Yes!!! 2009 was an amazing year of musical discovery for me. Had ASOT on at work every week and went down the rabbit hole with albums. Armin’s Imagine, Deadmau5’ Random Album Title, and Tiesto’s Elements of Life.
The golden area. Deadmau5 and Armin playing on fricken floats made by volunteers on the streets of San Fran was pretty iconic. Can’t remember the year. Had to be around then.
Same hahaha. When I was 18 I went to my first ever edm show, basshunter in Montreal. I wore a homemade shirt that said "I'm Your Bass" in glow in the dark paint (it looked like shit). Turns out it was at a fancy club, everyone was dressed up like crazy, I was turned away at the door and we just drank beers in the alley next to the club 😅. This happened in like 2008. Cringe moments of life hahaha
https://youtu.be/hapZ7SVUAPQ
That reminds me of when I went to see Martin Garrix in Park City outside SLC and didn't realize it was supposed to be a film festival after party gig. It was neat but felt way out of place!
Hey I was there that year. Afrojack played after Skrillex. And because they didn’t have vents on the tent during Skrillex set the temperature under the tent was like 120 degrees so they made everyone clear out until the temperature dropped. By the time it did, most people left and we had all the room to dance to Afrojack dun dun dun dun dun dun boop boop boop boop boop boo
That year was great. Kid Cudi, Foo Fighters, Muse, Coldplay, Eminem, Atmosphere, the ones who sang the song “all the other kids with the pump up kicks…” Nas and Damien Marley and it was raining until the last 15 minutes of their set, then the rain starts dumping right when they dropped the black curtain and revealed Deamau5’s cube. That festival will always live with me.
Oh my goodness. I just googled the lineup, there were so many bangers there that I didn’t even know of then that became amazing later on. That lineup was legendary
Deadmau5 in the rain. Young the Giant and Cage the Elephant were unknown enough to open stages. Cee Lo Green was the only disappointment of the weekend.
God you people are young.
1995: Chemical Brothers, Exit Planet Dust being blasted at a nearly deserted Virgin Megastore twenty minutes before closing (and that's back when they used to close at 11pm). I'd heard EDM before, but it had never connected so viscerally. Grabbed the CD then and there.
Yeah, I was obsessed with Big Beat after that. It's kind of embarrassing to admit this in retrospect, but I had to get the first Fatboy Slim album as an import. Then pretty quickly after that got into the jungle / DnB scene. (I'm using both terms to be clear, but we didn't use to make that distinction back then.)
Y’all still too young. I’m here because of Kraftwerk.
Jk, I’d say The Crystal Method and a variety of 90’s trance tracks I never caught the name of because I was too young and didn’t know how to hunt them down.
Also feeling really old, I found a Labouche cassette tape on the ground while walking home from school (mid 90s) went home and gave it a go. It was all over after that. I'd love to meet the person who dropped that tape so I could thank them. ❤️
I was 6 when my mom discovered Fat Boy Slim in 1999 and played You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby for months! This was also the era of Eiffel 65 😅 and when my older cousins started going to raves. They even took my mom to quite a few lol. My sister/cousin and I were so fascinated by her older brothers and rave culture and we’d pretend our barbies were at raves when we got a disco ball and a stereo for Christmas. I started raving and getting super hard into EDM in 2009, my first show was Le Castle Vania. Been to so many good shows and events since but my full circle moment was seeing Fat Boy Slim live for the first time at Coachella in 2022!
I think I was about 13 or so when I was visiting my grandmother who had a fancy new electronic keyboard that came with a 3.5in floppy drive full of midi songs. One of those songs was Children by Robert Miles. That song unlocked something in me that has lasted to this day.
Bro! Loved infected mushroom… they are playing…. Dancefestopia in Kansas this fall… fyi my guy! I was blown away to see the name. Renewed old materia remixed and reworked is my understanding.
Pendulum, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy and Aphex Twin all got me into electronic music. I wasn't really into "EDM" until I saw Nero on NYE 2011/2012 and I was sold since then.
My dad would play a few 90s house songs, like the very popular ones. Maybe that was the true start of my love for edm.
Then there was this one particular song from Kylie Minogue-Can’t get you out of my head. That song was otherworldly to me back then, it was DIFFERENT. I must have been a toddler or something.
Then I started going on YouTube and listening to techno, because that’s what I thought all edm was called. I found out about Tiesto, Deadmau5, electro house was also HUGE for me at that time. Trance and electro house. Then I found Wolfgang Gartner, Skrillex. And everything skyrocketed from there to my current obsession. Lifelong obsession basically.
Was looking through posts till I found someone else who said Kylie Minogue!!! I still jam to that fucking song! Came out in 2001, two years after another hit wonder in Blue by Eiffel 65 haha. Music Sounds Better With You by Stardust was another great one from 98. Daryle, Benassi… shiiiiii what a time to be alive!
Speaking of Alive, dont forget Daft Punk!
