How old were you when you got your start?

[Synthetikid]

When did you get introduced to the scene? NOT when you started partying constantly.

[Shawn_E]

As soon as I turned 18 I was exposed to the scene by a friend name stephanie back from my home town. The scene was all I knew other than the normal beach partyin I did back then, I am 25 now and still love the scene.

[retail]

until freshman year of college i thought the scene revolved around people gathering in warehouses and listening to "barbie girl" over and over again :sadblue:

[The Drifter]

I used to sneak in to Fever when i was like 14, 15. One of the guys who worked the door lived right up the street from me.

[SCHLiTZ]

I first started listening to EDM when some of my friends in HS used to pump drum and bass just to see how cool their car stereos sounded.... eventually, I found out about parties and went to a couple house/field parties when I was 17 or so.... then in college I got back into it when I was 19 and my older friend Mark got me listening to Roger Sanches, Scott Henry, and Sasha... then I went to a couple parties up at PSU and got hooked.

[unknown dj]

i was puffin and hangin with some old heads back in 94 and thats when it all went to hell

[iminxtc]

at a small party last year around this time i was forced to listen to 13 hours of trance. reminding you at this time i hated it, i felt like i was in hell. this is when i called all genres of EDM techno....anywho i dont know what the fuck happened to me because the next thing u knew i was downloading this and that and have been hooked ever since. i didnt go to an edm event though until buzz came back to nation.

[brkbt junglegrl]

i was 14..my cousin kept talkin about these "rave" things in Texas. Id watch her get all dressed up on the weekends..lookin all kandi like with the wig..the saran wrap outfits..the whole deal.

She brought me back a cd she got at some party from some local dj and the following weekend i was off to my first party. Needless to say it was a life changing experience.

[Synthetikid]

when i was a young kid i rememer loving 'money for nothing' by dire straights, it had a pretty sick synth-line (hence my screenname/handle).

when i was 10 killer instinct came out and i got a copy of the soundtrack that came with it, and a couple of months later i bought 'radikal tekno vol. 1' when i was in montana (it had 'sesame's treat' and '2 little boys' on it)

i spent the next 4 years collecting all sorts of dance club mixes and edm cds, but i never knew about a scene until i watched 'sonic empire' by westbam on the old MTV AMP show.

once i knew there were others out there like me i sought out the clubs and had my rents take me to my first party at liquid groove in hagerstown when i was 14. after that i went to a few sporadic parties but it wasnt till i was 16 that i went to organize, also in hagerstown, where i met chico and really got into it.

[A.J.]

I started when I was 18, but at the time i was the only one of my friends that liked EDM, so i started at Glow, went to a few parties, got turned away at the door for having tennis shoes on or baggy pants, etc. then almost a year later I found out about Edge and Buzz, and haven't stopped since. :D

[Someoneonthenet]

I used to hang out at a tattoo shop my cousin worked at in Triangel (Skyline) There were a few people that worked there that went out a lo. I was introduced to to the sounds of House music and Drum & Bass through this shop. My first party was at Tracks.

[Jezebel]

I was 15, living in Hong Kong as an exchange student ('98-'99). We were young and dumb, excited about being able to drink at bars. Then one day I discovered a place called CE Top, 5 floors of EDM, but mostly d'n'b. Kind of a very small, HK size nation! I heard now it's been taken over by the triads... But, anyway... I met a d'n'b dj there who totally got me into the scene there, free parties and all. At my first actual "rave" I saw 4hero and since then I've been all about the scene. Unfortunately for me, I was from Kansas and when I got back the edm scene was just starting to get popular (read "drugs" were getting popular and becoming mainstream) and I was only 16 so I couldn't get into a lot of places. The underground scene was practically destroyed already so until I came to DC, I couldn't enjoy the music outside of my house and car (and the small parties we used to have). :sadblue:

[Mandaba]

i started listening to EDM before i actually got "into" the "scene", that was when my cousin :affection: brought me home a demo cd titled Princess from club baja. i didnt actually go to any parties/clubs til winter/spring 2002

[brkbt junglegrl]

Originally posted by Synthetikid

once i knew there were others out there like me i sought out the clubs and had my rents take me to my first party at liquid groove in hagerstown when i was 14. after that i went to a few sporadic parties but it wasnt till i was 16 that i went to organize, also in hagerstown, where i met chico and really got into it.

awwww i love Chico....hes the best!!

[Sunflowergrl]

My first one was when I was 15, when raves were "all ages".......whoa things have changes a lot since then

[the sex molesters]

i was first introduced to EDM when i was 16 and my girlfriend at the time made me listen to the Crystal Method, which i for some reason mistook for some kind of nu metal.... i remained clueless until i was almost 18 and i noticed some of my friends were now "ravers".... at that point i at least had some concept of what electronic music was, however i was passionately against it because at the time i was a rock musician and i was afraid of the concept of synthesizers and djs replacing live music..... oddly enough i was still into industrial and i had also been introduced to techno-industrial, which i also enjoyed.... so the first time i went to a party or a club or anything was actually mango at nation, the night before i left for college in norfolk, and my friend thought it was gonna be alchemy and i had heard oh so much about alchemy from all my goth friends.... lol. i didn't like mango. i felt really uncomfortable and out of place. it was hard for me to have a good time because, well, because of several things. but anyways i went to college and met a couple people who had been to buzz and whatnot and they turned out to be really cool so i ended up partying with them a bunch. so yeah that's the story.

[Valencia Styles]

i've been listening to EDM since the 5th grade (my sister was a raver during her high school years) so it rubbed off on me.... the first track that really got me into everything was natural born chillers - rock da funky beats :raveon:

plus i lived in south florida and EDM is played on mainstream radio there so.... kind of hard not to get into it

[frostybeverage]

:traviswork: I was first introduced to edm when I purcahsed my very own PRETTY HATE MACHINE.....that and "c &c music factory....GONNA MAKE YOU SWEAT...:delirious:

[Valencia Styles]

i put 15 though on the poll....

