The moment you were inspired.

[Spanish Fly]

I know I missed most the traffic for today but hopefully I can get alot of responses for this thread in the next couple running hours.

~ I want to know what was it and how long ago it was when you knew in your heart, your soul, your senses, your mind, and your body that drum and bass was going to a part of your life?

I'm curious simply do to the fact that probly compared to most of you I was a late bloomer (but for good reason im sure). Anyways i got into Drum and Bass full force in 2002 when I saw "Planet of the Drums" in Charelston S.C. at a club Tango. Now obviously there was a progression of a couple trance/house parties leading up to this one but let me tell you......NEVER EVER did I think it was possible for there to be music that could move me the way this party and this sound did. I remeber thinking to myself that the energy around me was so intense yet so comfortable. IT was everything I was looking for without knowing it. It was the music, as well as the rhythm, to this day I felt most alive when hearing........it was(is) perfect and hardly tainted compared to any other dance music Id heard of. So here I am telling a majority of people I don't know how good it is to me, but believe me I am as true to the stength of the music as anyone around here. With no bias whatsoever I simply want to say that regardless of many genres and sub genres that people tend to lean towards, I am just happy to have been alive while this music was created......its history in the making and I find hard to see it dying anytime soon. The parties may become smaller then once known, but as long as I can jam out in my car o on my IPOD it will live in my heart........I just wont get to be that super rock star DJ that probly most of us dream about.....but whatever if it still moves me. Ok, thats all I got.


*Hopefully you will not find this too deep and feel the need to make fun of. I am merely a man of expression, and at this moment this is what I feel, which is to say this is my thought.

**Excuse any incorrect spelling or grammer.......I'm a math man and when I wrote this it just came out like a flow or sequence of numbers so I didnt really pay attention to the left side of my brain.


EZ

[Shawn_E]

Being a house head I am still waiting for that moment. Or maybe I had it that moment. I duno I know I felt something special when I went into the drum and bass tent at Boo6 in new york and felt that energy in that tent and watched everyone dancing made me appreciate dnb a lot more to the point I actually listen to it more than I used to? :shrugs:

[Shawn_E]

I know I missed most the traffic for today but hopefully I can alot of responses for this thread in the next couple running hours.

~ I want to know what was it and how long ago it was when you knew in your heart, your soul, your senses, your mind, and your body that drum and bass was going to a part of your life?

Im curious simply do to the fact that probly compared to most of you I was a late bloomer (but for good reason im sure). Anyways i got into Drum and Bass full force in 2002 when I saw "Planet of the Drums" in Charelston S.C. at a club Tango. Now obviously there was a progression of a couple trance/house parties leading up to this one but let me tell you......NEVER EVER did I think it was possible for there to be music that could move me the way this party and this sound did. I remeber thinking to myself that the energy around me was so intense yet so comfortable. IT was everything I was looking for without knowing it. It was the music aswell as the rhythm I have still do this day felt most alive when hearing........it was(is) perfect and hardly tainted compared to any other dance music Id heard of. So hear I am telling a majority of people I don't know how good it is to me, but believe me I am as true to the stength of the music as anyone around here. With no bias what so ever I simply want to say that regarless of many genres and sub genres that people tend to lean towards, I am just happy to have been alive while this music was created......its history in the making and I find hard to see it dying anytime soon. The parties may become smaller then once known, but as long as I can jam out in my car o on my IPOD it will live in my heart........I just wont get to be that super rock star DJ that probly most of us dream about.....but whatever if it still moves me. Ok, thats all I got.


*Hopefully you will not find this too deep and feel the need to make fun of. I am mearly a man of expression, and at this moment this is what I feel, which is to say this is my thought.

**Excuse any incorrect spelling or grammer.......Im a math man and when I wrote this it just came out like a flow or sequence of numbers so I didnt really pay attention to the left side of my brain.


EZ


Why are you apologizing for how you feel on here? Probably due to the amount of asses who shoot down people for expressing themselves and aren't jumping on the bandwagon with the next, anyhoot you don't have to apologize man. It's a good topic.