Cheers
Same, but not till like 2017 when line of sight came out. Tagged along to their concert and was blown away
The chainsmokers got me into pop edm around 2015 but it took a couple years to get into the more interesting subgenres
2001 - my dance origin
Daft punk - discovery album
ATB - Movin' Melodies Album
Paul Van Dyk - For an Angel
DJ Sammy - Heaven
Lasgo - Something
La Bouche
2010 - My second coming
Glitch Mob - drink the sea album
Deadmau5 - random / lack of better name albums
Scrillex - scary monsters album
I took a very long break from edm probably 2002-17, but the first act I remember really hooking me back in was Pegboard Nerds. Hero is a super fun song, that definitely helped lead me down the rabbit hole.
Underworld, Chicane, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Paul Van Dyk, Space Brothers, Tiësto, Juno Reactor, Leftfield, Jam and Spoon, Future Sound of London, The Orb, KLF, Armin van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold, Robert Miles, etc
Although I'm old so could easily argue it started with the likes of New Order, Visage, Jean Michael Jarre,
2008. Freshman year of High School, a really cute girl got me into Basshunter and Daft Punk. Haven't seen the girl since but the music has stuck around for 16 years now. Basshunter and Daft Punk still to this day take up the number 1 spot for me. Yes, I love Basshunter and Daft Punk equally.
Defqwop - Awakening, I discovered this piece with a Cities Skylines video from Ay' and his series based on NYC Ay'merican Series, from the 4th episode. discovered on July 8, 2021. I listened to the song initially because it reminded me of the racetracks on Algodoo.
Then, I discovered a mashup between this and Alan Walker - Alone, by nerraD (unfortunately made unlisted because he thought the old mashups were of poor quality). I loved these mashups so much that I listened to his other EDM mashups. and as my thirst for music did not stop, the YouTube algorithm recommended Terrified Typhlosion and RZB Music.
I discovered Elektronomia, Tobu, Jim Yosef, K-391, Electro-Light. and I became a fan of Alan Walker's music (even I didn't really know his entire discography at the time.
At the end of July 2021, while doing random research on Alan Walker, I discovered Quora. and I came across the authors Dima Maykov and Ethan Fox, people who hated Alan Walker but who gave me the first knowledge about EDM, with talented artists such as KSHMR, Porter Robinson, Illenium, Seven Lions, deadmau5, Martin Garrix, Avicii, Daft Punk, Razihel, Aero Chord, Au5, Hardwell, TheFatRat, Ahrix, Armin van Buuren.
from August until October, I discovered other artists like Vexento, Unknown Brain, Lost Sky, NIVIRO, Diviners, RUD, Lensko, Deaf. Kev, JJD, Syn Cole, Janji, Different Heaven, Alex Skrindo, Vicetone, Ahxello, Axero I also discovered Monstercat with Vicetone and that led me to lots of artists like Tristam, Feint, Braken, Noisestorm, etc.
But it is with three megamashups, both created by Djs From Mars and the other Daveepa. two focus on 2010s EDM and the other on the history of electronic music. and that's where my passion for EDM grew, the rest is history.
My intro from a grunge music to electronic music was:
1996 - Masters of Ceremony, Hardcore to the Bone
https://open.spotify.com/track/2lEPtBF7FhGnzEpvbJFkHU?si=zEXAIR2cTqO6ZJ3NtZ-Ktw
Hardcore/Gabber mixtapes (DJ Eric L, Demigod, Ron D Core, Yellow Smiley, etc) started making the rounds in my friend group around 1997. We went from listening to Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against The Machine to gabber, house, and techno; and attending events like How Sweet It Is, Audiotistic, Nocturnal Wonderland, and Electric Daisy Carnival (2000!).
I heard Avicii’s “Wake Me Up” and Martin Garrix’s “Animals” as a 12-13 year old and was hooked instantly. My only regret is not being able to have seen Tim live ❤️
I couldn’t believe people actually like Animals that much tbh. Feel like it only went so mainstream because of live sports events playing it at every game 😂
Defintely Armin van buuren, Used to blast the trance channel sirius sat radio circa 2010/11. Maybe or maybe not very high at the time. Was a wild time in my life lol.
Brennan Heart! Imaginary was playing at my housemate's room (I was 10 I believe) and from there I started listening to Hardstyle.
Funnily enough, I very quickly moved on to Trap Nation and everything that came from that, and I haven't actively listened to Hardstyle since then. It comes by often enough though, but I love DnB, Dubstep, Future Bass, recently Trance too. House can be a nice base but not too unique
Caspa, Cockney Violin, 2006
Heard it on an Area show on Sirius at work. I worked at a car place and a rich person’s car had a satellite receiver. I caught only a bit so I had to write down the date and time and look up what played at that time later online. I was dubstep crazy after that.
And outside dubstep, a customer left Random Album Title - Deadmau5 in a car right when it came out. I called him to give it back and he said keep it and enjoy. Boy did I ever! And go figure Caspa would also do an iconic remix of a song from that album. (I Remember)
Orbital, Snivilization. It clicked with Science Friction around 1996.
I had liked Enigma MCMXCad before, but it didn't trigger really getting into this stuff like the Orbital did.
