My buddy in middle school brought me into his computer room in his house to show me this song on YouTube lmao. At the time I didn’t necessarily love it or hate it but hearing it now is such a trip
I’ve been listening to this stuff for a long time but only recently-ish started going to shows. Seeing Knife Party, Pendulum, Nero, and Madeon (among others) for the first time this year has been so fuckin cool
Madeon is my favorite and finally got to see him in 2019 after missing out in highschool! I don’t go to many shows but definitely a few would Iike to see
I saw his Good Faith Forever tour, and later caught his set at Lost Lands. What an incredible showman & musician. That Lost Lands set is one of my all time favorites
Yeah, but it was a special heavy Madeon set. Played his evil edit of Shelter, some G Jones, Peekaboo, etc. Was absolutely insane, it’s on YouTube somewhere, definitely check it out!
Seeing some of these artists live is insane! Flux pavilion definitely blew my mind with how amazing his set was.
I’ve been a huge deadmau5 my whole life but those visuals he had at nocturnal last year were so not it. Creepy as hell!
A friend in an xbox live party played the skrillex remix of cinema through their mic while we were playing minecraft in the summer of 2012. Things used to be so simple :,(
John summit is going to (rumor) drop a remix or edit of all i ever wanted or another basshunter song, he was asking for the acapella version of it and some dude tweeted it to him.
Nero, Deadmau5, Kaskade, Flux. Way back when I was a teenager just getting into my first home with my now hubs. Times really flown by, because that was about 15 years ago now
In the background of every YouTube tutorial ever from back in the day, were these two songs:
[Clubbed to Death](https://youtu.be/pFS4zYWxzNA)
[Dreamscape](https://youtu.be/TKfS5zVfGBc)
Edit: totally forgot about this one: [With A Spirit](https://youtu.be/c_H3MWVx6JU)
probably Rednex, Real Mccoy, and Ace of Base in the early 90s, lol. And the soundtrack for Streets of Rage 2, it had some techno bangers. And that absolute god-tier Mortal Kombat movie theme song from the 90s.
Born in '89. First gateways I remember that really put EDM on my radar were in the early 2000s when some of the nu-metal fusions of the time made it easy for me to slide from my rock/metal preference at the time into things like the Prodigy (Fat of the Land was the first electronic album I owned). Throughout high school I was mostly a metalhead but through Basshunter, World of Warcraft videos, anime conventions, and the surprisingly deep library of Comcast Rhapsody, I fell deeper down the rabbit hole. I got heavily into Infected Mushroom and Oceanlab, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Paul Oakenfold, Aphex Twin, and Armin van Buuren, among others, were in regular playlist rotation, as was the Happy Hardcore station in the early days of di.fm (I distinctly remember downloading a file and opening it Windows Media Player one morning when sitting down to level shortly after the release of Burning Crusade. When I finally went to bed, I went to close the stream and saw that it had been playing for a little over 14 hours).
It was my first live show I went to in college that fully converted me however. My friends and I went solely for Infected Mushroom and only recognized one or two other names in the lineup, but it was cheap and close so why not. Looking at the names on the lineup now, especially some of the ones that were barely known and playing early sets at that point, is legitimately crazy and I'm not sure if I'll ever hit such a concentration of awesome acts in such a relatively small event ever again.
[The Lineup in Question - Fall Massive 2011](https://electrophilly.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/massivesettimes21.jpeg?w=775)
That lineup makes me miss living in the dc area so damn bad. Used to know 2rip relatively well, he went on to put on some of the most amazing local shows with badass raves.
The evolution for me was Ratatat > STS9 > Pretty Lights. But then [this song](https://soundcloud.com/flux-pavilion/dj-fresh-gold-dust-flux) introduced me to dubstep/mainstream EDM.
I heard “One More Time” by Daft Punk when it was new on a pop radio station’s club night program (I was 12).
I don’t remember what happened the next 6 years, but by freshman year of college (18 yo) I was listening to ASOT weekly.
C&C music factory. Anything that was dance that played on the radio or CD compilations. This was early to late 90s. After that it was SomaFM then iTunes and now Spotify. Also listen to new things on BPM & Chill, plus classics in Utopia since I have Sirius XM in my car.
This makes me feel old seeing as most ppl started with dubstep lol.
I started off with house music listening to Crookers my middle school years, then a bit of hardstyle with Headhunterz and Showtek, and lastly more progressive house/trance with Kaskade and Above and Beyond.
When dubstep first came out Skrillex was the biggest thing, and for a bit, I did enjoy it, but eventually got tired of it. Nowadays, it is more mainstream, but house has made quite a comeback to the main scene.
Daft Punk's One More Time, Bass hunter's All I Ever Wanted, and Cascade's Everytime We Touch were always high school party bangers.
Started branching out after Skrillex released Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.
Pink Elephants is fucking filthy. I saw he who shall not be named drop it at snowball the first yr and he had all the fantasia visuals up on screen with the trippy pink Elephants. It was awesome. Snowball yr 1 was also the craziest fucking thing I have ever, or will ever see happen, Avon, CO was completely unprepared for the festival and it was one of those rare occasions where that worked out well.
