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That one song that made you an individual from the rest
At a certain moments in your life, you stumble upon a song, that sets you as an individual from the rest. When you grow up, you are influenced by the music of your friends, or your parents record collection etc. That music will ever stay with you, because you share a common joy as a group, and reminds you of good times. But at a certain moment you come across music that sets you as an individual from the rest. Your own musical exploration, alike leaving your youth and becoming an adult.
This was a revelation for me, something that splits myself as an individual from my friends music taste. (My friends didn't quite understand Art of Noise, haha)
When i came home with this album, and turned on the record player, I saw the look on my parents face like; "What would become of my Son, and what did we wrong in growing up?"
What were your turning points of becoming aware of your individual path in music exploration?
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Feel the Universe (1995)
Two top contenders, but there's many others around that time:
Scooter - Rhapsody in E
God's Groove - We Can Fly
2 songs changed my path…. I was a typical pop/dance guy. Then one day when I started repo job with my buddy he pooped this in the tape deck …. Change my music forever.
Then after I went to my (1st) techno/industrial club here I hear this song playing and saw this gal dancing to it.. I was mesmerized by both!! Still married to that gal 28 years later!!
Not proud:
Spoiler alert - it was "Ecuador" by Sash. Not the many regurgitated remakes people keep releasing these days, but the OG 90s single!
I grew up listening to a wide variety of music. My parents listened to music such as "Doo Wop" music and "Country" music, and so on car rides that's what I'd listen to as well, lol. My friends in school grew up listening to HipHop. MC Hammer was who our parents would let us listen to, but Digital Underground and NWA is what we begged our parents to listen to.
Then in 1995, a little videogame movie came out called "Mortal Kombat". The pumping Techno music in that movie was so fucking awesome that I begged my parents to get the album for me. This was the start of my journey listening to Dance Music. However, that album wasn't the true moment I wanted to create Dance Music.
You see, back in those days, I composed my own piano music. I didn't know shit about producing music. Composing for anything else other than piano didn't even occur to me until the day I heard "Ecuador". The way I came across Sash was through a Dance Music compilation that included "Encore Une Fois (Future Breeze Edit)".
When I heard that track, I was hooked, and I looked to see if Sash had anything else out there. I found their "It's My Life" album, heard "Ecuador", and that was the moment I said, "How the fuck did they make that? I want to make that!"
And you see, this was back in the 90s in the USA. Nobody else was really listening to Dance Music like Sash. In fact, Murricans called everything with a four-on-the-floor beat as "Techno" back in those days.
And, I didn't have internet until 1998, and Napster (let alone Spotify) didn't even exist back then, so the way I discovered Sash was through complete accident.
I didn't first start learning music production until the day my parents bought me "MTV Music Generator" for the PSX as a gift, but that's a different story for a different day.
This gave me a life-long love of synthesizers...my friends just thought it was a lot of blipp-blopp noise...
Saw this more or less when it aired and it was a good compliment to all the Smurfs and Muppets I was listening to. It was a mainstream leak of Kraftwerk-ness soon to be followed up by the Knight Rider theme and paving the way for the Cyberpunk stuff of the 90s...
This was the video/song/album that got me into sampling and the other Front etc etc. Was a big influence at the time for sure. I'm not proud but for a time I even wore a heavy chain necklace with a hard drive motor hanging from it. There was no clique or group to speak of, being in a small town, just a few scifi nerds who didn't want to stray too far from Star Wars and were tired of straight up film scores.
@AudioGus 😂😂😂
btw, listening to Headhunter while doing repo work... that is amazing
Probably this one:
I had more than one... here are two with key songs that were fundamentally different from what I had been listening to and came at just the right time.
Zappa also helped with my English 😂
@SevenSystems Ha! Techno from the 90's I remember that time. The RED album of Dave Clarke, Chemical Brothers, Orbital. Saw them all live.
@onerez The second one reminds me of KLF, nice story. Music binds
@sevenape haha. Growing is to know what you did wrong
@jwmmakerofmusic That's a good story. I was not into music production that time. I dabbled i bit with samplers on the Commodore Amiga.
@lasselu Yep, Oxygene. I came later aware of that album, i also got Pheadra from Tangerine Dream in my record collection.
@AudioGus Haha, hilarious! Buck Rogers
@Vip8888 Oh yes! Yello was one of my influences at that time, also Yazoo, Soft Cell etc.
This one for sure, bought a CD from a bunch of Krishna Monks in Lahti's Finland when I was on vacation there many, many years ago...
Sri Hari - Rising Sign - Bande Krishna
It's a very suggestive track which will stick in your head watch out, the tempo will continuously rise during the entire track and it's simply awesome!
Still love the track after all these years...
For me it was the "song" Download by Skinny Puppy. More of a noise collage than an actual song, but I had never heard anything like it and it was (is) completely fascinating to me. To this day I still have no idea how they are making some of these sounds. It really opened up my mind to what music could be, and led to this great tog of war in my own music making between the beautiful and the weird.
I remember that a friend, when we were growing up in a small village, showed me his new 12" record:
I was totaly blown away. At that time, we also listened to Italo Disco (Fun Fun, Happy Station etc.) We thought, we had a secret together that no-one else could understand. We were also the one's that stood first on the dance floor, making our James Brown shuffle moves between the girls with their handbags in front of their feet, in our local discotheque.
Yeah... timeless stuff, listen to it regularly to this day
Iggy And The Stooges Raw Power
Tangerine Dream Encore
Oh yes. The one Album i still listen to them i'm in a good mindset is Leftism from Leftfield