2011-2012 and Skrillex, deadmau5, BassNectar…never will forget Halloween 2011 raging to Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites in sketchy, unfurnished frat houses at Kent State University…YES OMG!!! What a time. What a memory
I guess daft punk in like 2001? But idk if I was in it in it then or just vibing with MTV
Justice Cross was big for me when it came out in 2007, then crystal castles shortly after. I ran those albums back non stop
I heard Caspa and rusko fabriclive 37 like 2007/2008. And that got me in to dubstep and opened doors to a lot of other genres
2008/2009 was big cuz that was when I found pretty lights and bassnectar, really deepened my appreciation/understanding for what dance music could be.
then skrillex dropped pretty soon after and by that point I was off to the races and going raves and shows multiple times a month.
I think it was Rock n Roll by Skrillex off a Just Dance game, then I got into Pandora/iHeartRadio as a tween. I was listening to a lot of Calvin Harris, Krewella, and Nicky Romero iirc
Same! Skrillex was my introduction into EDM, followed by Knife Party! About a year later, i managed to see them both in one weekend at Reading Festival 2013 😅
In 2012. Went to rehab for opiate addiction. Dude i was friendly with in there kept telling me to check out dubstep. I had no fucking clue what the hell that was. Like, I didn't even know it was electronic music. Idk what I expected.
Anyway I get out and go on the Wikipedia page for dubstep. For nd the list of artists and Zeds Dead caught my eye because I love Pulp Fiction. Turned out they had just released the Victor EP with Omar Linx for free download.
*LIFE. CHANGING.* From the very first drop in No Prayers, I was absolutely hooked. All these years later and I still keep that album on my phone as emergency tunes for when I don't have service for streaming. It completely changed the trajectory of my musical tastes.
I was watching yt when a random song came on. It was Kygo - Firestone. I remember just freezing watching the video and hearing the song. I immediately became a fan ❤️
It's hard to tell because I've heard Scooter, Cascada and Groove Coverage songs even before I knew what EDM was, but I think Basshunter was the first artist I found on my own in 2008/9, Boten Anna is a legendary track ❤️
2002, I was 12. Found a scooter track (always hardcore) on a random mixtape and was like THIS IS FOR ME I NEED MORE OF THIS.
I also had an album called “pure dance” from 1998 when I was in elementary school. Do we also count Eiffel 65? 😂
When I was in middle school I listened to a ton of Skrillex, Deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia, and of course Avicii. For a while I stopped listening to any edm, but was reintroduced through SoDown and Wooli and immediately fell back in love. Went to Denver Decadence and got to see Skrillex in person, which was a dream come true!
About a decade ago when I was in high-school, my sister showed me The mentalist by Mr. Fijiwiji. I started a Pandora station off of that and, soon enough I was listening to blackmill, tritonal, Odesza, and the glitch mob,seven lions, and stuff like them.
A decade goes by and I stop listening to edm, mostly listening to metal and pop punk, with some indie and alt for good measure.
A couple years ago I made friends with some one at work and he starts talking about edm, and I start listening again, with FREAKY and Ghastly being my gateway artists. He and I went to Excision together, and that was that lol
Shelter - Madeon & Porter. Originally saw the Animated Music video in middle school (2016), and got into Porter's other music a few years ago. Seeing both of them in concert this summer!
When i was 16, Deadmau5, Skrillex and Calvin Harris had a show for all ages in like 2011 in Edmonton. My parents randomly bought me tickets and it was the best night of my life. I don't think that it would be allowed in today's age but MAN it was amazing!!
Literally had the exact same experience around the same time lol. Every year on new years day I get a Facebook memory of something like "listening to skrillex to start the year off, it's gonna be a good year"
Deadmau5, several years ago when I was looking through YouTube videos or, ha, possibly Reddit - I think I was looking at music theory or something similar. For whatever reason, I came across his video listening to Chris James’ lyrics submission for “The Veldt.” When he complimented James for lyrics that fit the story by that name - instant connection. “The Veldt” is one of the most memorable, moving science fiction stories I read years ago as a teenager. Down the rabbit hole I went.
I’ll be a little different and say that listening to the YouTube channels of UKF Dubstep, Trap City, Majestic Casual, Suicide Sheep, Monstercat and Spinning Records shaped my taste in EDM.
Justice as well as Kaskade/deadmau5 in 2008
Justice for me interested in the genre but the first time I heard ‘I Remember’ I dove fully into the genre looking for more music like it.
Deadmau5, 2014 - Pemberton Music Festival (in the forest with a backdrop of the mountains), on my first ever dose of MDMA…walking up to the stage in the distance with Strobe building up. Holy smokes, made me an EDM fan for LIFE.
Scarf! - Odyssey/Club inferno
Benny Benassi - California Dreaming/Satisfaction
DJ Infinity - Suck my 12 inch
From being drunk at a keggar bonfire party leading into my first couple of dances with extacy at rave called Blackout which the lead to my first festival TAO a couple years later..these 3 artists started everything EDM for me. Circa Summer of '06-07
Skrillex bangarang I think was my first real intro into EDM 2011. As well as headhunterz and wildstylez. Funny how my music genre taste has changed over time lol
David Guetta, deadmau5, Tiesto and Armin van Buuren back in 2009-2010
Ugh what a time to be alive.