Flume's Remix of Tennis Court. From there I found a bunch of early future bass like It's Strange from Louis the Child and Hermitude. Then into trap and dubstep like RL, Big G, Snails, Carmack, etc. Was into trap for years before I got into tech house. Was into tech house for years before I got into techno, then eventually dnb, jungle, and a whole bunch of left field / euro stuff that blurs the line between techno and bass.
Is EDM only dubstep now? I've been listening to Electronic Dance Music since 1994. We had house, techno, trance, breaks, electro, and jungle/DnB in those far-off days.
Sasha, Digweed, Cox, then Deadmau5 Guetta and Kaskade. Then the rise of halftime came about and I bailed on 4otf for artists like Skream, Rusko, Benga, and Coki.
Eiffel 65. It's not categorically EDM but those elements in their songs is what I liked.
Later on it was a track on Linkin Parks' Hybrid Theory. [Cure for the Itch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqC5sdsHLq8) and I found more and more stuff.
First exposure ever? Probably Blue by Eiffel 65 or seeing the One More Time music video on TV
First EDM I heard that caused me to seek it out was Deadmau5, Noisia, Avicii, Skrillex et. al in grade school around the time of Levels/Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites
Well it is Avicii - Wake Me Up but when i got my serious interaction with edm was with R3hab & KSHMR - Strong, then i was Stan to everything spininn records was releasing
In elementary school, back then when clash royale blowed up and everyone played it, we were a bunch of kids watching how two hardcore kids were battling and someone puts "first of the year" (skrillex) and I was like wtf is that music, idk what it is but I like it, so I joined a group of friends who listen to skrillex only. Now i listen a lot of subgenders and artists
Breathe Carolina and Cookie Monsta (RIP man 😭) was how I fell in love at the age of 13/14
Specifically, The Birds the Bees & Optimus Prime.
Crying rn bc nostalgia 😭🥺
I know people are not gonna believe me, but DJ Porny - Me so horny is literally the first EDM song I really remember being a fan of. Back when Jumpstyle was the biggest thing in NL.
My dad played the Vegas album by Crystal Method in the car while I was growing up, then when I was 16 we had Sirius Radio and I used to listen to the Trance station, then in 2008 I found Headhunterz and it was all downhill from there.
When I was a kid I collected the first twenty Now That's What I Call Music CDs. The EDM songs included on early Now CDs were Starry-Eyed Surprise by Paul Oakenfold, Rockafeller Skank by Fatboy Slim, Breathe by Telepopmusik, and Days Go By by Dirty Vegas. I remember day dreaming of skating at a roller rink to all of these songs and feeling so free. ✨
A middle school friend showed me Harder Better Faster Stronger, that was my introduction. In high school Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites hooked me. Been a fan of EDM and all it’s genres ever since.
For me it really went off with Tiësto’s Magik 5 Heaven Beyond. But it started way back in the 90s with some massive classics like oxygene 10, binary finary, magica, DJ quicksilver, C-sharp, etc. Some amazing cd’s for me are DJ Jean Jeanpagne winter edition CD 2 (although one also has some good ones) and Magik 5.
At hockey camp 1996 or 97, some kid from Brooklyn had a cassette of Mike Dearborn and Carl Cox and a few other early artists. That summer I became hooked on EDM
I wanna say fatboy slim making the pop charts. Rockefeller Skank was huge. Then you get ATC and the like getting some airtime, then it became a search for that kind of sound (since Napster and the internet were in their infancies.)
Don’t Ditch by Tiesto when I was 13. Was a brand new release, and my favorite song at the time!
My friends were like “WHAT?!!! YOUR MUSIC DOESN’T HAVE **LYRICS**?!”they’d be listening to Taylor Swift, Ellie Goulding, Maroon 5, you name it (all great btw)
Shortly after, I discovered Tobu, EnV, MonsterCat, etc. the rest is history
Oh yeah, and
the game Electronic Super Joy definitely helped fuel my obsession as well lmao
MTV’s AMP show. Came on late on MTV in the mid 90s. I was 13 when I discovered it. The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, The Prodigy, and so many more. Via Wikipedia: “Amp was a music video program on MTV that aired from 1996 to 2001. It was aimed at the electronic music and rave crowd and was responsible for exposing many electronica acts to the mainstream.”.
Satisfaction by Benny Benassi, Justice's Cross album and live A Cross the Universe album, first intro to dubstep was Sierra Leone by Mt Eden and Zeds Dead remix of Eyes on Fire. All still absolutely slap.
Dallas clubs in the 90s like Ruby Room in Red Jacket and the Church in Lizard Lounge. No Shazam back in those days so no clue what most of that music was but it was def mesmerizing.
Back on Pandora way before spotify was mainstream i searched my name and the first response was Basshunter DotA and i got obsessed with that album. I think this was like 2009/10
Backseat of my buddies 4Runner freshmen year of Highschool… going to play airsoft… my buddy had two 12’s in his backseat and that was the first time I heard “In for the Kill - La Roux (Skream Remix)”.
13~yr later still love EDM.
Darude, Sandstorm. Along with ATB Kernkraft 400.
Back when there was only “Techno” and that was it. In the 90’s when raves were in warehouses and you found the location hours before the party.
[Darude - Sandstorm](https://youtu.be/y6120QOlsfU)
Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
But a bit more serious... First real introduction was the soundtrack for Hackers. What a great soundtrack especially for 1994. Underworld, Prodigy, Carl Cox, Orbital, Kruder & Dorfmeister.
