Rave music & what you love

[Gost]

Infected Mushroom - Classic Mushroom album.

Accidentally found it in the pop section at A&B sound. Also speed garage kept me searching for that sound for years, ended up buying a microkorg synth so I could play the bass as much as I felt.

They are playing in Vancouver on July 4 from 8pm-midnight at the commodore.

[just.b.cous*]

Man I totally feel OLD reading most of y'all's responses on which tracks got you INTO the 'rave scene' (late 90's to quite recently - no offense implied, you all know your music)... Just that by that time, Physically and mentally, I was already 'educated' on the substances (myself as the subject, heh) and paraphernalia that were introduced to me through this "scene" in the late 80's - early 90's. HAHOHAH!! I mean, I remember Hashish and listening to Time Syndicate's "Rock Wit Me" & Free Bass's "Spliffed + Chillin' " on a cassette tape, I THINK that was 1990, maybe '89,,, HEH.... It gets me thinking... when DID the rave scene begin? Would I be considered a 'Pioneer' of the 'scene'? or simply a music lover? Hmmm..

[ebbomega]

Heh. Frosty to thread.

[MONEY]

Faithless- Insomnia

[Grapes]

First couple of parties I went to, I was pretty much just falling in love with the drugs. It wasn't until Interstellar Overdrive at Plaza in late 99?.. early 2000?.. that I found a breaks room and thought "Hey... I actually like this music!".. What a concept.

Learned to appreciate a lot of other genres along the way but it all comes back to the funky break for me.

Originally Posted by MONEY

Faithless- Insomnia

I would of thought some lyrics along the lines of "gold digger" would of got you into it?

[Clayton.]

Originally Posted by Grapes

First couple of parties I went to, I was pretty much just falling in love with the drugs. It wasn't until Interstellar Overdrive at Plaza in late 99?.. early 2000?.. that I found a breaks room and thought "Hey... I actually like this music!".. What a concept.

Learned to appreciate a lot of other genres along the way but it all comes back to the funky break for me.

I had a similar experience.

Started off being into the drugs and the Hard House(because i was on drugs) then at Pumpin at Plaza in September 2000 i was sitting outside the breaks room and could hear Rick West come on. That really got me into the breaks.

A short while later i heard Pressure's funky house CD and i've loved house ever since.

Good times, good music.

[SEAN!]

drum and bass before i even knew what it was, i.e. goldie's saturn returns album

[SEAN!]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Heh. Frosty to thread.

or chugster that guy has been around forever

[Clayton.]

Originally Posted by SEAN!

drum and bass before i even knew what it was, i.e. goldie's saturn returns album

The differances between the genres were foggy for me in the beginning to but i knew i loved that strange music played by Freaky Flow, Dieselboy, Aphrodite, and anything from the Moving Shadow label.

Thus began my love of Drum&Bass/Jungle stronger then ever 9 years later.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by SEAN!

or chugster that guy has been around forever

Except for the fact that he hasn't been involved in the scene for years.

Frosty still goes out on the regular.

[Courtney]

the first time i heard drum n bass i fell so in love with it it was like nothing ide ever heard before? but after my first few raves i thought trance was the only music and i was so high i didnt realize..it took me a few go's for sure

[oxide]

I remember when I first heard squarepusher on much...

[dangamouse]

Early Breakbeat Hardcore & Jungle

likes of ..
Suburban Base Records
Ganja Kru
Strictly Underground Recordings
Slammin Vinyl
Knight Force Records

First heard this style of music on underground mix tapes me & my friends would pass around in school. (seems so long ago now)


Also Scotish & Dutch Happy Hardcore/Bouncy Techno :-D

Likes of ..
Scott Brown
Marc Smith
The Night Raver
Dj Paul Elstak
Bass Generator
Q-Tex
Rythmic State
Dye Whitness

Just about every UK & international act in that scene came through my home town in Scotland between 94 & 97 at a rave called Sub Bass ( ah memories)

[**TORMENT**]

meh, I might not qualify here, i was never a 'raver'.. well, almost, but then I snapped out of it. ha.

Musically?

I'd say Public Enemy / Bomb Squad & earliest Meat Beat Manifesto for the initial kick. From one example to the other, its was all attitude, politics vs "art", noise, industrial hip-hop crossovers, a lopsided punk rock snear, and breakbeats. Gold really.

Dj-wise, I was originally into Detroit techno - banging, minimal to the soulful, and the early 90's ambient stuff. Atmosphere has always been very important. Rising High Records anyone? This is where I learned that.

I've always liked House music, in specific guises, but didnt' sink my teeth into it much dj-wise. I was a big fan of the Dj Pierre "Wild Pitch" thing, Felix the Housecat's earliest stuff, Dj Sneak, Dj Skull - the Djax Upbeats tracky style. I had all the records, but didn't apply myself.

And then Jungle happened. ha. End of story.

[Dr. Doom]

YouTube - Atari Teenage Riot - Revolution Action (Banned Version)

Doom saw this on much music late one night and was hooked.


and this to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogTWQSLuX9s