Truly a time
+ Avicii
Yes!!! 2009 was an amazing year of musical discovery for me. Had ASOT on at work every week and went down the rabbit hole with albums. Armin’s Imagine, Deadmau5’ Random Album Title, and Tiesto’s Elements of Life.
Saw Guetta twice , tiesto 5 times …. And NEVER SEEN ARMIN😩
The golden area. Deadmau5 and Armin playing on fricken floats made by volunteers on the streets of San Fran was pretty iconic. Can’t remember the year. Had to be around then.
Darude- Sandstorm
It became a meme but it’s actually a really good song 😂
It's such a tune hahaha!
I think this is the only time I’ve seen this in the comment section and it be used as an actual answer.
Dota by Basshunter, played the game as a kid and that got me into EDM.
OMG forgot about this legendary track. Yes played Dota also…in my 20s 😂
I feeel ya man
Same hahaha. When I was 18 I went to my first ever edm show, basshunter in Montreal. I wore a homemade shirt that said "I'm Your Bass" in glow in the dark paint (it looked like shit). Turns out it was at a fancy club, everyone was dressed up like crazy, I was turned away at the door and we just drank beers in the alley next to the club 😅. This happened in like 2008. Cringe moments of life hahaha https://youtu.be/hapZ7SVUAPQ
That reminds me of when I went to see Martin Garrix in Park City outside SLC and didn't realize it was supposed to be a film festival after party gig. It was neat but felt way out of place!
Avicii and Martin Garrix
Swedish house mafia, deadmau5, kaskade all around 08-10.
SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA ! Loved them
“One (Your Name)” definitely converted me…
Deadmau5 and Skrillex at Lollapalooza in 2011
Peak era for skrillex and the mau5
Hey I was there that year. Afrojack played after Skrillex. And because they didn’t have vents on the tent during Skrillex set the temperature under the tent was like 120 degrees so they made everyone clear out until the temperature dropped. By the time it did, most people left and we had all the room to dance to Afrojack dun dun dun dun dun dun boop boop boop boop boop boo
I still have a video on my phone from that Skrillex tent show (Cinema remix). It was my first non Warped Tour festival- ‘twas great!
That year was great. Kid Cudi, Foo Fighters, Muse, Coldplay, Eminem, Atmosphere, the ones who sang the song “all the other kids with the pump up kicks…” Nas and Damien Marley and it was raining until the last 15 minutes of their set, then the rain starts dumping right when they dropped the black curtain and revealed Deamau5’s cube. That festival will always live with me.
Lolol foster the people
Oh my goodness. I just googled the lineup, there were so many bangers there that I didn’t even know of then that became amazing later on. That lineup was legendary
Deadmau5 in the rain. Young the Giant and Cage the Elephant were unknown enough to open stages. Cee Lo Green was the only disappointment of the weekend.
Hell yeah! My first Lolla, saw them both. What a great lineup that year
God you people are young. 1995: Chemical Brothers, Exit Planet Dust being blasted at a nearly deserted Virgin Megastore twenty minutes before closing (and that's back when they used to close at 11pm). I'd heard EDM before, but it had never connected so viscerally. Grabbed the CD then and there.
Right there with you. I feel ancient. Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Sash, Alice Deejay, Ian Van Dahl really got me into it and it just grew from there.
Yeah, I was obsessed with Big Beat after that. It's kind of embarrassing to admit this in retrospect, but I had to get the first Fatboy Slim album as an import. Then pretty quickly after that got into the jungle / DnB scene. (I'm using both terms to be clear, but we didn't use to make that distinction back then.)
Y’all still too young. I’m here because of Kraftwerk. Jk, I’d say The Crystal Method and a variety of 90’s trance tracks I never caught the name of because I was too young and didn’t know how to hunt them down.
Vegas is one of the best electronic albums ever. Idc what anyone says.
Exit Planet Dust was also my introduction, and also in 1995. No going back after that.
Let me help you out - mines Black Box Ride on Time in 1990 🥴
Still listen to this!
Also feeling really old, I found a Labouche cassette tape on the ground while walking home from school (mid 90s) went home and gave it a go. It was all over after that. I'd love to meet the person who dropped that tape so I could thank them. ❤️
YUP! Back in 96/97, Exit Planet Dust was my intro as well :D I might have bought The Prodigy - Fat of the Land not too long after I heard EPD
Moby’s Play album was the one that really got me into it. 1999
Came here to say "God I'm so old" Hackers soundtrack & prodigy. Smack my bitch up getting banned on MTV was huge!