[Spanish Fly]

Why are you apologizing for how you feel on here? Probably due to the amount of asses who shoot down people for expressing themselves and aren't jumping on the bandwagon with the next, anyhoot you don't have to apologize man. It's a good topic.


Your pretty much correct. Thank you.

[maynard]

I don't know. I've always had a taste for more "abrasive" music (from punk rock to metal to whatever) so I guess initially, I was drawn to that aspect. But as I listened to more and more of it, I quickly realized that there's so much more to drum n' bass than that. The One Like Charly (Muramasa) once had this to say when posed with a similar question: You can find elements of just about every genre of music imagineable (electronic or otherwise) in jungle. However, you rarely find elements of jungle in other genres. That's a damn fine response, and probably the best that I can come up with.

I love drum n' bass because it can be angry, or it can be mellow. I like it because it can be abrasive, but also be beautiful to listen to. It really runs the gamut as far as musical diversity, so that for me is probably it's #1 selling point.

To actually answer the question, I can't tell you when/where/how I really "got into" drum n' bass. I just did. :gotme:

[godfather sage]

it was that night in 1997 when i heard Roni Size Reprazent's "Brown Paper Bag" (full vocal mix), and then Adam F's "Circles" and Lemon D's "This Is LA"

it was my first time ever hearing dnb, and i knew my life would never be the same from that moment

[Spanish Fly]

Wonderful responses thus far. This topic is open to everyone that has at least experienced drum and bass in their life at some point. However I do hope for more responses from all the "drum and bass heads." Simply due to the fact that like myself I believe they consider drum and bass their favorite form of music, and have gone out of their way to support the scene.

So yes please continue the topic of conversation.

[Agent Sunshine]

When I heard Brown Paper Bag along with its mind blowing video late at night on MTV in 1997, and I knew that this music wasn't "future" music, it was in fact timeless. I had always been interested although not particularly knowledgable in jazz, had been listening to hip hop since I was nine or younger (first vinyl I ever bought was Run DMC's Raisin' Hell when I was nine), and had been listening to and making industrial and experimental electronic music throughout high school, and Brown Paper Bag just sort of brought it all together for me. It was the energy of Prodigy with the huevas of Wu Tang and cool of Sun Ra.

And that's also why I think most dnb these days is a complete joke. :)

[Muramasa]

This is always a strange topic for me. Personally, I think I was just born with it. For as long as I can remember, long before I heard dnb, I was always obsessed with drum loops, bass lines and weird noises. I would always sit in grade school and drum out little loops with my knuckles on just about whatever surface I could find... the music has always just sort of 'been there' in my head, even though I couldn't make sense of it.

Once I heard 'East Coast Science' in high school, it was all over.

[Spanish Fly]

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plz.

[darkenetiks]

long story short:

AMP TV circa 1995-96(used to run late-night on MTV) was where i heard/saw the video of my first drum&bass tune. it was "ni ten ichi ryu" by photek, and out of all the other music played on that show...it stood out the most. outside of stuff like underwold, FSOL, the crystal method, the propellerheads etc...there was definitely more depth/real emotion to it that i could pick up on over the rest of the "boom boom boom" type stuff i heard played on the show.

Dieselboy brought me more exposure to drum&bass via 97 octane, but that was just my opportunity to hear more of what had already caught my ear a couple years earlier.

[Cakes]

I knew in July of 1997 after hearing Logical Progression Level 2 mixed by Blame for the first time. I had been an avid listener of stuff on CD since mid 1996 (Logical 1, Platinum Breaks, Counterforce, Promised Land) but the stuff I heard on that Blame mix sealed the deal for me and made me want to start buying vinyl. The day you decide to start buying 12"s is the day that you officially give your soul over to the sound.

[Ademaro]

The One Like Charly (Muramasa) once had this to say when posed with a similar question: You can find elements of just about every genre of music imagineable (electronic or otherwise) in jungle. However, you rarely find elements of jungle in other genres. That's a damn fine response, and probably the best that I can come up with.

I love drum n' bass because it can be angry, or it can be mellow. I like it because it can be abrasive, but also be beautiful to listen to. It really runs the gamut as far as musical diversity, so that for me is probably it's #1 selling point.