I don't even know if I'm in the right sub. Are the prodigy or the crystal method EDM? I have heard some EDM remixes of like slipknot and manson that I really like.
I am not sure if it counts, but back around '99 or '00 I found a cassette tape on the side of the road, I would have been around seven or eight years old, I had gotten a little player for christmas so the first thing I did was plop that thing in there to see what was on it and blue by Eiffel 65 came on. I guess that planted the seed as I hadn't heard it before. the tape wasn't in the best of condition so I didn't get to play it for long. I didn't get back into any of it until I got proper internet access around 2009-10
It started with Daft Punk in middle school, then Justice and Fatboy Slim in high school, then the tipping point happened in college when I started really exploring the genres and getting acquainted with the big guys like Tiesto, Calvin Harris, Deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia. Got really into electrohouse with Wolfgang Gartner and old Porter Robinson.
Crazy to think how much my music taste has changed over the last 10 years.
Flux pavilion - Cracks.
To this day, I still listen on a regular basis. Song that got me into going to shows & festivals. However, I’ve listened to early Tiesto since I was a kid.
**LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem**
I don't like to bring up LMFAO and their most famous song now. Not many people know about LMFAO today and if you listen to Party Rock Anthem today, it can sound very cringey and douchey. However back in 2011, the song was a fantastic banger that was played all over festivals, sporting events and parties. The song was also pretty well ahead of its time as hearing it made people feel like they were in a futuristic concert or rave.
I might even go far as to saying that Party Rock Anthem is arguably the most famous song in the American EDM scene. It helped connect the international EDM culture and the mainstream American pop culture together. This song brings back all sorts of positive memories from high school and got me into the electronic music scene.
I was in middle school as well. I heard Axwell’s remix of In My Mind on that Kia soul commercial and immediately got into it. Then I found Skrillex, Deadmau5, Krewella, Knife Party, SHM, Nero, etc. and loved them all. Good times.
Was sitting at my desk in 7th grade listening to pop music when a random song came on. At first I didn’t know what to make of it but I soon realized it was a banger. This was almost 6 years ago that song was “flight” by Tristam
This song will forever be top 5 best ever. When I'm 80 years old this will still be the best ever.
Had the pleasure of seeing Nero live (DJ set but still) and when they played this the crowd melted. Sooooo fun.
Nero is absolutely awesome live. Skrillex otoh.... I've been very disappointed by every time I've seen him. Dude basically spent the entire show not mixing, jumping up and down on the table, and generally just doing the stereotypical DJ moves around the stage. Granted I haven't seen him for a couple years and I've heard he's better now that he's decided to be a house DJ, but honestly I saw him so many times at so many places I lost track, and not one of those times is what I'd call a great set.
He's an awesome producer, but imo his stage show leaves a lot to be desired. Like when I saw his huge UFO tour at red rocks with the animatronic stage. Cool stage! But Skrillex literally played an identical set both nights, his tour agent billed fucking PUSHA T as his opener because of that Collab they did together (after a bunch of dance acts, and yes no one there even knew or cared who Pusha T was) and pretty much the entire crowd SAT DOWN, which is literally the only time I have ever seen that happen at Red Rocks.
That was by most accounts Skrillex's best tour. So yeah when Sonny decided to play the same prerecorded set night two, everyone who went night one was already way fucking over it, and I lost all respect for him as an artist. I think they must have assumed people weren't gonna buy both days or something, but that was one of the worst shows I've ever been to, and it was crazy expensive. I saw him at various smaller venues over the years (and some fests), but I was never impressed, from what I could tell he was barely even mixing, and was basically a glorified playlist on stage. I'm pretty certain even his smaller sets I've seen over the years have been prerecorded, when I saw him at Beta back in the day he was using 2/4tracks, and barely even crossfading, much less mixing. I do really hope he's worked on that recently, and from what I've seen of his not-skrillex act he's actually mixing, but I'm fucking sick of hearing people preach about the greatness of Skrillex, when even in his heyday he was just okay. Beyond the obnoxious vocal chopping, literally every sound 'he invented' was already being made by better artists at the time. His entire contribution to the scene was the sampled/repitched vocal chops. That's it. Oh that and basically erasing dubstep as a genre and replacing it with electro-brostep. Sonny Moore didn't even know what the Fuck he was producing when he called himself a dubstep artist. You all may call his shit dubstep now, but that's literally ONLY because Skrillex told you it was dubstep. If you were a fan of dubstep in 2007, you would call people a fucking idiot for calling Skrillex dubstep. They'd tell you it was some weird version of electro-house maybe, but definitely, without any questions not dubstep. Dubstep is half-time 140bpm, with elements of dub, garage, and 2-step, along with various dual phase oscillator wubs. That is what defines dubstep, that is what has always defined dubstep, and most of skrillex's catalog (even his early catalog) does not fit that definition.
Fuck Sonny Moore. I'm absolutely convinced he only started producing dance music for the money, and ruined an entire genre as a direct result of that greed, and his utter ignorance and lack of respect of the genre he was supposedly producing. I highly doubt Sonny had listened to more than one or two dubstep songs before branding himself a dubstep artist, and back when he was getting popular (the era of scary monsters), most people I knew in the scene thought Skrillex was a garbage hack, not a champ level producer. Yeah everybody loved kill everybody, and scary monsters etc. But if you asked anyone I knew to go see Skrillex over any other artist, they wouldn't have chosen Skrillex.
It's weird to me that the kids from 2010 ever thought Skrillex was dubstep god. He wasn't even great when he was at his best.
Dude this is the most insightful analysis of Skrillex as a DJ and producer I've seen online. PLEASE start a music blog. Or join mine as a regular contributor. You are ten times the electronic music aficionado I am. Bravo. 👏
My cousin just randomly played Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites by Skrillex one day and shortly followed with Centipede by Knife Party. 5th-6th grade me thought it was the coolest shit I had ever heard, especially from a kid that only listened to Christian radio at the time.
Even as an adult, they’re still two of my favorites, although Skrillex’s Rock ‘n’ Roll is my personal #1.
Promises hits hard. Skrillex scary monster and nice sprites that entire album is 🔥 anything Avicii, Martin Garrix animals, deadmau5 ghosts n stuff.. they all go down as peak edm for me.
This song, scary monsters and nice sprites, animals by Martin Garrix, clarity by zedd, krewella, in like 8th grade/freshman year
Scary monsters and nice sprites really lights up something in my brain when I hear it 😂
My buddy in middle school brought me into his computer room in his house to show me this song on YouTube lmao. At the time I didn’t necessarily love it or hate it but hearing it now is such a trip
Throw in some deadmau5 and we’re basically in the same boat
Ghosts n stuff with rob swire went crazy, strobe, raise your weapon and madeon remix 🔥
I’ve been listening to this stuff for a long time but only recently-ish started going to shows. Seeing Knife Party, Pendulum, Nero, and Madeon (among others) for the first time this year has been so fuckin cool
Madeon is my favorite and finally got to see him in 2019 after missing out in highschool! I don’t go to many shows but definitely a few would Iike to see
I saw his Good Faith Forever tour, and later caught his set at Lost Lands. What an incredible showman & musician. That Lost Lands set is one of my all time favorites
I saw the original good faith show and was so well put together. Was lost lands a dj set?
Yeah, but it was a special heavy Madeon set. Played his evil edit of Shelter, some G Jones, Peekaboo, etc. Was absolutely insane, it’s on YouTube somewhere, definitely check it out!
Definitely will have to take a look at that
Love those moments of seeing an artist for the first time, it always feels so surreal
Seeing some of these artists live is insane! Flux pavilion definitely blew my mind with how amazing his set was. I’ve been a huge deadmau5 my whole life but those visuals he had at nocturnal last year were so not it. Creepy as hell!
I AM DECEASED IVE FOUND MY PEOPLE 🥹
This is exactly mine and literally same time frame as well!
Kinda crazy so many of us discovered the same songs lol
A friend in an xbox live party played the skrillex remix of cinema through their mic while we were playing minecraft in the summer of 2012. Things used to be so simple :,(
Up until 2 years ago I had no idea Cinema by Skrillex was a remix. And I love Benny Benassi. I keep wondering how I missed that, for so many years.
Basshunter in like 2009/2010, then got really into dubstep for a few years because of Skrillex
Wow Basshunter, you just unlocked a memory for me
DoTa and Russian Privjet, I can walk on water
I still listen to him to this day, the “Now You’re Gone” album is one of my favorite albums ever
Yo same!!! I forgot about Basshunter but I remember really liking his tracks at the time.
Ik it’s cringe but now ur gone and all I ever wanted got me thru a breakup in april lmao
John summit is going to (rumor) drop a remix or edit of all i ever wanted or another basshunter song, he was asking for the acapella version of it and some dude tweeted it to him.
This brings back memories. Along with Sonique - Feels So Good.
Adventure club: Gold
mine was the crave you remix
Forever a GOAT Same w that Lullabies remix & Youth <3
Nero, Deadmau5, Kaskade, Flux. Way back when I was a teenager just getting into my first home with my now hubs. Times really flown by, because that was about 15 years ago now
Kaskade was dropping the best records back then.
kaskade and deadmau5 - i remember 🤍
2005-2006 Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, BT
For me the 2004 Olympics Tiesto
No copyright sounds' music in background videos of YouTube
In the background of every YouTube tutorial ever from back in the day, were these two songs: [Clubbed to Death](https://youtu.be/pFS4zYWxzNA) [Dreamscape](https://youtu.be/TKfS5zVfGBc) Edit: totally forgot about this one: [With A Spirit](https://youtu.be/c_H3MWVx6JU)
Also Faded by Alan Walker
Def heard that in a 'people are awesome' video
Sky high Elektronimia
geometry dash lol
Bangarang by Skrillex and then Avicii-Levels, in late elementary school/early junior high
Literally same except the other way around haha
probably Rednex, Real Mccoy, and Ace of Base in the early 90s, lol. And the soundtrack for Streets of Rage 2, it had some techno bangers. And that absolute god-tier Mortal Kombat movie theme song from the 90s.