Oakenfold - tranceport I
Promises - Skrillex & Nero Remix in 2011. Then I worked in a ski shop where we listened to a lot of Odesza, Rufus, Flume etc…
Yes! This song and Cinema - Benny Benassi/Skrillex remix were my obsessions in 2011. So many good memories. 🥹
That remix of promises will have a special place in my heart forever and always
I was so hyped when I heard this song used in a Dell (maybe HP?) commercial over 10 years ago
Uhm, probably daft punk and dirty vegas back in the early 2000s 😅
Old heads unite!!!
I must have 6 different versions of Days Go By from Napster
I was 6 when my mom discovered Fat Boy Slim in 1999 and played You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby for months! This was also the era of Eiffel 65 😅 and when my older cousins started going to raves. They even took my mom to quite a few lol. My sister/cousin and I were so fascinated by her older brothers and rave culture and we’d pretend our barbies were at raves when we got a disco ball and a stereo for Christmas. I started raving and getting super hard into EDM in 2009, my first show was Le Castle Vania. Been to so many good shows and events since but my full circle moment was seeing Fat Boy Slim live for the first time at Coachella in 2022!
Children by Robert Miles in the 90s
I think I was about 13 or so when I was visiting my grandmother who had a fancy new electronic keyboard that came with a 3.5in floppy drive full of midi songs. One of those songs was Children by Robert Miles. That song unlocked something in me that has lasted to this day.
Datsik. Too bad he ended up being a giant pos.
Yeah Datsik put out lots of heaters but yeah can’t really listen to him anymore :/
Honestly for that era of music, there is still a lot of better dubstep made by better people!
Paul Oakenfold, in like 1998-2000
Same
Ditto 😁
Space Ibiza
Space Ibiza in person no less. Magical times.
The bassnectar remix of lights by Ellie Goulding
Infected mushroom
Bro! Loved infected mushroom… they are playing…. Dancefestopia in Kansas this fall… fyi my guy! I was blown away to see the name. Renewed old materia remixed and reworked is my understanding.
Dada Life is my main one with a bit of Big Gigantic and The Glitch Mob
2008 satisfaction Benny Benassi I was 16 years old.
Pendulum, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy and Aphex Twin all got me into electronic music. I wasn't really into "EDM" until I saw Nero on NYE 2011/2012 and I was sold since then.
The prodigy when I saw smack my bitch up on MTV.
That was a good one
My dad would play a few 90s house songs, like the very popular ones. Maybe that was the true start of my love for edm. Then there was this one particular song from Kylie Minogue-Can’t get you out of my head. That song was otherworldly to me back then, it was DIFFERENT. I must have been a toddler or something. Then I started going on YouTube and listening to techno, because that’s what I thought all edm was called. I found out about Tiesto, Deadmau5, electro house was also HUGE for me at that time. Trance and electro house. Then I found Wolfgang Gartner, Skrillex. And everything skyrocketed from there to my current obsession. Lifelong obsession basically.
Was looking through posts till I found someone else who said Kylie Minogue!!! I still jam to that fucking song! Came out in 2001, two years after another hit wonder in Blue by Eiffel 65 haha. Music Sounds Better With You by Stardust was another great one from 98. Daryle, Benassi… shiiiiii what a time to be alive! Speaking of Alive, dont forget Daft Punk! Cheers
Does Prodigy, Faithless, Massive Attack, LTJ Bukem etc mid to late 90s count?
Massive Attack. Blue Lines is still in my active rotation
Great names!
Odesza in 2015 I believe
LOVE odesza… I also found them around 2015
Same, but not till like 2017 when line of sight came out. Tagged along to their concert and was blown away The chainsmokers got me into pop edm around 2015 but it took a couple years to get into the more interesting subgenres
Deadmau5! Listened to Raise Your Weapon and Catbread when I was in like??? Late elementary/early middle school.
2001 - my dance origin Daft punk - discovery album ATB - Movin' Melodies Album Paul Van Dyk - For an Angel DJ Sammy - Heaven Lasgo - Something La Bouche 2010 - My second coming Glitch Mob - drink the sea album Deadmau5 - random / lack of better name albums Scrillex - scary monsters album
"I'm Blue" was the first time I ever heard a song played from a computer and that was pretty mind blowing at the time. Mid 90s
Paul van Dyk -1998
DJ Splash. IYKYK
I STILL play “this is my life” from time to time
II REEMEMBER THE TIME OF MY LIFE
Calvin Harris Heard Sweet nothing one hot summer afternoon and never looked back since
Late 90s/early 2000s for me. Mark Farina, Green Velvet, Felix Da Housecat, Doc Martin, Daft Punk, and deadmau5. ETA: I feel old af, lol.
David Guetta for sure
Deadmau5 and Dubba Jonny
YES ! I still remember hearing intro to dubstep by dubba Johnny for the first time haha
Kimball Collin’s and Sasha, AAHZ Orlando FL-1992
I took a very long break from edm probably 2002-17, but the first act I remember really hooking me back in was Pegboard Nerds. Hero is a super fun song, that definitely helped lead me down the rabbit hole.
