How did you get into 'dance' music?

my love for hard house and especially l
isa lashes started through her free
mix mag summer bangers cd in about ...2004 if im correct

still got that cd, quality

9pm til I cum got to number one, saw it on adverts for trance nation and gatecrasher wet, bought them, loved them and still got them lol

oh aye and i pinched a gatecrasher wet (i think, it was blue anyways) first time i heard synaethesia

Listening to my sisters Prodigy, Capella & 2Unlimited tapes when I was about 9 or 10 then moving onto those rave tapes that you could buy from the quayside market with a few Bonkers albums & Scooter singles thrown in as well

haha i had bonkers 3 like.. one of me mates was listning to loads of that happy hardcore stuff so i lent some off him..then got a cream tape wen i was bout 13..bought a few nucleuz hard house mix cd's..then started buyin mixmag n essentail selection cd's with easter eggs n shit on the front n tapin the essential mix and listnin to more housey stuff. didnt go out ravin much except for the odd sugarshack but that was wen it had started to get shit...started getttin wrecked more n moved to newcastle which is a lot better!:groovy:

i used to listen to a show on a friday night, it's now sun fm but sure it had a different name back then(89/90) it was a cracking show with loads of underground rave stuff
then i used to listen to
liquid sweet harmony, sl2 raga tip, hew pew barny megru cuthbert dibble and grub(well some thing along them lines) shamen ebennezer gud then i then started going to the judgment days at the uni i was aged 15 went till they finished

i also liked the old collesseum tapes and rez tapes also the old fubar tapes then i found a tape at a roadside once and it was a gatecrasher tape which really got me in to trance/and bits of hard house then got sick of that now i like techno/ house/tech house/electro well anything really that tickles my ear drums

Ecstasy!

Some of those were quality.
I used to buy them

Borrowed my mates brothers Trance Nation CD that I heard him playing and liked then bought Clubbers Guide to Ibiza and Clubbers Guide to Trance 99 and fell in love with the T. Then my mates dad started driving the buses down to Crasher so got a free ride and ticket when I was 16 to see what the fuss was all about. Amazed was an understatement. Met John (Geordie) on the bus and started going to Promise with him. The rests history really.

That is a quality cd, its got diving faces on it

Guess it probably started with a Music for the Jilted generation cd, or a faithless tape i guess..

dance has gone shite these days in comparison

That was what got me back into it properly, loved it from being 15-17 than started drinking round town as ya do then when I was 19 had my first pill lol

I used to like the stuff that was in the charts in the early 90s- KLF/ Shaman/ Prodigy etc but I was a tad young to go clubbing then!

I liked trance when it was huge and stuff like Silence and Airwave was in the charts but didnt realise it was called "trance"- I dunno what I thought it was.

Got into clubbing when my friend randomly invited me to go to Godskitchen with her. It was my birthday so I thought, why not, and have never looked back since

Ohh how we used to have some fkn quality weekends man

I first bought Trance Nation 1 and used to listen to Judge Jules religiously really, used to do owt to go and see him when he was up here and was itching to go to Gatecrasher tho me mates never wanted to go and i didnt until 2001 n then went shit loads from then till last year. I also used to go to Promise every week and i dare say its where i met most people off here bar me mates who i see all the time.

Happy Days.

respect to the man in the ice cream van

I got into hardcore when i was about 13/14 through a few mates from school, got some shitty belt drive decks for Xmas when i was 14 and for about 12 - 18 months started playing hardcore, going to the occasional Judgement Day at the Uni when i was 15/16 too.

Then when i was about 16 started listening to Judge Jules on a friday night on radio 1 and started getting into house & trance (commercial stuff at this stage) and went to see Jules at the Uni in 2000 i think, when i was 17.

Promise started around the same time and went for the 1st time the night after Jules @ the uni, Guy Ornadel was playing and rocked it.

Now 8 years on my taste has changed a bit though im still as into the music as i was back then, aside from not getting out as much or taking as many drugs

Aye i forgot to add about the hardcore influence and the Judgement Days at the Uni as well as listening to the After Dark and the Collaseum *sp and going to the Quay every Sunday for 3 new tapes or going to Bass Generator and spending all me pocket money on one tape, i even remem Carl Cox being fkn quality hardcore DJ as well. After that it was when i started listening to Trance the likes of Jules, Dave Pearce, and PVD.

My first decks were Soundlab Belt Drives and some shocking mixer and then i bought a new mixer and then a full new Gemini setup followed by selling that and getting CDJ800's and a DJM500 and then CDJ1000 MK3's, of which i have nothing now

Id agree with Graham as well, for me personally i have totally lost touch and at one point used to be to far ahead tunes wise - owt new i would have owt brand new i would have and out due out i would have as well as all the classics, lately i just couldnt be arsed and will still always love Trance and go to the nights but found probably cos i dont smash me grid off every weekend and go out all the time am probably eventually just growing up.

Was a big fan of instrumental music and mostly dance music nowadays is instrumental.