[punkasschikadee]

my best friends older bro got us into it... he was workin a table at nation
eventually we took it over (along with their mom who is extremely cool) and i was doing body painting at a table in the upstairs corner (to the right of the bar) and yeah u get it from there

[obsol33t]

though i had been hoarding many many EDM mp3s (mostly trance, i couldnt even tell the difference between genres :rolleyes:) since many years before, I had never gone to a rave until i was 19, last fall. I dont remember the details exactly but i just remember ending up in nation one friday night and lovin it. went a coupla more times then a bit later my friend and i were plannin on goin to the red party and then hey, whatta u know, buzz is gone. then began the trust pilgrimages. Icey, Sasha (halloweed, clowns on skates. drunken superman swimming aimlessly through the dancefloor. death standing on the dance floor, his arms crossed, bobing his head in time with the music, WTF?!), Dara & DB, etc. good times but the long trip to bmore became too far to take so often.

[Alexis]

I was 13, My best friend Lee's sister and her friends every weekend would come back to his house at like 6/7 am and wake us all up, They had brightly colored hair, styled in ways I had never seen, They had metal all over their bodies, Decked out fully in Ralph Lauren polo gear and Giant pants with Adidas shell toe shoes...I was in awe, Then someone gave me this mix tape of Kimball Collins United Dj's of America and Robert Miles...From there it spawned this massive interest in everything having to do with the EDM culture, I made this lame looking fake ID (18) and the rest is HIstory.
It was an awesome time in my life
I literally grew up in the "rave" scene, Not so much clubs...that came a few years later.

:kapluto:

[housecat]

I started getting into EDM when I was about 17. Wanted to go to Buzz at 18 but that fell through... ended up going when I was 19 and fell in love with it all.

[retail]

Originally posted by frostybeverage
:traviswork: I was first introduced to edm when I purcahsed my very own PRETTY HATE MACHINE.....that and "c &c music factory....GONNA MAKE YOU SWEAT...:delirious:

:ontome: x 2

[SCHLiTZ]

atleast it wasn't after getting JOCK JAMS the album....

[Alexis]

Ultimate Dance Party 1996!

[cleophite]

17

[Mokey]

18! Weird how stuff has changed since then. I remember seeing 13/14 year olds running around at parties, scary stuff.

[KittyBleu]

I've always loved synth stuff..80s etc...sooo..! My fiance and I went on a pilgrimage in Northern Spain that turned into a disaster and went crazy elsewhere in Europe..had enough courage to go to EDM clubs and realized..."hey! I like this!"

=)

[FeelReal]

I was 15 when i discovered edm, but only got into the scene when i was late 17 almost 18. Love the Vide, enjoy the faces and the places.

[MaryAnarchy]

i was 18. Romper room in PA.

before that i was too busy being an angry punkrawk girl. i didn't know what was going on "hey sam, why's that guy have a glowing glove?"

[nyhope]

so i am reading this thread realizing i got into EDM at 20 (way later than all of you) and seriously considering taking my little brother to a party in NYC the night before thanksgiving. It's 16+ (how odd is that?) he is 16 and into punk right now.

so to everyone who went as a youngin- is this a good idea?

[MaryAnarchy]

i wouldnt' take a 16 year old person toa party....honestly..i think they'retoo young and might end up getting into drugs and stuff. i'd say 18 is a good age, you have somewhat of a head on your shoulders and wouldn't get into stupid shit.

[LadyJ]

Originally posted by MaryAnarchy
i wouldnt' take a 16 year old person toa party....honestly..i think they'retoo young and might end up getting into drugs and stuff. i'd say 18 is a good age, you have somewhat of a head on your shoulders and wouldn't get into stupid shit.
:werd: Let him stick with punk. I think it's great when kids are into punk because so much of it is geared toward political and social issues. Then again, some of them just like to get drunk and stupid. :shrug:

[MaryAnarchy]

yes, i learned a lot about politics through punk.

but i also got drunk and stupid at the parties.... :shrug: i guess not much has changed over the past 6 years.

[Julierose]

I was 17, my first party was at BPM also known as 'The Freight Yard' in Allentown PA...

[discoball]

I was introduced at 17...to Buzz, baby and never looked back!!!

[MaryAnarchy]

i heard of the freight yard i believe...is it still around?

[housecat]

Wow. I haven't heard that in a while.


I have a tape with Frankie Bones playing Live at the Freight Yard. Anyone have this? I'm not being mean but he wrecks like 5 times... it's great though.

Wish I went to that.

[nyhope]

Originally posted by MaryAnarchy
yes, i learned a lot about politics through punk.

but i also got drunk and stupid at the parties.... :shrug: i guess not much has changed over the past 6 years.



he doesn't drink or do drugs. he is on medication that reacts badly (and could kill him) from both. but i see your point.


thanks for the advice guys! i am going to run it past my parents.


they will either see it as an excellent opportunity for sibling bonding or there will be a :slap: HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?!?

[MaryAnarchy]

i think it would be a fun experience to share with your brother, just keep your eye on him. HARDCORE.

[theticklish1]

I was 14 when I started getting into electronica. I saw crystal method at the 9:30 club back in like '98 and fell in love with it all. This 19 year old guy that I had a crush on introduced me to sasha & digweed and ltj bukem...the first time i heard "atlantis"...oh man :D I went out and bought the urbal beats CDs and started experimenting with different genres.

[Jezebel]

For some reason, there is a good link between punk and edm. I was all about punk (and ska later) before I got into d'n'b (which I think for punk kids sounds pretty damn neat, loud and heavy). I was also into stuff like NIN and some goth, which lends itself well to understanding edm. I would take your bro. I remember my sister taking me places when I was in high school and younger and just thought it was so cool! We're 12 yrs apart so it really made us feel closer b/c we could be at the same place. Even if he hates it, he'll appreciate you hanging out with him. :smooch:

[Emporium76]

When I was 18, a few friends took me out to Buzz @ Nation and told me that I would either hate it and never want to come back or love it so much that I would stick with it forever...

[DeAtHmOnGeR bEaR]

:werd:
Same here....

Funny thing is, that I'm the only one left going of my original party crew... Sometimes I see my friend Dave, but he was never really the Original Crew...

I miss them :crying2:

[tinkerbelle]

18: Sasha and Digweed at Twilo. Awesome.

[Mokey]

Nice!

[nyhope]

Originally posted by MaryAnarchy
i think it would be a fun experience to share with your brother, just keep your eye on him. HARDCORE.