To actually answer the question, I can't tell you when/where/how I really "got into" drum n' bass. I just did. :gotme:

man, I totaly 2nd that, you took the words right out of my fingertips

[Ademaro]

Brown Paper Bag pretty much did it for me too

[darkenetiks]

The day you decide to start buying 12"s is the day that you officially give your soul over to the sound.

in that case, 1998 would be the time for me.

Usual Suspects - Killa Bees/Contortion RH16 <-- first record i ever bought.

[Winterman]

when I heard Acid Track by Dillinja in 97...

I had just been listening and spinning tracks here and there until that point. That track changed everything. I dedicated myself to the life of being a "broke ass" D&B DJj then & there, and I haven't looked back since... :doh:

[dj shady w]

brown paper bag's video on amp got me interested in dnb - back then i listened to all types
of electronic music - i started buying deiselboy's mix cds - but when i saw ed rush and optical
play at buzz in 2001 or 2002 (sasha was the main reason i went - but i never made it to the main
room) - that night made me buy some decks and dive head first into dnb - don't think i've spent money on any other edm since - respect and many thanks to the virus crew!

[proximity]

probably the first time i heard a mix with loads of bad company tracks in it, which happened to be on a blunt ride. then going to my first party and hearing "the nine" when it was still semi-big.. ive never looked back

[decoy]

there was a time when the prodigy and chemical brothers hit it big and then I bought every compilation I could to see what else was out there. the first dnb track I heard was inner city life by goldie off one of those MTV Amp CDs. I didn't really think much of it then.

Then I heard Ultra sonic sound by Hive and was floored. :affection: "wow! that's awesome" I said. then I got his CD Devious methods as was even further impressed. So whn I saw he was gonna be in the buzz tent at the HFStival that year, I lept into action.

I wandered in there and was greeted by at once the most ugly AND the most beautiful sound I ever heard. It was then that I knew it was for me. Funny enough, I didn't know it was Hive until later in the day when I found a program. so yeah, bigg ups to Hive.

[Agent Sunshine]

Word, the radio station at Oberlin, on which I had a show from '99-'00, had a copy of Ultrasonic Sound that I used to drop. I loved it 'cause it sampled Bad Brains.

It's funny, the first few times I heard jungle at parties I didn't even know how to distinguish it from other stuff. Dieselboy played at the first rave I ever went to in Columbus, and Lady Miss Kier of all people was spinning at Buzz the first time I went. Slant is the first person I can remember going to hear once I actually knew the difference between jungle and other types of edm, although there may have been others who have slipped my mind.

[Spanish Fly]

Werd. Thank you all for sharing.

[proximity]

I loved it 'cause it sampled Bad Brains.

.

yea hive hails from a DC hardcore background, he knows whats up.

[decoy]

I never realized that the sample "their methods have become unbelievably devious....and these are the seeds which may sew the destruction of man.." came frome up in smoke until just recently. i was all "OMG, so that's where that came from" and got all excited and my roomates didn't know what was going on.

[thermo_Us Crew]

i went thru house , breaks and the such , i knew i liked electronic music but knew i hadnt found what i was looking for yet. then i heard "bad ass" and it was all over. i was like thats it. thats the shit i been looking for. it just clicked immediately.

jungle drum n bass hooli for life

[Jungle Jessi]

i've loved jungle since the first time i heard it.

this was back the mid-late 90's, 'cause i was definitly still in high school. at this point in my life i was heavy into metal and industrial and the only "techno" i had ever heard was prodigy and lords of acid. oh, and the hackers soundtrack. so i was over at my friend jon's house one day, just hangin out. i knew that jon was a "junglist" but i had no idea what that meant. so he popped in a phantom 45 mixtape and i was sold from the second it started. we sat and listened to it, and from that moment on all i wanted was to be a "junglist" too.

so for the next couple of years i tried to get my hands on as much jungle as i could, but since i couldn't go out to parties yet it was hard. i had a couple of tapes, a deiselboy cd, and 1 or 2 of those "essential d'n'b" cd's. finally in 99 i started hitting the clubs, and i hit every jungle party i could find. (SNS, act your age, ect.) i HATED all other form of edm for a really long time.....in fact i will go ahead and say that there was at least a good year where i considered everything that wasn't jungle to be "techno crap". even now i'm pretty much clueless on all non-jungle edm. what can i say?? i'm a junglist soldjah.