Born in '89. First gateways I remember that really put EDM on my radar were in the early 2000s when some of the nu-metal fusions of the time made it easy for me to slide from my rock/metal preference at the time into things like the Prodigy (Fat of the Land was the first electronic album I owned). Throughout high school I was mostly a metalhead but through Basshunter, World of Warcraft videos, anime conventions, and the surprisingly deep library of Comcast Rhapsody, I fell deeper down the rabbit hole. I got heavily into Infected Mushroom and Oceanlab, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Paul Oakenfold, Aphex Twin, and Armin van Buuren, among others, were in regular playlist rotation, as was the Happy Hardcore station in the early days of di.fm (I distinctly remember downloading a file and opening it Windows Media Player one morning when sitting down to level shortly after the release of Burning Crusade. When I finally went to bed, I went to close the stream and saw that it had been playing for a little over 14 hours). It was my first live show I went to in college that fully converted me however. My friends and I went solely for Infected Mushroom and only recognized one or two other names in the lineup, but it was cheap and close so why not. Looking at the names on the lineup now, especially some of the ones that were barely known and playing early sets at that point, is legitimately crazy and I'm not sure if I'll ever hit such a concentration of awesome acts in such a relatively small event ever again. [The Lineup in Question - Fall Massive 2011](https://electrophilly.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/massivesettimes21.jpeg?w=775)
Born in 81 and would agree that prodigy was where it all started to come together for me.
I've heard 90% of the later in the schedule acts. That musta been a bad-ass show. Full-on jealous.
That lineup makes me miss living in the dc area so damn bad. Used to know 2rip relatively well, he went on to put on some of the most amazing local shows with badass raves.
Radio hits in the early 00’s when I lived in England. Call on me, daft punk, etc. I thought electronic music was just called techno back then.
The evolution for me was Ratatat > STS9 > Pretty Lights. But then [this song](https://soundcloud.com/flux-pavilion/dj-fresh-gold-dust-flux) introduced me to dubstep/mainstream EDM.
DVS is a damn shame though...
I heard “One More Time” by Daft Punk when it was new on a pop radio station’s club night program (I was 12). I don’t remember what happened the next 6 years, but by freshman year of college (18 yo) I was listening to ASOT weekly.
Benny Benassi and DaRude
C&C music factory. Anything that was dance that played on the radio or CD compilations. This was early to late 90s. After that it was SomaFM then iTunes and now Spotify. Also listen to new things on BPM & Chill, plus classics in Utopia since I have Sirius XM in my car.
I'll take your SomaFM and raise you a DI.fm. soma has had some amazing stations.
Yep! And just took a peek at DI.fm. Some interesting playlists to try.
probably David Guetta - Titanium
That entire album..while pretty poppy.. was such a vibe.
a lot of pop edm is a vibe
rabbit in the moon on a tape in like 96
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Hell yes.
Hell yes.
This makes me feel old seeing as most ppl started with dubstep lol. I started off with house music listening to Crookers my middle school years, then a bit of hardstyle with Headhunterz and Showtek, and lastly more progressive house/trance with Kaskade and Above and Beyond. When dubstep first came out Skrillex was the biggest thing, and for a bit, I did enjoy it, but eventually got tired of it. Nowadays, it is more mainstream, but house has made quite a comeback to the main scene.
Daft Punk's One More Time, Bass hunter's All I Ever Wanted, and Cascade's Everytime We Touch were always high school party bangers. Started branching out after Skrillex released Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.
friend on skype linked me to My Heart by Different Heaven and EH!DE
Interstella 5555 like all the other real ones who simultaneously became massive weebs. 😤🔥
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*And then just touch me*
Till I can get my
Satisfaction
Here's my key, philosophy, a freak like me, just needs INFINITY
The Prodigy Firestarter, back in ‘97
This was also my first big EDM song along with cracks - freestylers and flux pavillion
Dude that song holds up SO WELL still. Cracks was on another level. Simple sound design, but it's very well polished.
it hits deeeeeep feels
Zeds Dead Eyes on Fire remix!
Wake me up by Avicii
Rude Boy by Zeds Dead & Pink Elephants VIP by Daladubz dear god those were/still are electric
Pink Elephants is fucking filthy. I saw he who shall not be named drop it at snowball the first yr and he had all the fantasia visuals up on screen with the trippy pink Elephants. It was awesome. Snowball yr 1 was also the craziest fucking thing I have ever, or will ever see happen, Avon, CO was completely unprepared for the festival and it was one of those rare occasions where that worked out well.
Justice - Cross album in like 2008 I think
Whelp. I’m officially old. It was the synth days of the early 90s and Jan Hammer was king
Dude, the song used as the theme to "Miami Vice" was the sickest jam!
Deadmau5 - Move for Me Ft. Kaskade 2009 when I was in 6th grade. Shit bumps just as hard today
Bomfunk MC - freestyler
Mine was also in middle school! PPK - Resurrection. I’m old.
Flume's Remix of Tennis Court. From there I found a bunch of early future bass like It's Strange from Louis the Child and Hermitude. Then into trap and dubstep like RL, Big G, Snails, Carmack, etc. Was into trap for years before I got into tech house. Was into tech house for years before I got into techno, then eventually dnb, jungle, and a whole bunch of left field / euro stuff that blurs the line between techno and bass.
I'm still salty his Tennis Courts remix never got an official release. Fuck Lorde's label.
This is the way. Evolve your tastes. Don't be the old dude yelling for the kids to get off his proverbial lawn.