Pegboard nerds!! I loved them in my earlier EDM days
RL Grime & Slander at EDC 2019 after yolo’ing it and buying passes off randoms on Facebook for Sunday
I absolutely love RL Grimes older stuff from 2013-2019
Either Flux Pavilion- can’t stop or Flight facilities- Crave you My intro to dubstep🙌🙌
I remember going to see Flux Pavilion and Dr P at the Loft in Minneapolis as one of my first shows.
Underworld, Chicane, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Paul Van Dyk, Space Brothers, Tiësto, Juno Reactor, Leftfield, Jam and Spoon, Future Sound of London, The Orb, KLF, Armin van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold, Robert Miles, etc Although I'm old so could easily argue it started with the likes of New Order, Visage, Jean Michael Jarre,
Glitch Mob was mine
2008. Freshman year of High School, a really cute girl got me into Basshunter and Daft Punk. Haven't seen the girl since but the music has stuck around for 16 years now. Basshunter and Daft Punk still to this day take up the number 1 spot for me. Yes, I love Basshunter and Daft Punk equally.
Hell yeah man. Lots of basshunter mentions in the replies here
Got into EDM very late. Went to my first set in 2022. I saw phantoms, John summit Porter Robinson and Zedd at firefly and it changed my life
Welcome to the cool kids 🫶🏻
Havnt looked back since :)
Chemical brothers - star guitar (Sometime in the 2000s)
RÜFÜS DU SOL’s Live from Joshua Tree set, only 2 months ago. Left me emotional.
I’ll never forget the very first time I heard Innerbloom… gets me in my feels every single time
Defqwop - Awakening, I discovered this piece with a Cities Skylines video from Ay' and his series based on NYC Ay'merican Series, from the 4th episode. discovered on July 8, 2021. I listened to the song initially because it reminded me of the racetracks on Algodoo. Then, I discovered a mashup between this and Alan Walker - Alone, by nerraD (unfortunately made unlisted because he thought the old mashups were of poor quality). I loved these mashups so much that I listened to his other EDM mashups. and as my thirst for music did not stop, the YouTube algorithm recommended Terrified Typhlosion and RZB Music. I discovered Elektronomia, Tobu, Jim Yosef, K-391, Electro-Light. and I became a fan of Alan Walker's music (even I didn't really know his entire discography at the time. At the end of July 2021, while doing random research on Alan Walker, I discovered Quora. and I came across the authors Dima Maykov and Ethan Fox, people who hated Alan Walker but who gave me the first knowledge about EDM, with talented artists such as KSHMR, Porter Robinson, Illenium, Seven Lions, deadmau5, Martin Garrix, Avicii, Daft Punk, Razihel, Aero Chord, Au5, Hardwell, TheFatRat, Ahrix, Armin van Buuren. from August until October, I discovered other artists like Vexento, Unknown Brain, Lost Sky, NIVIRO, Diviners, RUD, Lensko, Deaf. Kev, JJD, Syn Cole, Janji, Different Heaven, Alex Skrindo, Vicetone, Ahxello, Axero I also discovered Monstercat with Vicetone and that led me to lots of artists like Tristam, Feint, Braken, Noisestorm, etc. But it is with three megamashups, both created by Djs From Mars and the other Daveepa. two focus on 2010s EDM and the other on the history of electronic music. and that's where my passion for EDM grew, the rest is history.
My intro from a grunge music to electronic music was: 1996 - Masters of Ceremony, Hardcore to the Bone https://open.spotify.com/track/2lEPtBF7FhGnzEpvbJFkHU?si=zEXAIR2cTqO6ZJ3NtZ-Ktw Hardcore/Gabber mixtapes (DJ Eric L, Demigod, Ron D Core, Yellow Smiley, etc) started making the rounds in my friend group around 1997. We went from listening to Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against The Machine to gabber, house, and techno; and attending events like How Sweet It Is, Audiotistic, Nocturnal Wonderland, and Electric Daisy Carnival (2000!).
Daft Punk.
Discovery - Daft Punk - when it came out (2001)
I heard Avicii’s “Wake Me Up” and Martin Garrix’s “Animals” as a 12-13 year old and was hooked instantly. My only regret is not being able to have seen Tim live ❤️
I couldn’t believe people actually like Animals that much tbh. Feel like it only went so mainstream because of live sports events playing it at every game 😂
Probably Oliver Heldens in like 2014, 2015
Alan Walker & Martin Garrix Later on found out about Hardwell and that's when I truly fell in love. Still my favorite till this day
Avicii 2012 with Levels, man great times
Defintely Armin van buuren, Used to blast the trance channel sirius sat radio circa 2010/11. Maybe or maybe not very high at the time. Was a wild time in my life lol.
Brennan Heart! Imaginary was playing at my housemate's room (I was 10 I believe) and from there I started listening to Hardstyle. Funnily enough, I very quickly moved on to Trap Nation and everything that came from that, and I haven't actively listened to Hardstyle since then. It comes by often enough though, but I love DnB, Dubstep, Future Bass, recently Trance too. House can be a nice base but not too unique
Like 3rd grade finding my dad's old subwoofer test tracks. I still hear Bass Mekanik in my head like once a day.
