 to 2000 - Breakbeats, bit of Electro: Fatboy Slim, Bomfunk MCs...
2000 - TRANCE: Olive Inc - Into the Sun (Liquid Child Remix) (all trance names from here on)
2002 - Progressive: Sasha + Digweed (whatever they did was worth a listen) Seb Fontaine. Then I started to like Chicane as well.
2003 - PSYTRANCE: Faithless - God is a DJ (Astral Projection Remix)

Then on the 7th day he rested.....

[DIONYSOS]

[Radima]

at th age of 10..i begann listening to punk rock (sum 41 , blink 182, good charlotte...)...after 1 year..i turned to metal & soft melodic rock ( Iron maiden , gun's N roses...etc (btw i still love them)) at the age of 13...my brother was always listening to edm..especially to trance...so i got intrested 7 started to lidten to EDM ALL THe WAY since 13 hehe(house & trance) now my favorite music is progressive (house & trance:P)

[Proof]

From what I remember, the chain went like:

Classical Eg: (can't remember)
-> Pop Eg: Micheal Jackson
-> Hip hop. Eg: Nas, Dre & Cypress Hill
-> Electronic B'beat. Eg: Prodigy, Daft Punk.
-> Rock. Sum 41, Limp Bizket, Linkin Park & The Offspring
-> Electronic Dance Music:
==-> Trance
==-> Progressive Trance
==-> Progressive House
==-> House
==-> Progressive House

=)

[Genesis]

Well Dion, whomever Pico is; that party was something and I really hope
they are still in the business as they seem to know what they were doing.

Good memory of that night... Goooood memory...

[tareknaj]

[ram12]

i was into guns and roses,metalica,iron maiden....when i turned 13 i started to listen to trance ( i didn't like house).It's till now that i started to like house music

[Nesta]

ROCK !!!

Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Lou Reed, Doors, Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Queen ...

[Deema]