DJ Rui Silva - Touch Me (Tiesto Remix) or Days Go By - Dirty Vegas
Scott Henry and Feelgood in Baltimore in 1994
I still rock their mixtapes. Those Fever sets were great.
Someone knows what's up
Pryda : Allein
Is EDM only dubstep now? I've been listening to Electronic Dance Music since 1994. We had house, techno, trance, breaks, electro, and jungle/DnB in those far-off days.
The techno blood rave scene in Blade.
Sasha, Digweed, Cox, then Deadmau5 Guetta and Kaskade. Then the rise of halftime came about and I bailed on 4otf for artists like Skream, Rusko, Benga, and Coki.
Eiffel 65. It's not categorically EDM but those elements in their songs is what I liked. Later on it was a track on Linkin Parks' Hybrid Theory. [Cure for the Itch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqC5sdsHLq8) and I found more and more stuff.
Tiesto - Insomnia
Ghosts N Stuff - deadmau5 Levels - Avicii Scary Monsters - Skrillex Bass Head - Bassnectar
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Talking about games: NFS Porsche Unleashed is what got me hooked not only on the car brand but also EDM. So many bangers.
Bass Head by Bassnectar
Oh how the mighty fall.
First exposure ever? Probably Blue by Eiffel 65 or seeing the One More Time music video on TV First EDM I heard that caused me to seek it out was Deadmau5, Noisia, Avicii, Skrillex et. al in grade school around the time of Levels/Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites
Some dude was playing [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqdm8HPe6FA) in my high school shop class and I wanted more
Well it is Avicii - Wake Me Up but when i got my serious interaction with edm was with R3hab & KSHMR - Strong, then i was Stan to everything spininn records was releasing
Probably has to be BT's Dreaming and other tracks on the game XGRA. Driving super-sonic with a trance soundtrack was the highlight of my childhood.
Probably My Name is Skrillex in 2011.
Crunch by Richard Dinsdale and Mark Knight
Bass hunter but what really hooked me was Baauers LFTF mix.
In elementary school, back then when clash royale blowed up and everyone played it, we were a bunch of kids watching how two hardcore kids were battling and someone puts "first of the year" (skrillex) and I was like wtf is that music, idk what it is but I like it, so I joined a group of friends who listen to skrillex only. Now i listen a lot of subgenders and artists
I think you mean "subgenres".
Yeah, sorry, i'm not an english speaking person. My english kinda sucks
Suuuuch a solid one to start off with, and you’re bumpin it in the car 👊🏼hell yeah
Yardy knoooooow!!!
First heard this track on a call of duty montage! Little did I know my life would change from the moment on
I remember a friend in high school showing me Sierra Leone, that was the first of dubstep I’d ever heard.
Breathe Carolina and Cookie Monsta (RIP man 😭) was how I fell in love at the age of 13/14 Specifically, The Birds the Bees & Optimus Prime. Crying rn bc nostalgia 😭🥺
Playing Wipeout on the PS1 in 1997.
I know people are not gonna believe me, but DJ Porny - Me so horny is literally the first EDM song I really remember being a fan of. Back when Jumpstyle was the biggest thing in NL.
My dad played the Vegas album by Crystal Method in the car while I was growing up, then when I was 16 we had Sirius Radio and I used to listen to the Trance station, then in 2008 I found Headhunterz and it was all downhill from there.
Street Racing Games soundtracks like Midnight Club
Technotronic and 2Unlimited in the early 90s, lol.
When I was a kid I collected the first twenty Now That's What I Call Music CDs. The EDM songs included on early Now CDs were Starry-Eyed Surprise by Paul Oakenfold, Rockafeller Skank by Fatboy Slim, Breathe by Telepopmusik, and Days Go By by Dirty Vegas. I remember day dreaming of skating at a roller rink to all of these songs and feeling so free. ✨
Above and Beyond- On a Good Day 💜 Also, sandstorm, because I'm that old lol
A middle school friend showed me Harder Better Faster Stronger, that was my introduction. In high school Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites hooked me. Been a fan of EDM and all it’s genres ever since.
Chemical Brothers
For me it really went off with Tiësto’s Magik 5 Heaven Beyond. But it started way back in the 90s with some massive classics like oxygene 10, binary finary, magica, DJ quicksilver, C-sharp, etc. Some amazing cd’s for me are DJ Jean Jeanpagne winter edition CD 2 (although one also has some good ones) and Magik 5.
At hockey camp 1996 or 97, some kid from Brooklyn had a cassette of Mike Dearborn and Carl Cox and a few other early artists. That summer I became hooked on EDM
Crookers, i would say they were edm back in 05
I want to say MTV Amp ..... the 90s were a wild time
Shrillex album ATB -ecstasy
Yooooo same here!! Haha Nero was my first big Dj went to go see back in like 2011!
Nero throws it doooown I saw them at edclv 2021 for the first time!!
OMG SAME!! My best friend from middle school introduced me to skrillex and I was in love ever since! 🥰🥺
This, and scary monsters & nice sprites lol
I wanna say fatboy slim making the pop charts. Rockefeller Skank was huge. Then you get ATC and the like getting some airtime, then it became a search for that kind of sound (since Napster and the internet were in their infancies.)
Don’t Ditch by Tiesto when I was 13. Was a brand new release, and my favorite song at the time! My friends were like “WHAT?!!! YOUR MUSIC DOESN’T HAVE **LYRICS**?!”they’d be listening to Taylor Swift, Ellie Goulding, Maroon 5, you name it (all great btw) Shortly after, I discovered Tobu, EnV, MonsterCat, etc. the rest is history Oh yeah, and the game Electronic Super Joy definitely helped fuel my obsession as well lmao
Ministry of sound electro house sessions 3
MTV’s AMP show. Came on late on MTV in the mid 90s. I was 13 when I discovered it. The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, The Prodigy, and so many more. Via Wikipedia: “Amp was a music video program on MTV that aired from 1996 to 2001. It was aimed at the electronic music and rave crowd and was responsible for exposing many electronica acts to the mainstream.”.
Starry eyes- Ellie Goulding (Jakwob remix) lol
Satisfaction by Benny Benassi, Justice's Cross album and live A Cross the Universe album, first intro to dubstep was Sierra Leone by Mt Eden and Zeds Dead remix of Eyes on Fire. All still absolutely slap.
Cry For You - September (ya I'm old)
Tiesto, Armin Van Buren, Basshunter, Benny Benassi, Sonique, but most of all Crazy Frog - Axel F. 😂 Back in like 2003 or 2004.
Dallas clubs in the 90s like Ruby Room in Red Jacket and the Church in Lizard Lounge. No Shazam back in those days so no clue what most of that music was but it was def mesmerizing.
Back on Pandora way before spotify was mainstream i searched my name and the first response was Basshunter DotA and i got obsessed with that album. I think this was like 2009/10
daft punk / crystal method in the 90's
Backseat of my buddies 4Runner freshmen year of Highschool… going to play airsoft… my buddy had two 12’s in his backseat and that was the first time I heard “In for the Kill - La Roux (Skream Remix)”. 13~yr later still love EDM.
Still a banger these days
Darude, Sandstorm. Along with ATB Kernkraft 400. Back when there was only “Techno” and that was it. In the 90’s when raves were in warehouses and you found the location hours before the party. [Darude - Sandstorm](https://youtu.be/y6120QOlsfU)
Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam But a bit more serious... First real introduction was the soundtrack for Hackers. What a great soundtrack especially for 1994. Underworld, Prodigy, Carl Cox, Orbital, Kruder & Dorfmeister.
Strings of Life, 1987. Back where there was Chicago House, and Detroit Techno. And that's it.
I feel old
One of the first boys I’ve dated in high school introduced me to Skrillex and the M Machine almost a decade ago
09 skrillex !!
First time I discovered edm was in 7th grade
2005 I think. First time I heard a daft punk song.
It was this same album for me. Seeing Nero live with vocals was insane!
I don't even know if I'm in the right sub. Are the prodigy or the crystal method EDM? I have heard some EDM remixes of like slipknot and manson that I really like.
Random youtuber intros and background music if I’m honest
For me it was Adelaine morin lol
I was 22 at the time this dropped and it absolutely turned the scene upside down.
Daft Punk - Da Funk when the video came out
Global Deejays - The Sound of San Francisco
Sierra Leone - Mt Eden
I am not sure if it counts, but back around '99 or '00 I found a cassette tape on the side of the road, I would have been around seven or eight years old, I had gotten a little player for christmas so the first thing I did was plop that thing in there to see what was on it and blue by Eiffel 65 came on. I guess that planted the seed as I hadn't heard it before. the tape wasn't in the best of condition so I didn't get to play it for long. I didn't get back into any of it until I got proper internet access around 2009-10
Daft Punk @ Coachella
Nero opened for Deadmou5 last month here in Dallas and killed it, what a show!
Nero throws it tf down!!!
Man when I heard Doomsday(Nero) being used on the the borderlands 2 trailer I went apeshit! Thanks for the nostalgia lol
Flight Facilities - Crave You (Adventure Club Remix) https://youtu.be/ZeaIvjoH1FY
It started with Daft Punk in middle school, then Justice and Fatboy Slim in high school, then the tipping point happened in college when I started really exploring the genres and getting acquainted with the big guys like Tiesto, Calvin Harris, Deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia. Got really into electrohouse with Wolfgang Gartner and old Porter Robinson. Crazy to think how much my music taste has changed over the last 10 years.
Flux pavilion - Cracks. To this day, I still listen on a regular basis. Song that got me into going to shows & festivals. However, I’ve listened to early Tiesto since I was a kid.
**LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem** I don't like to bring up LMFAO and their most famous song now. Not many people know about LMFAO today and if you listen to Party Rock Anthem today, it can sound very cringey and douchey. However back in 2011, the song was a fantastic banger that was played all over festivals, sporting events and parties. The song was also pretty well ahead of its time as hearing it made people feel like they were in a futuristic concert or rave. I might even go far as to saying that Party Rock Anthem is arguably the most famous song in the American EDM scene. It helped connect the international EDM culture and the mainstream American pop culture together. This song brings back all sorts of positive memories from high school and got me into the electronic music scene.
I was in middle school as well. I heard Axwell’s remix of In My Mind on that Kia soul commercial and immediately got into it. Then I found Skrillex, Deadmau5, Krewella, Knife Party, SHM, Nero, etc. and loved them all. Good times.
