It hit me probably from the mid to late 90’s. I listened to happy hardcore initially as well as some commercial tracks such as Sash’s music and Robert Miles. It must have been an influence from school listening to the happy hardcore stuff and getting old mix tapes from events and radio plays. I got into trance around the time Euphoria launched their first CD compilation in 98, and it wasn’t long after that I got into collecting vinyls, despite their expense. There weren’t many people I knew who were into DJ’ing as it was a pretty expensive thing to do at a younger age then compared to this day and age.
It eventually influenced my decision to study audio and music tech at university and I got sucked into it like mad. I think I prefer producing music though over DJ’ing, although I like the way the two go hand in hand. House was my thing for a long time too after I progressed on from trance in the 2003-2008 era, especially electro house when that got going.
From 2009 I fell out of the loop a little for a couple of years and have this year gotten back into it full flow as I run a small studio in line with my work and have since moved onto DnB and Dubstep. It was hard to get into though initially, and I do feel like the whole scene is just saturated. In one way, I love the fact that electronic music is an integral part of our everyday lives for many people around the world, but on the hand, it makes it a lot harder to get noticed, and even if I make something I feel works really well, the music is so short lived, it never has a sense of longevity to it. Most trance tracks from the late 90’s and early 2000’s I knew and they had an impact for such a long time, but now they tend to fizzle away after so many weeks or months.