[Capsacium]

Early 2000 or so, I saw DJ Odi at the Kaffa house. To me it sounded like hip-hop on crack, just seemed to match my energy level. I've been partial to hip-hop/jazz/and ragga sounding tracks since. So yeah, Brown Paper Bag hit that spot nicely. Most'def one of my all time favorites.

[Jungle Jessi]

Early 2000 or so, I saw DJ Odi at the Kaffa house. To me it sounded like hip-hop on crack, just seemed to match my energy level. I've been partial to hip-hop/jazz/and ragga sounding tracks since. So yeah, Brown Paper Bag hit that spot nicely. Most'def one of my all time favorites.

first time i ever went to the kaffa house was to see ODI in 99.

it was the first time that i ever went to go see a dj that i knew.

i went to sunday night sessions every single week without fail after that. <3

[darkenetiks]

i remember that show, and honestly i thought odi was bein a dickfor when he was yellin @ the crowd for not dancin & shit.

hey, odi...the kaffa house isn't known for it's spacious dancefloors. :P

[xX J-Dat Xx]

Dieselboy @ Bassrush 3

OOOOH MAN!

...yuuup, that did it for me.

[Spanish Fly]

i've loved jungle since the first time i heard it.

this was back the mid-late 90's, 'cause i was definitly still in high school. at this point in my life i was heavy into metal and industrial and the only "techno" i had ever heard was prodigy and lords of acid. oh, and the hackers soundtrack. so i was over at my friend jon's house one day, just hangin out. i knew that jon was a "junglist" but i had no idea what that meant. so he popped in a phantom 45 mixtape and i was sold from the second it started. we sat and listened to it, and from that moment on all i wanted was to be a "junglist" too.

so for the next couple of years i tried to get my hands on as much jungle as i could, but since i couldn't go out to parties yet it was hard. i had a couple of tapes, a deiselboy cd, and 1 or 2 of those "essential d'n'b" cd's. finally in 99 i started hitting the clubs, and i hit every jungle party i could find. (SNS, act your age, ect.) i HATED all other form of edm for a really long time.....in fact i will go ahead and say that there was at least a good year where i considered everything that wasn't jungle to be "techno crap". even now i'm pretty much clueless on all non-jungle edm. what can i say?? i'm a junglist soldjah.


Awesome. Your not just a soldjah, your a veteren. Respect!

[method]

~ I want to know what was it and how long ago it was when you knew in your heart, your soul, your senses, your mind, and your body that drum and bass was going to a part of your life?

1995 when i heard a remix of ini kimoze's (?sp) here comes the hotstepper. :raveon:

[decoy]

1995 when i heard a remix of ini kimoze's (?sp) here comes the hotstepper. :raveon:

I love that song. I have it on some "jungle" cd I bought at best buy. it also has original nuttah. good times.

[method]

I love that song. I have it on some "jungle" cd I bought at best buy. it also has original nuttah. good times.

heh - maybe it's the same CD...whatever it was i had is long gone now!

[decoy]

did it have a cartoonish looking "jungle guy" on the cover, with dreds and such? that's the one I have. I can't remember the name off hand.

[Jungle Jessi]

Awesome. Your not just a soldjah, your a veteren. Respect!

:patriot:

[method]

did it have a cartoonish looking "jungle guy" on the cover, with dreds and such? that's the one I have. I can't remember the name off hand.

sounds vaguely familiar; maybe...i dunno. a lot of cds seemed to have cover art like that back then...

[Agent Sunshine]

and honestly i thought odi was bein a dickfor

hey, what's a dickfor? *wah wah wah*

Odi bailed on a party my friends threw in college. Zhende buhao!