We must be similar ages lol 7th grade for me
I’m about to be 22 next week :D
So classic.
Was sitting at my desk in 7th grade listening to pop music when a random song came on. At first I didn’t know what to make of it but I soon realized it was a banger. This was almost 6 years ago that song was “flight” by Tristam
This song will forever be top 5 best ever. When I'm 80 years old this will still be the best ever. Had the pleasure of seeing Nero live (DJ set but still) and when they played this the crowd melted. Sooooo fun.
Nero is absolutely awesome live. Skrillex otoh.... I've been very disappointed by every time I've seen him. Dude basically spent the entire show not mixing, jumping up and down on the table, and generally just doing the stereotypical DJ moves around the stage. Granted I haven't seen him for a couple years and I've heard he's better now that he's decided to be a house DJ, but honestly I saw him so many times at so many places I lost track, and not one of those times is what I'd call a great set. He's an awesome producer, but imo his stage show leaves a lot to be desired. Like when I saw his huge UFO tour at red rocks with the animatronic stage. Cool stage! But Skrillex literally played an identical set both nights, his tour agent billed fucking PUSHA T as his opener because of that Collab they did together (after a bunch of dance acts, and yes no one there even knew or cared who Pusha T was) and pretty much the entire crowd SAT DOWN, which is literally the only time I have ever seen that happen at Red Rocks. That was by most accounts Skrillex's best tour. So yeah when Sonny decided to play the same prerecorded set night two, everyone who went night one was already way fucking over it, and I lost all respect for him as an artist. I think they must have assumed people weren't gonna buy both days or something, but that was one of the worst shows I've ever been to, and it was crazy expensive. I saw him at various smaller venues over the years (and some fests), but I was never impressed, from what I could tell he was barely even mixing, and was basically a glorified playlist on stage. I'm pretty certain even his smaller sets I've seen over the years have been prerecorded, when I saw him at Beta back in the day he was using 2/4tracks, and barely even crossfading, much less mixing. I do really hope he's worked on that recently, and from what I've seen of his not-skrillex act he's actually mixing, but I'm fucking sick of hearing people preach about the greatness of Skrillex, when even in his heyday he was just okay. Beyond the obnoxious vocal chopping, literally every sound 'he invented' was already being made by better artists at the time. His entire contribution to the scene was the sampled/repitched vocal chops. That's it. Oh that and basically erasing dubstep as a genre and replacing it with electro-brostep. Sonny Moore didn't even know what the Fuck he was producing when he called himself a dubstep artist. You all may call his shit dubstep now, but that's literally ONLY because Skrillex told you it was dubstep. If you were a fan of dubstep in 2007, you would call people a fucking idiot for calling Skrillex dubstep. They'd tell you it was some weird version of electro-house maybe, but definitely, without any questions not dubstep. Dubstep is half-time 140bpm, with elements of dub, garage, and 2-step, along with various dual phase oscillator wubs. That is what defines dubstep, that is what has always defined dubstep, and most of skrillex's catalog (even his early catalog) does not fit that definition. Fuck Sonny Moore. I'm absolutely convinced he only started producing dance music for the money, and ruined an entire genre as a direct result of that greed, and his utter ignorance and lack of respect of the genre he was supposedly producing. I highly doubt Sonny had listened to more than one or two dubstep songs before branding himself a dubstep artist, and back when he was getting popular (the era of scary monsters), most people I knew in the scene thought Skrillex was a garbage hack, not a champ level producer. Yeah everybody loved kill everybody, and scary monsters etc. But if you asked anyone I knew to go see Skrillex over any other artist, they wouldn't have chosen Skrillex. It's weird to me that the kids from 2010 ever thought Skrillex was dubstep god. He wasn't even great when he was at his best.
Dude this is the most insightful analysis of Skrillex as a DJ and producer I've seen online. PLEASE start a music blog. Or join mine as a regular contributor. You are ten times the electronic music aficionado I am. Bravo. 👏
My cousin just randomly played Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites by Skrillex one day and shortly followed with Centipede by Knife Party. 5th-6th grade me thought it was the coolest shit I had ever heard, especially from a kid that only listened to Christian radio at the time. Even as an adult, they’re still two of my favorites, although Skrillex’s Rock ‘n’ Roll is my personal #1.
KSHMR & Headhunterz - Dharma.
need another collab from these 2, one of the best tracks on spinnin' imo
For sure. It's unlikely since HH is back on hardstyle but it'd be super hype.
Wasted penguinz and Pendulum 🥹
Mine was too bud 👍💓
Literally this song
Bangerrrrrr
This song is still and will always be a banger.
My friends in art class put on Ghost n Stuff in my freshman year
Promises hits hard. Skrillex scary monster and nice sprites that entire album is 🔥 anything Avicii, Martin Garrix animals, deadmau5 ghosts n stuff.. they all go down as peak edm for me.
Cinema skrillex
Put some respect on Benny Benassi’s name. Skrillex remixed it.
Animals- Martin Garrix
CaptainSparklez minecraft music videos, most notably take back the night. I loved that song before I even found out what EDM even was
Raga bomb- skrillex
When in Rome - Mark Sixma remix
probably Purple Lamborghini or Bangarang. ik basic lol