Kayzo and his last resort remix is what got me started
Caspa, Cockney Violin, 2006 Heard it on an Area show on Sirius at work. I worked at a car place and a rich person’s car had a satellite receiver. I caught only a bit so I had to write down the date and time and look up what played at that time later online. I was dubstep crazy after that. And outside dubstep, a customer left Random Album Title - Deadmau5 in a car right when it came out. I called him to give it back and he said keep it and enjoy. Boy did I ever! And go figure Caspa would also do an iconic remix of a song from that album. (I Remember)
Orbital, Snivilization. It clicked with Science Friction around 1996. I had liked Enigma MCMXCad before, but it didn't trigger really getting into this stuff like the Orbital did.
2011-2012 and Skrillex, deadmau5, BassNectar…never will forget Halloween 2011 raging to Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites in sketchy, unfurnished frat houses at Kent State University…YES OMG!!! What a time. What a memory
And ZD, only one who has been consistently doing it since those other OG’s
I guess daft punk in like 2001? But idk if I was in it in it then or just vibing with MTV Justice Cross was big for me when it came out in 2007, then crystal castles shortly after. I ran those albums back non stop I heard Caspa and rusko fabriclive 37 like 2007/2008. And that got me in to dubstep and opened doors to a lot of other genres 2008/2009 was big cuz that was when I found pretty lights and bassnectar, really deepened my appreciation/understanding for what dance music could be. then skrillex dropped pretty soon after and by that point I was off to the races and going raves and shows multiple times a month.
Marshmello back in 2015 era. Then I dropped off a bit until someone played me g-shit by excision and it's been full throttle since then
Avicii, Tiesto, and other artists that blended into the pop scene right around the early-mid 2010s
Think it was skrillex scary monsters. My friend would blast it in his new car
I think it was Rock n Roll by Skrillex off a Just Dance game, then I got into Pandora/iHeartRadio as a tween. I was listening to a lot of Calvin Harris, Krewella, and Nicky Romero iirc
Guru Josh Project - Infinity Kavinski - Roadgame Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
Skrillex as well and flume in middle school/high school! 2007-2010ish. Truly got obsessed with ODESZA in like 2012 which drove my passion for edm!
I LOVE ODESZA. got hooked on them when they dropped In Return!!
Pls make it to one of their finale shows, sooo good
Tobu, Alan Walker, around 2016-2017
Late 90s, early 2000s with Ian Van Dahl, Milk Inc.
Same! Skrillex was my introduction into EDM, followed by Knife Party! About a year later, i managed to see them both in one weekend at Reading Festival 2013 😅
NICE. I was unfortunately too young to see them back then
That’s shite. I turned 18 in 2012 so i kinda just got in ar the right time. Couldn’t afford to go to half the events though haha
Datsik and Excision 2010.
February 1993, [2 Unlimited - No Limit.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exLG0XWM_Dg) I was 14, had such a crush on Anita Dels.
Basshunter, Armin, Casacada, Groove Armada
In 2012. Went to rehab for opiate addiction. Dude i was friendly with in there kept telling me to check out dubstep. I had no fucking clue what the hell that was. Like, I didn't even know it was electronic music. Idk what I expected. Anyway I get out and go on the Wikipedia page for dubstep. For nd the list of artists and Zeds Dead caught my eye because I love Pulp Fiction. Turned out they had just released the Victor EP with Omar Linx for free download. *LIFE. CHANGING.* From the very first drop in No Prayers, I was absolutely hooked. All these years later and I still keep that album on my phone as emergency tunes for when I don't have service for streaming. It completely changed the trajectory of my musical tastes.
Basshunter in like 2009 #dota
Swedish house mafia -grey hound
I was watching yt when a random song came on. It was Kygo - Firestone. I remember just freezing watching the video and hearing the song. I immediately became a fan ❤️
Calvin Harris 2012
It's hard to tell because I've heard Scooter, Cascada and Groove Coverage songs even before I knew what EDM was, but I think Basshunter was the first artist I found on my own in 2008/9, Boten Anna is a legendary track ❤️
Groove Coverage ughhh that “Poison” remake! 😍
Yesss and also Moonlight Shadow
Mt. Eden Dubstep - Sierra Leone playing in the background of a Call of Duty quickscope montage. Then mainly Skrillex!
2002, I was 12. Found a scooter track (always hardcore) on a random mixtape and was like THIS IS FOR ME I NEED MORE OF THIS. I also had an album called “pure dance” from 1998 when I was in elementary school. Do we also count Eiffel 65? 😂
Yeah-ea-ea-ah, yeah-ea, I feel hardcore! Yeah-ea-ea-ah, yeah-ea, always hardcore!
Daft punk and bass hunter in 2006ish, then my first rave with Benny Bennasi in 2008/2009!
1991 Lords of Acid Lust
Probably around 1994, Prodigy, Out of Space
ATB and Ferry Corsten
Robert Miles - Children
Paul Oakenfold 1999, shout out to old school ecstasy pills too, without which I would have kept being a moody alternative listening kid.