[TDB]

It's really hard for me to pinpoint a distinct moment that hit it off. I think I was definitely destined to work my way into it with my musical history:

Grew up on classic rock - led zep, pink floyd, allman bros, hendrix, beatles, etc. You gotta love all that shit! I got into alternative and metal around middle school when that shit was admittedly the popular shit. I still love metal and some industrial to this day. In highschool I was exposed to Wu tang and Gangstarr and cheebage and turned to hip hop. Around this time I also started listening to some fringe electronic/DJ stuff like shadow, portishead, tricky, sneaker pimps, chemical bros, and prodigy. Amp and HFS' old trancemissions show did play a part in that.

In college, I met some people into the clubscene and got my first exposure to real house music. At first it was Bad Boy Bill, Dan, shit like that b/c that was what my friends listened to. :sick: Over time I started to find different sounds I liked, working through house, trance, progressive, breaks, and finally jungle. Like most people I couldn't tell this from that at first, but the more you learn - the more there is to learn! Old aphrodite, hype, roni size, krust, die, that was all some of the first for me. Honestly, at the time I didn't fully understand it, I just knew I liked it. I can say, as soon as I started finding more and more jungle I was like "DAMN, this is the shit!".

I guess probably around 98-99 I really got into hard D&B. I remember seeing dieselboy around then and getting my mind blown. Dom and Roland, Dilinja, Bad Co, Ed Rush and Optical, yeah, I was all about that shit. Growing up rock / metal / hip hop it all just clicked for me. I had the headbang down, and the playa headbob, the dnb rock just filled the gap between the two! Like others have mentioned, it was the incredible contrast and paradox of it that blew my mind. It was so soothing and beautiful at times and utterly vicious and nasty others. Shit, that still gets me.

Later on in school I met more people spinning records and making beats, I experimented with both and did a stint on PSU's college radio. Just being around a lot of music fans and being a liberal arts major I got turned onto all kinds of good stuff. Jazz, funk, blues, soul, indie rock, punk, jam / groove, classical, you name it. I've got a little of everything in my collection and I can appreciate it all. I guess that's partly why I've taken a swing to mellow, "liquid" type dnb more of late. [It just seems a little more musical IMO.] There really is something for everyone and every mood.

Obviously, I've come to far to ever go back - I'm hooked like whut! :plurboh:

[decoy]

Grew up on classic rock - led zep,:

dazed and confused = best song EVAR!!!!

playing a gituar with a violin bow is pure fucking genius.

[TDB]

oh yeah man, zeppelin are THE SHIT. one of those old reliable bands that I can throw on anytime and be pleasantly surprised at how fucking good it still is.

Here's an interesting bit of music geek trivia for ya...
You know the drum break on "when the levee breaks" right? It's been sampled about 8,692 times from hip hop to pop because of the unique fullness and super long reverb.
Supposedly they achieved that boomy sound by recording the drum tracks 3 stories above the drum set in an open stair case!!! As off the wall as it may seem now, at the time that was totally revolutionary.

Crazy brits.

[decoy]

oh yeah man, zeppelin are THE SHIT. one of those old reliable bands that I can throw on anytime and be pleasantly surprised at how fucking good it still is.

Here's an interesting bit of music geek trivia for ya...
You know the drum break on "when the levee breaks" right? It's been sampled about 8,692 times from hip hop to pop because of the unique fullness and super long reverb.
Supposedly they achieved that boomy sound by recording the drum tracks 3 stories above the drum set in an open stair case!!! As off the wall as it may seem now, at the time that was totally revolutionary.

Crazy brits.

*runs to itunes*

edit: oh yeah, I know that one now, it's hot.

[guise]

always had interest in fast breakbeats. was listening to a lot of indusitral (kmfdm, front242, cubanate, ministry). somehow dnb came in the picture, though i'm not entirely sure how. probably looking at electronic music websites spanning from my industrial interest.



breakbeat era - ultra obscene lp

[BrianArsenault]

i had heard of jungle from some friends but thought it was pretty much crap (and what they were listening to probably was) until i heard the Love & Hate remix album from the mighty GODFLESH. then life would never be the same.. :wink: