Dance Machine

It was in the teenage years (circa 2000) that because I got so interested in EDM, I wanted to go hear it live (like a concert, ya know?). Turns out "concerts" exist few and far between with EDM, but it's played at "raves" and "clubs" every weekend. So my adventure begins in those two scenes, spanning from outdoor festivals, to teeny bopper clubs, to warehouse parties. It was at these events that I discovered a new passion--dancing. It was subtle at first, a thing of necessity. It was what everyone did to this music and I felt the urge to do it too. I started using those computer skills to look up how people did it. I stumbled into a few communites, some tutorials, some videos and long story short (because i'd rather this blog not be about my dance history), I was really trying my best to be a dancer, rather than a person who simply danced.

Because of this hobby, I found even more music. Things like electro, breaks, jungle, house and genre names for all the music that I had been acquiring. This sent me on a quest of categorization--psytrance, darkstep, nu electro, glitch, disco house, speedcore...endless subgenres of subgenres and all of it came with new artists to listen to. Infected Mushroom, Deiselboy, AK1200, Anthony Rother, Baby Anne, Freestylers, Mojo, mu-Ziq. Dozens and dozens of different styles to choose from and moods to match.

It was at this stage that I was the most...how shall I say, open, to musical variation. From this point forward, I became less and less so, picking specific producers and genres that I would go wild over for months at a time before moving on to the next. (Note: this began to happen when I was about 17/18 and I still do this today).