:afterbuzz: i am 7 years older than him and just had a vision of the big bird kid leash we had when he was a toddler.

in all seriousness, i would only let him go to the bathroom by himself. the funny thing is i would be safe going into nyc with him b/c he's 6 feet tall and weighs like 180. he'd be the brawn while i am the brains of the operation.

Originally posted by Jezebel
For some reason, there is a good link between punk and edm. I was all about punk (and ska later) before I got into d'n'b (which I think for punk kids sounds pretty damn neat, loud and heavy). I was also into stuff like NIN and some goth, which lends itself well to understanding edm. I would take your bro. I remember my sister taking me places when I was in high school and younger and just thought it was so cool! We're 12 yrs apart so it really made us feel closer b/c we could be at the same place. Even if he hates it, he'll appreciate you hanging out with him. :smooch:



good point about d'n'b, i don't listen to it much but he would probably like it.

thank you for the good advice! :grouphug:

[i like blue]

i went to a few parties in high school, a few clubs in philly the first couple years of college (space was fun). i didnt really care about the music till maybe 20 or 21?

[JOEYd]

I got into the "scene" like last week
I'm so new skool that it hurts
I do love listening to those DJs you hear in commercials and in movie's tho.
I just love listening to the many types of techno music, you know, Fat Boy Slim, Crystal Method, Prodigy, Alice Deejay! woot!woot!
I dont go to clubs tho because people scare me.
and I love sitting around with friend getting back rubs and mumbling "PLURRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr". But, only if it's in the very center of the dance floor. I hate being out of the way.

[teknostate6]

i was 17 when i got my first taste , i always hated techno until i heard sasha when my head was in umm "happy world" the fibaonci sequence" i loved it soooo much. an the mercury an solace song "reach out for me" it opened my eyes an my soul to the light. i never liked the big crazee md clubs though we threw our own house parties here for a while but it wasnt till 2 years later in NC that i really got into it.

[Yakko Red]

I was 18 when I lost my.... what's this thread about again?

[teknostate6]

yeppers i started going weekly to shotzys an the mix in asheville 2 years go , it was so fun an intimate sometimes only like 30 kids an everyone knew each other it was such a nice little community. some really fun little wearhouse parties there too. i didnt see ne big time dj's till just this year cept seeing project logic a bunch at all the festies. ive such a more apperciation for the music now that im really there for the music though ya know ?? its crazee how sum of u guys where into things at 13 or 15.

[LaZyCrZy]

me back in 2001 at an insane party called radiate.... It was heaven. Then saw Sasha around christmas and been a regular buzzhead for a while... just never really post on the board till like 2 months ago. oh oh also went to Boo6 which was in fact the tightest lineup ever.

[lupitanahsee]

i was introduced to the music, when i was 16 (i hung with some ol heads) went to rise for the first time at 17 (that was almost 10 yrs ago :scared: )

[housecat]

Originally posted by LaZyCrZy
me back in 2001 at an insane party called radiate.... It was heaven. Then saw Sasha around christmas and been a regular buzzhead for a while... just never really post on the board till like 2 months ago. oh oh also went to Boo6 which was in fact the tightest lineup ever.
@ the DC Armory? That was a dope party... they all were. I love how almost everyone's first party was a good one!

:hifive:

[MaryAnarchy]

Originally posted by i like blue
i went to a few parties in high school, a few clubs in philly the first couple years of college (space was fun). i didnt really care about the music till maybe 20 or 21?

my friend ann used to go to space all the time back in the day. you might have ran into her once or twice, or even known her :)

[nyhope]

Originally posted by nyhope
so i am reading this thread realizing i got into EDM at 20 (way later than all of you) and seriously considering taking my little brother to a party in NYC the night before thanksgiving. It's 16+ (how odd is that?) he is 16 and into punk right now.

so to everyone who went as a youngin- is this a good idea?

so i spoke to my dad last night and explain that there is this party i want to go to and i want to take my brother. BUT it's expensive and the dj's i want to see will likely be playing at like 1am.

my father goes "if you take your brother i will pay for you both"

:delirious:

this is going to be sibling bonding at its finest.

so who else wants to go??

[evey]

I must have been around 17, and i'm 26 now.

God i'm old.

[Jim]

its been a loooooong 11 years....

[mike48ride]

Originally posted by Sunflowergrl
My first one was when I was 15, when raves were "all ages".......whoa things have changes a lot since then

Starscape '03 wasn't???

[SCHLiTZ]

It wasn't supposed to be, but nobody checked id's....

[koolaidluva]

Ive always liked House, i grew up on it, drum and bass grew on me...a nice alchemy was formed..my first was Fever in 99, i was 17, opened my eyes to the actual :scene: of things, i was like a kid in a candy store like OHH MY GOD!! look at all these different people dancin in ONE place to the same beat! Black White Straight Gay who the hell cares.... amazing!!! n werd Rhonda Chico is ILL that boy can DANCE!! :raveon:, so can the threadstarter Jake??

[mike48ride]

Originally posted by nyhope


so i spoke to my dad last night and explain that there is this party i want to go to and i want to take my brother. BUT it's expensive and the dj's i want to see will likely be playing at like 1am.



duz this party have a name? orrrrrr

[badkitty3804]

17

[nyhope]

Originally posted by mike48ride


duz this party have a name? orrrrrr

utopia 2 at club shelter

know anything about it?

[buzzboy]

i have a flyer for utopia over my bedroom door. it really is a pretty flier.

[Capital Zero]

back in 97 for me.

[darkenetiks]

i had just turned 17 & a friend of mine convinced me to go to tracks...became a somewhat regular thing (between that, deep & buzz). first REAL party was Sunrise '99

1st electronic music i was into (bleh) was disco death race 2000, i was 14 & it sounded cool. shutup.

[housecat]

:haha:

And Deep at the Circle fucking owned. I miss that club... Tracks too. My 3 that I would frequent when I first started were Tracks, Buzz and Edge then I started going to Deep. There were parties going on back then on every day of the freaking week. That was so dope. Then I got a job and couldn't party like that anymore :(

Damn this growing up ish.

[darkenetiks]

:ranton:

you liked him too!

[housecat]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh

:ontome:

[broken]

started goin to traxx junior yr in hs 91'

rember people askin "are you going to the rave-in ???

ignored them..

thus began my luv/hate relationship

always liked electronic music, as along as i can remember..

