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]

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.