I know a lot of you guys are fairly “fresh” to the house and techno scene, so I figured I would take some time out to explain why, and how I got in to all this.
I want to post some tracks for you guys, that just blew my mind away, when I first heard them.
So. I first got into house music around 92-93. at the time I had been djing at my local youth club (Thomas p Hejle) in Copenhagen, and the first contact I had with electronic music was pump up the jam, by technotronic.
At the time I was very much in to hip hop music. It was pure epmd, das efx, de la soul, jungle brothers, fu schnickens, and so on. I was producing on my amiga 500 and writing for some local talent.
At the time, there was this radio program called ‘lige på og hårdt’ (straight up and raw)
This dj called Eazicut, would play a lot of hip hop tracks, but he would also cover some house and techno tracks. At the beginning I just didnt get the house stuff. I mean it was gay, and what not.
That was until I heard this track
Dj Pierre - What is Housemusic
It just freaked me out. It had funk and soul, but it was still ruff sounding, and had that hip hop minimalism to it. It sounded like a dj premier production, just a bit faster.
Then I heard this track
South st Players - Who keeps changing your mind (Dobre Dub mix)
After that I decided to go to my first rave. I remember showing up in my hip hop gear, with my nerdy friend. We just danced for 9 hours straight, and I couldn’t walk for 2 days after. The energy was just so compelling, I couldnt believe it.
That night I just started to hunger for this music, but I couldnt afford any records. I decided to make the music I loved, and that night, I stopped producing hip hop beats, and made my first “techno track”
More to come in part 2…
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