[lupitanahsee]

Originally posted by darkenetiks
i had just turned 17 & a friend of mine convinced me to go to tracks...became a somewhat regular thing (between that, deep & buzz). first REAL party was Sunrise '99

1st electronic music i was into (bleh) was disco death race 2000, i was 14 & it sounded cool. shutup.

i went to sunrise '96...one of the best times EVER.

[Capital Zero]

you lie

[Capital Zero]

ps nice clockwork orange avatar

[Synthetikid]

awe shucks thanks.

[Jamie_G]

fun story:

i'd been into stuff like Pretty Hate Machine for awhile so i was comfortable with electronic music for as long as i can remember. Sometime in 1996 my friend John blazed me up and introduced me to an Electric Skychurch album called Together and it just blew my mind! I went out that week and had the Wall special order it for me. When I went to pick it up I brought my cousin along with me who's into strictly MTV stuff (metallica, eminem, etc) and i'm listening to this CD in my car on the way back and he asks me "isn't there any lyrics in this? this is gay". so i felt so dumb. for years i only listened to my electronic CDs in headphones or when no one was around. I remember bangin that Keoki Speed Racer porn track on my parents stereo when no one was home. Not sure at what point i stopped giving a f*ck. I'd seen Lords of Acid at the 9:30 circa 1999 but I'd never been to a club until my ex girlfriend took me to Alchemy when it was still at the Cage on 14th street sometime in maybe 2000.

My whole family still thinks I'm queer because of the music I listen to. I just need to move away from this hick town.

[Layla]

this is so embarassing.... [:nono:].... and while they ran around looking for the hook-up (cause i never knew anyone) i wandered around watching the people and listening to the music. this was back in '96. YES I REALLY ONLY STARTED GOING OUT IN '96.... contrary to what seems to be popular belief among my club friends... anyways, i started really getting into it in '98, when i didn't have to worry about getting kicked out or kept out for being underaged, so i relaxed a little bit. that's also when i started getting to know people... started dancing.... etc. now, i have left a beautiful family and a comfortable home behind...i was SOOOOOOOO happy (though skeptical about the decision) when buzz came home to ballroom before i left!!!! and i couldn't have asked for a better going away present than uberzone either!

[MaryAnarchy]

Dina ownz me.

[housecat]

K.. enough about that :cracksmoker: talk.

[MaryAnarchy]

:D

[housecat]

Originally posted by MaryAnarchy
Dina ownz me.
C'mere you :snog:


:tarvis:

[broken]

yeah, but when you think about it it. Its much better now. The music, the flyers. The parties in general. I mean when was the last time you reeally had to wait in a line. When is the last time you got thrown up on (just kidding)

OK Im out of my element here but i was just trying to say. Its like waay better now. I would have liked to start going out now' rather than then'

dave

[MaryAnarchy]

Originally posted by housecat

C'mere you :snog:


:tarvis:

:badkitty:

:)

[housecat]

*humps monitor*


Shit, I think my boss saw that.

*jumps off desk and ceases the humping*

:chairfall:

[Capital Zero]

*enters room and takes a deuce on desk and forces you to hump steaming pile of fecal matter*

[housecat]

Ewwwwwwwwww

Flings :poop: at you.

[Capital Zero]

don't mess with teh golden key.

[MaryAnarchy]

Originally posted by Capital Zero
*enters room and takes a deuce on desk and forces you to hump steaming pile of fecal matter*


hooray!

:nixo:

[Capital Zero]

golly that's not very nice.

[HI-NRG]

my cousin got me into the scene. i started to go to this teen club in mannasass called static and energy, they played house mostly but that became my weekend thing for a long time. about two years then it got shut down for reasons unknown to me.... does anybody remember that club?

[ravetildawn]

i remember being a little kid and loving any music with a hard beat, and any of that electronic 80s music. as i got a little older, in my teenage years, i discovered the more cheesy "main stream" techo and dance music. then one day my brother got my this CD, called "rave til dawn" - an old skool hardcore techno CD, and i felt like i had found what i was... musically searching for...in a weird kind of way...
however, i did not get involved in the actual rave scene (too involved in school), until junior year of college, so i was maybe 19 or 20. and again, i felt like i had finally found my people, my scene/culture. not to sound cheesy, but i had never fit in anywhere until i found the EDM scene.
anyways, blah blah blah, that's my story.

[ggfab]

16...still here but not 16. :damnit:

[Jungleluv09]

I used a fake ID at Traxx when I was 16, does that count? Hell yeah it does! :raveon:

[MaryAnarchy]

sssh no talking of fake id's.

[Eclipse]

Originally posted by housecat
:haha:

And Deep at the Circle fucking owned. I miss that club... Tracks too. My 3 that I would frequent when I first started were Tracks, Buzz and Edge then I started going to Deep. There were parties going on back then on every day of the freaking week. That was so dope. Then I got a job and couldn't party like that anymore :(

Damn this growing up ish.

omg i loved Deep. lots of great memories there.

[lb0236]

my cousin who is 8 years older than me has always listend to edm..... n a lot of industrial, and i've loved it ever since i was a little thing..i also liked to copy off of her, but i truly loved the music... I was mainly into the main stream shit myself, such as prodigy.. and that was like awhile ago i traded that cd for some black nail polish.....thats how young i was.. WELL Since then she moved away.. im stuck here in PA.. my best guy friend went to college n started goin to parties all the time n he finally took me one day n i got sucked in:) I love it
BUT i didnt go to my first party until boo6........
Just last year I told my cousin I started going to parties (raves) and shes like shit if I lived closer we'd def be partying together. lol

[housecat]

Originally posted by Eclipse


omg i loved Deep. lots of great memories there.
:bbjohnson:

The jungle room was nonexistant but I LOVED that club though (Circle)

[Taishou]

Originally posted by ravetildawn
...then one day my brother got my this CD, called "rave til dawn" - an old skool hardcore techno CD, and i felt like i had found what i was... musically searching for...in a weird kind of way...


:yes: truly a classic IMO, still have it...

[Jungleluv09]

I didn't realize that many ppl started clubbing so late!

[MaryAnarchy]

not everyone can be as uber-raver as you and i.


...

[binger]

Originally posted by Synthetikid
When did you get introduced to the scene? NOT when you started partying constantly.

I WAS ABOUT 14. WHEN I I WENT TO MY FIRST PARTY AKA RAVE A REAL RAVE. WITH MY UNCLES OUT IN CALI. IT WAS A WEIRD BUT INJOYABLE EXPERINCE NUN THE LESS IT WAS A BLAST AND ILL NEVER FORGET THAT NIGHT .

[ravetildawn]

no need to yell....




j/k

[Synthetikid]

i think my first hint of the scene was actually from a scene in a dean koontz novel: dragon tears.
In the book the characters are being chased by a being that can stop time. they run tino what they think is an abaondoned wearhouse, but there are actually kids inside. they hide amongst the 'paused' kids until the being that is chasing them rips off a girls arm to call them out.

pretty dope book.

[binger]

Originally posted by ravetildawn
no need to yell....




j/k


ohhh my bad :FUBAR: jerk



is that better for yeah puddin




hahahah im just playen puddin

[Layla]

Originally posted by Layla
this is so embarassing.... [:nono:].... and while they ran around looking for the hook-up (cause i never knew anyone) i wandered around watching the people and listening to the music. this was back in '96. YES I REALLY ONLY STARTED GOING OUT IN '96.... contrary to what seems to be popular belief among my club friends... anyways, i started really getting into it in '98, when i didn't have to worry about getting kicked out or kept out for being underaged, so i relaxed a little bit. that's also when i started getting to know people... started dancing.... etc. now, i have left a beautiful family and a comfortable home behind...i was SOOOOOOOO happy (though skeptical about the decision) when buzz came home to ballroom before i left!!!! and i couldn't have asked for a better going away present than uberzone either!



honestly, i don't apprecaite the edit. i mean, i'm talking about 7 years ago. i understand, but still.... but, in light of the edit, i do apologize, and won't refer to things like that unless i talk about my time in holland. is that okay? or will you edit that too?

[MaryAnarchy]

it's just not very smart to talk about things like that on a public board...i imean....we know it happens...but it really doesn't help the "scene" to blatantly talk about it on a public board.

[badkitty3804]

It's in the rules of the board. :shrug:

http://www.buzzlife.com/mssg_brd/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24588

[housecat]

:yes:

If there are any questions please read the FAQ (http://www.buzzlife.com/mssg_brd/misc.php?s=&action=faq) or feel free to contact an admin.

[badkitty3804]

*sigh*

I miss cody and his read the FAQ thing.

[housecat]

:sadblue:

[badkitty3804]

http://www.isteve.com/images/INDEX.1.jpg

[Mandaba]

"worst admin EVER!" :afterbuzz:

[MaryAnarchy]

my third post to this board got shut down by him. he schooled me like whuuut
the thread got taken off the entire board.

[nyhope]

Originally posted by MaryAnarchy
my third post to this board got shut down by him. he schooled me like whuuut
the thread got taken off the entire board.


:respectktw:

[badkitty3804]

He's like the frikkin' lucky charms leprachaun and his chin studs are his lucky charms.

:dammit:

[MaryAnarchy]

i've never met him so i can not attest to his leprechaun-like attributes.

[badkitty3804]

no...
He's only leprachaun-esqe in nature because he won't let me get to his lucky charms :dammit:

[MaryAnarchy]

that bastard. you should drop kick him.

[badkitty3804]

Yes, yes I should

[MaryAnarchy]

HAHAHAH

a year later...

[badkitty3804]

Quiet you. :slap:

[Happy Child]

I started kind of late at the age of 28 - I've always loved house music but, edm was a little different. Now at 33 I'm still tearing the floor up with the 18yrs:raveon:

[pluryou]

I started at age 19 when I was living in GA. ;)

[starlight]

i used to think i hated techno, but i had never really heard anything but generic crappy radio techno.

i turned 18 in june 2000.... and my friends took me to my first party in december 2000. my only exposure to what a "rave" was consisted of things you saw in movies, like GO (lol!) i didn't know much about them, but i really didn't think we had any in this area. i thought they were underground things that only happened in california and maybe new york. i really had no idea.

so anyway, a few friends that i worked with asked me if i wanted to go with them to a party. i was like hey sure i'll give it a try. the people that took me had all been partying for a few years already. my first party was thrown by family productions and it was called mistletoe and it was the day before christmas eve (i think) in 2000. it was fun, and something made me fall in love with the scene. i wanted to know more about the music, i wanted to learn how to dance, i wanted to go to more parties. the first 2 djs that i learned to love were scott henry and feelgood. and i still love them. a couple months after mistletoe, i went to fever. LOVED it there. had the chance to go a few times before it got shut down. this was back when buzz was 19+, so my friends were all going every week but i couldn't go yet :( sometime shortly before i turned 19 (june 2001) they lowered the age to 18 anyway lol.

i started going to buzz EVERY SINGLE FRIDAY starting in july 2001 and all the way until buzz got shut down (september 2002?)

i have so many buzz memories :affection:

[Pseudo Society]

:lessthanthree: How do you people find this stuff from so long ago. I don't have the patience.

[Zimma]

I was 17 and I worked at a paintball arena in the part of town all the parties were at back then. Drunken good times.

[starlight]

:lessthanthree: How do you people find this stuff from so long ago. I don't have the patience.

you mean the thread?

the poll was linked on the front page of buzzboard today, so i voted on it. i don't read the board a lot anymore and i thought it was a new topic anyway :afterbuzz:

[CareBear]

Since Age is just a number I just had my 30th B-day at buzz... or whatever they call it now. My first Rave was when i was 17 years old. (It was at gas works park in Seattle Wa)The scene was TOTALLY different back then. I would have to say it was the best between 1998 and 2001. With alot of years gone I can still say I LOVE D&B. /dances
You'll meet some of the best people ever... hug justin, matt, aaron, josh blah blah blah. hehe
I went to buzz for the first time when it was the capital ball room years ago and it will always be (other then outdoor parties) the best place to hang. Even Twilo sucked in comparison.

[FutonBunny]

i was 15 or 16. it was my color guard instructor robin and her little sister actually. That year our show's theme was "life of a child" which was apparently the perfect excuse to deck us out in candy and put glitter all over us. She also started giving me mix tapes though so my interested kinda bloomed over night.

[Verbal Radiation]

I use to HATE techno.... well thats what i called it at the time...but i always like bass music
Then i went with a buddy of mine to Buzz....in the front room people where breaking...lions of zion... well...i was like OMG people do that still!!! YES!!! :hyper: So i jumped out there and did my lil crappy 6 step....
the rest is history i got hooked to DnB and 6 years later i am still hooked...and i love to dance...i didnt know i could till Buzz... to think how good i would had been if i started at 15.... sigh
Still on the floor keeping up with the youngest of them
...course my knee is giving me problems...old age setting in...lol

[chickpea]

I was 16. A bunch of my friends took me to tracks. I had the most awesome time.

[FLIZZLE]

i was 19...until then i new nothing about the "scene"...not hard to believe coming from WV tho......

[Zimma]

Flizzle ma nizzle!

[ramz]

the first time I went to an edm party was in Knoxville when I was in college (< cough > 1992 < cough >), and really started going out hardcore in '93 in Orlando:

Mon: Barbarella's $1 beer disco night (only thing I could find on Mondays...dammit)
Tue: Fat n Jazzy if I was feelin it, acid jazz, trip house, etc... usually just rested on Tuesdays
Wed: College Night somewhere... damn, I can't remember now... shitty little bar, though... :)
Thursday: Here's where it got cranked up: Firestone... all the rave classics you could handle, and then some more... First time I ever heard Prodigy was there... O M G...
Friday: The Edge: Goth until 2AM, then bring on the "techno" DJs... someone I met there gave me a tape that had Transformer 3's Fruit of Love on it, and I was a hooked sumbitch...
Saturday: The Edge...again...same formula...good times...
Sunday: Ressurection at JJ Whisper's: New Wave, party dance, shooter girls... yay...

rinse, repeat... Damn, I still don't know how I survived those 3 years of my life... getting something like 20-30 hours of sleep per week... It sure was fun, though... :D

[Haach]

the way i started was listing to bass tracks in friends cars. got hooked on the eletric sound. went to my first party when i was 18 called Godess in ATL. it was a all female party. never looked back

[PaulieWalnuts]

My sister was in high school and I was in middle school when one of her friends dubbed a tape for her she liked. The band was London's Renegade Soundwave. The next tapes she got the next week were The Happy Mondays and Depeche Mode's "Music For The Masses." Then she got Lords of Acid's "Lust" and The Sugar Cubes the week after that!

She got dragged to her first EDM event, a now-defunct monthly at Club Orpheus (oh, man, I love that place, that is the first dance club I really liked and it's still the loudest sound system in Baltimore), when she was 18, and she was 'okay' with it. She reported back to me about it, that there were guys and girls with wild fashions, and the music was loud and her eardrums were ringing, and I was totally :dunce:. She likes the sounds more than the whole pageantry of raving, all the candy and techno-goth stuff, but she was cool with the punks and ravers (she was a preppie) and they were cool with her, so Sis got complete "ins" to all the local goings-ons and she was so cool because she told little 'ol me about 'em. I'll always love her for that!

Anyway, Sis gave me a flyer for a party called "Awakening." It was in Glen Burnie, which, hey-ho dairy-o, had ColumBus service to it from Columbia. I got on the bus and got to Glen Burnie and walked several miles to the party. I got there, a community center, about nine PM (well, it was my first party and I had no idea of the concept of the 'fashionable lateness') and it was still being set up: a couple of guys putting together some lights and things, stringing Christmas lights on the floor, it seemed to be shoestring operation. They commissioned me to help them set up, and in return I got free waters. Anyway, the first plate got dropped at 9:30 or so, and it was on!

The music was great! '92 was right about the beginnings of the sophisticated, synth-wash'y trance, so I heard some of that. I lost my friggin' HEAD on Human Resource's "Beat Dominator." I heard 808 State's "Nephertiti," played by a hip hop DJ who mixed in downtempo rave music, like Cleopatra's early catalog stuff and DWS trance. They had some televisions showing computer animation video I later ended up buying at Radio Shack. The last track of the night was Orbital's "Halcyon +on +on," beautiful music that made me an Orbital fan TIL I DIE! TIL... I... DIE! It was beautiful. I was hooked.

Anyway, I stayed 'til the end. I didn't have a ride home and I was too shy to ask anyone about crashing on a couch or anything like that. However, one guy I met earlier said he could give me a ride, as he lived in Ellicott City. I forget his name, but he was way cool to do so, as otherwise I would've had to slum somewhere in Glen Burnie (probably a bus bench, a specific kind of slumming I would end up doing several times in BALTIMORE over the next couple years as I discovered parties going on there, Jesus was I ignorant of danger back then). So, though my sister was the family's first clubber, I was the first raver! Ha! Take that, sis!

I can't slam her, actually. My sis' party ethos is "first on the floor, last off!" I completely inherited her party ethic and here I am today, a product of party and my sister's coolness and tape selections.

[buzzboy]

eight years old.

[buzzboy]

wait...

when we got our start at what?

[DJ KonviKt]

I don't remember anymore it was a really long time ago though when shit was or at least seemed a fuckload cooler. The Mid-Nineties Was my Favorite Blur of Life So Far and I've Had Some Blur Doozies Throughout the Crazy Daze I've Called My Life.

[PaulieWalnuts]

I'll say this. I would much rather have been a burgeoning raver today than a burgeoning raver of 1992 for one important thing: the Internet. I didn't know anybody else, and I mean no one, who knew anything about the rave scene in Columbia. If we had had the Internet back then like I do today, I'd have at least found people to go with. Back when I got started, I had nobody. :puppydog:

Even today, when I go to dance it's just me, and this is because I just don't bother to find out who dances. Most of my good friends are rather more cerebral in their leisure pursuits: all well and good but inconvenient sometimes when I'm awl "First on the Floor, Last to Leave!"

[Raverjimbob]

I went to 3-4 parties when I was 17 - then not again until 22-23... Now seldom go out, but will if motivated....

[LegacyNYC]

When I was 13 I heard techno and hhc for the first time. Thought it was okay, listened to it on the side. When I was 14, I heard industrial for the first time. When I was 15, I heard DnB for the first time and was smuggled into my first 18+ "real" party... and then... it's all legend. hahaha. :)

[Marisol]

when I was 13...CHAMBERS OF SOUND AND TRACK...my loves esp. chambers so underground.

[JuliaP]

I was 46

[zartan]

I would much rather have been a burgeoning raver today than a burgeoning raver of 1992 for one important thing: the Internet. I didn't know anybody else, and I mean no one, who knew anything about the rave scene in Columbia. If we had had the Internet back then like I do today, I'd have at least found people to go with. Back when I got started, I had nobody.

this is so true. i had a brief spell (that I probably mentioned in this thread five years ago (gulp)) in '92 of going to raves but was in college away from dc and had no real way of connecting so dropped out of any EDM until I was 28.

that said lol at only one option for 18+ in this poll.

[Chrississippi]

I was 18 and in Florida.

The first time I went to Buzz, I was 20. I remember that clearly because I couldn't buy alcohol.

Wow. I can't believe I've been in and out of the scene for 9 going on 10 years now.

The first time I heard EDM was when I saw the movie Cool World.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/153/971592~Cool-World-Posters.jpg

[NightWatch]

Between 18 and 19. I was a very good student in high school (unfortunatley in college it fell apart for a while) and didn't party much other than a few house parties. I was into synthpop and stuff though and I went clubbing a few times through my brother (he always knew the door people or whatever) the Summer after high school. Maybe a couple of times during my Senior year but it really picked up that Summer. Some time during my freshman year of college (the first time I had access to internet) I found DCraves and I think my first party was called Big Top and was in the parking lot of Tracks. It wasn't the best party in retrospect but I was hooked right away. I always hated how clubs closed at 2 so raves were perfect for me. I loved the music, and it was exciting meeting people and becoming less shy and stuff.

[Rican]

the way i started was listing to bass tracks in friends cars. got hooked on the eletric sound. went to my first party when i was 18 called Godess in ATL. it was a all female party. never looked back

ha I think I was at that party... was it at The Globe?

[VS23]

Great topic. I got my first exposure to "the scene" when i was 17. Used to go to club Fever in philly. That shit was off the hook. It was no surprise when they shut that place down. Also went to Shampoo from time to time on Sundays once I turned 18.

I didn't start partying hard till I moved out to Pittsburgh to go to school. That's when I became a "Raver", lol.

[christauff]

My first rave was off of Kenilworth avenue when I was 16 or 17 in Hyattsville (1993?). I have no idea what my parents were thinking, but they clearly let me go, with two people I hardly knew, and a promise to stay out of trouble. It was absolutely life changing... and a damn good story, but that's for another time.





... heh.

I was already listening to 808 State, Orbital, and The Orb, William Orbit, Opus III and shitty comps that had nothing to do with the music being played from a buddy at work at Hudson Trail Outfitters.

Plus I was addicted to Zoltar's Mutant Dance Party on 99.1 WHFS.

[HalcyonNRG]

My first song, I was 14-15 y/o, Interactive's "Forever Young":
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Still love the song but I'm so glad HHC is in the past...waaay past.

And thanks to Orbital's Halcyon on and on...I still get a warm and fuzzy feeling inside, hence my name!
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So it must have been 1994-1995 when I heard my first 'techno' song but did not start going out to raves until 1999-2000. I started at Buzz in 99' while I lived in VA for a year, but it wasn't until I returned home to Hawaii that I became the club kid ;) The scene in Hawaii was unique to say the least and it took us a while to catch up to the rest of society musically, but outdoor raves, full moon DnB parties on the beach...How lucky we all were!

Ahhhh, the good ol' days....

The last party I went to at Nation before its demise was the Crystal Method...I miss the place dearly. Fur just doesn't hold up :-/

[Kitsune Fugazzi]

Depends on what you call "the scene"...cause I was going to parties in Baltimore to see Baltimore Club dj's starting when I was like 12-13. However, I never went to a "real" club until I turned 18 and got my first experience with Traxx 2000. It was all downhill from there...lol

[Chef Roy R Dee]

the first party that I went to was @ RISE in '94. I was 18.
I'd say that my first experience w/ club/rave music was "World Clique" by Deee-lite. Followed by Lord's of Acid, The Orb, and Orbital.

this is one of my favorite videos

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[ransom]

When I was 16 I was working as the stockboy at Merry Go Round in Laurel, and two of the older guys there always went to Fever, and maybe Rise. They told me about raves too, and I started buying some tape singles and CDs, but didn't go to my first event until I was 18.

[PimpZtress RaH]

what if you are so old that there wasn't a "SCENE" until you were 18 or so? and you actually helped make it? :puppydog:

:usa:

[Deinfamous]

the first party that I went to was @ RISE in '94. I was 18.


Damn you're old! Haha just jokes. I was sneaking into RISE when I was 14. Anyone remember the parties where it clearly says on the flyer "BRING FLYER TO PARTY!"? Those were the days.....

[the smirk]

i was in like 3rd or 4th grade when i got the mortal kombat soundtrack. it had like, kmfdm, juno reactor and orbital and shit on it. fell in love but didnt really know anything about music. i listened to a ot of rock and was convinced that you neede instruments to make good music. as i went into high school i continued to enjoy djs like the crystal method, prodigy, chemical bros, etc. stuff that i would hear on the radio and shit. then one day i realized that instruments kind of constricted what you could do with a sound and i started to actually pursue it. then i met a handful of people that spun records, went to a few parties, and kind of figured out what this was all about. last year was my first starscape and it changed my life. the ticker was that i realized i loved to dance and ive become less and less selfconcious about it.

[Angular Bliss]

I was 17 when I got into the Rave Scene.. Hearing Fatboy Slim in one of the airplane hangers at Woodstock 99 changed my whole perspective on music. My Dad and I went to our first big party Engage in the DC Armory. After seeing, and being at such an amazing party we were hooked. I wish he was still around.. He will always be raving with us in spirit:) After Engage we found Buzz and then from all the amazing promoters, fantastic people, and partys, our horizons were opened.. Im very thankful for being able to be a part of what I think is the coolest scene on the planet. Everyone I have meet, the music that has been played, and the amazing times had by all since I was 17 has been incredible.. I look forward to a lot more memories, and enjoyable times to be had in a EDM scene that always Rock's:buzz:

[infectedskazi]

my olders brothers friend introduced me too it when I was still in elementry school, it grew on me ever since.