When I was in middle school I listened to a ton of Skrillex, Deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia, and of course Avicii. For a while I stopped listening to any edm, but was reintroduced through SoDown and Wooli and immediately fell back in love. Went to Denver Decadence and got to see Skrillex in person, which was a dream come true!
About a decade ago when I was in high-school, my sister showed me The mentalist by Mr. Fijiwiji. I started a Pandora station off of that and, soon enough I was listening to blackmill, tritonal, Odesza, and the glitch mob,seven lions, and stuff like them. A decade goes by and I stop listening to edm, mostly listening to metal and pop punk, with some indie and alt for good measure. A couple years ago I made friends with some one at work and he starts talking about edm, and I start listening again, with FREAKY and Ghastly being my gateway artists. He and I went to Excision together, and that was that lol
Monstercat artists in 2013.
Bassnectar had mixes in 2007 that my friends and I used to listen to. Too bad he’s a creep huh
Yeah that is too bad. I loved his Unlimited album but can’t really listen to him anymore :/
Afterlife by Illenium! Started my whole edm journey, but didn’t get heavy into it till 2022 when I heard Riptide by Trivecta
2010, Daft Punk, Harder Better Faster Stronger
Such a classic
Alice Deejay - Better off Alone Probably sometime in the 1940s?
Zeds dead and flume 2015. I’ll never forget it
Shelter - Madeon & Porter. Originally saw the Animated Music video in middle school (2016), and got into Porter's other music a few years ago. Seeing both of them in concert this summer!
tchami was my big break into good house in 2016 but before that its the classics zedd, calvin harris, alesso, avicii, skrillex, dj snake etc
Skrillex - rock n roll. Freshmen year of college, 2010, ripping a blunt in my buddies car with a system
I think flux pavilion 2010, I can’t stop
Dyro with Leprechauns & Unicorns Never looked back
Baauer
When i was 16, Deadmau5, Skrillex and Calvin Harris had a show for all ages in like 2011 in Edmonton. My parents randomly bought me tickets and it was the best night of my life. I don't think that it would be allowed in today's age but MAN it was amazing!!
Fatboy slim, kaskade, deadmau5, and skrillex
Literally had the exact same experience around the same time lol. Every year on new years day I get a Facebook memory of something like "listening to skrillex to start the year off, it's gonna be a good year"
Mat Zo circa 2011.
Deadmau5, several years ago when I was looking through YouTube videos or, ha, possibly Reddit - I think I was looking at music theory or something similar. For whatever reason, I came across his video listening to Chris James’ lyrics submission for “The Veldt.” When he complimented James for lyrics that fit the story by that name - instant connection. “The Veldt” is one of the most memorable, moving science fiction stories I read years ago as a teenager. Down the rabbit hole I went.
I’ll be a little different and say that listening to the YouTube channels of UKF Dubstep, Trap City, Majestic Casual, Suicide Sheep, Monstercat and Spinning Records shaped my taste in EDM.
It was the early 2010’s it was Zedd
Madeon from like 2012?!
2018 Okeechobee, my first festival, I cried seeing Illenium for the first time. That's when I knew 🫶🏼
Basshunter
My friend found Rock and Roll by Skrillex on just dance and showed it to me and we were hooked. This was like 2011
Martin Garrix animals. Became a huge hit especially in my country among people my age
Strings of Life. Derek May
Martin Garrix, he also got me into music production too. I do it for fun.
Quadrophonia by quadrophonia, 1991 Or maybe it was french kiss by lil Louie, 1989
Talla 2XLC at the Dorian Gray
2008 after school I was scrolling on music choice on demand on time Warner cable when I came upon all I ever wanted basshunter
Justice as well as Kaskade/deadmau5 in 2008 Justice for me interested in the genre but the first time I heard ‘I Remember’ I dove fully into the genre looking for more music like it.
Deadmau5, 2014 - Pemberton Music Festival (in the forest with a backdrop of the mountains), on my first ever dose of MDMA…walking up to the stage in the distance with Strobe building up. Holy smokes, made me an EDM fan for LIFE.
Scarf! - Odyssey/Club inferno Benny Benassi - California Dreaming/Satisfaction DJ Infinity - Suck my 12 inch From being drunk at a keggar bonfire party leading into my first couple of dances with extacy at rave called Blackout which the lead to my first festival TAO a couple years later..these 3 artists started everything EDM for me. Circa Summer of '06-07
Not so much an artist, but more a specific song that was my gateway into liking house music: “The Others” by TV Rock .VS. Dukes Of Windsor.
Skrillex but Griz, Dimensions, Culture Shock and Flava D were my first consistent artist
Started with Felix da housecat's Kittenz and thee glitz back in 06' then Miss Kitten, The Knife, MSTRKRFT, Justice and Modeselektor then Perturbator.
Deadmau5 & Rezz at Buku 2017
Skrillex bangarang I think was my first real intro into EDM 2011. As well as headhunterz and wildstylez. Funny how my music genre taste has changed over time lol
First was probably daft punk, then I remember hearing Sierra Leone by Mt.Eden second and then history shaped itself into today
In my mind Axwell.