[slim pickinz]

17 in san fransisco. the party was not what these raves were cracked up to be. i left. i heard all about it later. lesson in why not to leave too early. didn't get really into it till i was like 20. it all broke loose from there. i've always liked the music tho, even before i started going. my step dad's been making weird electronic shit since i was a kid.

[Tyinkletoe]

I was 14. First Rave was Ultraworlds Resolution 93'. Spent a good part of my teen years and half my twenties in the scene. Family was a mess at the time so turned to raves, moved out to Bmore, and never looked back. The scene became like family to me, I will love EDM forever. Looking foward to the Fever reunion!

[justgaia]

The first party I ever went to was the Fever Reunion when I was 18, but I had listening to EDM since I was 13.

I never wanted to sneak into parties because if I got caught, it could have ruined it for all of the people that were old enough.

[mouse]

I was introduced to EDM around 19 and I went to my first rave around 21.

:lame:

[JacobDaniel]

I was first introduced to EDM (real shit, not that radio "techno") back in 2001 when I was 15, thanks to my brother and his wife. A couple of the first cd's I listened to was AK-1200 "Lock and Roll" and DJ Icey's "Essential Mix" Shortly afterwards, a couple months before my 16th birthday, I went to my first party at The Valley Center in Roanoke. For those that know me this will surprise you a bit, but I stayed sober the ENTIRE night.....when I first got there and went into the main room, I walked around for 5, maybe 10 minutes or so, just observing and taking everything in. After those first few minutes, something clicked in my brain, and I was just like "Yep....this is DEFINITELY where I belong", and I've been hooked ever since.

[BradB]

my first party was august 1977 when my mom went into labor with me at a disco party i couldn't wait to get out and feel the beat and it's been down hill since then

[JacobDaniel]

:haha:

[ScorpCC]

My first party was at Traxx right before it closed.... I was like 14.... my first Buzz was at Club Abyss pre-Nation in '95... I was 15 and using my sister's id. It was a weekly part of my life from then on. I did not make it to a Fever till '99 or Starscape until '00 however.

[ScorpCC]

.

Plus I was addicted to Zoltar's Mutant Dance Party on 99.1 WHFS.

Word about the Brother from Another Planet... I miss Zoltar on Saturdays.

[DarkAdaptation]

I was 18 and a freshman in college. All through high school, I was goth :beth:, but a friend kept telling me I should go to a rave sometime. So, the August of my freshman year, I finally went to my first rave and have never looked back since. :smileyparty:

[DJKean]

99 was my first party! It was Flood in Norfolk. I dont even remember who was playing. I was actually supposed to go to Nations that Friday, the 6th, but didnt - next thing I knew, fucking fox 5 did their shit! Fuckem.

[DJKean]

I was 19.

[solace72]

I was 19 and went to my first rave at the Wust Hall (now the 930 club) in 1992. I was sober all night and it completely blew my fucking mind.

Officially started going regularly to parties in 94 though.

:geezer:

[BPMninja]

The month I turned 18. Didn't really have a hook-up to the scene until I started working at a retail store while in college. And I never did find any link to the scene at the college I was attending.

Before that I was going to more rock-type shows thrown in back yards and deserted locations. We had some fun bands in my high school.

[neogaia]

Went to my first rave when I was 16.
Started listening to EDM when I was 13, started out with Paul van Dyk & Tiesto.
Wanted to go to my first rave when I was in high school but couldn't go until I was 16 because I was at boarding school.

But yes, I have been in the scene ever since and loving it:)

[cupcakeluvsme]

I was 19 and I went to Buzz with some friends in 2002. I loved it, obviously. I wanted to go to raves so much in high school but didn't know anyone who did!

[Jenni XO]

I started listening to EDM when I was 19.. Matti and I had just started dating. My first exposure to it, minus listening to it at his place, was going to ALIAS. John Tab D'n'B set FTW! I was pretty much hooked from then on.. Until we moved to Lynchburg for four years, we spent every Thursday and Friday night at Nation.

[DarkAdaptation]

I was 19 and I went to Buzz with some friends in 2002. I loved it, obviously. I wanted to go to raves so much in high school but didn't know anyone who did!
Same here, which is why I didn't get into the scene till freshman year of college. :wickity:

[stormryder]

I was 18. But then again, that was 1991.

[Roach]

Who cares.

[5l1mm]

i invented the scene,
then i invented god, and he started messing things up
it took him 6 days to ruin it all

[MarkyMark]

I was 29 when I first went to Nation. Yeah, I was quite the late bloomer.
I was in undergrad and grad school in the 90s in MA and upstate NY.
There was no real 'scene' up there that I knew of.

I went to VelvetNation every single saturday for about 3.5-4 years when
I got bored with the people and the music and started going to Cübik.
Wow! What a refreshing experience! The music and people were so alive!
I was there pretty much every weekend in 2005 and early 2006 except
on the nights I couldn't stomach the dnb...

[neogaia]

I started listening to EDM when I was 19.. Matti and I had just started dating. My first exposure to it, minus listening to it at his place, was going to ALIAS. John Tab D'n'B set FTW! I was pretty much hooked from then on.. Until we moved to Lynchburg for four years, we spent every Thursday and Friday night at Nation.

This is one of the cutest things I have ever heard! :cheerleader:

Now I am trying to imagine a young Matti... :P

[solace72]

I was 18. But then again, that was 1991.


Geriatric Ravers represent!

[stormryder]

Get off my lawn!

[applesauce mcgee]

18 back in 94 or so.

[Maffew]

Early 18.
What a ride it has been.

[Neptune]

dee-lite was still touring.


nuff said

[Jewcus]

groove is in the heart

[Maffew]

Just for the heck of it, .....

"You haven't seen what I've seen till you've seen the scene." :koolaid:

By me.

[housecat]

Whoa dude. You just blew my mind.

[Judson Myers]

I was one of the 12 year olds at Sunday Mass selling crystal. JK I was 16.

[MarkyMark]

I was one of the 12 year olds at Sunday Mass selling crystal. JK I was 16.

hehe

For a second I thought you meant the Velvet after hours party at Five...
good times!

[Maboroshi]

Edit wrong person.

[ScorpCC]

Buzz was at abyss when i first started... nuff said.